MrLeftHand

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by MrLeftHand 10y ago
I love when writers, novelists, artists dream up something then a group of crazy engineers come along and build it.
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by MrLeftHand 10y ago
Haha, been here for quite a while now and haven't noticed these yet. Thanks for the clarification.
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by MrLeftHand 10y ago
You would be right, if hacker news would generate it's own content. But it doesn't. Hacker news itself, is free from ads. Only the shared content might have it. As I wrote, forcing people not to share certain content just flies in
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by MrLeftHand 10y ago
I do agree in certain extent. Forbes is really bad regarding adblockers. I don't mind being reminded that they use ads to generate revenue to deliver news for free, but doing it in a way where they actually loose readers because of tha
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by MrLeftHand 10y ago
I got an invite to it. It is nice, but doing anything extra beside a very basic portfolio costs money. As a developer you would be better of to start a blog on blogger or wordpress. Or just buy a cheap domain name with web hosting and make
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by MrLeftHand 10y ago
Google Drive + KeePass
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by MrLeftHand 10y ago
Democracy gives the same right for far left/right as for the middle. If people vote for isolation and nationalism and you have your concerns, that doesn't mean you hate democracy, it means you fear the way it's being used. De
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by MrLeftHand 10y ago
Well, you're right, but hackernews might not be the best medium to do so.
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by MrLeftHand 10y ago
My gosh, loads of people commenting. Hacker news is indulged in politics as we speak. It's a shame really. But to add my views to the board... Yes the EU wasn't perfect. I wouldn't call it undemocratic, or despotic, or commun
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by MrLeftHand 10y ago
Not just that, but how many people will join their ranks as well? The story won't go unnoticed and most people in the Tech Industry will hear about it in some shape or form. They will have a hard time to find new people. Especially sen
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by MrLeftHand 10y ago
This is some nasty stuff. I feel sorry for the guy literally working there less then a day and getting the boot. Shows some really serious problems in management. Who the hell hires people when they know very well they won't stay and m
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by MrLeftHand 10y ago
You're right, but this is one part of the equitation. The cheap labor will give you a lower price at the end. If it wouldn't then you wouldn't see the 'made in China' text on literally everything. There was a massiv
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by MrLeftHand 10y ago
Sorry, but is it the EUs fault that UK businesses tend to hire cheaper European labor? Does the EU tell you that you have to hire the Romanian guy instead of the British? Is there a law enforced by the EU to do so? And people forget that ch
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by MrLeftHand 10y ago
100% agreed. Most of the time the hiring is about replacement, or expansion. And in expansion I mean "the current team is not enough to handle all the cr*p so we have to bring in people, preferably with the same skill set as the others
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by MrLeftHand 10y ago
I don't thinks so. You don't have to use join, but you might end up with loads of queries instead of having just one, but the end result will be the same set of data.
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by MrLeftHand 10y ago
Yes you can and you should. Sometimes it's hard to get ahead to learn stuff by yourself when you have a mind numbing job to go to. But then maybe the person doesn't belong in to the world of software development. Another problem i
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by MrLeftHand 10y ago
Potential Employee Perspective: they can't be serious!!! A lot of times a job spec contains a minimum of 10-15 skill you need to know. And that's just the modest one. Maybe employers should stop trying to find the non-existing &#x
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by MrLeftHand 10y ago
That sounds pretty cool. I hope at the end they wont try to feed me with raw fish. And there is the part 'may be a cool job'. Sometimes that part is a lie. Yes come to us and you will be working with the newest tech and learn new
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by MrLeftHand 10y ago
Goggle-fu - I like that. It should go on my resume. Still as I wrote on one of the other replies. Yes, you use an API, but you still provide evidence of coding, because you have to write the application, which calls the API. It was a small
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by MrLeftHand 10y ago
Thank god, it's not just me then. I had an interview where the guy was staring at me like I was interrogated. I had to solve a problem of concatenating to arrays of integers and putting them in ascending order. I was literally frozen a
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by MrLeftHand 10y ago
Had a coworker from a university, didn't even know how to write a while loop. He didn't last long to say the least. Of course we will never know, if he could have been a good programmer or not, but it was baffling to see people fr
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by MrLeftHand 10y ago
Me to supposed mechanic: "Can you fix my car?" Mechanic: "Yes, of course!" - he gets up and collects loads of bits and pieces, metal bars and stuff, then starts to hammer away to create a car part. Me: "What the hel
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by MrLeftHand 10y ago
To be honest this was like 4 years ago. I thought it was a good thing to show that I can get things done in way it costs less effort and time. I was wrong, I moved on, so did they. If I would have a similar test today I wouldn't go dow
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by MrLeftHand 10y ago
I was thinking, but clearly my trail of thought wasn't the good one. Anyway, lessons learned. I hope...
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by MrLeftHand 10y ago
A solution is a solution. Proving that you can search for a solution and use it is a positive thing. There are loads of people who can't do even that. It wasn't like copy-paste. You still have to understand how to write the code t
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by MrLeftHand 10y ago
Yes, call me stupid. I thought showing resilience by searching for an existing solution and implementing it, instead of reinventing the wheel, will give them a good impression. Clearly I was wrong. But, when you come across a problem, what
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by MrLeftHand 10y ago
Yes, they should have been more specific. Problem solving skills go a long way especially in programming. But then the question is how far should you go down the rabbit-hole. For example, how many variables can someone use? How optimized sh
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by MrLeftHand 10y ago
Yes, that is a problem as well. They don't want to use libraries from the outside, so they develop a lot of stuff in-house. Which will have specific requirements and getting someone up to speed takes longer then using an existing API,
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by MrLeftHand 10y ago
With one of many job applications I did, I received a small coding exercise before getting to the actual interview. It was about writing a small application in perl (one of my favorite scripting languages) to solve a problem. It was a numbe
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by MrLeftHand 10y ago
Looks awesome, but the guy said the magic sentence for failure. "I will wait until it's perfect!" Sorry buddy, but it never will be perfect. By the time it comes out all the other competitors already dominated the market. So

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