Ologn

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by Ologn 9y ago
After doing an extraordinary number of technical interviews of people, I began to think of it as a Gaussian curve with a normal distribution. Despite headhunter filtering, resume filtering, and short phone interviews, one out of six people
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Also, Nokia didn't have to choose between Microsoft and Google. They could have done both, like Samsung did. In terms of attracting programmers, Android could be programmed on Mac, Windows or Linux. A developer account was a one-time
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Gold is not useless in industry. It is used to conduct electricity in many industrial settings. It also has other uses - dentists use it as a tooth crown etc. That it is useful is why it has value. Yes, storing and transporting gold for
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> how much time They usually say at least three hours study for each hour of class, I used that as my guide > difficult to even spend 1 hour a night The more abstract and mathematical the class, the longer I know it will last and I ca
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I do Android apps, and tried lots of different advertising approaches. Admob has always been a central ad network to consider, then everything else. So first you want to decide if you want Admob to be your ad mediator or not. If a third-
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I agree, the id code is very well organized and readable.
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Allow me to publicly follow someone while privately ignoring them. Allow me to easily and permanently get rid of "In case you missed it" thing and read my feed on a strictly timeline basis. I get a lot of junk in my feed that I do
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by Ologn 10y ago
Yes. It is not cheap enough to be mass market yet, but is close enough that you can see a lower price being attainable. The vision implementation is good enough in some circumstances, but obviously much of that will improve. Multi-player
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by Ologn 10y ago
I spent years working in IT before going back to school at night to get a CS degree. One thing is to just learn the subjects and get as good a grade as possible. Even if a class is subpar, just learn the subject. I had to submit an assign
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by Ologn 10y ago
> As long as bitcoin is useful for buying drugs or another criminal activity, it's going to be worth something. That's a tautology, isn't it? People found the German Papiermark useful for criminal and non-criminal activity
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Ubuntu is a good option. It is easy and things work. I've run virtualization of other Linux distros on it fine. The documentation and message boards are robust. The desktop bug reporting system has a lot of traffic (although it is
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by Ologn 10y ago
Location: New York City Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Only to northern California Technologies: Android primarily Email: webcontact@matchingwords.com My current focus is as an Android programmer. I have released more than one app that h
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I wrote something similar a while ago. http://blunderchess.sf.net . Actually, the portion which broke down PGN games into FEN positions is what took a while.
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Gold is a commodity has value because it can conduct electricity, fill teeth and so forth. Historically it has been used as a currency because it is portable, uniform, divisible and durable. It has had value for thousands of years, through
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> It's money (a currency). Money has value because someone says it has value and someone else agrees. Congrats, bitcoin has value! Commodities have value. Until 1971 in the US, US currency had implied value because it could be exch
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by Ologn 10y ago
Bitcoins have no value. Nothing is more an indication of quantitative easing and bubbles and so forth than Bitcoin. A $12 billion market cap, as worthless as the $12 billion valuation of some unicorns. Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger ha
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by Ologn 10y ago
I'm surprised to see how many people think a tech lead is a good idea. Most teams I have worked on have a manager who used to be an engineer. In terms of direction setting, a final authority amd so forth, it is their call. They talk
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by Ologn 10y ago
For amateurs to become better chess players, they: * Learn basic endings like KKR * Review their tournament length games for where they made sub-par moves * Learn tactics like pin and fork * Replay grandmaster games * Do two to mate chess p
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Yes. People can put anything they want on their resume. I got a resume once where a person said they were working at company X from 1995 to 1999. I knew it was false because they sat next to me at company Y in 1997 for three weeks before
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by Ologn 10y ago
I like live coding as well. For example: https://www.twitch.tv/notch/v/38122203 . Notch of Minecraft fame coding a new game from scratch over a period of two days. You get to see what tools they use, what their
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I don't think lifecycles, phone rotation etc. are much of a problem, because once you know them, you know them. I think the problem is Android keeps changing the current best practices. I'm not even sure how to know what those ar
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I don't know why this is not discussed more. People either talk about either open floor plans or complete private solo offices. Or cubicles, although no one seems to like that. A private office with your team of 4-5 people seems idea
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I have a wallpaper app where you can see which wallpapers are popular. One problem in determining popularity is I continually add new wallpapers. If each download has the same score, then a wallpaper from three years ago that people downl
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The bottom of the article says the phone is assembled by HTC. I suppose the difference between this and the Google Nexus phones is that Google is no longer doing hardware design in collaboration with outside manufacturers. However, collab
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> when trying to build things and learn programming languages you should either build something you know in a language you’re learning, or build something new in a language you already know, but not try to do both at the same time. This
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Being on the other side of the interview table is helpful for perspective. You might even experience this if your team is hiring for a position and wants you to look over resumes, do phone interviews, in person interviews etc. If I intervi
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After having interviewed dozens of people, the idea occurred to me that my ratings for interviewees were a Gaussian curve with a normal distribution. Most people blended into each other - they knew the topics the same amount. Enough to be
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> when linguists actually went looking at the variation in languages across the world, they found counterexamples to the claim that this type of recursion was an essential property of language. Some languages—the Amazonian Pirahã, for in
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> already well implemented in Android Yup. I remember the original iPhone/iPad announcements where many features were fairly innovative. Now applauded feature announcements are for features already out on Android phones.
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> I don't see other countries like Russia producing better engineered products India graduates good math and CS students from IIT, why is India not an engineering excellence hub? Because they come to the US. US STEM grad schools ar

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