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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
> Some people work like tortoises. They may appear slow, but the culminated effect of their very deliberate and careful decisions accumulates far better than a hare. I'm pretty sure my current process doesn't work in their fav
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
Triplebyte seems to angled toward doing pre-screening; the hiring organization still does a full interview loop afterward. What I proposed would be more along the line of handling the mechanics of administering a coding interview for a hir
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
I think there's a business opportunity here. Imagine something like ETS's system for administering the GRE: Come into a location in your city at a particular date/time, sit down at a computer pre-loaded with various editors
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
Pretty much what other have said: if you want to retain the ability to code, you're going to have to keep coding. The bare minimum would be running through the exercises on various coding sites, such as HackerRank. What would be best
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
C# is a much better language and has better stewardship but Java has extremely broad usage. Plus, speaking from personal experience, learning Java first and then learning C# is probably going to be a positive experience, whereas doing it th
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
> White CS grads do. not. want. to work in boring tech such as QA, etc. Speaking as a longtime QA professional, if engineering teams want to interest and retain good people in QA, then stop. crapping. on. QA. people. That means equal p
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
> I am a 20 something who was hired for a salaried position shortly after graduation with a bachelors degree in math. ... The world is not as dismal as it may seem for millenials. It's just that demand for STEM + CS continues to gr
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
Never seen one myself but it's entirely possible for a business to solicit volunteers to be laid off [1] or take early retirement [2]. [1] e.g. http://www.nyguild.org/time-inc-news-details/items/spots-ill...
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
> Why do this when http://bitbucket.com will host private git repos for free? Because you never know when one of these online services will suffer an outage, suffer a security breach that leasks your private repos or email
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
> "People always talk about Moore's Law falling apart, and it seems like people didn't see it coming." EEs in the semiconductor industry have been talking about it for the past 20 years; they didn't know exactly
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
Hasn't that effectively already occurred in the form of YouTube? A bit of curation is really all it would take to form a virtual TV station.
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
Wish I could move (and ten years ago I would've in a heartbeat) but today I have too many personal ties where I am. Thank you, though; that is a darned tempting offer.
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
> "Customer obsession" is not actual, actionable advice because it's not even measurable. Not quantitatively perhaps, but qualitatively? Oh yes; it can be felt. There are some very large organizations where the employe
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
Take a look through the monthly HN "Who's hiring?" posts. Jobs of any kind that aren't web (front-end, back-end, or full stack) or mobile apps are vanishingly scarce. It's really quite depressing.
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
Any hacker who's employed, whether self- or by another, should be very, very interested in the business health of their employer since it directly affects their compensation and possibly their continued employment. Hacking cool techno
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by RandomOpinion 10y ago
> Perhaps more to the point, Japan, which uses Chinese characters for nouns, adjectives, adverbs, and verb-roots, has a very high literacy rate. While literacy might be high, there's been a stream of articles over the years in Jap
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by RandomOpinion 10y ago
> How in this decade, with all we know and have learned about security and exploits, can this kind of thing still happen? The software industry has learned a lot about a security and exploits, certainly. The hardware industry, includin
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What do you dislike about the current state of programming?(quora.com)
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by RandomOpinion 10y ago
I'll take the take-home project. Though I communicate fine otherwise, I stutter miserably when an interviewer is staring at me while I'm trying to whiteboard. Be a little flexible; not everyone finds the same things "insulti
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by RandomOpinion 10y ago
> If I were interviewing someone and they claimed to know C++, and then used "sizeof(A) / sizeof(A[0])" to get the size of an array, I'd question how much C++ they actually knew. Or they've spent a lot of time
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by RandomOpinion 10y ago
If you have a MSDN subscription, you have access to various versions of Windows 10, including the Enterprise version.
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by RandomOpinion 10y ago
Between browsing, searching, Android phone telemetry, and GMail, Google already has better than that level of data on pretty much everyone already.
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by RandomOpinion 10y ago
The underlying publication from the World Health Organization on which the article is based seems to be "Depression and Other Common Mental Disorders - Global Health Estimates" and is available at the following link: http:/&
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by RandomOpinion 10y ago
"BEGIN" and "END" aren't all that bad. Some of us got our start in software using Turbo Pascal long, long ago.
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by RandomOpinion 10y ago
Digging into the history briefly, patchable microcode seems to have existed in commercially released computers as far back as the 1960s. " ...CCROS [microcode] cards on the [IBM System/360] Model 30 could be replaced in the field.
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by RandomOpinion 10y ago
To put it politely, if you think that, you don't know enough about the military or its training to have a meaningful opinion.
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by RandomOpinion 10y ago
> Sounds like the sugar cookie test is a way of filtering out people who won't blindly accept arbitrary rules from authority. Quite a non sequitur there. As mentioned during the speech, Adm. McRaven was describing his own SEAL tr
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by RandomOpinion 10y ago
That's not a very good analogy. Most would agree, I think, that the separation between CS, as taught in most programs, and professional software development is far, far smaller than the separation between physics and aerospace enginee
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by RandomOpinion 10y ago
It's rather simple: A proper CS education, one that has all that "useless" theory that a number of HNers love to deride, equips its bearer to understand how anything in the software world is implemented. You don't have
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by RandomOpinion 10y ago
> I still think smart phones that dock and become full PC work stations would be great The HP Elite x3 phone already does that. http://store.hp.com/us/en/mdp/tablets-243002--1/hp-elite-x3

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