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by RogerL 12y ago
Hmm, I can predict that 90% of the time, so I don't follow.
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by RogerL 12y ago
I'm using IPython Notebook. It has its pluses and minuses. The pluses are all code is inline, and you don't have to worry about having to keep things in sync (change the code for this plot, make sure the output gets named correctl
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by RogerL 12y ago
I've done this in two different contexts. One, when you fly somebody out there is often a fixed amount of time to interview them. People run long, etc., and you just don't get enough time to really dig into their skill set. But I
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by RogerL 12y ago
I think it does need to scale. What happens when after a bus event? Someone else has to watch every film in existence? It is not enough to just watch the new films - you have to have a memory of all other films in order to make that associa
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by RogerL 12y ago
Kent Beck invented TDD while programming in Smalltalk, having recalled reading a paper on using TDD with punched tape. I think Rob Pike is confused in his history/assertion.
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by RogerL 12y ago
Code reviews are very bad at finding bugs; that is not their purpose. Code reviews are great for finding design problems, identifying weaknesses in colleagues (so you can help them increase their skills), keeping everyone knowledgeable abou
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by RogerL 12y ago
I just work in the Dropbox folder itself. I.e I do not drag and drop at the end of the day - the code and/or documents live permanently in the Dropbox folder. I truly wished I could selectively eliminate files (don't duplicate .py
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by RogerL 12y ago
You are trying to measure what? I'm going to assume your answer is "on the job performance". If not, this is going to be a difficult conversation, and I'd ask why you are trying to measure for something you aren't
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by RogerL 12y ago
she fired herself early in the history of Netflix due to lack of money. CEO decided to keep her on part time.
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by RogerL 12y ago
Well, that is just it. Certainly 100% of the people I have ever worked with, even the bad ones, can write a for loop and an if statement. I mistrust the process more than I mistrust the people, though I suppose maybe the same bad people and
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by RogerL 12y ago
Have to agree with this. I've turned down offers, or stopped the process, due to a bad interview experience. It's not a good signal, necessarily, but it is the only one that we have, as to what it might be like to work for you.
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by RogerL 12y ago
It wasn't advice so much as a question. Lead would walk by my desk each day and ask "what are you going to do to excel today?" There's a pretty big difference between getting the job done and excelling, and the latter is
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by RogerL 12y ago
A degree is not going to help you with white board programming (I think degrees are extremely useful, just not for that). I try to turn the tables a bit. "What are you trying to measure, and I'll help you measure it?" Sometim
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by RogerL 12y ago
He said "really had only one person answer it reasonably in all these years ". Are we going to quibble about this wording? Let's see. I've done flight software. I've done cancer statistic software for the NIH. I&#x2
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by RogerL 12y ago
So, everyone fails and you think it is a good question? That doesn't make a lot of sense to me. I can't reasonably answer the question, because I haven't really needed to know it. When I need to know it, I'll learn it, a
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by RogerL 12y ago
Ya, my comment was too brief. I was mostly reacting to the HN posters that basically were saying "Microsoft evil" by gently pointing out that other companies are leaving bugs in for longer than Microsoft. For example, someone post
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by RogerL 12y ago
PVS Studio has always seemed to catch the most errors for me. It is by far worth the price if you s/w is at all important to you. But no tool is perfect. I also run cppcheck, Microsoft's VS (never liked that one much). Haven'
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by RogerL 12y ago
When I did mission critical work we basically did not use libraries if at all possible. You need to know how everything works, and you need to be able to fix it. I'm pretty sure the NASA paper is written within that context. But yes, t
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by RogerL 12y ago
Maybe you are being too specific in your example, and thus I am being nitpicky rather than helpful, but wouldn't that be caught by a static analyzer?
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by RogerL 12y ago
So there are 3 issues [1] against OS X, released a while ago, and one against Microsoft. Why the HN focus on the Windows bugs? At least Microsoft is communicating with Google, and have patches planned, just not on the exact timeline of the
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by RogerL 12y ago
No, sorry, not damaging my ears for bad decisions of management. I don't mean to be argumentative, you are just trying to solve the problem that I am in. I've done the headphone thing, they are noise cancelling, I listen to Simply
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by RogerL 12y ago
People are different. I can't work with music, for the most part. Some can hardly work without it.
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by RogerL 12y ago
What would your reaction be if 1) your child's test were conducted in the lunch hall while lunch was going on. 2) You were expected to take the SATs in a gynasium during a basketball game. 3) when your kids go to the library to study e
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by RogerL 12y ago
It does. We have people doing speaker phone calls with bad connections where they are yelling, endless joking and cackling, people walking by and saying 'hi' to you when you are deep in code. It's utterly impossible.
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by RogerL 12y ago
I wish that was true here. One big floor, I can clearly hear several conversations right now. I should be doing math; I'm here posting on HN. We have one guy that likes to put somebody on the speakerphone, and then yell into it. For ho
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by RogerL 12y ago
I'm replying to your repliers in total, not you. 001sky clearly understands what 'free climbing' means. What is being questioned is whether we should lump such different things under the same term. Yes, of course everyone her
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by RogerL 12y ago
I see the claim that she is a recruiter in the article. I do not see the evidence for that claim. I don't think the article establishes that googler #1 (with the name MARXXXXX) is Maxine. It's all very confusing; why mask out the
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by RogerL 12y ago
Can you explain this claim? He googled the sender's name and came up with news of an acquistion with that person's name. Is the claim that the email wasn't really from MarXXXX?
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by RogerL 12y ago
I have 45 items. When I get to the bottom, it blanks all the items, and displays "finished loading items" twice. If I log out then log back in it displays my list of likes again .. until I scroll to the bottom.
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by RogerL 12y ago
That seems extremely unlikely. Astronaut's time is mapped to the minute, no one is going to run important code without it being extensively tested first (imagine the potential for catastrophe), and the cost of an astronaut's time

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