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811.
by S4M 12y ago
That's strange, a rate of $700/day makes a salary of roughly 170k/year, which I suppose if above average for Los Angeles, without being exceptional. Since he's not gonna employ you for 1 year, it seems to me pretty a pre
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by S4M 12y ago
You might want to read PG's essay about fund raising [0]. He advises to "hear no til you hear yes" amongst other things. [0] paulgraham.com/fr.html
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by S4M 12y ago
Can you give examples?
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Best cities to live in [pdf](safecities.economist.com)
6 points by S4M 12y ago|1 comments
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by S4M 12y ago
I agree about the benefits of isolating side effects and IO - I generally code in python, and my code tends to look like: def main_function(args): data = get_data(args) result = do_calculations(data) push_resul
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by S4M 12y ago
I don't know much about Haskell, but I thought it had some properties to isolate side effects, but the code he gives: main = do cd "/tmp" mkdir "test" output "test/foo&qu
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by S4M 12y ago
I get a better focus when I work without internet - I normally go working in a public library for that, and don't ask if I can get the wifi. It requires me to be very familiar with the libraries/language I am using, so I can'
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Stop being bullied: Let’s sue Mountain View(sfexaminer.com)
13 points by S4M 12y ago|0 comments
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by S4M 12y ago
I understand your company has lots of remote data scientists... Are you hiring? I'd be interested to have a go if it's the case. How can I contact you?
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by S4M 12y ago
It has generics, for once?
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by S4M 12y ago
Oh, as a parent of two kids myself (4 years & 6 months), I tell you: CONGRATS! I can't imagine having to deal with a job and the two kids alone. Good luck to you!
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by S4M 12y ago
Out of those stories, which one ended up being a commercial success?
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by S4M 12y ago
In the same vein: http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/advice.html
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by S4M 12y ago
Try to put yourself in the shoes of the interviewer. You got to interview lots of clueless people who call themselves programmers but are unable to do the simplest task. Once you spoke with enough people like that, the first thing you want
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by S4M 12y ago
I saw those questions before, and I honestly wondered if the people asking them were really stupid or just trolling.
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by S4M 12y ago
IMHO this kind of questions is asked not to determine if the candidate is good, but if he's bad. Indeed, only someone who is really bad at programming would fail it - modulo small syntax errors due to writing code on paper or white boa
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by S4M 12y ago
Funny you should say that. During my undergraduate, I got almost fired from my University for being one of the top students at maths and one of the worse in physics - it was in France, a bit different than in the US. I recall that a physics
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The Bipolar Lisp Programmer (2007)(marktarver.com)
61 points by S4M 12y ago|11 comments
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by S4M 12y ago
Honestly, I wonder why they don't bother to put an example on the main page. Looking at the github repo of the project [0] (which doesn't have a folder "example" as well), it says: node-webkit is an app runtime bas
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by S4M 12y ago
Thinking of it, currently you don't have that much offers, so it's not likely that people will find it interesting. What I would suggest is allow people to leave a cv and say "I am based in X [important for time zones] and I
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by S4M 12y ago
The search box from here [0] doesn't work. EDIT: Firefox 32.0 running on Debian, Javascript enabled. [0] http://www.watho.net/#!job_search_results/python
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Ask HN: Best way to put ads on a web app?
1 points by S4M 12y ago|1 comments
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by S4M 12y ago
Out of interest, what are your sources to find remote work?
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by S4M 12y ago
Can't you just register from an internet coffee?
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by S4M 12y ago
There are the IP's from North Korea available as well, it was discussed couple of time ago on HN[0]. I think checking by IP is more reliable than checking the browser: Red Star OS is not the only OS in North Korea and someone could use
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by S4M 12y ago
That's an interesting story. Did you have experience writing firmwares and drivers in C before joining that startup? Did they ask you about it or it came on the spot? I am quite curious.
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by S4M 12y ago
This hiring process is great, but requires lots of time, for the applicants and especially for the hiring manager - I suspect the author was targeting unemployed people, so they would have time for this long application (he put his job adve
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by S4M 12y ago
I think you're in a pretty good position to bootstrap your startup: can you reduce your freelancing to free some time to build the MVP of your startup on the side? Once you have the MVP you can see how it goes, and you will still have
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by S4M 12y ago
I'm visiting Japan as well currently - for the whole month in January. I am in Tokyo right now, you can contact me for a drink somewhere...
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by S4M 12y ago
http://www.businessinsider.com/snapchat-ceo-evan-spiegels-em... It was submitted on HN couple of weeks ago, here is the discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8764135

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