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by akanet 12y ago
Dan Luu's article about transitive equality and floating point numbers is pretty amusing. ( https://codewords.hackerschool.com/issues/one/when-is-equali... ). Here's a little tidbit from the article (notic
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I didn't say solely :)
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https://coderpad.io/ - It's a realtime tool for conducting interviews, for programmers. Docker lets me do a wide variety of tricky stuff involving the execution of untrusted code, like provide REPLs with very low laten
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by akanet 12y ago
I think Joyent's right here. Docker's open and progressively enhanced API is a godsend. Somewhere around 0.7x they basically enabled the entire existence of my business, just by virtue of having a good API. I frankly don't ev
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by akanet 12y ago
This is exceedingly great work. This is the stuff I love coming to HN for. I had no idea Discourse had a dual-boot mode, much less that it had become a de-facto macro benchmark for both Ruby and Rails. That is awesome.
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by akanet 12y ago
I actually have similar symptoms on a smaller scale - I never remember my dreams, and I generally can't tell you if an event happened in the last month or the last year. I get plenty of sleep, though, so I'm just going to chalk th
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by akanet 12y ago
The amount of cynicism in the comments for this story is astounding. The list of complaints is long. By my accounting, people don't like that the founders were: * naive * exploitative of the funding climate * deluded into irrat
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by akanet 12y ago
It's hard to say what the false positive rate is without a bit more data than companies are willing to give so far. We are lining up case studies with a few of our larger customers, though, so we hope to have something for you in the f
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by akanet 12y ago
Hi! I'm the floppy-haired guy in the interview. If you have any questions, please launch them at me via your comment boxes.
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Code Insider 5: Coderpad.io(codeinsider.us)
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by akanet 12y ago
If you're looking for a more fully featured version of this product, check out CoderPad ( https://coderpad.io ). We've got live code execution coverage across pretty much every programming language you'd be interest
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by akanet 12y ago
A low rental price on a high-end condo would immediately devalue the condo and any surrounding units - which is worse to the property development people than no rental income at all. They live by essentially propagating high prices for deve
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by akanet 12y ago
"Solving a problem with someone looking over your shoulder and forcing you to talk to explain what you are thinking" is actually how problems are generally solved in most fields. Software engineering is perhaps one of the lone exc
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by akanet 12y ago
For those interviewers and candidates looking for a better solution than the "google doc shared whiteboard" - I suggest checking out a product I make: https://coderpad.io/ You can think of it as a much higher fide
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by akanet 12y ago
I do not think your attitude or position are indicative of the majority of developers. They also require a huge time investment up front by the interviewer. Even if your individual Github profile (or whatever) is organized, comprehensible,
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by akanet 12y ago
Coding interviews don't ignore any facts - they are simply often the best signal/time tool available. Many people do not have time to root around in your personal repositories or wait for you to commit pull requests. They have a p
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by akanet 12y ago
I think this is an extremely pessimistic view of what is likely to happen. Being good at interviewing (on both the candidate and interviewer side) doesn't mean that you get jobs you aren't qualified for, it means presenting a more
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by akanet 12y ago
In retrospect this might literally be money laundering.
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by akanet 12y ago
I run a profitable one-man SaaS business. I think before you seriously consider even bringing someone on, you should think about exactly what you want. If you have 30% of an MVP and a business plan, what are you looking for in a cofounder?
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by akanet 12y ago
I think quality begets quality, too. I once had a phone screen interview with Backtype before they were bought by Twitter. I was (and perhaps still am) extremely unqualified for the role, but the interview process was interesting and enjoya
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by akanet 12y ago
He is referring to https://twitter.com/shanley , a moderately well known and divisive figure in the tech feminism scene.
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by akanet 12y ago
I think you're paying for the latency in this case
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If anyone is looking for a similar system but more focused on collaboration and working on code in real-time, check out: https://coderpad.io The target use case is interviews, but it works well for a wide variety of use cases as
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by akanet 12y ago
If anyone else is interested in real-time collaborative IPython environments, check out https://coderpad.io/ . It's less focused on the data analysis side and more focused on collaborative coding for interview environme
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Full list of changes: http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/tags/v2_1_2/ChangeLog
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Companies reading my parent comment should take note - abstruse technical questions on a whiteboard are fairly ineffective. For people looking for alternatives to whiteboarding or phone screens where the candidate writes code in the blind,
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I just signed up for the beta and was approved in about ~15m. It's not material to my business but still cool to see Stripe improving the experience across the board.
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And if you want to run C++ with someone else, in realtime: https://coderpad.io/
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This piece of writing feels a bit strange to me. Who is the person "saying" this? The post appears to express some amount of disappointment at the departure of Eich, and attempts to put in perspective how the employee base felt ab
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by akanet 13y ago
If you're looking for product that takes a more serious stab at actually being able to evaluate the candidate during a coding interview, check out https://coderpad.io . We let you execute pretty much any code as you write it

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