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   by akanet 13y ago

   Not directly anytime soon - but we integrate with google hangouts, which you can use as an easy chat-only option. This will, however, reveal their name, which I figure you probably already know anyway. Otherwise chatting through the code bo
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   by akanet 13y ago

   That's a great point, thanks!
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   by akanet 13y ago

   If anyone else is interested in conducting similar blind programming interviews, check out: https://coderpad.io . It's a completely in-browser realtime code collaboration/execution sandbox. Candidate (or you) types code
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   by akanet 13y ago

   Anyone interested in doing more complicated questions during the phone screen should check out https://coderpad.io - you get a live REPL or compiler (depending on whichever language you're using), and can run code instantly
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   by akanet 13y ago

   If you're concerned about security, you might be interested in https://coderpad.io , which lets people collaborate and run code in the browser. We support most programming languages.
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   by akanet 13y ago

   I'm very interested in hearing more about DO vs Linode performance, as someone torn between both providers.
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   by akanet 13y ago

   I use IPython for the interactive python part of https://coderpad.io - being able to run a block of code and drop you into a REPL on an exception with full syntax coloring and context is killer.
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   by akanet 13y ago

   If anyone's interested, https://coderpad.io has this exact feature as well - you can give an interview candidate a problem in Go, and watch them solve it in realtime. As you go, you can execute any of the code written so fa
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   by akanet 13y ago

   https://coderpad.io is a SaaS product I built that provides the highest fidelity experience out there currently for interviewing other programmers over the phone. I got to my current rev with a mix of self service plans and ente
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    by akanet 13y ago

    For anyone looking for a similar take with a larger focus on real-time REPL experimentation during the coding interview, check out: https://coderpad.io/
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    Nexus 5 owners unable to boot their phones(productforums.google.com)

    2 points by akanet 13y ago|0 comments
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    by akanet 13y ago

    I would urge you to consider whether you have an accurate picture of the world. It would be a staggering claim, to me, that even most of the people who get VC money could be characterized as "kids". Getting VC money is a lot of ne
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    by akanet 13y ago

    YC has invested in many real-time collaborative editing tools. Most similar to sharepad: https://hackpad.com/
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    by akanet 13y ago

    If you are looking for Etherpad-like tools specifically for collaborating on code, check out https://coderpad.io It's a tool I make that's geared around collaboratively editing and running code in the browser.
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    by akanet 13y ago

    According to https://twitter.com/paulg/status/392057586389753856 , 5% of applicants are nonprofits.
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    by akanet 13y ago

    I especially enjoyed a fraudster's description of his son's profits in World of Warcraft: In 2006 or 2007 my son sold 80,000 gold to IGE and they paid him $70 per 1000g. That's right, $5,600 directly to his PayPal accou
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    by akanet 13y ago

    I'd love to but I don't have enough traffic to conclude this in faster than like, a year.
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    by akanet 13y ago

    I would love a once-and-for-all answer on this topic. Hell, even a rule of thumb like "If you are positioning your product for the mid to high end market, go with X"
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    by akanet 13y ago

    Steve Eisman, eat your heart out. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-24/big-short-eisman-vi...
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    by akanet 13y ago

    I'm very interested in trying out rubinius alongside MRI. I have two big questions, if anyone knows the answers: Does anyone have any pointers on how to keep the latest RBX up to date in RVM? Will heroku be supporting RBX's new we
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    by akanet 13y ago

    Ah, noted, thank you. I hear the whispers among institutional investors is 11bn
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    by akanet 13y ago

    It appears that the offering price has been censored from this document: To the extent that the underwriters sell more than shares of common stock, the underwriters have the option to purchase up to an additional
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    by akanet 13y ago

    Perhaps this is the beginning of the resurgence of the "Small Data Expert"
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    by akanet 13y ago

    I really feel for the author. I had a similar problem, except on the other side of the table - evaluating whether candidates' solutions while interviewing them over the phone was excruciating. I built https://coderpad.io to
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    by akanet 13y ago

    This is beautiful. Best visualization on top of PLUTO data I've seen so far.
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    by akanet 13y ago

    For another look at data-driven recruiting, with actual numbers instead of fluff, you can check out http://blog.alinelerner.com/lessons-from-a-years-worth-of-hi...
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    by akanet 13y ago

    I agree with a lot of stuff said here - caring, or intrinsic motivation, is one of the most powerful attributes you can hire for. There are, however, a plethora of other attributes out there, and restricting your potential hires to the tiny
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    by akanet 13y ago

    I (strongly dis)like how the article's titular question actually goes almost completely unanswered throughout the article. The article seems like a round defense of Javascript's productivity and interoperability benefits, but the
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    by akanet 13y ago

    I found that the quip about how the document that they are sharing while having a conversation is not screensharing as we commonly understand it in modern parlance to be pretty illuminating. That modern screensharing is in several ways wors
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    by akanet 13y ago

    Yup! Updated copy for the landing page is coming down the pipe. I should really make that bit explicit.