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   by akanet 13y ago

   good points all around here guys, thanks.
2. 392.▲
   by akanet 13y ago

   You're right, frankly, a lot of the web-facing stuff isn't quite there yet. I would say that this is because I have been working on improving the technical offering for my current customers, and that this HN posting has caught me
3. 393.▲
   by akanet 13y ago

   Not very many by internet startup standards, but the ones I do have are very engaged. Thank you for your advice from last time, it was very helpful.
4. 394.▲
   by akanet 13y ago

   This is coming - I've been swamped. Hear you loud and clear though.
5. 395.▲
   by akanet 13y ago

   I do appreciate Greek myth. Allow me to respond in kind. Athena is said to have emerged fully formed and fully armored from her interviewer's head, but what her peer reviewers did not see at the time was the struggle she faced in Zeus&
6. 396.▲
   by akanet 13y ago

   Those words are almost literally the gripe to my coworkers that spawned this whole thing.
7. 397.▲
   by akanet 13y ago

   Repl.it is really quite great. Unfortunately it is beginning to feel its age (2 years, now). I'm looking to get off of it for some of the core languages I support, and I already rely on other services for the other, trickier languages
8. 398.▲
   by akanet 13y ago

   I'm in the middle of a reworking of the landing page. I almost wish this got posted a few days later :)
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   by akanet 13y ago

   Sorry if it isn't super highlighted, but if you scroll down a bit, you'll see that I support most languages you'd want to use this for (current notable exceptions are Go and Obj-C, the former of which is coming soon). Here&#x
10. 400.▲
    by akanet 13y ago

    I'm going to take some time this week or the next to flesh out tablet functionality. If you drop me a line via email, I can let you know when it's ready.
11. 401.▲
    by akanet 13y ago

    Good point. I'll do it now.
12. 402.▲
    by akanet 13y ago

    This is awesome. Thank you.
13. 403.▲
    by akanet 13y ago

    I've thought about it. The daunting bits are the trickiness around how long the session should live. You'd like the repl's variables to persist between commands, etc, but at the same time letting an arbitrary code session liv
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    by akanet 13y ago

    Cool, it's nice to see one of my projects make the rounds again. CoderPad has gone from frustrating "I can't believe no one's built this yet, interviews are so annoying" to a thing actual people are paying me for, a
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    by akanet 13y ago

    Hey, I made CoderPad. I'm looking at replacements for emscripted-ruby currently. Interesting candidates currently include doing it all server side, and using mruby compiled via emscripten. Unfortunately mruby's greatest current sh
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    by akanet 13y ago

    And if you want to see if you could literally, truly derive a working solution to any of these puzzles in a realtime interview environment, I make a tool for that: https://coderpad.io It also works for administering the intervie
17. 407.▲
    by akanet 13y ago

    "Want to lose ~150 lbs fast?"
18. 408.▲
    by akanet 13y ago

    Without getting too much into the theory of it - it's generally better to give the candidate a chance to fail early on.
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    by akanet 13y ago

    As a shameless plug - if anyone's interested in a completely in-browser experience where you and a candidate can both write and EXECUTE code simultaneously, I make a tool for that: https://coderpad.io
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    by akanet 13y ago

    Thanks for responding, I appreciate the sincerity. I think most communities that have undergone significant change have done so with some asymmetry in power. If Hsieh deigns to consult with the locals, it will necessarily take the form of c
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    by akanet 13y ago

    I have mixed feelings about articles like these. On the one hand, I can see how a more broadly integrated community yields benefits for everyone. On the other, you can't help but feel that the author has a very recriminatory tone. One
22. 412.▲
    by akanet 13y ago

    (I'm sure there's going to be a plethora of commenters in the near future roundly criticizing the author for his tone) I strongly agree with the author on the rampant disconnect between Mongo's actual quality and its marketed quality.
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    by akanet 13y ago

    I'm working on it!
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    by akanet 13y ago

    Everlane ( https://www.everlane.com/ ) - San Francisco - Fulltime We are a small team of full stack engineers working to build a brand that changes how people perceive the clothing industry. You can read about our push for greater transpare
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    by akanet 14y ago

    In the very same vein, behold: The Krugman Times - The NY Times by its only columnist http://krugmantimes.com/ My site takes the current view of the NYT and replaces all the material using text extraction. This op-ed generator appears to
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    The API for Google's most valuable resource sucks(vincentwoo.com)

    3 points by akanet 14y ago|1 comments
27. 417.▲
    by akanet 14y ago

    I'm not sure how any of the highlighted features really promote intimacy or quality in conversation.
28. 418.▲
    by akanet 14y ago

    Sent an email with the subject "it's time to take this sucker public," and it bounced. For a minute... I dared to dream.
29. 419.▲
    by akanet 14y ago

    As a guy who basically did Java/GWT at Google for a year, I feel like I could have written this exact article.
30. 420.▲
    by akanet 14y ago

    Could you elaborate? I thought the story was somewhat in the hacker spirit in that it exploited the oft-overlooked option of retaliating against spammers.