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Touch Interfaces and Disregarding Creation - ac(allenc.com)
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HTML is Still the Great Equalizer(allenc.com)
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Why Bejeweled Blitz Remains Addictive(allenc.com)
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Understanding Code by Transcription(allenc.com)
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The “Computers” Section of the Bookstore(allenc.com)
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Stop Trying to Hire Just "A" Players(allenc.com)
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by allenc 15y ago
Then just say that , and leave the rest of the suggestions on creating a product, finding a market, etc. out of it. It's like the tired old "if you get x people for y a day" or "if you could only get [arbitrary small percentage] of a [gian
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by allenc 15y ago
Wow, is this a troll/joke post? This is why developers look at marketers with such disdain...
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Which programs are essential with fresh OS install?
2 points by allenc 15y ago|2 comments
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ROME (Chrome experiments) tech showcase with WebGL(ro.me)
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Social Exit(allenc.com)
1 points by allenc 15y ago|0 comments
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by allenc 15y ago
Yea, maybe "intangibles" was a bad choice of wording - what I meant was more along the lines of "unquantifiable", in the sense that it's not just more options or salary or maybe 401k matching. Branding and title would fit well along those l
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Ask HN: What kind of perk would sway you to join one company over another?
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Hacker News, Techcrunch, and the Power of “Google”(allenc.com)
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From Front-End to Full-Stack Engineer(allenc.com)
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by allenc 15y ago
Mmm...I personally see a distinction between front-end developer and front-end engineer. What you're describing sounds like a FE dev. A FE Eng. is still a software engineer, which means you ought to be able to pick up any backend language,
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by allenc 15y ago
Like learning how to program, I think it's a mistake to look at a finished product, go "I want my project to look like that!" and then try to deconstruct the end result systematically. I'd suggest forgetting the "oh pretty!" aspect of desig
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by allenc 15y ago
Eh, I can't draw myself, so I probably can't comment on good logo design. I think as long as it's clean and distinctive - branding your app - it should work well. You can always hire a designer to redo it when you gain some traction.
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by allenc 15y ago
Right. The general idea is: the bigger the font size, the more people will notice it, so make the irrelevant stuff small and the attention-grabbing stuff big. As to colors, I just saw something someone else posted that can help you develop
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by allenc 15y ago
Some things just from a design and aesthetics standpoint: - More white space. It's the easiest way to lose the "cluttered" feel of having giant blocks of explanatory text. - Vary the fonts and font sizes. In particular, your nav. bar's font
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by allenc 15y ago
Agreed, although some laxer languages - say, Javascript - will let you do it all the same. Like I said, it's not necessarily a rule to follow, but whenever I come across people who would do things slightly off (from common coding practices
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by allenc 15y ago
Hm, I think Fermi problems are not as much in style, but certain interviewers still ask them from time to time. I'm thinking more about just annoying puzzle problems with one right answer, that if you don't have an "aha!" moment you'd proba
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How to Score a Google Onsite Interview(allenc.com)
50 points by allenc 15y ago|59 comments
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by allenc 15y ago
Well, you begin by not saying "you're out of touch". =p You begin by saying "According to my research, these are the market rates for someone in my position. What are your thoughts?" If it's really that he just didn't know what the going
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by allenc 15y ago
Hm...does your boss and your company know what market rates are? Don't assume that your company is purposefully underpaying you; it may very well be that they don't know enough of the market. In that case, esp. if you're on good terms wit
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by allenc 15y ago
One of the most annoying forms of interview has to be the immediately technical phone screen. I remember talking with startups, and during the initial phone call they'd leap into a canned set of technical screening questions, which themselv
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Ask HN: How does your company ensure its code and product are of quality?
3 points by allenc 16y ago|3 comments
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by allenc 16y ago
The "professionals directory" app is....well, let's just say it looks like someone ported a Windows application from the 80's. Isn't it kind of ironic (and maybe insulting) that the people who'd implement modern interfaces would want to use
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by allenc 16y ago
Wow, that sounds terrible - sorry that one of our guys (in this case, really sounds like a recruiter than an actual engineer) expected you to know a bunch of random technical facts. If it makes you feel better, our technical phone interview
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by allenc 16y ago
Sure. I'm operating under the assumption that life might throw you a curveball or two - maybe some company is offering you enough money and a chance to network with great people that you'll take them up, but get stuck in the interview proce

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