amorphid

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   by amorphid 11y ago

   I agree. I interviewed with Pivotal, and it was fairly distracting for me to be asked to work on a problem where the interviewer clearly knew the solution, and did all the typing. It wasn't fun.
2. 872.▲
   by amorphid 11y ago

   They have already made parts 2 and 3. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1985017/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2800038/
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   by amorphid 11y ago

   I own voidcorp.com, which kind of sounds like it could has something to do with effed companies.
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   by amorphid 11y ago

   Licensing can get really lame. Amazon has (or at least had) seasons 1, 2, and 4 of a show I watched. I had to go elsewhere to find season 3. I never went back for season 4.
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   by amorphid 11y ago

   I recently bought a software learning book for the first time in years. It was nice to read from something other than a screen for the first time in years.
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   by amorphid 11y ago

   Doesn't state approved home schooling (in the USA) usually include aptitude testing at a local school? My impression was that the curriculum was set by the school, and the teaching was done by the parent.
7. 877.▲
   by amorphid 11y ago

   I wrote some Ruby in an interview. It was so terse, I had to explain to the interviewer (who favored Java) what the code did, and why it was linear instead of O(n^2). That was actually kind of fun.
8. 878.▲
   by amorphid 11y ago

   I learn by conversing and hands on experience much more efficiently than I do by listening to a (usually boring) lecture. School was not much fun for me.
9. 879.▲
   by amorphid 11y ago

   I flew Frontier once. Never again. Unless it's the only choice.
10. 880.▲
    by amorphid 11y ago

    Reminds me of my roommate who would call me from the next bedroom over whenever he wanted to talk, even when my door was open.
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    by amorphid 11y ago

    I suggest putting Google on your resume, too. Being Google-y is a highly desirable line item on a resums. If you really have to, just explain what happened. Maybe even show the hiring manager this thread on HN. There is a reasonable cha
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    by amorphid 11y ago

    When I hit a paywall, I just google the article title. Clicking through via the search result usually gives me a paywall experience.
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    by amorphid 11y ago

    Also, lobbying helps address issues where laws haven't kept up with technology. A friend of mine is a lobbyist for an energy company. During a power outage, they will do robo-calling to customers to survey whether power is out in a gi
14. 884.▲
    by amorphid 11y ago

    If you want to use Microsoft Software, BizSpark is great. I've signed up a couple times for a couple different entrepreneurial endeavors of mine. Super easy. Always free.
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    by amorphid 11y ago

    I liked having Ruby as a first. The REPL made it easy to see what was going on (even if I didn't understand it), the community's like for testing is fabulous, and I became comfortable doing things at the command line.
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    by amorphid 11y ago

    It wouldn't surprise me to see proposed buyout of Intel by a foreign power would be blocked by the United States government.
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    by amorphid 11y ago

    Yeah, the downward spiral towards being on the rocks was just as bad, if not worse, than being homeless. Watching your bank account dry up is not fun. Coming to the realization that your friends and family can't, or won't, be ab
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    by amorphid 11y ago

    The short version is that I got hit pretty hard in 2008 when the economy melted down. I was working as a tech recruiter for startups, and I was being referred around by a few venture capitalists. When the VCs stopped investing, their port
19. 889.▲
    by amorphid 11y ago

    I haven't written about it in detail, no. It's been long enough that it doesn't hurt when I think about it anymore. Maybe I'll jot some words down and share with them y'all.
20. 890.▲
    by amorphid 11y ago

    As a workaround, I can add all of you to my company's GitHub Enterprise install. It's only ~$2,500/year per 10 users, so I can just expense it.
21. 891.▲
    by amorphid 11y ago

    Can confirm. Tried startup. Worked hard. Ran out of money. Ended up homeless. It sucked.
22. 892.▲
    by amorphid 11y ago

    I am affected by my environment. Aren't you? A page full of ads for things that tend to make me feel slightly less optimal is, well, suboptimal.
23. 893.▲
    by amorphid 11y ago

    It's down again :)
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    by amorphid 11y ago

    One thought comes to mind. What if the button light is not working? Hit the N button once, and you are on your way to floor N. But if the light is busted, you would hit the light again, and now you have deselected your destination. I th
25. 895.▲
    by amorphid 11y ago

    Former tech recruiter, now a web developer here in DC. Email in profile. Cheers.
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    by amorphid 11y ago

    Pairing helps me figure out large code bases quite a bit.
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    by amorphid 11y ago

    Hacker Hourly? How quaint. Behold... Hacker Instant! => https://news.ycombinator.com
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    by amorphid 11y ago

    Show accelerating growth. Focus on that.
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    by amorphid 11y ago

    Speaking only for myself... The process of calling a toll free number for a SF cab sucks. Often get a busy signal. Most of the time they are slow to respond. Some times they never show up at all. Basically, I can't count on them to
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    by amorphid 11y ago

    Demand for your service that exceeds your capacity to deliver is a high class problem :)