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by askyourmother 11y ago
Sigh. If you hire using know it or not questions about binary trees, then you finally get to hire people who can study up and answer that specific question in a manner Pavlov would approve of. That does not mean the candidate will be able t
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by askyourmother 11y ago
Edit: interestingly, this comment had five points before the uber fans modded away. Easier to click down then explain rogue apps I suppose... They were lucky they didn't try the beta version of the new forthcoming uber app - that versi
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by askyourmother 11y ago
Very unnecessary overreach on android permissions.. Will be interesting to see how many of the fans of uber here on hn will try to spin this. Just forwarded to some friends, they are uninstalling the rogue app as I type this!
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by askyourmother 11y ago
All news sites carry a bias - all of them. Often main stream media in the home country wants/has to tow the line and omit details or not carry stories that might upset local authority. So, to say a story is bunk because it appears in R
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by askyourmother 11y ago
The road to hell is paved with good intentions, but it is forested with flowering gardens from people who purposely stifle and opress others, to present a single biased viewpoint, in the name of "safe space". I think personally ta
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by askyourmother 11y ago
Yes. When the fine is less than the overall profit, and they can write it off via taxes, then it is not even a tickle on the wrist. CEO, every member of the board, every manager in that division that made and sold the products, fine 100% of
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by askyourmother 11y ago
We would not accept shitty ingredients in our food, being told it was a grade beef, when it turned out it was actually alley cat, sewer rat and suchlike mixed in. How on earth did they get away with a grade securitised mortgage products tha
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by askyourmother 11y ago
The key part here is that OpenBSD take a conservative approach to things, but when they do fix things, it is usually an elegant fix, not a hack to save time now, at a cost of security later.
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by askyourmother 11y ago
It is always interesting when most tech folks, even most business folks talk down Yahoo, as a relic of the internet of yesterday, a company with arguably the worlds biggest online news site can see value in Yahoo. Whether you like the conte
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by askyourmother 11y ago
Yet another browser aperture that will require the usual multitude of post-implementation band-aid security fixes. Sigh. We get it. We could make the browser the OS. But should we? Not, could we? I actually miss the days where the browser w
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by askyourmother 11y ago
I don't think the content providers have actually attempted to have that value conversation with their customers though. Why? Because if faced frankly, a lot of the content is crap, and their customers would flee if pushed to pay. Some
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by askyourmother 11y ago
Some of the most famous self-made wealthy individuals in the UK were from poor backgrounds of varying degree. I remember more than one stating that they felt if they wanted to escape that world, they had to make their own luck, grab every o
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by askyourmother 11y ago
Businesses who expose their users to malware and harm via infected ads they choose not to screen or vet in-house, complain when those same users take steps to protect themselves. Maybe we need to change the terminology: "I use a browse
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by askyourmother 11y ago
Regrets as a programmer: 1. Every piece of unpolished, unfinished code that management decided should ship to the customers regardless 2. Ever using node and npm. 3. Seeing and living through the train wreck of J2EE and the XML horrors tha
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by askyourmother 11y ago
The takeaway is that work is a lot to do with working with other people, not just waiting for github to come back online, or waiting for the 5gb download to compile stuff on OSX. People are far complicated than code, so we should take the t
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by askyourmother 11y ago
Lots of polarised views here. I think of it this way: if I am young and fresh from studying the latest woodworking theory from university, degree in hand, I probably think I am the shit compared to all the grandads out there who older than
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by askyourmother 11y ago
On the plus side, the really good companies who eschew shitty coding tests become even more attractive to good candidates. If you are going to start a potential employment relationship by asking me to acquiesce so readily, it doesn't b
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by askyourmother 11y ago
Next blog post from the hiring company "why we continue to moan that we can't find devs despite having a shitty coding test". I am with the blog poster here - fuck you and your coding test. I lowered myself to do one recently
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by askyourmother 11y ago
I've said it before, and I am sure it will be as unpopular now as then: there are people here who should know better, who can see where this road leads, but they are selfish "I know DRM is bad, but I got ta have ma Netflix!".
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by askyourmother 11y ago
What about the assumption (fatally flawed decision?) that malloc never fails when rust asks? Sounds like something that could affect concurrency
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by askyourmother 11y ago
Food and drink fraud is a real problem in London, especially fake alcohol, which leads to organ damage, blindness and death. Lots of local smaller shops get caught selling faked wine and vodka, a market trader recently caught with fake spic
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by askyourmother 11y ago
On the plus side, all the devs running to Go from Node, maybe we can finally get all those great libs from npmjs written in go, like Kik, isArray, isThirteen, and so many more classics of robust software engineering that the js community ex
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by askyourmother 11y ago
If they want ideas for shows, how about life at uni, in the us, for the year 2016. Over here in Europe, we either get the view that it is like back in revenge of the nerds movies, or worse, stuff like this: Http://www.zerohedge.co
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by askyourmother 11y ago
Spreadsheets can be a pain, but be careful what you ask for to replace them... Having contracted at two big american banks ( cough jp, cough boa ) that decided to build their own proprietary technology sinking ship solutions ( cough athena
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by askyourmother 11y ago
Some will laugh because Kik started all this, and got affected by it. Some will laugh when they look at npm, and the state of js "devs". Some will then turn back to their current project, thank the stars it is coded in anything bu
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by askyourmother 11y ago
I heard one of js "devs" refer to npm as nano package management. It sounded more like abdication of duty as a developer to understand what you are adding as a dependency, why, and the long-term cost. How many developers here woul
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by askyourmother 11y ago
But surely the really concerning part is despite their very wide usage, these dependecies turned out in some cases to be poorly coded functions indeed. Throughout this whole thread are examples where these one or two line "modules&quot
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by askyourmother 11y ago
You think the only thing about the whole situation that is a problem is that npm let an author unpublish, rather than all the projects came to depend on so many external functions, sorry got to get the npm terminology the right, "modul
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by askyourmother 11y ago
The laughter is mostly the same as in the crowd points out the "new clothes" actually aren't any clothes at all. The modern, funky, hip, js "devs" told us we didn't "understand" they are doing modular
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by askyourmother 11y ago
Uber got lucky - they banked on millenials being so self-centred, and so naive and myopic on the long-term costs of their actions, that they used them to basically use VC cash (like a billion a year in China alone) to basically buy the cabb

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