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901.
by bbarn 12y ago
Surprised I had to scroll down this far to find this comment. I came to essentially say the same thing. You don't have to love your job. It's great when you can, but sometimes, it's worth just looking at it for what it is
902.
by bbarn 12y ago
I was once asked "Can you do a quick fizzbuzz implementation on the white board for me" by an interviewer. I stood up, looked at the whiteboard and said "So it's, what.. multiples of three are fizz, five are buzz and bo
903.
by bbarn 12y ago
Only at a critical mass. Below that, enough civil cooperation from others following said unjust laws buries the voice, and hides the effort.
904.
by bbarn 12y ago
Cool, but opening it to January and seeing Reagan's name misspelled on the opening line was disappointing.
905.
by bbarn 12y ago
On the one hand, it's dedication. On the other, it looks a little like Aspergers or something on the Autism Spectrum. The man is so strict in a routine that he wears the exact same clothes and follows the exact same schedule every da
906.
by bbarn 12y ago
I would love to see the numbers of bootstrapped companies run/founded by women vs. those recieving investments. Until there are more women VC's, you're not going to see more women getting VC money. Why? Because purely eval
907.
by bbarn 12y ago
My usual "Pass" answers end up being something specific to the stack a good .net developer should know, with a mutual agreement of just how awesome it is to think about the smallest steps and finding out how deep - even if in hobb
908.
by bbarn 12y ago
"So far, nobody has filled in the section on how a key-press event works its way through the OS, up to the window system, to the application, and to the code handling the input text box." That in itself is a multi-year discussion.
909.
by bbarn 12y ago
The author just merged in a PR from (I'm guessing) an HN reader a few minutes after adding it.
910.
by bbarn 12y ago
By far my favorite question to ask (and be asked) in an interview. As others point out, it's practically impossible to understand the entire system. At one point or another in my career I've been exposed to at least descriptions
911.
by bbarn 12y ago
I've had this tried on me before, in Chicago where we're supposed to have super strict taxi laws. The correct response is to dial 911, not 311, and say you've got a taxi attempting to rob you. Notice next time you walk acro
912.
by bbarn 12y ago
The thing is, the "Michael Jordans" of software development existing isn't really all that valuable for the people looking for them. What would start.up.ly do with John Carmack? Most of the companies that start up aren'
913.
by bbarn 12y ago
Arvind Gupta, the head of IT Cell, BJP Tweeted: "The websites that have been blocked were based on an advisory by Anti Terrorism Squad, and were carrying Anti India content from ISIS. The sites that have removed objectionable content a
914.
by bbarn 12y ago
Only one mention of a doctor, once in the whole page, and he says to give it a rest and she'll be ok. Then she says she spends 50% of the time using her hands normally? No mention of further deterioration, or further attempts to figu
915.
by bbarn 12y ago
I remember a different history, and I don't miss those awful towers a bit. I remember being in military uniform in the early 90's and still being harassed by the locals as I walked down Division St the 3 miles to the train I had t
916.
by bbarn 12y ago
Not to be a huge ass, but the lack of using capital letters, while proving the shift key does in fact function (@, % both featured in posting) only further solidifies the idea I had in my head that this is a crazy person posting. Not a fun
917.
by bbarn 12y ago
A quick look around my living room and the bar end of every flat bar bike I have is beat up and chewed up. Not a stellar place to put important pieces. Much like most "bike innovations" these don't seem to cater to those wh
918.
by bbarn 12y ago
The other massively understated thing about Chicago's red light cameras is that Chicago, compared to other areas with similar or even much lower traffic volumes, has very few left turn lanes, and even fewer left turn arrows when they a
919.
by bbarn 12y ago
Most developers I know buy software if they like it, or perceive it to add value to them. Stealing software, as a developer - especially if it's good, and you depend on it, makes you a massive hypocrite if you get paid to create softw
920.
by bbarn 12y ago
Not even close to it. You could say the opposite, in that some of these more obtrusive ads are stealing from the business they are supposed to be advertising with. Many times a small banner ad can inline flash objects, all kinds of mess t
921.
by bbarn 12y ago
What's your feeling on vi/vim :)?
922.
by bbarn 12y ago
Polarizing is a good way to put it. For such a generally free thinking crowd, there's a lot of flat out hate for the open office here. Personally, I've seen it work well (where I'm at now), and I've seen it work badly (
923.
by bbarn 12y ago
OK, I'll be that guy. Your tone, knowledge of the subject, and general skill at writing imply you're quite intelligent, so what did you do to get a felony conviction?
924.
by bbarn 12y ago
That's what I meant to say with the part about the flimsy/flexible typecover. It's quite tough to type using it on a lap, and the touchpad isn't very easy to use either. I tried the combo of typecover and pen - that wa
925.
by bbarn 12y ago
I think this is going to continue in some shape, even if it doesn't necessarily look like this, because these companies are going to India to pay less money, bottom line. Add in a large pool of people wanting to make the move, and som
926.
by bbarn 12y ago
It's a nice toy. I have the big bad 8gb RAM, 500gb SSD that work paid for. As a pretty much exclusively .net/visual studio dev, the experience for development, while the machine is powerful enough to handle it, is utterly abysma
927.
by bbarn 12y ago
And on that note, the more places mobile puts it's fingers, ultimately, the more places that someone needs to make sure the finger points to the right thing. Every google maps, yelp review, craigslist post, etc., needs someone ultimat
928.
by bbarn 12y ago
I may be alone, but I'll generally take 2 19" non-widescreen monitors over a single giant monitor any day of the week. There's something (possibly as a minority windows user) that I really like about throwing things from scr
929.
by bbarn 12y ago
All good engineers are self taught... to a degree. That doesn't mean they don't hold advanced degrees in whatever, but great engineers IMO are the types who whether they spend their 20th birthday in a dorm or on the job, have been
930.
by bbarn 12y ago
waving goodbye to my 82 HN points with this one Dude, you're obsessed with being a founder, more than you have vision/plan/reason/skill to actually be one. You have all of the lingo right, all of the right words, hell

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