brianm

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by brianm 16y ago
Asking how it will fail is a gotcha? To my knowledge and experience thus far, all systems fail. The question is "given this one, that we now have a good shared understanding of, which you designed with the tools you are most familiar with,
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by brianm 16y ago
I appreciate the feedback, but don't think I fall into, nor describe in the linked blog post, the interviewer category you describe (though it is certainly possible I do and just don't realize it). Do you consider this question to be unansw
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by brianm 16y ago
I have done this before, usually if I am working on something interesting, and for which I don't like any solution I have yet hit on. In this case, I do the best I can to describe the problem, thinking thus far, etc, and turn the interview
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by brianm 16y ago
Oo, very nice. This is going to get explored Thank you for the link!
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by brianm 16y ago
I agree, and I try to make clear that I really want to understand how the candidate would approach it -- if they genuinely would try to find a perfect hash and keep a hash -> offset map in memory, then mmap a big data file, that is fine
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by brianm 16y ago
I have gotten solutions which implement custom stores which I have had faith that the candidate could build, but not many. I am not dead set against it, but I will press for an estimate and a good explanation of it if they want to go down t
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My Favorite Engineering Interview Question(skife.org)
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by brianm 16y ago
FWIW, I use clang over gcc (unless there is a major overriding reason to use gcc) just for the fabulous error messages. http://clang.llvm.org/diagnostics.html gives some good examples, and my experience has been that the examples given on
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by brianm 16y ago
Guvnor didn't exist when I used drools :-)
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by brianm 16y ago
Drools/JBossRules is actually pretty sweet (disclaimer, I worked on it once upon a time and JBoss gave me some kick ass headphones when they bought it from Bob and Mark). They have been taking it more in the direction of a traditional busin
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by brianm 16y ago
It sounds like you are hiring a technical employee, not a co-founder, to be honest.
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by brianm 16y ago
Side by side, yes, they will see they are different. They won't know why though. Most people will never realize they are running a particular version, and few will even realize it is Android (vs whatever phone they have in their hand).
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by brianm 16y ago
I use them as references probably more often than any other books I own. That said, I use the internets an order of magnitude more.
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by brianm 16y ago
Hmm, that might be fun to hack on... One problem will be that AMQp is much more complicated than Stomp, and exposes a set of primitives for which there is no good analogue in Stomp -- notably bindings and queues as first class, client man
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by brianm 16y ago
Speaking as an ex-teacher, more money is also direly needed.
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by brianm 16y ago
Yes.
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by brianm 16y ago
As you asked... put aside the "in 15 years I want..." and go do things that are interesting to you for the next 5 years. Travel the world (you can do it at 20, just not 5 star), meet fascinating people, do interesting things. Most HN'ers wi
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by brianm 16y ago
Startups do hire older, more experienced, developers. That they won't is a myth.
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by brianm 16y ago
Top thing would be to be the subject matter expert and own product and customer needs for something he is an absolute expert in.
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by brianm 16y ago
not sure what the base ATI GPU then was, but I know the GeForce 7300 GTs in mine have driver issues preventing compatibility. Forum with mac beta system reqs listing is at http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=24630623195&#38... In
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by brianm 17y ago
I'll second this article, having for a lot of my life always opened an account at a local bank and in recent years switched over wholly to USAA, they are head and shoulders above anyone I have banked with. I have always had my insurance thr
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by brianm 17y ago
By having something we want short term expertise on. I'd contract any of the Damien, J. Chris, or Jan in a heartbeat to help bootstrap Couch for us, if they were up for it :-)
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by brianm 17y ago
Horrible chart junk, but credible domain ( http://www.nsf.gov/news/speeches/colwell/rc02_asm_keynote/sl... ) puts life expectancy in 1900 around 45 years.
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by brianm 17y ago
Mostly it takes you from thinking 50 requests per second is pretty good to being annoyed that you are only pushing 10,000 per second. It also tends to fail a whole lot less.
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by brianm 17y ago
best way to find maven repo info for open source java stuff, that I know of, is with http://repository.sonatype.org/
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by brianm 17y ago
Ah, but Wolfram using "egonomics" is too rich.
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by brianm 17y ago
Sadly, it is a fairly crippled version. It looks like they open sourced the basic framework and some core modules, but keep the important ones behind the $600 barrier. This may actually backfire as folk's willingness to pay $600 for JSP deb
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by brianm 17y ago
Probably better to ask this question on lambda the ultimate ( http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ )
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by brianm 17y ago
Ning is hiring http://about.ning.com/openings.php
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by brianm 17y ago
We have always been at war with Oceania?

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