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by buss 15y ago
Can you get any of those three frameworks to expose arbitrary views? One of my biggest complaints with all of them is that they seem to only expose objects.
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by buss 15y ago
I tried provigil for two weeks and it made me feel like a zombie. I was less sleepy but I felt kind of 'hazy', like there was something between myself and my thoughts slowing down the interaction. It did make me slightly more productive,
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by buss 15y ago
Incidentally, this site is almost unusable on an android phone. Flash and detail popups that are always floating off the side of the screen, despite scrolling. It would also be nice if there were links to the market so I could read reviews
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by buss 15y ago
I've been waiting on approval from legal for a diff viewing tool. It has been under review for over a year now. On the one year anniversary of the ticket I pasted in an ascii art birthday cake and there has finally been some progress. It is
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by buss 15y ago
Just making people aware that any cognitive biases exist would be a huge win.
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by buss 15y ago
That is definitely an underlying problem. Interviews are too short and too stressful to accurately show how good a candidate is. I'm not particularly good in interviews because I get nervous and stumble over my words. It is not at all like
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by buss 15y ago
That's a fair point. There are certainly people who apply to Amazon after having made a couple websites, thinking that Amazon is just a website so they're qualified. What they don't see is all of the intense engineering that happens to keep
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by buss 15y ago
That would probably be more useful, but it doesn't scale. An interview like that takes up a ton of resources and can leave a bad impression on a candidate. Not only are you paying for devs to help and evaluate the candidate, you are doing t
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by buss 15y ago
In my experience interviewing candidates for Amazon(1), there is definitely a talent shortage. We get a surprising amount of applicants that can't write a basic program. Personally, I reject 4/5 of all applicants at the phone screen because
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by buss 15y ago
I'm curious about the author's opinion of the puzzles he had to answer while interviewing. I know most of us in the US are used to this style of interview, so it would be interesting to hear more about Pau's experience. I've been reading up
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My resolution is to open source my work, yours should be too. Here's my start.(github.com)
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by buss 15y ago
Part of the exercise was to always respond truthfully. I didn't make any distinction between omitting truth and actively lying. I never really lied to people in the first place, but I would offer standard niceties. Those counted as lying an
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by buss 15y ago
Yes, some relationships grew stronger, but I don't have evidence to suggest that they grew stronger because of it, and not in spite of it.
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by buss 15y ago
If you haven't figured it out already, this is a terrible, terrible idea. I tried a variant of this for about two years in college and it caused way more problems than it solved (actually, I don't think it solved any problems). Despite wh
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by buss 15y ago
Life at Google sounds like a fairy tale. Things I've had to buy myself to work better at Amazon: 1. A better chair (Steelcase Leap). They give us some shitty chair that's barely adjustable. 2. A second monitor. Yup, they give us one monit
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by buss 15y ago
Should be titled "An Office Designed To Keep Employees From Working"
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by buss 15y ago
Yep, that's the one I was thinking about. Thanks, and you're correct!
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by buss 15y ago
There are such laws, but they only apply to political candidates, and only on TV & Radio. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-time_rule This definitely doesn't apply to websites, though, so I was half wrong.
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by buss 15y ago
Maybe they should black out current events and all information about political candidates. That would get the attention of a lot of people. They might be ensnared in the equal exposure laws during an election season, though.
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by buss 15y ago
Ugh, do not listen to opinions like this. You show a fundamental ignorance of human psychology and the effects of depression on an otherwise healthy mind.
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by buss 15y ago
Please take mortenjorck's advice to heart. There's very likely nothing you could have done that could have stopped this. Remember that people's emotions are not trivial problems that you can solve if you just spend enough time working on th
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by buss 15y ago
There's what looks like a pretty tall tower just to the south of that circle. http://g.co/maps/ct7qm
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by buss 15y ago
Right, I think most of these deaths are due to corruption charges. One of the many weird things about China is that corruption is officially illegal, punishable by death, and yet every powerful business person or government official is corr
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by buss 15y ago
That's a neat idea. Kind of like geographically localized chat rooms? We've been considering that as a demo app for the platform. The initial idea was just to mark a point and a radius for a chat room, then when users enter the area they'd
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by buss 15y ago
The UX is great, I agree, but I can't stand how you put emphasis on every other word in the web design intro video. It reminded me of an Ira Glass segment where he talked about his early radio career (See http://transom.org/?p=6978 and sc
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by buss 15y ago
My startup is in the early stages of building a platform for geosocial apps. We want to tie together the identity providers (FB, 4S, GoWalla, anything else) with the geodata providers (SCVNGR, SimpleGEO, FB, 4S, Gowalla, etc) into a unified
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by buss 15y ago
Yeah, I feel you. Unfortunately, I don't think it's possible to tackle this without a fundamental shift in the development community. Self-documenting code is practically a fallacy, and people forget that we're supposed to write code primar
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by buss 15y ago
Oh jeez. It's been years since I've dealt with paypal, but if it's still as bad as it was then there's a ton of room for improvement. I've heard great things about stripe & fee fighters but I haven't checked them out yet. Maybe they've
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by buss 15y ago
That's really interesting. I haven't done any mac development (I'm almost entirely *nix or web dev), so I'm not aware of the difficulties with Xcode. I'm generally only using vim, but I've struggled through Eclipse (and its roughly weekly c
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Ask HN: What frustrating things do you wish someone would solve?
8 points by buss 15y ago|8 comments

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