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by cbanek 8y ago
"I don’t deny that sexism exists, but sexism today is not so severe that it stands in the way of a woman achieving a career in science—or any field—if she really wants to." Uh, source? Seems like the article just throws this out
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by cbanek 8y ago
First off, that sucks for your friend. I would hope they would be able to learn programming. I think the policy should be changed, but I'm also not even sure if it's a policy, or if different prisons get to make those decisions.
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by cbanek 8y ago
This is a great list, but I think it's more interesting than just "doesn't do whiteboard job interviews" - I like that each company has a quick breakdown of their hiring process, which is even more useful. There's
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by cbanek 8y ago
I agree with both you and the parent that sometimes rewriting the code is best, and you can usually make a superior solution by utilizing lessons learned from the first version, either from rewriting or iterative improvement. But I think th
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by cbanek 8y ago
My #1 rule for existing codebases: Just because you wouldn't have done it the way they did doesn't mean they did it wrong. I think it's developer nature to look at a huge pile of code that someone else wrote and immediately t
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by cbanek 8y ago
I really like the idea, but I think the user experience of editing the circuits needs some more work. I'm on a macbook air for instance, so I have a trackpad. I have to hold down the ctrl key, and move the trackpad, which just doesn&
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by cbanek 8y ago
> including 1st Place in Supreme Commander with my brother Dario who now is professional Starcraft 2 Player (LiquidTLO) As someone who has watched TLO play, that's pretty awesome. I think your portfolio looks pretty good! I think t
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by cbanek 8y ago
Not only is the title meaningless, but the usage of it seems to be changing over time. When I started in the field (~2004) Senior felt like it was a 10 years of experience bar. Maybe this was just fallout from the .combomb, but it felt li
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by cbanek 8y ago
> But that's not what a tax incentive is. The incentive is: bring your business here, create jobs, add economic fluidity with your workforce and you don't have to pay 3 billion dollars in taxes. It's true, but it's no
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by cbanek 8y ago
Wow, a company wide standup with 70 people in 10 minutes? As someone who loves quick standups, please tell me how this worked!
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by cbanek 8y ago
"But can they sink ships?" - This part seems a bit strange. While I agree that most surface ships don't carry anti-ship missiles, it seems like there are plenty of carrier based aircraft capable of launching their own anti-s
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by cbanek 8y ago
I wasn't really trying to talk about the money. I was talking about if you're on the fence on a candidate as to hire them after an interview (which happens a lot). Do you take a risk and hire them? Do you want to avoid false po
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by cbanek 8y ago
I think it's good that they are doing some more managerial skills fit, although I think even a good manager for one team at a company might be a bad manager for a different team at the same company. One of the companies I worked at hir
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by cbanek 8y ago
People that feel like they are on the border of hire/no-hire. Some people will obviously fail the interview (this doesn't mean they are terrible, or even not qualified, it just means they didn't do well on your interview).
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by cbanek 8y ago
Well you also can't be sure that they aren't running some other program that is conflicting with you - for example a lot of servers run on port 8080, or 8000, or 5555. You can also just code in your sane default config and not hav
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by cbanek 8y ago
Shared libraries are just one part of it. Containers also have their own filesystem for handling things like configuration files, data files, helper binaries, etc. Being self-contained, you don't need to worry about namespace conflic
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by cbanek 8y ago
> Only a fool expects rational behavior from his fellow humans. Why do you expect it from a machine that humans have constructed? Computers simulate determinism; only Tao is prefect. Spelling as plot device, so underrated.
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by cbanek 8y ago
If you wait a few days until February 1st, there will be the next round of "Who's hiring" on HN, where people post jobs as comments. The jobs either say their location or if they accept remote. Here's January's: h
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by cbanek 8y ago
Might as well call it the data leak jackpot. You can change your password, but you can't change your DNA. > Unlike DNA labs, Rapid DNA machines do not have rigorous protocols governing the handling of samples. > “There really ar
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by cbanek 8y ago
Any tech that claims to be a silver bullet never is. I consider scrum or other project management technologies to fall into this bucket as well. Can it be a useful framework? Sure. Can it be terrible? Sure. What really makes a team succ
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by cbanek 8y ago
Developers who make lots of broken things, then never fix or maintain them, always wanting to take the new interesting thing and make a general mess of it, while other people are cleaning up their previous messes. Many times these develope
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by cbanek 8y ago
This is exactly what I do for any kind of account stuff: never click on the email, always just sign into the website itself and look for the message. I really like the companies that just say "sign in and see a new message" or wh
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by cbanek 8y ago
I believe you can connect gmail to your local email client using IMAP/POP3, but I don't think that uses the oauth flow to do that (you just type in the password). I've never used any other kind of 3rd party gmail apps though
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by cbanek 8y ago
Ah thanks, I must have missed that. If it's the wrong address then definitely suspect.
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by cbanek 8y ago
I missed two: the "allow some random person to read your email" which I would never click on, and the one that had a PDF, even though they don't allow you to do anything with it. Just because someone sends you a PDF doesn&#x
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by cbanek 8y ago
Yeah, anyone asking for that, even if it's not a phishing attempt would never get the OK from me. That's just crazy.
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by cbanek 8y ago
Does it solve my problem out of the box? If so, and it works out of the box, then it's a winner. All software has bugs, but if you have a specific use case, and it works for that, it's good for me. If it is close to what I need,
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by cbanek 8y ago
Sounds like a large share of the company for what sounds to me like a liability. A bad actor can sink an early stage venture very easily. I'd just try to build your network a different way. If you already know what doors they would
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by cbanek 8y ago
Maybe because a fuel factory wouldn't be immediately profitable on Earth like building rockets? On Earth there are plenty of cheaper ways to make fuel. I do agree though that fuel is the most important thing to start making on Mars th
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by cbanek 8y ago
Ah the glory of the stack ranking. Microsoft did this as well, and it was much celebrated when they stopped, as the stack ranking had a lot of effects that had nothing to do with performance (like coworkers stonewalling each other, or infi

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