colmvp

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by colmvp 5y ago
On the flipside, there's nothing stopping a manager from diving into knowing their subordinates and assessing their mood and figuring how to make them happier if they happen to be unhappy. In my previous role, I had two managers: one w
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by colmvp 5y ago
A person who is referred (especially in SWE) doesn't automatically mean they'll get the job, they'll still have to pass checks from members who may have never even interacted with the referrer. The advantage lies in the fact
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by colmvp 5y ago
> In every decent programmer’s toolbox lies a strange weapon called a Radix Sort. Where does it come from ? Who invented it ? I don’t know. Bit of a tangent, but at first this kind of caught me off guard because in this day and age it&#x
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by colmvp 5y ago
I can't imagine navigating the web without an ad-blocker.
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by colmvp 5y ago
How are they terrible? Having used cellphones since the 90s, my experiences with Android/Apple phones have been nothing short of remarkable and to be frank, life changing in terms of day-to-day utility.
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by colmvp 5y ago
That's news to me. In December, I applied to a number of blue chip companies for frontend positions and only got callbacks to three of them despite a lot of work experience writing JS for real applications including a YC company. Some
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by colmvp 5y ago
Imagine if I said I went to some event but unfortunately there were only x person of ethnicity. Yuck! If the OP only wants to be friends with attractive women and tall guys, more power to him but he won't get much sympathy for me for
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by colmvp 5y ago
I left my past company in part because all they cared about was shipping by some ridiculous time frame. While it certainly helped my ability to look good to PMs and other programmers, it made for un-scalable, un-readable, and un-maintainabl
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by colmvp 5y ago
> Men and women can't be friends. Eventually the sex gets in the way. I have MANY female friends who have been in my life for decades and I have zero sexual attraction to them (and likewise they have zero sexual attraction to me). I
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by colmvp 5y ago
Yeah my model of learning is like a game of ping pong where I go back and forth, reading some information, fumble with it, read it again, practice it again, etc. Until one day I wake up and realize the thing I found difficult to understand
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by colmvp 5y ago
FWIW, I went into many interviews over the past two years and no one asked me about my age.
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by colmvp 5y ago
Strange, I would've expected blowNose() would be inherited from the parent.
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by colmvp 5y ago
I think your advice holds for people who are well on their way into their careers, but even with someone with half the years of experience (i.e. 7-10 years) can be invaluable to someone starting out in the field. I don't think I would&
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by colmvp 5y ago
Couldn't agree more. At my previous job, I spent some of my evenings and weekends to build internal tools to help members of the organization be more efficient, saving certain people on the team dozens of hours of work per week. I larg
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by colmvp 5y ago
Really? In my area, single people also use Hinge, Bumble, CoffeeMeetsBagel, OKCupid, POF, Match... I'm fugly as hell but even I was able to find someone on a non-Tinder platform.
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by colmvp 5y ago
One enthusiast on Reddit predicted Nepo would crumble after the first loss and Carlsen would win 4 games to 0. What was really frustrating was Nepo had plenty of time left on the clock during those blunders, almost like he was resigned to t
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by colmvp 5y ago
> "They look like a great fit for the team and our goals, and let's give them a chance to learn the tech" I wish more were like you. I've definitely had my fair share of interviews that bombed so I feel like I have a
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by colmvp 5y ago
Isn't that kind of odd? I've worked with software engineers who are good talkers but their code and problem solving skills leave something to be desired. Meanwhile, I've worked with guys who took a while to get comfortable wi
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by colmvp 5y ago
> What seems pretty universal is the amount of information i share nobody cares about and the amount of information other people share that i don’t care about are both quite high. Yesterday, I asked a team member if they had QA'd my
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by colmvp 5y ago
Your comment reminded of the time 10+ years ago when avid Cadbury Egg enthusiast B.J. Novak was on Conan and talked about how he thought Cadbury Eggs were shrinking and proved it by bringing out a Cadbury Cream egg he had around his house f
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by colmvp 5y ago
Alden's are truly fine. They are however, very expensive and as such, I rarely wear them except for special occasions.
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by colmvp 5y ago
I recall Genius was hot, hot, hot way back when. Crazy that it was sold for less than 100M.
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by colmvp 5y ago
At the end of the day, it's the choice of users to use apps that tickle their fancy. No one is twisting their arm to keep scrolling Facebook/Reddit/TikTok/Wechat, enter personal details on Google/Baidu, keep paying
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by colmvp 5y ago
Really fascinating project. It sent a chill down my spine as I suddenly recalled being in school, both because of the videos as well as the OS (we used Macs in art/design class). This was before streaming and smartphones were around so
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by colmvp 5y ago
Tbh, I thought this was going to be about the Colorado Avalanche. But to the point of the OP, HFBoards.com is a hockey forum and is still very active.
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by colmvp 5y ago
I have a friend who is very high up in one of the biggest companies in the world. He's very well compensated, but works insane hours and is never happy about working at his company. It's always "maybe this next role will fina
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by colmvp 5y ago
Well FWIW, I have a Retina MBP that's close to ten years old. It's been on 24 hours a day, almost everyday since the day I bought it. It's travelled with me to different countries, endured extreme humidity in some areas of th
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by colmvp 5y ago
I'm not scared of Covid-19, I'm mostly concerned that as the numbers continue to rise and the hospitals/ICUs around me get more Covid-19 cases, it'll force the government to have to issue harsher measures to prevent the
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by colmvp 5y ago
I have no doubt this'll be flagged and removed from HN but before it does, I just want to say I think it's interesting how adjustments are made to move against high percentage of Asian Americans in certain environments but really
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by colmvp 5y ago
Isn't that the formula? Acquire or create a series on the cheap, and axe the series instead of paying the actors/creators a higher rate for additional seasons?

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