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by digb 7y ago
My key point every time my team discusses hiring: If you think your take-home project takes N hours, add 1-1.5. You already know the context, and are underestimating the difficulty even if you've run through it before.
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by digb 7y ago
I think the other commenter is probably closer to accuracy. Here in NYC, offshoring to Chile/DR and other countries in the same timezone is surprisingly popular, even for early stage startups. The idea that people will just immigrate i
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by digb 7y ago
Why do you think the outsourcing never got quite as bad as everyone expected?
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by digb 7y ago
It was a fine book, but this summary serves the point perfectly while also being way shorter. My working assumption with all these popular books is they could be half (or less) as long and retain effectiveness.
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by digb 7y ago
Can someone give me the ELI5 or subreddit drama of what is going on over at SO? This is the second post on the subject I've seen.
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by digb 7y ago
If I remember correctly, Co-Star, the horoscope app, runs Haskell on the backend.
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Fortnite Turned Technical Constraint into Marketing Gold(twitter.com)
2 points by digb 7y ago|0 comments
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Computer Tip: Love Your Debugger(jmduke.com)
1 points by digb 7y ago|0 comments
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by digb 8y ago
I didn’t mean it as a slur! When I wrote .NET, the applications I was working in were massively large and complex, and so mostly what I was working on was optimizing small bits and pieces, and they allowed me to focus ON optimizing those sm
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by digb 8y ago
I’ll say this: I came to Rails from Node (and before that .NET but with a way smaller scope of responsibility), and I am thoroughly convinced the author is correct. I couldn’t estimate for shit in my first few months at this job (once I h
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Graph My CSS Specificity(graphmycss.com)
1 points by digb 8y ago|0 comments
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by digb 8y ago
Same with New York as of November of 2017, I believe.
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OOP Before OOP with Simula(twobithistory.org)
1 points by digb 8y ago|0 comments
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FBI Charges Second Apple Employee with Stealing Autonomous Car Secrets(venturebeat.com)
5 points by digb 8y ago|0 comments
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by digb 8y ago
Apparently they can't check what's for lunch, so pretty catastrophic IMO.
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by digb 8y ago
Glad to see rules being enforced on a powerful organization.
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Deloitte's Predicted Tech Trends for 2019(www2.deloitte.com)
3 points by digb 8y ago|0 comments
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by digb 8y ago
When I was involved in establishing a campus food pantry, I read that ~40% of students experienced “food insecurity”, whatever that means. This adds interesting concrete ness