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by dmansen 11y ago
At my company, we use take-home problems to answer: "is this person worth interviewing?" Can you take a simple problem and code us an equally simple solution? It's basically FizzBuzz. I rarely have people balk at doing this,
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by dmansen 11y ago
> It's utterly ridiculous that you can lose your job and home and have life ruined over pissing off some random feminists on Twitter or Tumblr, and yet people responsible for drone attacks are all happy. lol really impressed you man
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by dmansen 11y ago
Vistar Media | Full Time | Onsite (Philadelphia, PA) We're an advertising tech company focusing on geotemporal data analysis. We'd love to hire engineers with experience in high-performance distributed server development or large-
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by dmansen 11y ago
Vistar Media | Full Time | Onsite (Philadelphia, PA) We're an advertising tech company focusing on geotemporal data analysis. We'd love to hire engineers with experience in high-performance distributed server development or large-
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by dmansen 11y ago
> Good. Let us have genocide, then, for people with learning disabilities, starting with you. uh > Call me hitler, but okay. you're hitler
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by dmansen 11y ago
the context would be obvious. your hypothetical is a silly fiction
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by dmansen 11y ago
oh cool - hey everybody! this guy says it's okay!!
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by dmansen 11y ago
just to add, some writers distinguish between societies where slavery existed (almost every human society) and "slave societies", where "the definition of the relationship between ownership and labor -- is defined by slavery&
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by dmansen 11y ago
wut
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by dmansen 11y ago
i think it's valid to tell people to educate themselves when they're saying incorrect things. also applies to you, see other replies
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by dmansen 11y ago
you should try reading about feminism sometime
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by dmansen 11y ago
A good starter book that won't teach bad habits is Professional No Limit Holdem by Ed Miller et al: http://www.amazon.com/Professional-No-Limit-Hold-em-I/dp/188... Once you master the basics, Miller's Po
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by dmansen 11y ago
"Doing fairly well" to me is: you asked the right questions and converged on the solution, even if it took some time. Doing poorly means: you made stuff up instead of asking questions, you invented a convoluted way of solving the
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by dmansen 11y ago
In every challenging software development job, you'll be solving problems you've never encountered before. That's the nature of software. Once you understand the problem, you move on to something else. So, why is it such a st
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by dmansen 11y ago
I'll take all 100 please
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by dmansen 11y ago
You're correct. Calling it a 'stretch' is misleading. It's more of a 'release'. After many years of sitting, the hip muscles tighten, atrophy, and lose their ability to rotate the hip. The hip stays tight (flex
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by dmansen 11y ago
I'm trying to get my posture back into alignment after many years of stress. This book helped me: http://www.amazon.com/Pain-Free-Revolutionary-Stopping-Chron... It gives you a set of targeted exercises depending on yo
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by dmansen 11y ago
If you think this essay is smart or good, please familiarize yourself with Brooks's history. I'll leave the judgement to you
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by dmansen 12y ago
lol you cannot be serious
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by dmansen 12y ago
This description is uncanny. Having this person on your team is far worse than someone who flat-out can't code. You can fire someone who knows nothing. Everyone knows what the problem is, and it's easy to talk about. If your team
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by dmansen 13y ago
I posted it above, but here's that essay if anyone is interested: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~tenshi/Killer_000.htm
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by dmansen 13y ago
I found this analysis interesting: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~tenshi/Killer_000.htm . They make the point that the "survival" choice is always presented as the only option and that Ender's morality is never qu
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by dmansen 14y ago
I could never work at a place where pairing is mandatory for almost all development. I find it incredibly draining. I can do it for maybe an hour at a time, but any more than that is too much for me to deal with. I think being forced to con
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by dmansen 14y ago
Men of HN: please tell more people what you think is and isn't sexist. It's good, your input on the matter is valuable and important.
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by dmansen 14y ago
I think this article is spot-on. You can call people who buy Apple products "fanboys", you can insult them for buying a product you find inferior. However, they're still buying the products. Why is that? Because they like them. That's all.
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by dmansen 14y ago
My interpretation of how this one shot right to the top: Hacker News loves posts about itself. :) Nice analysis - the user engagement stats were very different from what I was expecting (I think I would have agreed with Jake before I saw th
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by dmansen 14y ago
Good point, I didn't think of that.
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by dmansen 14y ago
Why is something like bcrypt not adequate? The article seems to imply that bcrypt could be reversed, but I thought this wasn't the case (with a proper work factor).
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by dmansen 14y ago
To all you people saying that this is just "best practices" requirements, etc: do you not realize this is MICROSOFT? The evil empire? He's taking a stand! A completely meaningless stand, but really, this is important!
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by dmansen 14y ago
This is one of the better comments I've seen lately - perfect execution of the "take the parent post's example to an absurd, irrelevant extreme and say Q.E.D."-style comment that seems to be all the rage around here lately. Love it, A+!

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