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by dpritchett 12y ago
Your title is fine, SwellJoe. I was being petty and pointing out a case where a descriptive title that didn't match the HTML <TITLE> dramatically improved the submission. I have long felt HN's title renaming policies were
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Does HN still have those frustrating title renaming rules? If so this would be a good time to insist on using them.
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This is what adjuncting is supposed to be for - folks with industry experience moonlight as professors. The benefit is not primarily salary but networking, knowledge sharing, and helping the next generation of industry professionals. Now
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The question for Google is whether Page, Brin, Bak, Buchheit, and Dean passed an algorithm interview before building Google's core technologies. Hiring doctrine after the fact does not ensure a billion dollar company. I disagree with
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Bummer. Her career seems to be predicated on a correlation between algorithm tests and performance. Can't expect her to seriously entertain disagreement as long as the current model is profitable for her. Google is no more a proof of
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How does this compare with "Did you win the Putnam?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
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by dpritchett 12y ago
If comprehension and spelling were decoupled but still equally weighted then the aggregate score would've been significantly higher. Let's split the difference and say that 20-30% on the set of [all answers simultaneously spelled
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by dpritchett 12y ago
Code is not the only sort of thing with an optimal chunk size. Languages and APIs (such as sets of library or system calls) run up against the same sorts of human cognitive constraints that produce Hatton's U-curve. Accordingly, Uni
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by dpritchett 12y ago
I just had fun writing a goofy ruby script to rot13 this comment thread: https://gist.github.com/dpritchett/bfa3423dcab85ee46ddf
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Michael has written nearly 30 essays on the Gervais Principle - check out his blog.
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I am willing to bet that Ed handles all of those activities as needed in modes 1 and 3. Breaking down "prep" and "review" into detailed bits doesn't really challenge his assertion that the core activity of actual p
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Subtlety will only get you so far in negotiations, especially when you're already a 'captive' employee.
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As much as I like the scientific method in most other aspects of life, Taylorism has always terrified me.
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The unix philosophy has been chugging along for decades now. It's hard to compare it directly to e.g. Visual Studio but it's very powerful.
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Increasing the costs of an undesirable activity effectively lowers the incidence of that activity. It's probably easier than trying to prevent it unilaterally, too.
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There are actual reported data points underlying this. Likely they are just two similar jobs (maybe even the same one in different time frames) that were reported differently.
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http://www.flcdatacenter.com/caseh1b.aspx
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Likely no one's submitted a PR with C exercises yet. github.com/exercism has repos for many languages.
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Exactly! Compare the Linux kernel project (globally distributed, world-class devs) to a team of undergrads working in the same room. Maybe face to face has higher communications bandwidth, but it doesn't automatically win in every sce
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Imperfect data is still useful in a negotiation. Present it with minimal comment as a negotiating point and let the counterparty poke holes in it if they so choose. Don't undermine yourself! Sure the large tech employers are going to
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I won't deny that colocation wins in a ceteris paribus scenario - almost by definition. Remote staffing allows you to tip the scales in many situations though: companies outside of the top 3-5 big tech firms suddenly have access to gr
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by dpritchett 12y ago
This really sounds like status quo bias to me. No one's going to tell you that face to face communication isn't an incredibly efficient medium, but that doesn't mean teams and companies built around remote work can't (a
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The two that come to mind: - My company sells products that I design, market, sell, or build - My company bills third parties for my services Anything else and you're probably working a support function for a business that is selling s
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We agree that finding jobs hasn't been hard for US devs in quite a while. It's the longterm career-building aspects of figuring out which jobs are going to be more rewarding and enjoyable over a decades-long timeline that I hav
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by dpritchett 12y ago
Yeah, I suppose there is no explicit guarantee that a CS degree will prepare someone to pursue a wage-earning career in a competitive market.
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In my experience college curricula have plenty of non-major courses for every degree. Surely there's room for negotiation, sales, and why-being-labeled-a-cost-center-is-generally-bad-for-your-career in a four year degree?
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by dpritchett 12y ago
I think the point was that a regulator would be more sympathetically inclined to 'protect' the cleaning workers by legally mandating overtime since they necessarily have less negotiating leverage than white-collar workers.
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Reading the DoL's advisory on this [1] suggests that it all hinges on the concept of blue-collar vs. white-collar or production vs. staff employees. I can only imagine that the 'production' employees are seen as more interch
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MS does have a nicely integrated set of developer tools, but they are not particularly useful for people who aren't developing for a Windows platform. Most consumer-facing Websites don't run windows, nor do most cell phone apps.
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As an entertaining counterpoint, here's Kelsey Hightower's "Go for Sysadmins" from Gophercon where he repeatedly touts the "paste a link to your cross-compiled binary in an internal chatroom" benefits of Go: h

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