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by ebg13 8y ago
> Programmers tend to... Please don't generalize about people this way. It's not useful, and it's almost certainly a bad idea to hand-wave away not being able to think through something trivial with an audience. If someo
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by ebg13 8y ago
> The first round started with introductions, followed by a coding exercise — write a maze solving algorithm. What the fuck?! Seriously? Mind you, this was an interview for a front-end developer position and I am not a recent college gr
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by ebg13 8y ago
> Disclaimer: I know very little about image scaling This person also knows very little about web browsers. Warning: Do not follow their advice when making your website. > When the small image is enlarged, the browser uses an inter
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by ebg13 8y ago
Eh, I'm not fussed about that. The example images used are smooth but still rather complex. It would be hard for your average bear to codify them programatically.
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by ebg13 8y ago
No, the "technique" is to 1. use only smooth gradients for your background (LOL) 2. remove most of your pixels 3. assume that the browser will interpolate for you (Also LOL) If this had been called "pictures of smooth gradien
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by ebg13 8y ago
> the ideas that Belgians are intrinsically worth more protection than Albanians is just nuts They aren't intrinsically worth more, but it matters if you happen to be one of those Belgians who loses your job to an Albanian who ear
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by ebg13 8y ago
> I'm always amazed at all the developers who are in favor of remote work....as long as you don't offshore.... Think of it rather as "who are in favor of remote work as long as it doesn't end up pushing them out of
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by ebg13 8y ago
> I agree with a lot of his points about the value of remote work, but the biggest one is that the labor pool is much much larger. That's clearly an advantage for the employer, but not necessarily for the employees who live in glo
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by ebg13 8y ago
> Only 6.7% verified??? Verified "as physical abuse cases", meaning that the rest were deemed to not be.
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by ebg13 8y ago
I wish they'd take back the Myth franchise. :\
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by ebg13 8y ago
I don't normally ask about things like this, but does anyone know why this page scrolls so jankily (for me at least) in Safari?
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by ebg13 8y ago
> I also didn’t get the objective of choosing. Was it to try and get the highest game rating? Was it to try and help him with his psychological issues? The objective of a Choose Your Own Adventure book isn't to reach a particular
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by ebg13 8y ago
1, 3, and 4 are great questions. I'm going to focus on 2. > can anyone point to a measurable increase in quality e.g. commits, lines of code, increase in market share, which has resulted from increased diversity in gender? Did you