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by edw519 11y ago
OK. Sounds great. Please put your contact info in your HN profile.
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should I risk being labelled incompetent, by telling my stakeholders about my problems or should I put in the long hours needed to get stuff done Neither. You should out the "star" and give your management the opportunity to sol
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Route calls from a specific person or group to your cell, and others to someone else, or to voicemail, or just drop them completely. Nice start. Now send all those unwanted calls and texts to email and let it handle them. Then you'd
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As connections to the Internet get faster, the annoyance of waiting for an advertisement to load will diminish and then disappear. But that's a few years off. Still is. And will always be. The annoyance of ads will always expand to f
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My average may have been skewed by one job that lasted 90 minutes. It was so fucked up there, I took my break and never went back.
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Would you care to share a bit more on how you pulled that off? Pretty simple, actually: 1. Do the right thing, even if it's not popular. 2. Tell the truth. 3. Be nice. Most importantly: 4. Be the best you can be. (You'll probabl
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People born between the years of 1957 and 1965 had an average of 11.3 jobs between 1978 and 2010 Lightweights! I've had 88 jobs since 1972. Once a recruiter told me that everything on my resume was excellent except how often I switch
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the language’s minimalist approach is also designed to change how its speakers think Corollary: the language’s minimalist approach is also designed to change how its programmers think When I was young and stupid, I felt disadvantaged th
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Doesn't work for me: Sorry, your username was not found. Maybe you have never submitted or commented anything. user: edw519 created: 3070 days ago karma: 72254 about: Free ebook, "The Best of edw519": hn.my&#x
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Funny how this made it to #1 on Hacker News only to get bashed. It falls into the class: 1. I did something. 2. I want to share my experience with you. 3. This is about what I DID, not what I THINK. 4. Take from this what you want
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Can an Algorithm Hire Better Than a Human?(nytimes.com)
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Thanks for the good quick answers. Whenever you reach the point when you can use the point of view of a non-SV, non-tech industry programmer with heavy enterprise & SMB experience, let me know how I can help. Contact info in profile.
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Thanks Zach for doing this (both starting the company and coming here to Hacker News to answer questions). Based upon what you're seeing: 1. Please rank these in order of importance: - technical skill in one (or few) technologies
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the number one most important skill is how to keep a tangle of features from collapsing under the weight of its own complexity Agreed. very rarely is there some tricky data structure or algorithm that casts a looming shadow over everythi
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Can you do fizzbuzz in 15 minutes? It doesn't have to compile or even be right. But you should at least be able to pseudo code your way through it, explain what you did, and discuss it. For a professional programmer, anything less is j
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Everyone and their dog is trying to hire me. Good. Go work for them. My "prima donna" filter is working nicely.
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See. You're also proving my point. I don't give a shit about what you wrote on the page, I care what you have to say about it. Your comment tells me more about you than you imagine.
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1. No one's looking over his shoulder (re-read GP). 2. If you think coding = dancing like a monkey, maybe you should do something else. 3. I've done everything you suggest, but the interview test is much more effective. You can
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Thanks for proving my point. If you won't code for me in an interview, why would I possibly be interested in you? Thanks for saving me so much time.
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8. Have them code. For me, nothing else comes close to evaluating talent. I prefer making my candidate comfortable and writing something simple. 15 minutes, privacy, a drink, and pencil & paper. I hate white boards for this. I come back
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Slide 1 ------------------ | Programmer | | and | | Manager | | Kidnapped | | by | | Terrorists | ------------------ Slide 2 ------------------ | | |
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Multiple time single founder who bought the book anyway. Excellent book. Not so much for the content, much of which I've seen elsewhere, but for the curation and the voice, which spoke directly to me. I got a lot of value out of things
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Me too. 1972 to 2014: 1 million miles driven. 2015: 0. Separately, my bicycle & public transport are poor alternatives. But combined, they are incredible. With my bike & a metro pass, I can get anywhere, sometimes more quickly than
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Horwitz, who has taught management for two decades... What exactly did he teach? It doesn't appear he learned very much about "management". Imagine a manager firing all 30 of his direct reports. What would you suspect was t
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by edw519 12y ago
We've gone without salary for the last 4 months Been there, done that. 3 times. It sucks. But I never lost hope. Your startup may be on life support, but you most certainly are not. Honestly I feel like I'm going to be evicted
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"The Ultimate Secret to Getting Absolutely Everything You Want" by Mike Hernacki The title sounds hokey, but it's one of the few self-help books that ever made much difference for me. The secret is simple but for most people,
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Silicon Valley to millennials: Drop dead(cnn.com)
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why you should never use your real name with your online identity in any way I believe exactly the opposite. People say horrible things hiding behind anonymity. Those of us who freely identify ourselves actually attempt (albeit sometimes
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Not only do I clearly remember 2001-4, but I also clearly remember other times that were much worse: 1982-3, 1987-8, and 1991-2 (which was horrible). I have been using my strategy of "I'm interviewing you." since 1979 and no
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by edw519 12y ago
I wish you well, Jamil. Here's a freebie: Put on a jacket & tie and get a professional headshot. That image negates everything else you're trying to communicate on your page.

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