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by enry_straker 13y ago
No. It also indicates that companies hire people and then throw problems at them without training them or mentoring them or providing adequate tools for them.
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by enry_straker 13y ago
I call BS on that attitude. First, the author was making a generic point. Your contribution is to point out some silly exception. However, if a 20 year old had the driver's code, he can learn to look at the code of similar driver'
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by enry_straker 13y ago
No it's not. 'naive' and 'mischievous' don't mean what you think they mean, and the author of the parent post did not claim anything of that sort. It's just that your opinions differ and you want to throw
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by enry_straker 13y ago
Why would your colleague waste time on further questions when the interviewee answered that he hasn't heard of lists in python? btw Python's indentation requirement is a difference with C though whether it's a key difference
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by enry_straker 13y ago
As a person who started one of chennai's first product development org. in the mid 90's, let me add my two cents here: 1) Hire people for their interest in programming, their core problem solving ability and the fun they have with
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by enry_straker 13y ago
Are you really programming in C? If so, good for you and your organization. If not, i suggest not wasting time becoming a career counselor and try finding a faster way to eliminate idiots. I don't buy the crap that they have not been t
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by enry_straker 13y ago
@bscofield What would your impression of the experience have been if your flights had been on time, and you had a smooth travel? or conversely how did the travel experience affect your impression of the process used by BigCo?
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by enry_straker 13y ago
The thread seems to be overrun by a bunch of whiny crybabies. No one forces people to use them, yet they seem to have a great time crying about it without trying to defend their position. Cucumber and RSpec are among a set of testing tools
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by enry_straker 13y ago
The problem with satire is when it hits too close to home - and you recognize it as SOP in many organizations.
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by enry_straker 13y ago
What did you understand? - That the manager decides what gets pushed into production? - That the manager decides not to inform the programmers concerned? - That you have a clown for a manager? - That it's probably time to quit the comp
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by enry_straker 13y ago
Presume you are referring to Visual Studio. It has a vi emulation plugin if that's what you are into. Given that one of RMS's baby is Emacs, i find it strange you choose to vote for the fire while hating the frying pan.
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by enry_straker 13y ago
Well, Java compiles to bytecode. The bytecode gets interpreted at runtime by the JVM. In this context, the line between a compiler and an interpreter is fuzzy. I guess the developer who wrote the challenge just wanted to find someone who is
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by enry_straker 13y ago
There will always be some dis-gruntled teacher jealous of the popularity of KA's videos, and their criticism will generally amount to nit-picking some aspect or other. I never seem to see any reasonable and valid criticism of KA's
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by enry_straker 13y ago
This is another vague criticism mixed with some general platitudes. The platitudes are totally irrelevant in the context of people criticizing KA approach. First, if someone is not motivated, be they adults or children they will not learn,
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by enry_straker 13y ago
Vague criticism which can be applied to just about anything in the world followed by some criticism of something totally irrelevant (udacity course) when the discussion is on KA videos.
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by enry_straker 13y ago
Woz was one of a kind. A Mad genius, to paraphrase Ang ( from Avatar the last Airbender ) There is no parallel to him and i don't believe there is anyone who can do both original hardware design and low and high level coding like woz.
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by enry_straker 13y ago
Fight the smart battles - and know the parameters of your influence ie don't be labelled as public enemy no.1 by dis-agreeing visibly. Personally i think hr's role in selectin should simply be one of co-ordination and documentatio
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by enry_straker 13y ago
Maybe in your mind. Maybe you want to think that these innocuous debates on the internet means something. Don't be fooled by empty words by either politicians or pundits on tv or the net. Watch what the government does - at federal, st
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by enry_straker 13y ago
The mud-slingers and paid character-assasinators of the world call themselves journalists, and the real journalists go by the names of assange, and greenwald.
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by enry_straker 13y ago
Part of the problem is vimscript itself. There is not too much external documentation about it. btw i disagree with you a bit. The best resource to learn vimscript is the sources of popular vimscript plugins. The next best thing is steve&#x
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by enry_straker 13y ago
If you have a house, then it's your responsibility to have doors with locks and windows which are closed. You cannot have a house in a public space accessible worldwide, without doors or windows, and then randomly get to decide who can
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by enry_straker 13y ago
Bullshit. Where is the code of conduct when the torturers of Abu ghraib went scott free. Where is the code of conduct when the people who engineered a war and tore apart two countries went scott free Where is the code of conduct when the cu
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by enry_straker 13y ago
I would further add that each and every person's journey of inquiry is personal and also encompasses their experiences of being manipulated, whether through institutions like the church or mosques or through individual conmen like many
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by enry_straker 13y ago
you might want to differentiate between bangladeshi government and a bengali government. ( Though Bangladesh is technically east bengal :). The former is a separate country and the latter a state within india. Having said that, this is a ba
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by enry_straker 13y ago
You can access ruby code from python ( throuh jython and jruby) and the process is relatively seamless. or check out psdparse on github ( there are others out in the wild )
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by enry_straker 13y ago
I didn't know folks had taken the khan academy model, given it the fancy name of 'Adaptive Learning' and raking in the dough with proprietary software.
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by enry_straker 13y ago
It's canadian dollars, right?
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by enry_straker 14y ago
It also helps that he is very quick, very intelligent, and has a sense of self-deprecating humor
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by enry_straker 14y ago
The keyword was 'reasonably accurate'
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by enry_straker 14y ago
You might not be saying it, but you certainly are implying it. It's possible to nit-pick potential reasons for bias against some unknown stranger on the internet while discounting his actual experiences and feelings.

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