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by estefan 11y ago
Simon Acland - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Angels-Dragons-Vultures-Simon-Acland...
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by estefan 11y ago
I've been reading "Angels, Dragons & Vultures" recently to learn about this stuff. I highly recommend it.
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I remember scanning your site when it was on the front page a few weeks ago. It just looked like a checklist to me. I wouldn't have thought you could charge for it. Perhaps the idea was just a bit too static to be able to turn into an
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by estefan 11y ago
I'll name a grain of sand after her too if you ping me a $100... :-D
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by estefan 11y ago
Works fine with scriptblock installed as well.
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This is the first mention I've seen of flink on HN.
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Maybe it'd require a trip to their (no doubt expensive) lawyers to make sure the arrangement doesn't sound too good to be true and open them up to legal action if you're not happy. Perhaps it's not worth the time/ef
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by estefan 11y ago
Yeah there'll still be a probationary period in case someone's toxic. But being inadequately skilled is a deal-breaker and something you can go some way to filtering for before you offer someone a job.
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by estefan 11y ago
Oh right. In that case fair enough. I'd far rather have a walkthrough of some of your github code to see your style and reasoning. As a Good Person, you should get taken on by clients who don't have this requirement while others w
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by estefan 11y ago
Do it. You'll quickly find that their interview questions go out the window since you're demonstrating your knowledge obliquely: "Oh I've never really seen the benefit of docker for most architectures". Cue discussi
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by estefan 11y ago
I'm not sure I'd go for that TBH. I've seen candidates who are good on paper (one former university lecturer springs to mind) who was incredibly difficult to understand and his experience was irrelevant. We typically need to
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by estefan 11y ago
Jacking up the prices of those drugs was a pretty public act even if he decided it behind closed doors...
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by estefan 11y ago
"flying too high" or acting like a complete, arrogant scumbag?
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by estefan 11y ago
> All you have to do at this point is search through all previously written functions to find the one that most resembles the one you are trying to write. This magical repository you seek is called "stackoverflow" :-D
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> In the worst case you get the whole 'in the future everyone will program and programmers will become totally redundant'. Yeah, not going to happen because not everyone can think in the level of detail required to program. Som
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by estefan 11y ago
Dude that's an awesome idea. Semantic analysis of legal documentation to find and highlight contradictions, etc. Whoever does this - how about sending a percent or 2 my way when you exit for billions :-D
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by estefan 11y ago
The problem with developing autonomous cars is that the 80-20 rule doesn't apply. They need to be 100% capable of handling any situation that come their way... unless a person is expected to watch the road as if they're driving
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by estefan 11y ago
Umm modern cars already have loads of computers in them. See the Volkeswagen scandal, car hacking, etc...
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> A few decades from now, people will consider buying a 'dumb' $30,000 gasoline engine car to stick in your driveway and rarely use, to be comically absurd. And because they're fun to drive.
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by estefan 11y ago
This mirrors my experience. I left Angular 1.x for React and would need a huge amount of convincing to learn Angular 2.x. The killer feature of React for me is the full stack approach - react, react native, relay & graphql.
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by estefan 11y ago
Call me new fashioned, but I want something backed up by science and research rather than, well, not...
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by estefan 11y ago
If the parse web site wasn't such useless shit I might actually be able to work out whether this really is a good alternative... :-(
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by estefan 11y ago
Interesting, thanks for posting!
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by estefan 11y ago
I'm sure it must just lead to rubbish applicants. I'd be amazed if anyone with any options would waste their time hunting for salaries when they can deal with companies who at least give them an indicative range. I have literally
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by estefan 11y ago
Yeah it's like how there always seem to be a few too many films from the last 5 years in "top 10 best films of all time" lists when the public vote for them.
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by estefan 11y ago
I've read about various research data that suggests animals may very well have a rich internal life which may well indicate they have their own "you" minds (although I can't cite any off the top of my head right now...)
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by estefan 11y ago
The User Illusion by Norretranders discusses this in depth. He relays an estimate that our conscious bandwidth is roughly one millionth of the total bandwidth of our subconscious mind. Incredible! It's literally one of the most fascina
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by estefan 11y ago
Oh cool. That's foresight by Apple.
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Is it possible to write complex iOS apps using swift alone, without having to learn any Obj-C? Is there full library support, good ecosystem, etc.?
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by estefan 11y ago
Maybe when you're worth $40bn or whatever and you plan to give 99% of it away for philanthropic purposes, you don't need to live life with such a miserly attitude?

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