estefan

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by estefan 11y ago
It's another click baity title like "Why we stopped using [popular X] for [less popular Y]", "[Popular X] considered harmful", "Why you shouldn't use [industry standard X]" etc.
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by estefan 11y ago
Fizz-buzz yes. A small task representative of the work is completely different.
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by estefan 11y ago
Who mentioned riddles and puzzles?
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by estefan 11y ago
A picture paints a thousand words. How do you know what level to pitch the interview at if you don't know what language features someone understands and how they code? Where I work we now set a small simple test which is very represent
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by estefan 11y ago
Because there are a lot of shit candidates. You might know you're worth talking to, but try hiring and you'll see why people want to separate the wheat from the chaff.
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by estefan 11y ago
No. If we think it's good it's good. It's a useless question unless 'good' is defined.
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by estefan 11y ago
Customers know their pain. Don't expect them to innovate and create the solution for you, but get them to describe the problem. You can then go back in other rounds offering potential solutions through prototypes. Try to keep moving to
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by estefan 11y ago
> It took us almost 10 months to put our product in the hands of real users. Almost wondering if I should read the rest of the article at all... How did they expect to build the right product without collaborating with their target custo
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by estefan 11y ago
It's blatantly going to be called Nutella.
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by estefan 11y ago
It means that your releases take forever because you have to bake new images each time you want to push out a new release.
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by estefan 11y ago
> You can identify programmers as the people with their headphones on, frowning at the screen. Yes!
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by estefan 11y ago
> my coworkers and I routinely experience Idea 'hangs' while working on our Scala projects. Same here. It sounds like my MBP is going to take off when it has to build it's indices or whatever. Would be nice if it didn&#x27
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by estefan 11y ago
Because that's what everyone wants, kids or not.
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by estefan 11y ago
Oppressor! youtube.com/watch?v=vAc5JqcBPK8
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by estefan 11y ago
My preference as a person would be to spend as much care-free time as possible (care-free as in not having to worry about earning money). FTFY.
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by estefan 11y ago
Just don't send your Christmas wishlist to Satan...
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by estefan 11y ago
Agree. Nor do I want to associate with people who think they are.
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by estefan 11y ago
Unless you watch YouTube and understand the physics...
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Ask HN: How can I learn to analyse business ideas?
1 points by estefan 11y ago|0 comments
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by estefan 11y ago
You've got to admire the irony of an article about enhancing learning that concludes with "Meanwhile, a recent study found that [intelligent people are more easily distracted at work (hyperlink)]."
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Google Cloud Vision API(youtube.com)
2 points by estefan 11y ago|0 comments
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by estefan 11y ago
Damn I'd love 4 acres instead of a tiny flat in London :-/
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by estefan 11y ago
SBT is fine, but using it to build a complex JS project that's using immature dependencies is just asking for trouble. Webpack alone is tricky enough...
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by estefan 11y ago
> I don't use frameworks and I encourage you don't use them too. Instead you expect every new team member to wade through your homegrown framework-equivalent which means no transferable skills, less real-world testing, likely i
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by estefan 11y ago
It's like "After 4 years we finally found our most potentially valuable users but don't want to charge them and would rather shut down..."
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by estefan 11y ago
I'd be surprised if this is still around in 3 years. The things you mentioned are the first that came to my mind. Plus, there'll probably be high churn making it even worse for hosts because it'll probably mainly appeal to pe
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by estefan 11y ago
> A lot of the design problems have been solved already. Questions such ... how to design forms effectively, what makes a good call-to-action That's what I thought too until I tried to get the homepage of a web site designed. I&#x27
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by estefan 11y ago
I'm a python fan, but for something mission critical where there was the slightest chance I had to refactor, there's no way I'd use an untyped language when I could use a strongly typed one.
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by estefan 11y ago
> At the least you'd have to be a gambling person with a penchant for long odds to continue with Scala at this point. Rubbish. Banks have gone in on scala + spark and are paying top dollar.
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by estefan 11y ago
One lambda application I really want is a pingdom-style service. Use lambda to ping a web site and send an email if it's offline. Any takers to build this :-)?

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