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by freework 14y ago
This is missing the one thing that all other "let me explain monads to you" articles is missing: a real example of what problems monads solve. As far as I know, a monad is some kind of mathematical construct that is very useful when solving
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by freework 14y ago
I tried to interview with facebook a few months ago. They wanted me to do a coding challenge. The said basically, "Here is a big glob of data. Write a function that takes that glob of data, parses it and analyzes it, and then returns it int
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I've found that theres a certain "turning off your brain" that has to occur to be socially successful. Most technically inclined people have a habit of using their brains a lot. Not that it's totally impossible, but it's hard. I'm a sociall
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by freework 14y ago
I'm a 10x developer most of the time. It's all about motivation. When I'm producing 10 times as much as my peers, I'm working on something I want to work on. I can go all day without visiting facebook, reddit or hacker news, because I sim
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by freework 14y ago
Don't worry about the process. Worry about the outcome of the process. Is the site always down? Do you fail to ship? If so then you need to fix things. Otherwise just let people work the way that lets them be most productive. For instance,
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by freework 14y ago
Culture just happens. If you go out of your way to foster some kind of fake "culture" you're only doing your business a disservice. The company I worked for with the best culture did nothing to try to create a "culture".
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by freework 14y ago
I prefer it when the OP comes to defend him/herself. You learn more from two sided debate than from one sided.
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by freework 14y ago
Isn't that a nieve way of thinking? I don't think there is any hard evidence that virus companies fund virus creation, but it would make a lot of sense if they did. Anti-virus companies have a lot to gain by a vibrant virus ecosystem.
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by freework 14y ago
I am a rather somewhat prolific open source developer. I sometimes feel that this fact keeps me from getting jobs. People talk about in this industry that you can send off 10 resumes and get 10 job offers very easily. For me, I send off 10
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by freework 14y ago
From reading the Wiki page on B+Trees, it seems they are just a way to store data so that is is always sorted. If I ever needed to store data in such a way that it is always stored, I'd use a database+index. I don't know B+Trees because I'v
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Ask HN: Knowing how some thing works vs Knowing how and when to use it?
4 points by freework 14y ago|5 comments
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by freework 14y ago
This blog talks about a problem that I've ran to a bunch of times as well. I use smartphone navigation almost exclusively for biking and on-the-foot traveling almost exclusively. I have the same problem where I'm supposed to walk three bloc
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by freework 14y ago
Some developers do their best work when alone, and suffer greatly wen forced to work in pairs (introverts). Other developers are the opposite; they are most productive when working in pairs, and are least productive when working alone (extr
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by freework 14y ago
I've always felt like the best way to hire is to think in terms of teams instead of in terms of people. If you team is lacking communication skills, hire someone who have good communication skills, ignoring most other traits such as intelli
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by freework 14y ago
The first program I ever wrote was a resistor color band calculator program for the TI-83. Memories...
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by freework 14y ago
"unique character with a perspective on the world that few others (appear to) share" Thats called "being a great entrepreneur". And yes I agree, few people share.
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Micro and Macro challenges - coding during interviews(programming-gibberish.tumblr.com)
1 points by freework 14y ago|0 comments
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MVC Front End Development - No Framework needed(programming-gibberish.tumblr.com)
1 points by freework 14y ago|0 comments
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by freework 14y ago
Here are my tips: 1. Don't try to write jokes into the presentation. It won't be funny. It will only be funny if the joke comes to you on the spot. 2. Try to write the talk in terms of vague concepts instead of specific wording. WHen practi
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by freework 14y ago
I'm curious, how did you et into the 'speaking business'? It seems a lot of these conferences only invite people to speak who have already spoken at large conferences. I did a talk at a local usergroup (5 people attended) and I loved it. I
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by freework 14y ago
Thanks for the great thoughts. The main reason why I'm going this is to get 'cred' so to speak. At my last job, we hired a guy who had co-written a peper-published book on the framework we were using. My company basically threw themselves a
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by freework 14y ago
Yes, but you need money to hire those people. Where will you get the money? You won't get any investor money until you get a team, you won't get a team until you get money. Those other people are going to have to be co-founders.
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Ask HN: Advice for writing a book
6 points by freework 14y ago|8 comments
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by freework 14y ago
I saw a TED talk a few days ago (sorry I can't find it now) that said that there has never been a person in the history of mankind who could build a product, manage the company and manage the money. Most people can do one thing very good, s
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by freework 14y ago
Every year I submit a handful of proposals, every year they all get rejected :( Someday...
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by freework 14y ago
I used to work for a company that got Tech Crunched every few weeks. We had lots of money in funding, but had practically zero traction. And our 'app' was pretty much smoke and mirrors. There were a handful of competitors that I felt had a
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by freework 14y ago
Motivation. If I'm motivated to get the work done, I will have razor focus. If the task is something someone else wants me to do (but I don't particularly want to do), then I won't be as motivated and it won't get done as fast. Additionally
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Hopefully, test driven development will be one of them. I don't know what will replace it, but some day we'll look back and say "I can'r believe we used to spend so much time writing so many tests"
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Most colleges do. When I was in college, we has a similar incident. The Bursar sent out an email to all students, one student reply-all's, and a deluge of messages followed. I thought it was pretty funny. After a day or two, the sysadmin sh
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by freework 14y ago
This doesn't seem too out of character for Einstein when you think about it. Great scientists are't married to their ideas. As soon as a better theory comes along, it is reasonable for a scientist to abandon the previous theory for the newe

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