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by freework 13y ago
For a long time I thought medium.com was the blog of one single ambitions, epic tech blog writer.
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by freework 13y ago
I think to be a successful startup, you need to exist somewhere between 'grand visionary' and 'lean'. The startup I work for now could be described as a 'grand visionary' company. Our CEO is a very wealthy non-
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by freework 13y ago
If there is such a thing as a software hall of fame, MSPaint deserves to be in the inaugural class. Microsoft has written some real crap over the years, but MSPaint is no one of them. Its a shame that Microsoft seems to have left MSPaint be
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by freework 13y ago
ugh, who upvoted this crap?
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by freework 13y ago
The email metadata idea looks a little like this: https://github.com/priestc/LibraryDSS
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by freework 13y ago
This company has been looking for a VP of Engineering since at least last summer. I applied for this position back then. They got back to me with a ridiculous busy-work problem they wanted me to solve. I forgot then about them.
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by freework 13y ago
For every person who says their company failed because they didn't listen to customer feedback, there are the same amount of people who say their company failed because they did nothing but follow the demands of every single customer.
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by freework 13y ago
I think if you find yourself in a situation where you're baking a cake to get a job as anything other than a bakery chef, you need to rethink your life.
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by freework 13y ago
Because it spoils the interviewers ability to feel smug.
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Confessions of a 'job hopper'(coderwall.com)
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by freework 13y ago
Its becoming less of an issue as more and more as software migrates to being "as a service". A webapp is not distributed, so the license doesn't matter at all.
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by freework 13y ago
Is it just me, or is the site making you sign in through twitter to read the article?
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by freework 13y ago
Thats what tab completion is for.
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by freework 13y ago
You must be great at parties.
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by freework 13y ago
Python is typically used to build applications that are IO bound. Squeezing more performance out of the interpreter is not going to translate to any real gains for most Python users these days.
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by freework 13y ago
The solution to traffic jams is to have a dynamically calculated speed limit based on the density of the traffic flowing through it. A car going 60mph down the highway needs 50 feet in front and 50 feet in back between it and the other cars
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by freework 13y ago
Most people drive using the least amount of attention as possible to the road. The typical person behind the wheel is thinking more about their life's problems than they are thinking about the flow of traffic around them. When I'm
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by freework 13y ago
This has been brought up a bunch of times before. An Upvote for dead comments should make them visible. I was once shadow banned on an older account. I don't remember what I said, but it wasn't that bad. I had made like 10 or so e
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by freework 13y ago
This article doesn't mention the best interview method of them all: the presentation interview. Have the interviewee prepare a 15 minute presentation of a technical topic of the interviewee's choice. At the end of that presentatio
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by freework 13y ago
This topic/discussion reminds me of a movie I saw recently It was called "That guy...who was in that thing". It is a documentary about working actors. Not Big time superstars like Tom Cruise, but the small time 'characte
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by freework 13y ago
Agreed. I think anyone can be an "A" player under the right conditions. Under different conditions, the same person can be a "D" player. I know I've had jobs were I was the wonderboy who was regarded as an A player
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by freework 13y ago
I switched to these guys after my reserved instance ran out at AWS. I was paying $50 a month for EC2 small, which was super slow. Since switching to DigitalOcean, not only am I paying $10 a month, but my site feels much much faster now. DO
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by freework 13y ago
I'v been working on a non-hierarchical filesystem (if you want to call it a "filesystem") called Library Transfer Protocol. It created a new type of file called a "library item" which is different from a file in the
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by freework 13y ago
I think this article describes the majority of jobs out there. Of the 5 places I've worked, only one of them could be described as "functional". I've learned to just deal with it. I put my 8 hours in each day, and then hit the personal proj
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by freework 13y ago
Well played.
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by freework 13y ago
Like all other interviewing "processes", this is too much overhead. I can tell after talking with someone for 5 minutes whether have the right stuff or not. You can tell by how they choose their words and express their opinions. The best in
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by freework 13y ago
These results are odd. The three startups (two YC alums) I interviewed with in the Bay offered me ~60K each time, and wouldn't go any higher.
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by freework 13y ago
The point is that some people grind, build, grind, build, sweat, bleed, grind, build their whole lives without ever getting that stroke of good luck that brings success.
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by freework 13y ago
Potentially huge performance difference. For the 99% use case, the performance hit fo the ORM is not significant enough to matter. Most projects have many tables, but only one table that actually needs to have any speed optimizations. That
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by freework 13y ago
Google Groups is probably still the most popular hosted Usenet client. Back when I was using Usenet for discussion (2005ish), almost everyone who was still using usenet was using it via Google Groups. By the way, Google Groups used to have

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