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by freework 13y ago
Honestly, 60K is actually pretty good money I think. I make just about the same. Before my current job I made around the same. All my friends who are the same age as me make roughly the same. Last time I was doing interviewing, I tried aski
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by freework 13y ago
Youre under the assumption that "can't do fizzbuzz == can't program", "can do fizzbuzz == can program", which isn't true. I'll tell you a secret. The first time I was asked to do fizzbuzz in an interview I got it wrong. It was about a year
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by freework 13y ago
In rea world programming, those algorithms have very little practical use other than the "gee-whiz" factor. If you understand algorithms in general, then I think thats enough. Its sort of like being able to play a single song on the guitar
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by freework 13y ago
Its usually pretty damn obvious Ask them to explain what the code does and why they wrote it. If they backpedal and aren't able to say anything then you can assume they didn't write it.
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by freework 13y ago
> A single bad engineer could theoretically destroy a company if they were savvy enough. This sentence does not compute. Anyways, I think a big portion of the "hiring problem" is that companies are too afraid of hiring a "bad" develope
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by freework 13y ago
It reminds me of a saying they have in show business: You need to go away before you can make a comeback.
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by freework 13y ago
If there is such a large variety of flavors that can be detected, then why does the scientific data suggest otherwise?
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by freework 13y ago
Having a popular open source project is mostly a matter of luck. Most people that use Node don't use it because don't use Node because it's a brilliant platform. People mostly use Node because everyone else uses Node. Once you're popular, m
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by freework 13y ago
You can build an application in Ruby, deploy it onto 15 machines, and it will outperform the same application written in C and deployed to only one machine. Performance is more of a function of the underlying hardware than the language used
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by freework 13y ago
I really don't like these benchmarks. Its like benchmarking Fizzbuzz or something. Frameworks don't do anything. No one chooses a framework (at least I don't) based on performance. You choose one framework over the other because you like th
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by freework 13y ago
In other news, water is wet.
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by freework 13y ago
> Trading now is about as high risk as it gets That exactly what I would have said back in January 2013 when it was at around $34.
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by freework 13y ago
The trick to making a rewrite work is to only rewrite what you know how to rewrite. What I mean by that is a lot of people will be working on a project and will at some point say to themself "This project is really hard, I can't get anythin
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by freework 13y ago
In my experience, few people cares about your open source work unless its something they have heard of. _I_ may care. _You_ may care. But most people don't. I have a "large body of code on display" in my github, but I know for a fact that n
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Ask HN: How can I make my resume better?
5 points by freework 13y ago|7 comments
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by freework 13y ago
I have a friend who wrote a open source library that is very popular. It is a testing framework that is very well known from within the Python community. This guy was a coworker of mine a few years ago. When he sent a resume to the company,
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by freework 14y ago
He has it right about many companies who are more interested in building a organization rather than build a company. I've seen it many times. I think it is tied to economic strength. When the economy is strong, you see more "culture based"
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by freework 14y ago
What he is describing is basically Hammock Driven Development: http://blip.tv/clojure/hammock-driven-development-4475586 Dealing with kids is a form of stepping away from the computer.
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by freework 14y ago
My best interview advice is this: Don't ask questions to judge, ask to learn. A lot of interviewers have an interview process that is mainly designed to eliminate candidates. Therefore, the process contains interviewers asking "fake questio
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by freework 14y ago
Isn't it kind of unprofessional to publicly call people out like that? Its one thing to criticize, but this is name calling.
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Bitcoin new all time high, above $50 / BTC(bitcoincharts.com)
3 points by freework 14y ago|0 comments
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by freework 14y ago
This has been my experience. "Hustle" and "Hack" make up the ying-yang of tech startups. Hustle skills are more valued nowadays in SV than hacking skills. Silicon Valley these days is full of hustle and hype, but with no hack to back it up.
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by freework 14y ago
Just about every project I've worked on contained one "chunk" of the project that was an algorithm, while the remaining 95% of the functionality was achieved by implemented by Postgres, Apache, Django, etc. This is why I (and other people t
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by freework 14y ago
These people are called "startup groupies" and they are a huge problem in Silicon Valley, because that place is infested with them. I thought it funny too that "learn to program" (which the entire article should have been written about) was
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by freework 14y ago
I'm going to tell a story that describes why I don't like "Sunday tests". Before I became a professional developer, I was a professional pilot who programmed as a hobby. Right after graduating college in 2006, I got a job right out of schoo
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by freework 14y ago
I'm the opposite. I don't want to work with people who I "get along with". I want to work with people who will tell me I'm an idiot when I do something idiotic. I want someone who puts all their effort into creating great technology, not so
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by freework 14y ago
A lot of times when companies say "getting along with us" is an important train in candidates, it often gets manifested as "agrees with us on everything" in practice. In other words, the only way to really fail the "Sunday test" is to disag
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by freework 14y ago
Because "intrinsic value" is not as important than just "value". Bitcoin has a value in the sense that people can use it as a currency that has features that are desirable and useful.
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by freework 14y ago
It depends on your target audience. For instance, print campaigns work extremely well in the aviation market. It turns out the various pilot magazines are still the most penetrated medium to that market. Print campaigns work better than any
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by freework 14y ago
Why does an upvote/downvote community need moderators? Isn't the whole point of letting users upvote and downvote content to avoid having moderator overlords?

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