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by freework 14y ago
Yeah I wrote them a long letter asking to present to their team about 2 weeks ago but never got a response. Real bummer.
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Ask HN: What are some companies that do "presentation interviews"
2 points by freework 14y ago|3 comments
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Questions to ask during developer interviews(coderwall.com)
3 points by freework 14y ago|1 comments
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by freework 14y ago
The problem lies with the investors. They would rather invest in a group of guys well known on the conference circuit than the team of unknowns with great work ethic.
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Every Team member is an asset and a liability at the same time(coderwall.com)
1 points by freework 14y ago|0 comments
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by freework 14y ago
""" Think of it this way: due to the high costs of acquiring and training employees, companies hate to let people go, especially new hires. One has to be doing something very wrong to get let go, and employees are usually given many chances
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Why don't companies have "great programming skills" as part of their "culture"?
1 points by freework 14y ago|6 comments
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by freework 14y ago
I agree with most of these, excapt for the one that goes, "Strong developers accept that the business costs in a rewrite are usually unacceptable and should be avoided". What if the existing codebase is a rats-nest of complexity? WHat if th
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by freework 14y ago
I've never understood that rule, seems kind of arbitrary...
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by freework 14y ago
You can now view the page without the .json and it should show the the data in a html page.
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by freework 14y ago
Thats because someone typed in that username with a trailing space character ("mtgx ") and it made a new entry for that username int eh database. Nothing a little .strip won't fix...
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by freework 14y ago
Since HN doesn't publish a userlist, this site gets its data by crawling the "latest posts" HNSearch API every ten minutes. That 11,000 users includes all users who have made a post on HN since January 25th. Thats right, 11,000 unique users
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by freework 14y ago
The site pulls data from the HNSearch API, which only updates user's karma on their end when the user submits a post.
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Hacker News Karma Tracker(hn-karma-tracker.herokuapp.com)
179 points by freework 14y ago|98 comments
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by freework 14y ago
My favorite is the eAPIS password requirements: https://eapis.cbp.dhs.gov/help.html#a7 Your password: must start with a number and be between eight and twelve characters in length, and must contain at least one of the followin
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by freework 14y ago
fixed, try it again
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by freework 14y ago
A lot of very talented and successful people are successful. Michael Jordan, Linus Torvalds, and Albert Einstein come to mind. If Linus Torvalds applied to work at your company, would you turn him away?
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by freework 14y ago
These kinds of posts make me happy and sad at the same time. Happy because I agree with every word with every fiber in my body. Sad because literally 100% of the industry as far as I can tell is exactly as how she explains in the article. I
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Ask HN: Is there a way to determine your Hacker News karma percentile?
2 points by freework 14y ago|2 comments
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by freework 14y ago
The manager's job is to solve people problems. Most developers are great at analytical thinking, but very bad at emotional thinking. Nerds are usually introverted, and moody, in my experience. Great managers are the opposite of nerds. They
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by freework 14y ago
If you're a shit funnel, the people you're managing will hate you, but the people above you will love you. If you're a shit umbrella, the people below you will love you, but the people above you will hate you. The people below you aren't th
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by freework 14y ago
I feel the same way about Datomic too. I really want to be excited about datomic, but I just can't. Rich Hickey is a smart dude, no doubt, but I just don't see anything amazing here with datomic. Every time I try to learn about what kinds o
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by freework 14y ago
You can implement an immutable database system with SQL databases today. For instance, just design your application to only add new records, and not to issue any updates. Why is an entirely new database system needed?
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by freework 14y ago
H didn't imply that its dead, he was implying that its dying. Slowly. In my opinion, 30 years from now C will no longer be in the top 10. It'll still be around though, because there will still be uses for it. Just not as many uses as before
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by freework 14y ago
Rename "hellban" to "probation". When on probation, your posts get hidden. If three of your posts get upvoted while on probation, you are restored to normal status. If three of your posts get downvoted while on probation, you get banned per
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The Stages of Developer Experience, From Freshman to Senior(slideshare.net)
2 points by freework 14y ago|0 comments
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by freework 14y ago
I just got off a short contract where this exact thing happened. The company had a MVP they were using that was made by the founders. They were obviously young and inexperienced. The code was awful to say the least. I told them straight up
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by freework 14y ago
Lots of self-promotion, very little content
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by freework 14y ago
Just to clarify: It was a 800*800 image (or there abouts), and the GIF was pictoral (it was actually lena). It wasn't a typical GOF board. The question even hinted that if you can't get an exact match, then return a board that "comes close
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by freework 14y ago
The fist task is converting the GIF into a data structure. That could take anywhere between one hour and one day. Since I personally have no experience reading data from GIF files, it is probably going to take me one day. The next step is t

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