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by fsk 11y ago
I interviewed for a software job there twice. It seemed pretty dysfunctional to me. For one project, they had 20 people working on something that I thought would take 3-5 people.
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by fsk 12y ago
They did modify that clause.
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by fsk 12y ago
Yeah, because I look at my own comments page, and wouldn't have noticed you posted a reply unless I came back to the OP. Regarding OP - Did you give notice at your last job? If so, and this falls through, you learned a valuable lesson
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by fsk 12y ago
I've had job offers revoked, both with verbal AND written offers. With an "at-will employment" clause, nothing prevents a revoked offer. It sucks if you already gave notice at your current/last job.
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by fsk 12y ago
If hackathons are stupid and unfair, then stop going to them. Pick a project that takes longer than a weekend and do it.
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by fsk 12y ago
My sister used to be a foursquare addict. She no longer uses it. They took out all the stuff she liked.
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by fsk 12y ago
These actually are standard problem types once you get used to them. They sell books with logic puzzles like this. One example is "Sherlock" by Everett Kaser. http://www.kaser.com/ It's like giving someone a
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by fsk 12y ago
Another red flag is that the client is threatening to sue you for $100k but you only billed him $6k. Your maximum loss should be the $6k he paid you. But you do need to consult with a lawyer. You say you have another job? So you should b
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by fsk 12y ago
For Android, I've been using DroidEdit and DroidScript (and DroidScript lets you compile Javascript to an apk, without the hassle of setting up Cordova). I also have Bit Web Server for php. I haven't found a good option for Javasc
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by fsk 12y ago
If they were serious about fixing startup stock options, they would: - Eliminate the tax penalty you get if you exercise and keep the shares. This matters when the startup has not had an IPO or other liquidity event yet. - Eliminate the IR
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by fsk 12y ago
I also dropped out of a Math grad school PhD program to work as a programmer. Instead of being a 40 year old postdoc permadjunct, I'm a 40 year old programmer that almost nobody wants to hire because of age discrimination. At least I
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by fsk 12y ago
Domain names aren't as important as they used to be. As long as you rank #1 in Google for "name of your business", that's good enough. Someone who googles easydns will find the official easydns website. easydns.sucks w
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by fsk 12y ago
Banks have one advantage in this area. The have government regulations and many other laws making it hard to organize competition, such as anti-money-laundering and know-your-customer laws. Look at what happened to E-Gold. It was a threat
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by fsk 12y ago
Also I looked at the thread. One person advised him to change the root password and reboot the server if he couldn't log in. One of the logic bombs was triggered on reboot. I knew it was happening when they rebooted the server, but I
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by fsk 12y ago
I worked for a guy who had a habit of refusing to pay people for work they did. All the other developers has logic bombs in the code.
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by fsk 12y ago
No, what happened was that early employees got equity grants that seemed reasonable when they were hired. When Zynga became a smash hit, those unvested options became very valuable. Then, Zygna's board decided to try and weasel out of
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by fsk 12y ago
I've worked at a couple of startups that failed for that reason. The CTO picked something he wanted to pad his resume with, rather than a good technical choice.
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by fsk 12y ago
At my job, they hired a contractor to do a wordpress site on a fixed-bid contract. The contractor stopped answering our calls and now I'm stuck maintaining the POS. As a small freelancer, fixed-bid is a nightmare. If the client doesn
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by fsk 12y ago
That actually was the best point in the whole thread. "Won programming contest and was hired by Google" is not the same sample set as "won a programming contest". Once you add "and was hired by Google", all so
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by fsk 12y ago
I see what you're saying. The programming contest winner will do better on the algorithm brainteaser questions, so is more likely to get hired, even if he's lacking the ability to do better after he's hired. A 30 minute inte
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by fsk 12y ago
I don't see how it would be negative correlation or even zero. Winning a competition shows a certain amount of raw talent. For someone who only programmed for competitions and never worked on a serious project I could see it being a n
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by fsk 12y ago
That information can be collected without an illegal search warrant. The phone companies are required to keep call records for at least several years. I tell the IRS investigator that I got such a call, and now they request the records fro
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by fsk 12y ago
An IRS agent would never say "Pay us now by wire transfer or we're going to arrest you."
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by fsk 12y ago
My parents got one of these calls and it really made them panic. They're getting older now. They should put more enforcement effort into catching these people. You record everyone's phone calls and you still can't catch peo
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by fsk 12y ago
I replied to a couple of ads that said that. I didn't get a phone interview.
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by fsk 12y ago
>Do I use frameworks? Only when it's not required to maintain a product in future. I've been on the flip side of this too many times. Some outsourcing company developed a product using a framework (usually on a fixed-price bid
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by fsk 12y ago
The problem is that job ads always say "We want experience in X, Y, Z." They never say "We want someone who can code without a framework, and could learn whatever we're using quickly."
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by fsk 12y ago
I programmed my gmail to auto-archive the worst offenders. What's the problem?
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by fsk 12y ago
It's like Ninja Warrior (the Japanese version).
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by fsk 12y ago
Do you believe that everyone can become an NBA player no matter how hard they try? The NBA players are the top 1-in-1000000 world's best players. A programmer only has to be 1-in-100 to be competent. The other 99-in-100 should find ot

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