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by fsk 12y ago
Actually, she wanted to date you, but when you asked her to write a 1000 word essay on why she would be a great girlfriend, she decided to forget it.
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by fsk 12y ago
Maybe everyone could go somewhere, study and be tested for a couple years, so they are certified as having basic competence? I have a CS degree with multiple honors fron a top 10 university. What was the point of that? Can't I skip t
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by fsk 12y ago
Actually, that smelled like a project the company needed done, disguised as an interview test.
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by fsk 12y ago
But every lame startup acts like they're Google/Apple/Facebook. If you're a no-name startup, why should I spend 2-40 hours for the privilege of maybe meeting you?
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by fsk 12y ago
That definitely was too much, just for an interview. A couple times, I had someone ask for a consulting project as a coding test, like the guy who asked for a program that connected to Interactive Brokers and executed VWAP trades. That te
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by fsk 12y ago
The one person I spoke with got a 3x raise when they won the greencard lottery. That's just one data point and it was 15 years ago.
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by fsk 12y ago
Alternatively, you could look at what % raise a former H1-b visa holder receives when he gets his greencard. I heard it can be 2x-3x, but I've never seen a formal analysis.
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by fsk 12y ago
There's no way Blackberry could lose their market share. Even if they do fail it would be slowly or a leveling off. There's no way they could go from the leader to zero in 5 years.
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by fsk 12y ago
If you already have a stable job, find something you can do on the side for 5-10 hours a week. Wait until it seems like it's doing well to quit your regular job. Also, it's better to bootstrap with savings than raise VC at the be
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by fsk 12y ago
>I don't know what's in demand. What can people still turn in to a long-term career? What area or "discipline" in IT shows promise for a career? Here's one rule of thumb I've been using to gauge demand. If
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by fsk 12y ago
In NYC, when I was on Jury Duty, they checked my invitation slip at the security checkpoint. Due to security paranoia nowadays, I doubt you would be able to do it. Jury Duty = judges and lawyers and important people, so restricted access D
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by fsk 12y ago
Find a job that only has 8 hours a day work expectation. It is rare nowadays, but possible.
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by fsk 12y ago
After sending out lots of resumes over the years, I noticed almost zero correlation with making a careful cover letter, and whether they follow up with an interview.
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by fsk 12y ago
But it also looks awful from the viewpoint of the competent candidate who already has a job. Everyone wants you to spend 1-10 hours doing THEIR pre-screening test, before you even meet them or talk with them. I don't have the free ti
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by fsk 12y ago
Asking candidates to take a 1-10 hour test or assignment before you even talk with the hiring manager. I already have a job and don't have the time to waste.
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by fsk 12y ago
Investing on the hope that they will use the money to repay what they owe you is pants-on-head retarded. Option #1 - convert the debt to equity at the proposed valuation. Option #2 - get paid, don't invest Option #3 - expect to never g
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by fsk 12y ago
Actually, one reason people still use PHP is backward-compatibility. You can take an old project, import it to the latest PHP, and it'll mostly work. Try doing that with node, Rails, Python, or Angular 1.0. One big mistake Microsoft
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by fsk 12y ago
First, this is a solved problem. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastermind_%28board_game%29 tl;dr answer: Check every possible move. For each possible move, each possible response partitions the remaining guesses. Find
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by fsk 12y ago
I had a bad experience working with people from Accenture. They were extremely unprofessional and unqualified.
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by fsk 12y ago
Yes, that was my point. There are people who don't have a CS degree, that should use source control. For example, designers should use source control for their work. Explaining git to them is not feasible.
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by fsk 12y ago
Three words against git: Detached Head State I view git as a sort of shibboleth. You can't really understand how git works unless you understand trees as a data structure. That excludes all but the hardcore types. Some designers and C
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by fsk 12y ago
Some of the rules are awkward and confusing to someone who doesn't understand them. For example, you can convey information to your partner, based on how long you take to bid. Technically, you aren't allowed to have that informat
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by fsk 12y ago
One thing I know from playing serious Bridge: An expert player makes far fewer mistakes than the average player. He does not make zero mistakes. I read one tournament report, where an expert player revoked. When an expert plays good or av
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by fsk 12y ago
There always are non-technical cofounders looking for a gullible programmer to implement their stupid idea for equity-only. Take a couple of those and then work your way up into paying jobs. You also could try getting an internship at an e
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by fsk 12y ago
That's one reason I dropped out of a PhD program in Math. I realized that, if I was lucky and did well, I would get a tenure-track job at the #250 ranked school. If I was unlucky, I would be perma-adjunct with no other marketable ski
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by fsk 12y ago
One example is the PR industry. They come pretty close. Their techniques for modifying public opinion are pretty sophisticated.
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by fsk 12y ago
You also can, in some emulators, simulate two GameBoys with a link cable.
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by fsk 12y ago
What happens when the centralized repository incorrectly says someone is unqualified? They never find a job again? It would be the same problem as now, just different. And when the centralized repository says someone is brilliant? If you
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by fsk 12y ago
Maintaining someone else's code is MUCH HARDER than writing something new. Any business older than 2 years needs someone to maintain their existing codebase, rather than rewriting it from scratch for each new employee. Maintenance is s
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by fsk 12y ago
I used to sign NDAs before an interview. Every time I did, it was one of the stupidest ideas. Now, I just pass. I use it as a filter to identify that the other person is an idiot.

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