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by fsk 11y ago
Seems neat. The pocketchip seems like a viable alternative to a smartphone or Open Pandora/Pyra. Micro usb otg port means I can use my meenova for extra storage. I've seen kickstarter hardware disasters (icontrolpad2, gcw zero),
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by fsk 11y ago
Getting a job isn't like getting married. If your potential spouse says "Well, maybe, but I think I can find someone better.", forget it. It's OK for employees to be shopping around. The days of lifetime employment ar
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by fsk 11y ago
What does it say about software as a serious career, if tools that are awful are popular and widely used?
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They made it that way on purpose, so it's more entertaining for the audience. If you could buzz in early, the players would almost always buzz in before Alex Trebek finished reading the question, which makes it less interesting for th
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by fsk 11y ago
They also restricted the clues compared to what they would normally have - no audio/video Daily Doubles. I think there might have been some other restrictions, but I don't recall the exact rules. I think they didn't allow a
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by fsk 11y ago
Under Federal Labor law, each state gets to decide if they are open-shop or closed shop. Democratic-leaning states tend to be closed-shop and Republican-leaning states tend to be open shop. Of the big movie producing states, California an
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by fsk 11y ago
It's still just a fantasy price if you can't actually sell your shares at that price.
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by fsk 11y ago
That is one of my biggest concerns. A lot of the new tools are just different, not better. But you're expected to know all of them. It's also hard to predict what will be popular five years from now. I thought that using Javasc
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by fsk 11y ago
I'm 40 and feel like my career is almost over. It's a big shock to go on interviews where I'm the oldest person there by 10+ years.
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by fsk 11y ago
If you let the options holders cash out some of their shares during the financing round, that offsets the tax issue. Then they could afford to exercise, pay the tax bill, and take some money off the table. Also, how do you come up with the
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by fsk 11y ago
I see now that it does mention unions, but it's buried in the middle. It really should be the one of the highlighted points of the article, rather than buried on one paragraph.
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by fsk 11y ago
The article missed one big point. All those temp workers are unionized. The union does not guarantee them a job, but it does guarantee them a certain salary and benefits when they do find a job. It's a closed shop, so if they do hire
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by fsk 11y ago
>If you give developers carte blanche permission to add whatever they feel is necessary, you're using your business success/failure to teach them. That is wrong. Also, many developers will use whatever tools they feel like padd
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by fsk 11y ago
Yeah, for example: Boss: Fred, I want you to work on the Frobitz feature. FSK worked on the Frobitz feature a little, so coordinate with him. For a daily meeting, I hear about a lot of stuff that usually has nothing to do with what I'
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by fsk 11y ago
What's the #1 Google result for T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM? It didn't bother me the first time I saw it. What's the problem?
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by fsk 11y ago
I never understood the point of the daily meeting. To find out what other people are doing, I can just look at source control or the ticketing system. If things are properly organized, I don't really need to know 95%+ of the stuff othe
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by fsk 11y ago
At one place I worked, they let developers use whatever tools they wanted. The result was that their website was dependent on 50 Javascript packages that took forever to load. They had parts of their system written in Javascript, PHP, Ruby
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by fsk 11y ago
NYC is also a possibility. A lot of companies hire remote teams now. My current employer uses an outsourcing company in Europe.
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by fsk 11y ago
This is the best advice. Tell them to take a couple of programming courses. Give them some simple projects like drawing a Mandelbrot set. Or more seriously, advise them to do something other than getting a PhD, such as getting a Master&#x
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by fsk 11y ago
Your webform is broken. I tried Firefox and IE on windows and it didn't work.
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by fsk 11y ago
Don't use that taleo, it's buggy garbage. I spent 5 minutes trying to fill out the form and it ate it.
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by fsk 11y ago
You mean like Robert Half Technology? They're a big name, and they've repeatedly wasted my time to the extent that I now refuse to talk with them.
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by fsk 11y ago
How do I tell the difference between a real headhunter and a lower tier recruitment agency?
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by fsk 11y ago
That has been my experience. I've gotten better interviews from headhunters who don't insist on meeting me first. A lot of the ones who insisted on meeting me are shady body shops, where they're just looking to build a large
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by fsk 11y ago
web-based: javscript usually, unity and flash also are a possibility. At one time Java was the choice for this, but not so much anymore. desktop: usually a compiled binary. I've also seen flash and unity compiled to native binaries.
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by fsk 11y ago
99% are scum, 1% are good. I've received a couple of jobs through headhunters. I have a rule that works surprisingly well. When a headhunter contacts me, I search my gmail for past interactions. If I sent them my resume several time
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by fsk 11y ago
I'd switch to something else, if I could find something that paid close to the same rate. Due to technology churn and age discrimination, I might be forced to find something else soon anyway.
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by fsk 11y ago
That also is incorrect - the sequence either converges to one or a stable cycle - not infinitely. That's also a horrible question for illustrating functional programming style. It would be much more efficient to have a simple loop cac
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by fsk 11y ago
Also, the interviewer didn't even know his own question. As I understand it, you are taking the sequence n -> (sum of the squares of the digits of n) First, the sequence never diverges to infinity. For example, 9999999999 -> 9*8
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by fsk 11y ago
One example: Mark Zuckerberg cheating Eduardo Saverin out of his FaceBook shares. He realized that it was cheaper in the long-run to cheat him, because he knew that the eventual lawsuit settlement would be less than Eduardo Saverin would h

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