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Ask HN: Should I stay in a company if I know they are selling smoke?
4 points by gaelow 12y ago|5 comments
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by gaelow 12y ago
Please consider that alcohol induced behavior may destroy even the lives of people around the consumer. That it is addictive. That abstinence can literally kill an addict. That many people live crippled lives or have their lives cut short a
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by gaelow 12y ago
Regardless of any received training, smart people don't usually struggle as much as normal people when they are presented with a new, different kind of problem. That's something you cannot learn. Even a kid's brain will not &
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by gaelow 12y ago
If you are an employee, a degree is useful. Employers care about portfolios and past working experiences much more than they do about grades, but a CS diploma is what gets your foot in the door for an interview at a decent firm or being con
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by gaelow 12y ago
Is it something specialized which requires at least some base knowledge and currently in high demand and low supply, such as "angularjs development"? Is there enough trusted positive feedback from former attendees? Can you afford
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by gaelow 12y ago
Or, just rephrasing: Decentralized as in bitcoin, where proofs of work confirm transactions? That is not news, since 6 years ago. Decentralized as in any other electronic transfer system, where you trust a few nodes to confirm the transacti
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by gaelow 12y ago
"A decentralized protocol for sending and receiving money": How is this news, exactly?
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by gaelow 12y ago
"Private methods of modules should not be tested, since they don't represent the public interface of the module and refactorings are likely to change the private methods" +1 to that.
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by gaelow 12y ago
And people still wonder why C++ is one of the most popular programming languages that ever existed...
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by gaelow 12y ago
I currently write docblocks for everything I code. It's crazy how much time I spend on them and sometimes they are confusing because the specs change and I keep forgetting to add/remove/update something in a docblock when I r
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by gaelow 12y ago
(LPT: Always jump straight to the conclusions part of the article. Then, maybe, read the parts that may interest you. The Internet is an infinite sea of data; If you stop swimming or dive too deep, you'll drown on it.)
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by gaelow 12y ago
Who said I read the first half?
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by gaelow 12y ago
My problem may be laziness. I couldn't bring myself to read more than half of such a long article, so I guess I'll just stay moderately unhappy.
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by gaelow 12y ago
I've been freelancing for a while and I've taken offers ranging from 10 USD/hour to 45 USD/hour. Minus insurance, minus VAT and other taxes, minus expenses such as electricity/heating, Internet, ~20USD/month on
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by gaelow 12y ago
Thank you :-) I was scratching my head about it for a while...
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by gaelow 12y ago
Good points here. Only many other limitations apply when building an actual tower, so you would probably need a lot of engineering to design a tower even remotely close to that height that can be built before it collapses. If that kind of t
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by gaelow 12y ago
I agree. I should have said: "This checklist helped me a lot, after getting a masters degree, as a starting point listing the general aspects to get to know in the particular professional path that I'm currently following". I
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by gaelow 12y ago
This one is much better: http://sijinjoseph.com/programmer-competency-matrix/ It provided me with practical, straight-forward and helpful advice on where to focus to improve my programming skills.
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by gaelow 12y ago
A bitcoin is a commodity. A small piece of a complicated crypto system you can buy or decipher or even trade for goods (in very few and restricted cases) and has practically no use apart from storing it in the hope to get a benefit in the n
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by gaelow 12y ago
The goal is to deliver the most profitable code in the specified timeframe and with the resources provided. That's how you organize your priorities. For us in many cases it means to throw away vendor specific solutions in favor of most
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by gaelow 12y ago
No browser adheres 100% to the standards. I use resources like MDN and some automated testing tools to make sure the subset I use is properly implemented on all major browsers (all but IE <= 8, which really sucks at it). But, subset or n
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by gaelow 12y ago
Don't get me wrong: I agree that if you are contractually forced to write IE compliant code for all major versions still in use, vendor specific is the only way to go. Also if the numbers show it's worth the extra resources, then
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by gaelow 12y ago
For even more convenience I don't test for IE compliance. I test for ECMA and W3C standards compliance and don't write any vendor specific code.
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by gaelow 12y ago
What high IQ?
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by gaelow 12y ago
Yeah, actually I agree with everything on the article but the title. The article does too :-)
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by gaelow 12y ago
Oh come on! How can you say that? Of course there's a cost on multiprocess arquitecture, but it doesn't suck at all! Ok, you shouldn't just spawn new processes whenever you need more tasks running concurrently, but how could
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by gaelow 12y ago
I wouldn't use it: my phone is too tiny and my china tablet sucks. I think is a good idea for people on the move, though. I currently use my tablet as a portable second screen when I travel. I use a usb share KM app to control it from
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by gaelow 12y ago
Can't disagree, but computer science is in serious need of less but better and well known, highly reliable software development standards. Something universal that makes us confident enough to say: If you follow this process you'l
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by gaelow 12y ago
It's not that I trust paypal, AWS or mega or dropbox or hotmail/skype or facebook or OpenDNS, but diversification is important. Do not become dependant on a single services provider, be redundant, always have a fallback service re
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by gaelow 12y ago
That kind of discrimination makes me wonder about 2 things: 1) what kind of weird people would like to work there? 2) what other weird rules do they have? earrings? hairpieces? nail polishing? dyed hair? beards? skirts? what about shoes? wh

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