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by gargarplex 7y ago
Counter-point: if a programmer is successful in delivering business value, the programmer might have an inflated view of their programming abilities. I know I certainly have been affected by this. Being able to get things done does not n
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by gargarplex 7y ago
Location: NYC – preferably Manhattan. Remote: No Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Ruby (Sinatra; Rails); JavaScript (Node.js; jQuery; Backbone.js; React; Redux); Salesforce APEX; AWS; Heroku; Python (Django/Flask);
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by gargarplex 7y ago
Hi, I work as a recruiter and your CV is strong enough for me to be able to submit you to one of my clients, a publicly-traded online gaming company with tech HQ in Jersey City (few minutes from Wall St via the PATH train). They're r
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by gargarplex 7y ago
What if an alien, intelligent life force designed the big bang as a procedural generation of some eventual purpose? Although I don't necessarily see that in conflict with Darwin, as natural selection could be an aspect of intelligent
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by gargarplex 7y ago
The fact that _they don't have to_ and you are resulting to _hope_ is just more evidence of his awesome performance – excepting that one of his stated goals is to "strengthen trust with customers"
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by gargarplex 7y ago
https://www.amazon.com/Windows-Kernel-Programming-Pavel-Yosi... ?
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by gargarplex 7y ago
As a recruiter, I have to say that .Net is still used by startups, especially in Europe and cities like Manhattan with a large European population. I am shamefully plugging the fact that I am recruiting for said roles :-)
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by gargarplex 7y ago
It's quite a daunting project, but if you want to join the @codeforcash on Keybase, would definitely welcome support.
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by gargarplex 7y ago
Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinkExchange Could work really well. All the best
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by gargarplex 7y ago
Yeah, that would be really helpful. I want to monitor careers pages of all local companies in the Crunchbase NYC geo in order to help candidates search for local companies by keywords (eg C#). We have an API already (syncs with Algolia) t
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by gargarplex 7y ago
Has anyone tried this for careers pages? Would be interested in how this performs on a random sample of ~50 crunchbase NYC startups’ careers pages. I dunno how much time would have to be spent training data...
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by gargarplex 7y ago
Version your API from day one (instead of company.com/api, support company.com/api/v1). This makes it a lot easier to support legacy users.
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Free “set it and forget it” Git backups with Keybase + serverless(blog.codefor.cash)
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by gargarplex 7y ago
Prepend to the url: outline.com/ So: https://outline.com/https://www.livescience.com/medieval-executioner-life.html https://outline.com/https://www.livescience.c
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by gargarplex 7y ago
this summer, I got a tick bite. I immediately went to go get a prophylactic antibiotic (doxycycline). You'd think that the pharmacist could just give me some over the counter, but I had to go to a clinic and get a prescription – felt
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by gargarplex 7y ago
Cryptosnipe, a skill-based sweepstakes bot. Currently for Keybase; outcomes are decided by skillful deployment of powerups in conjunction with Keybase's provably fair randomness feature: https://blog.codefor.cash/2019&
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by gargarplex 7y ago
Unclear - c.f. Monkey and terry cloth mother studies.
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by gargarplex 7y ago
- As an animal it feels good to have someone else groom you - Actually getting the line perfect is not trivial, even if you're experienced - This brings us one step closer to The Jetsons, and I'm in favor
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by gargarplex 7y ago
https://pbfcomics.com/comics/automatic-business/
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XLM sweepstakes Keybase bot in early development. v0.2 just released(blog.codefor.cash)
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by gargarplex 7y ago
Being really young is a good story – except that by 20, it invites comparisons to Stripe's 19-year-old founder. Being really old is a good story – everyone likes to see someone 60+ still fighting[developing], especially because there i
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by gargarplex 7y ago
Asymmetric advantage in their favor If it sucks “they’re just 20” If it’s interesting, they’re precocious imho if you’re using age as downside protection you’ve already lost
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by gargarplex 7y ago
Can you turn this into an interactive thing like Duolingo where you grind through the exercises? Much needed in the developer community... PS. If anyone else is interested in building this, happy to collab!
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by gargarplex 7y ago
I hired the applicant who came late to the interview and had no professional experience. He spit on my face but his great aunt was in the hospital. Always understand, expect the best and people deliver! Agree ? </s>
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by gargarplex 7y ago
Agree ?
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by gargarplex 7y ago
For anyone learning Swedish as an adult, consider joining the Kodapor groups on Facebook.
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by gargarplex 7y ago
> the Swedish variant has roots in the Germanic and Baltic languages, which are not directly related to Yiddish afaik In fact, Yiddish is Judeo-German and has elements from Slavic languages.
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by gargarplex 8y ago
I dislike it and I don't use it. I also use Reddit Enhancement Suite [1] to improve my experience. I don't see why Reddit shouldn't just publish its retention/cohort metrics. Of general interest to the community and ce
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by gargarplex 8y ago
I helped write a book on this: https://www.amazon.com/Software-Engineers-Guide-Freelance-Co... If you just email me (email in profile), I will send you a free pdf copy. All I ask is that you leave a review once you find yo
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by gargarplex 8y ago
As a recruiter I can answer this! I do not speak for all recruiters. As a recruiter who is also a programmer, my approach may be nonstandard. * I want to see thoughtful README files. If the README is whatever was generated default by the

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