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by gedrap 12y ago
>>> If your code challenge involves a typically male oriented theme, such as sports, consider changing it to something else. Why not use something more neutral? Since when sport is not neutral? The quoted sentence makes it sound as
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by gedrap 12y ago
Totally agree. There's absolutely nothing sexist about it at all. I am male and there loads of sports I have no idea about the rules. Now, let's say I stumble across this bit before I interview her. Red flag: tends to treat things
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Why aren't there code overviews for open-source projects?(programmers.stackexchange.com)
3 points by gedrap 12y ago|0 comments
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Can a lock picker slowly undermine the security of a deadbolt door?(security.stackexchange.com)
3 points by gedrap 12y ago|1 comments
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by gedrap 12y ago
Recently, there seems to be a trend that everyone should be pushing code to github. While it's great (real project is much better than a paragraph in CV and it shows your activity over the time), there are a lot of devs who just don&#x
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by gedrap 12y ago
Agree. When you are running an early stage startup, you don't have much cash to burn and let people fiddle with what they want to try. You want to get something done, fast. And that's where the experienced folks come to help you.
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by gedrap 12y ago
I really like this thread because it reminds me (and others) that creating a product is not only about leaving full time job, doing crazy hours and trying to raise money, like it's often portrayed. You can simply create a product with
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by gedrap 12y ago
>>> As a technologist in a bank, you're a second-class citizen I believe that's the case in the majority of companies, where software is not the primary product.
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Five ways to build a $100M business(christophjanz.blogspot.com)
2 points by gedrap 12y ago|0 comments
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by gedrap 12y ago
And then add sometimes not properly defined version dependencies (or developers abusing version numbers a bit) and you have a dependency hell when running npm update -g will almost definitely break something. I love yeoman, great scaffoldin
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by gedrap 12y ago
But in our industry, it's easy to stand out. Spend a weekend or two, make some web app, Android app, or whatever. Maybe make a commit to some open source project, if you are struggling with ideas (in that case, you are capable to work
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by gedrap 12y ago
In the UK (based on my experience), a suit is considered to be just a safe choice and many people just stick to it.
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by gedrap 12y ago
At our university, University of Manchester, we had a careers service drone telling us to list your experience working as a waiter and highlight skills you learned there ('communicating in stressful environment' and what not). Dea
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I was caught cheating on an exam, how can I minimize the damage?(academia.stackexchange.com)
1 points by gedrap 12y ago|0 comments
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Bayesian Testing of Conversion Rate(dogdogfish.com)
2 points by gedrap 12y ago|0 comments
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A Month of Using Firefox OS as the Main Phone(blog.gedrap.me)
1 points by gedrap 12y ago|0 comments
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If I just proved that P = NP, how do I start taking over the world?(quora.com)
5 points by gedrap 12y ago|0 comments
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by gedrap 12y ago
Well, because there's <ANY_WORD>.js. It's quite obvious that the links you copied have hardly any overlap, and I much prefer a simple generic name rather than a made up word which is hard to remember and doesn't make mu
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by gedrap 12y ago
Exactly. It works at Google because their engineers know their shit. Meanwhile, at your average corporation... That might not be the case, and you might spend loads of time trying to figure something out because your colleague uses some sem
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Using the Wrong Screw: A Painful Lesson in iPhone Repair(hackaday.com)
2 points by gedrap 12y ago|0 comments
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Anonabox: How to Fail Horribly at Kickstarter(hackaday.com)
5 points by gedrap 12y ago|0 comments
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by gedrap 12y ago
They already know and don't seem to mind a lot. They just disable all VPN traffic, etc during sort of special political periods e.g. Tienanmen square events anniversary.
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by gedrap 12y ago
Regarding typing, I think a lot depends on the keyboard you are using. With default keyboard, yeah there's no way I'm typing more than a couple of sentences, as you said. But with a better keyboard (e.g. Swift on Android), I can e
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by gedrap 12y ago
While unrelated to the content, I find it it really hard to read when so much text is in bold. It's hard to focus on the sentence I am reading at the moment as my eyes are unconsciously jumping to the emphasised bits. I guess it shows
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by gedrap 12y ago
Maybe just 'Mapper'? As it is exactly what it does - maps spreadsheets to Python objects
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by gedrap 12y ago
>>>> it's never been done until now Again, we come back to marketing. Would you bet that it has never been done, or it has been done but no one has ever heard of it? Just developing a good game and hoping that people will
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by gedrap 12y ago
Yup. And the opposite of it when a person starts with some random abstract (supposed to be background) things and takes 5min to get to his point although I lost him within the first minute. Some people may be amazing programmers but if they
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by gedrap 12y ago
I've said that dozens of times and got quite tired of repeating, so briefly speaking, it's because it takes only ~5 votes within first 30-60min to make the front page. The best thing you can do about it is to go to /newest an
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by gedrap 12y ago
>>> nuremberg trials Himmler and a traffic cop is a pretty wild comparison, if you ask me :)
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by gedrap 12y ago
>>> Not answering the questions, throwing the license back at the passenger At the end of the day, cops are people. They get tired, frustrated, etc. I don't expect them to act like my personal servants. >>> I take it

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