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by gedrap 13y ago
A good summary, although I found a title a bit misleading - expected some sort of comparison 'why it's better than XYZ'
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by gedrap 13y ago
I get your point and I believe that quite sucks. There might be a number of reasons why they do that. Maybe it's just a reason they give for rejection while the real reason is somewhat uncomfortable to say. Maybe they are afraid that y
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Code Instead of Breakfast: My Productivity Hack(blog.gedrap.me)
2 points by gedrap 13y ago|0 comments
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by gedrap 13y ago
Unfortunately, looks like he will serve multiple decades: guilty of five espionage charges, guilty of five theft charges.
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by gedrap 13y ago
Found it on HN on January and... Why it's free?! I would be glad to pay for each screenshot generated because saves plenty of time and simply makes presentations look way better. There is a channel (you already have it), there is a rea
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Writing Code With a Cellphone Back in 2005(blog.gedrap.me)
1 points by gedrap 13y ago|0 comments
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by gedrap 13y ago
And that's really worrying. For me, it makes various threats and other cyber bullying look like a game. 'I wish you get cancer' yeah whatever f-off kid. But this one can easily ruin someones life. Or at least give enough stre
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by gedrap 13y ago
Many people have their own views on this topic (India problem) but most of them will keep it to themselves because nowadays mentioning almost anything related to some specific country/race/religion will get them called 'racis
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by gedrap 13y ago
I agree with you. It was somewhat reasonable basic stuff - asking for requirements (because they were intentionally ambiguous), working in sprints (rather than you have to do this, come back in 4 months), etc. I just believe it is hard to t
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by gedrap 13y ago
I know what you mean :) For the last nearly 2 years I make living from doing part-time gigs. At one gig I was lucky to have a rather experienced manager and he taught me about OOP design, a bit on Agile practices and testing. That was an ey
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by gedrap 13y ago
I've found myself recently in that situation. That's what I am going to do about it: 1) I've been reading about startups and etc for ~2 years but have never did my own project ("but well there is XYZ which is perfect...&
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by gedrap 13y ago
I see their point but... But OK, what else realistically can they expect? Yes, it sucks a lot especially when all the media around you is telling all those success stories and make you feel like you are the lowest class, destined to work th
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by gedrap 13y ago
And what are the chances that the packers who are complaining now, will be complaining then that their jobs were taken away and they want it back? Pretty damn high, I'd say.
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by gedrap 13y ago
I have found opposite regarding using email. In 6 months, I have been using IM mainly first half, email mainly the second. While using IM, I tended to talk more about doing than rather doing. It used to take hours to discuss things and chat
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Google gains team behind a startup that uses smartphone data to make predictions(theverge.com)
2 points by gedrap 14y ago|0 comments
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Obfuscated C Code Contest 2006. Please explain sykes2.c(stackoverflow.com)
227 points by gedrap 14y ago|23 comments
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by gedrap 14y ago
It's great if you are making it for the sake of studying. Designing a framework AND building an application using it will teach you many valuable lessons and surely will make you a better developer. Have fun.
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Google Nose (Beta)(google.co.uk)
1 points by gedrap 14y ago|0 comments
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Why Your Marketing Campaign Sucks(bothsidesofthetable.com)
2 points by gedrap 14y ago|0 comments
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by gedrap 14y ago
It depends on the level of risk you can accept. 9-5 is not romantic, not heroic and maybe dull - but it gives you stable income (we won't go into cases if employer doesn't pay you). And when there is no back up plan (OP mentioned that paren
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by gedrap 14y ago
I really doubt whether bootstrapping your own business is a good idea when you are under great financial pressure which will lead to suboptimal decisions. Getting a 9-5 job to build up a healthy financial situation first might be better ide
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by gedrap 14y ago
In kind of formal meetings - sure it does. You will never lose by putting on a suit. And I think that's common sense. But I believe OP means general, every day look.
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by gedrap 14y ago
I've noticed that a significant fraction of people who are really good at what they do (programming wise) don't look like 'typical' geeks. Just casual people. Even plenty of PhDs. I don't think people who have reasonable experience with cod
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by gedrap 14y ago
To be honest, I'm starting to get too much of those anti-college posts. Many point out that they didn't learn anything from uni/college. Well, how about studying in better one then? One person I know often mentions how pointless the univers
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by gedrap 14y ago
It is but an input field is not really an element you would hover for more info. If additional info for the user is required, some question mark icon next to field does the job well because it yells 'hey! something might be confusing or not
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by gedrap 14y ago
But hovering to see the label is not intuitive at all
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by gedrap 14y ago
If you think this might be great for your hiring process, think about the questions you ask. In some cases it might be that you ask questions that hardly show candidates knowledge. For instance, average and worst case complexity of various
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by gedrap 14y ago
And this is a great contribution to the discussion
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by gedrap 14y ago
Every ATM in the UK I've used in 1.5 years did that. Makes sense. Why send 2 requests (confirm PIN -> initiate transaction) if you can combine it into one without losing anything?
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by gedrap 14y ago
Is it only me, or the first half feels like a copy of one of chapters of Outliers by Gladwell?

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