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by gregjor 2y ago
That's 4-D chess, with the Tesla/SpaceX smartphone coming out any day now.
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by gregjor 2y ago
Headline grab of the week, and it worked.
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by gregjor 2y ago
I don't think YC runs a co-working space, or offers office/desk space to their companies. Private office space for employees or customers or staked founders doesn't count as an exclusive co-working space in my mind, just like
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by gregjor 2y ago
Does SF have co-working spaces exclusively for YC "founders?"
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by gregjor 2y ago
Misleading title. Does not show how "principled" coders outperform. Doesn't even define what "outperform" might mean in context, or who coders compete with and when that might happen. Offers a very high-level overvi
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by gregjor 2y ago
Yes, have done it for years, since terminal was the only option. I use vim with a few plugins, and the usual CLI tools: grep, ripgrep, git, ctags, screen, fuzzy finder. I write command line utilities in Go. My setup is an iPad Pro with Blin
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by gregjor 2y ago
You describe the role of a therapist, priest, best friend. Doctors train in science and should focus primarily on the science of medicine. I suppose it feels better when the physician also shows some empathy and compassion, but their job co
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by gregjor 2y ago
You can buy them. Or post lots of inflammatory nonsense or link to OnlyFans. Like everyone else.
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by gregjor 2y ago
https://archive.is/https://t.co/T6Yjqnrwbd
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by gregjor 2y ago
I learn new programming languages and tools when I need to, because I have a real project for a customer. Sometimes I get to choose the language and development tools, but usually I have to work with a legacy system. I find that studying bo
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by gregjor 2y ago
You're right that few companies advertise their actual needs. Employers, recruiters, online job boards, and the mass of job seekers have all created and participated in a system that uses proxies (degrees and other credentials) and che
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by gregjor 2y ago
Always in demand: Can solve business problems. Can add value. Can understand business domains and apply technology. Can multiply the effectiveness of a team. Programming languages, frameworks, etc. are tools , not skills . No employer nee
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by gregjor 2y ago
What do you mean by "have?" I can read "have" too many ways and I don't know what you mean. Ownership? Control? Possession? I "have" a physical body, I "have" children, I "have" this co
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by gregjor 2y ago
Enterprise-scale companies tend to use Java or C#/.Net, for a variety of reasons: familiarity, enterprise-scale tooling, easier to outsource, integration with other enterprise tools from Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, SAP, etc. Big com
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by gregjor 2y ago
Don’t put yourself into a position where your client owes you a lot of money, or you owe them a lot of work. You have to decide what “a lot” means in context. I avoid getting into such situations by agreeing to well-defined milestones and d
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by gregjor 2y ago
Your questions seems like asking "What's the best grocery?" or "What's the best car?" No one can answer the question, but you will collect some opinions and anecdotes. You would have to define "best"
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by gregjor 2y ago
Ethics and morality can only refer to entities that can define and distinguish between right and wrong. An app cannot do that, so asking if an app, even one with so-called AI, "is" ethical asks the wrong question. Do you as the au
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by gregjor 2y ago
K&R still the best book on C. The language hasn't changed all that much over the years. The C Programming Language (Second Edition) by Kernighan & Ritchie. Available online for free: https://ia903407.us.archive.org
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by gregjor 2y ago
No, not always. I have worked in the software business too long to buy the “always” line. Even if true that doesn’t make it OK to waste the time of multiple people who go through an interview in good faith. People who need to practice tech
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by gregjor 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by gregjor 2y ago
A referral is one thing. I mean knowing the hiring manager, or an executive, or someone who has direct contact with them. Only a small fraction of companies, mostly in SV, do coding interviews at all.
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by gregjor 2y ago
My first thought: you should have a good professional network with all that experience. VCs, former colleagues and employees, customers. By the time I had a decade of experience I had a solid network and never had to interview again. So I w
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by gregjor 2y ago
Ironic to give this advice with so many people on HN and elsewhere bitter about companies ghosting them after interviews. I wonder how employers might adapt their recruitment processes if practice interviews become a thing. Not saying it’s
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by gregjor 2y ago
Not sure what you mean by "great." I suggest shooting for 1x effectiveness -- 10x comes with experience. CS knowledge? Very little. It certainly helps to understand basic data structures and algorithms, algorithmic complexity and
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by gregjor 2y ago
They may be around more kids during the day, but they aren't necessarily socializing with a lot of those kids. During class time they are forced to sit still and pay attention. During recess and breaks and lunch they break out into
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by gregjor 2y ago
This happens with homeschooled kids too. My daughters didn't get to choose the other kids they took ice skating or salsa classes with. My son didn't get to pick the kids on his soccer team or Cub Scouts group. You're making a
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by gregjor 2y ago
There's no reason homeschooled kids can't make friends with kids who go to school. All of my kids did. Most of our neighbors went to school. Most of the kids they met at sports, music classes, ice skating, friends of friends went
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by gregjor 2y ago
Yes, they can. And there's a big difference between kids learning from their family and community and helping out and Dickensian factories full of children. Nothing about homeschooling implies child labor.
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by gregjor 2y ago
I mentioned our situation (back when we had young children) in other comments. I could work from home at least some of the time, my wife quit working while we had young children (because I make more money). We moved to suburban Portland to
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by gregjor 2y ago
About one-third of students who start university drop out. Difficulty staying there isn't a homeschooling problem. And every university grapples with students unprepared for college, almost all of whom graduated from public schools. No

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