hacknat

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by hacknat 12y ago
1. Nah, I think he's right. You're right in that most start-ups will never run into the issues that he's talking about, because most will fail, but if you need to take sales national or international then your VP of Sales bet
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by hacknat 12y ago
I like that we're all starting to wake up from this callback nightmare in pretty much every language. It's funny to me that it took us going through a full blown callback orgy for us to realize that all we wanted to begin with was
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by hacknat 12y ago
Any command line program that is compiled and plays by *nix's rules or by Win32's rules, in theory, should still be able to run in 20 years. UI is always the sticky issue, it will almost always change, and the underlying api with
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by hacknat 12y ago
Because it's not maintainable in a large code base. You write your code, and move on to something else, someone else comes a long and does a refactor, but they and/or the IDE misses the member names that were in strings. The progr
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by hacknat 12y ago
Having to rely on reflection is bad though.
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by hacknat 12y ago
> Three decades hence, the most-valuable company is worth more than 10 times that and is a 30% stock jump from becoming the first trillion-dollar company Completely meaningless and sort of untrue, if you're willing to take the 15 se
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by hacknat 12y ago
Certainly her/his own. I can understand doing this once or twice a year, maybe once a quarter, but 3-4 times per month! If she/he is going through traditional loops how are they getting all that time off of work?
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by hacknat 12y ago
This might be controversial, but if you want a good example of a code base where this is painfully obvious look at Android, especially the UI components. There are interfaces for everyyyyything. So many of the UI components are unnecessaril
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by hacknat 12y ago
I know, what the hell is moving Bing or Xbox to SF going to do? I don't think he realizes how big these teams are, but even if that wasn't issue this sounds a lot like underpants gnomes to me.
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by hacknat 12y ago
In terms of money you can't even make an argument. Working for a big company will usually be better for you fiscally speaking. Even the average exit or IPO won't usually make up for the investment opportunity cost. There will al
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by hacknat 12y ago
You rock!
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by hacknat 12y ago
Oh this makes me sad. There are very few modern American voices on politics that usually make as much sense and are as well thought out as Andrew Sullivan's. It will be a loss not to hear his opinion everyday. His reasons for leaving a
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by hacknat 12y ago
I don't understand the argument that just because technological progress in the past has led to higher wages and employment (indeed, it actually hasn't always) that it's a given that this will always happen. It seems to me th
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by hacknat 12y ago
Fair enough.
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by hacknat 12y ago
I love all the little space saving features C# has been adding. Null checking is something that every developer has to do constantly, making it a one character thing is super cool, while still maintaining readability. Lambdas, null conditio
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by hacknat 12y ago
These were great ideas, but blocking the event loop could have been discussed more. Great suggestions on how to profile, but some examples of how to write code that doesn't block could have been given (for example, spawning a child pro
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Nerd Intersectionality(epicureandealmaker.blogspot.com)
2 points by hacknat 12y ago|0 comments
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Poll: What degree is needed to be an SE
3 points by hacknat 12y ago|1 comments
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by hacknat 12y ago
Bachelors in STEM/CS from middle-tier or higher
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by hacknat 12y ago
BS and MS in CS/STEM from a good school
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by hacknat 12y ago
Bachelors degree in any field + proof from experience and/or open source projects that they know the fundamentals
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by hacknat 12y ago
Bachelors in CS/STEM only from only the best Universities
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by hacknat 12y ago
Bachelors any field and Masters in CS/STEM from a good school
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by hacknat 12y ago
Degree doesn't matter + good work experience and some kind of proof that they know the fundamentals
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by hacknat 12y ago
K. From my personal experience it has held up quite well.
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by hacknat 12y ago
A project this huge is likely to be a distributed system. I can't think of any single binary that could provide $100m in value to one customer. Maybe some really important financial database, but even then...distributed? Right? That be
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by hacknat 12y ago
Whoa, whoa, calm down. I was talking about immigrants who come to do graduate work in the US.
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by hacknat 12y ago
No they're not. You have to higher a lawyer and spend some money, but my dad got one coming from Canada and he was a middle manager at best (at the time).
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by hacknat 12y ago
@wallflower xargs?
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by hacknat 12y ago
It could be bad for me and the US, no? Not saying it is, but it is an option. I'm skeptical a sane immigration bill can get passed. The current H1 visas are incredibly generous to the companies that get to sponsor them over the workers

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