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by hoodoof 9y ago
Getting a job is like getting into a nightclub. If you're a celebrity, the bouncers open the velvet rope and usher you straight into the club, leaving the long queue of punters waiting to be told that their shoes aren't right, or
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by hoodoof 9y ago
OK, I want you to program FizzBuzz on that whiteboard.
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Ask HN: Why is it so hard to solve the problem of making email default secure?
3 points by hoodoof 9y ago|0 comments
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by hoodoof 9y ago
I think it's more concerning that it's probably just incompetence. You can fire thieves and criminals, incompetence and lack of attention to detail is cultural.
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by hoodoof 9y ago
It's probably not the message that a company selling payroll benefits is wanting to send to the market. "Oh sure you can trust us to calculate your employee benefits right, that our business!"
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by hoodoof 9y ago
Thanks to the Webpack people for focusing on ease of use, ease of migration and avoiding breaking changes. react-router has recent gone from version 3 to version 4, which is essentially a completely new and almost unrelated piece of softwar
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Ask HN: It's mid 2017. For a brand new project, how would you set up CI/CD?
7 points by hoodoof 9y ago|7 comments
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by hoodoof 9y ago
I can see value in going to visit but the idea of colonization of any extra terrestrial body is foolish.
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by hoodoof 9y ago
I really enjoyed reading the blog posts about the build of this. Gave me so much insight into the inner workings of those machines.
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by hoodoof 9y ago
Off the specific topic, but on topic of retro machines, but I feel that the new BBC micro:bit project should actually have been a rebuild of the actual BBC micro, but with an HDMI display/USB/network.
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by hoodoof 9y ago
Why paint a portrait when you can paint a house?
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by hoodoof 9y ago
So tell the boss you'd love to stay but you feel undermined by the senior guy and it's not tenable.
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by hoodoof 9y ago
Just leave, plenty of other jobs.
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Ask HN: Why did no competitors beat Facebook to win social networking?
4 points by hoodoof 9y ago|5 comments
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by hoodoof 9y ago
Hard to see how deep technical talent can develop in a country that has six or so web hosts.
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Ask HN: Would you join YC primarily for publicity?
2 points by hoodoof 9y ago|1 comments
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by hoodoof 9y ago
Girls have always said to me that the key thing is to get clothes that fit properly - this means asking help from fitters at the clothes shops and trying on LOTS of stuff till it looks and feels right. Take alot friends who are girls who a
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by hoodoof 9y ago
>>admitting their security allowed an ex-admin to ransack everything What, exactly can be done to secure a company against a malicious systems admin? These are the guys typically with not only the keys to everything but also the know
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by hoodoof 9y ago
I'm not religious, but one of my ideologies is to do unto other as you would have them do unto you. I think if everyone treated others the way that they would like to be treated, then the world would be a better place.
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by hoodoof 9y ago
Why be in a technology business if you can't deal with stuff like that?
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by hoodoof 9y ago
Integrity is choosing to behave in the right way, even though you have the option of behaving otherwise. Therefore, to behave with integrity, you must have formulated your own set of values about what is "the right way" to behave.
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by hoodoof 9y ago
Kinda weird. I envisage robotics as being the next gigantic thing in technology so its a bit hard to understand why Google don't want this any more.
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Microsoft Office UI Fabric for ReactJS(dev.office.com)
1 points by hoodoof 9y ago|0 comments
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by hoodoof 9y ago
Perhaps they have refined their business down to the essential core which is to back large numbers of entrepreneurs in the hope they don't miss one that gets big. Like 500 startups. Hard to believe that backing large numbers of compa
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by hoodoof 9y ago
I'm trying to work out what bothers me about this. I wonder if it's actually bad advice for all those thousands of entrepreneurs to be advising them to go for being mega gigantic. It's bad advice because those thousands of ne
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by hoodoof 9y ago
Is there nothing in between? lifestyle business modest growth business <-- one or two more company sizes in here? multi billion dollar company You don't want to say the word "lifestyle business" in any sentence or the VC&#
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Ask HN: Successful bootstrappers, do you feel an obligation to raise big $
1 points by hoodoof 9y ago|0 comments
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by hoodoof 9y ago
I know a neuropsychologist who believes that certain people are simply missing certain personality traits that other have, such as fear.
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by hoodoof 9y ago
>> We'll probably use years for the future versions Who is "we"?
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by hoodoof 9y ago
>> We were calling it ES6 since before Who is "we"?

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