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Ask HN: Help...Found a gaping hole in my low-level knowledge
8 points by igammarays 12y ago|8 comments
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by igammarays 12y ago
No thank you. The huge risk of a single customer finding out this deception and raising a storm on social media would completely reverse the potential benefit of having a more personal touch. Maybe if used very carefully and very scarcely.
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by igammarays 12y ago
Yahoo News Digest, a notification once every morning and evening on my phone.
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by igammarays 12y ago
Those two examples sound like simple knowledge mistakes, not critical thinking failures. There is a difference between someone who is not too familiar with the HTTP protocol and someone who just doesn't have the mathematical mind for t
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by igammarays 12y ago
I think phone and whiteboard interviews are great for selecting the very smartest of the developer population, which is why companies like Google use it. Although they hardly reflect production environments, if someone is able to ace brain
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by igammarays 12y ago
There's a need to watch the candidate code at least once, and at least for simpler problems, simply because if you don't watch them you can never be sure they're not cheating by getting real-time help from someone else.
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Exercise and the brain(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by igammarays 12y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How to learn social skills; is this the curse of being a hacker?
21 points by igammarays 12y ago|11 comments
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by igammarays 12y ago
> cannot provide a shred of evidence. Human testimony is evidence, especially if corroborated by multiple unrelated sources (i.e. countless mystics from many different backgrounds and eras, many of which are completely absolved of havi
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by igammarays 12y ago
Am I the only one who doesn't get this Material Design everywhere thing? Maybe it's why I'm not a designer, but do we really want all our UI experiences everywhere to look exactly the same (with perhaps color variance only)?
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by igammarays 12y ago
Anyone have any suggestions for how to get a similar setup on OSX?
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by igammarays 12y ago
I agree that computers are designed for open-ended productivity, but multitasking is simply dead-ended productivity. Because of the way our brains work, it serves no purpose at all, and stifles any kind of serious work. Unless your purpose
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by igammarays 12y ago
Or, you could design a product so that it makes it easier for the user to fulfill the intended purpose.
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by igammarays 12y ago
I've come to similar realizations during my programming career, and realized the value of simple mindfulness in all tasks, especially while communicating to those around you. I've found simple mindfulness to be like a superpower i
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by igammarays 12y ago
Dammit this was one of my startup ideas...oh well. Nice work btw. It might be interesting to group companies by industry. Considering I work in education, I would want to know what LMSs and CRMs are used by educational institutes for exampl
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by igammarays 12y ago
This is why I've learned to always under promise and (try to) over deliver. Whenever I think a project may take me 4 hours, I tell them 3 days. 1 week = 1 month, and so forth. Another valuable technique is the Pomodoro one, dividing on
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by igammarays 12y ago
Where it’s particularly striking of course is when people respond appropriately much faster than the speed of thought. You need only think of a piano player or a tennis player to see that the impression that they are making a conscious dec
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by igammarays 12y ago
But how is it possible that a person's mere living expenses be 100k per year? How can anyone who doesn't have a 6 figure salary live?
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Ask HN: How expensive is SF?
1 points by igammarays 12y ago|2 comments
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by igammarays 12y ago
What about using the exploit to remotely patch machines?