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by illicium 11y ago
When interviewing, I'm interested in seeing the process a candidate takes to get a result, not just the result. I like looking at code samples to get a feel for code quality and software engineering practices (everything from variable
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by illicium 11y ago
> Here are some colors, please arrange them in palette groups that are color coordinated for a given visual effect? "Please arrange these colors in complementary, analogous, and triadic color schemes". This is color theory 101
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by illicium 11y ago
Oddly enough, working at a startup is pretty similar to coding on a whiteboard with a gun to your head :)
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by illicium 11y ago
There's more to being a productive programmer than knowing the semantics of a language. Someone who has been programming for a while but is learning a new language will have a ramp-up period when their code is ugly or unidiomatic, and
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by illicium 11y ago
Publishers can't serve effectively serve ads through RSS. Ads have to be rolled into the post body and if the feedreader caches images, you can't track impressions. A way around it is to serve a preview of the article and require
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by illicium 11y ago
>QBASIC if it ran in a browser http://tayeandjoe.com/qbarcade/games/qbasic.html
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by illicium 11y ago
Just wait until he discovers video game console emulators :)
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by illicium 11y ago
Compared to something like JDBC et al, Erlang DB drivers are pretty half-baked
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by illicium 11y ago
Sounds like analysis paralysis to me.
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by illicium 11y ago
Looking forward to the forthcoming "NextTrendyNewLang concepts for Elixir developers" article. In all seriousness, if you want to learn Elixir, learn Erlang.
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by illicium 11y ago
Having too many features in your operating system.
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by illicium 11y ago
> With screen color, you have only one finish, and that's whatever the user's monitor happens to have Screens have a huge number of "finishes" because calibration varies wildly between devices. It's gotten better
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by illicium 11y ago
Elixir is a different syntax and standard library on top of the Erlang VM (BEAM) and OTP, the distributed/HA magic written in Erlang, that Erlang (ecosystem) gets a lot of its praise for. Ultimately you'll need to know Erlang (lan
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by illicium 11y ago
http://nomnoml.com/
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by illicium 11y ago
You can use npm modules in the browser with webpack or browserify.
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by illicium 11y ago
Dropbox, Reddit and Airbnb are not unusual.
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by illicium 11y ago
VMWare probably has a bunch of enterprise customers stuck using IE7-9, so a modern HTML5 SPA for the admin interface is prohibitively expensive to write and maintain.
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by illicium 11y ago
Decorators are an ES7 proposal -- they don't exist in ES6.
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by illicium 11y ago
D3 is really a half-DOM, half-visualization algorithm library, but the latter is much more than a few utility functions. For example, D3's layouts ( https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Layouts ) which you
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by illicium 11y ago
The design seems to be taking a leaf from Material Design, e.g. the item selection "splash"
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by illicium 11y ago
That's precisely the point: Google is trying to convince everyone that they're as design-driven as Apple.
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by illicium 11y ago
pg, being a Lisp hacker, is really stroking his ego there.
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by illicium 12y ago
Skit literally means skit in English.
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by illicium 12y ago
Um, React is currently the "newest, coolest thing"
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by illicium 12y ago
body { transform: rotateY(180deg); }
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by illicium 12y ago
It's fairly common to have contract terms requiring the SaaS provider to provide the source code to their (typically closed-source) product in case they go under. Of course, that only helps if you buy the product or support for it and
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by illicium 12y ago
One that is not 13". This is meant to be a compact machine, not a desktop replacement.
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by illicium 12y ago
http://milkytracker.org/
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by illicium 12y ago
Nah, just buy a startup that has a decent product and a bunch of users, inject more and more ads until the product dies, rinse and repeat.
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by illicium 12y ago
XMPP, as a standard, was too slow to adopt mobile, so the cool apps had to invent their own messaging protocol (perhaps on top of XMPP) to get push notifications and such.

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