imack

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by imack 17y ago
Union. To my knowledge it's all there is in the Vancouver area.
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by imack 17y ago
Rugby. Any adversity you encounter in day-to-day startup operations doesn't seem as bad as when it's compared with getting pummeled by Aussie and UK ex-pats.
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by imack 17y ago
One could make a similar argument that open source operating systems are inherently less secure as malicious hackers would know all the weaknesses.
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by imack 17y ago
I'm not sure that would actually help. Assume a person guesses a 1-10 number, and there would realistically have to be a fudge factor to account for personal tastes, a bot could guess "7" and be correct enough of the time. A fairly large
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by imack 17y ago
Perhaps having Mac is more a sign that a company is willing to shell out for decent tools moreso than Macs being some super development platfrm. A developer area full of high-end macs tells me that a company is willing to pay good money fo
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by imack 17y ago
The only concern I have with giving programming puzzles for hiring is that it can be quite the burden on candidates. This is fine if your company is a top player and candidates REALLY REALLY want to work for you, but if you aren't that est
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by imack 17y ago
To be fair to the time, in 1999, there was the dot-com bubble going on and a lot of students were going into CS for the wrong reasons so there could have been more at play than government objectives. I suspect there were a lot of CS studen
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by imack 17y ago
When I was job searching right out of university, one of the reasons I stopped looking at big job boards is that they tended to be filled with jobs from recruiting agencies that wouldn't name the client and would instead show themselves as
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by imack 17y ago
http://www.whichishotter.com Simple site for me to learn Rails. Took the "solve a problem" idea to "which of these two [X] look better?" (for outfits, haircuts...whatever). Get a crowd to vote to get more opinions. The initial people a
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by imack 17y ago
....four wheels better? Joking aside, biking is actually a good option here in Vancouver. I actually see it as a form of multi-tasking; Commuting and exercising at the same time.