ionforce

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by ionforce 10y ago
Some people are completely lost on the idea of intent vs the result. If we're not 50/50 on gender balance apparently we're all super racist.
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by ionforce 10y ago
That would be Italian, wouldn't it? As a fellow musician, I've wondered the same.
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Ad-tech company Tapad uses improv for team building(tapad.com)
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by ionforce 10y ago
Finally, a post that is both critical and supportive.
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by ionforce 10y ago
Why is it mind-boggling? The guilty will always want to cover their tracks.
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by ionforce 10y ago
Tapad | New York, NY (NYC) | Full time (ONSITE) Tapad is in the "ad tech" space. We use Scala. So if you already know or want to learn about functional programming and big data, hit us up! http://www.tapad.com/abou
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by ionforce 10y ago
Is it slavery if it is the only (statistically) viable reality?
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by ionforce 10y ago
Why are you allowing this eight-hour meeting to happen? Where is your feedback mechanism?
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by ionforce 10y ago
What if students (or whoever in a power sharing dynamic) are making decisions that are bad for them? How do you veto a bad decision?
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by ionforce 10y ago
Do you like functional programming? That's a sector that's poppin.
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by ionforce 10y ago
Why did you leave?
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by ionforce 10y ago
> You use grep to try and find all the ways people are using it. The mere thought of this makes me think of the dark ages and a time in my career that I'd rather forget. All hail statically typed languages. Or languages that can eas
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by ionforce 10y ago
Kotlin competes with Scala in that they are both alternatives to Java.
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by ionforce 10y ago
This presentation is far too long for such little content.
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by ionforce 10y ago
If lots of things change though... Couldn't that be a smell of bad boundaries? Like the change would not have been so drastic with the right abstractions?
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by ionforce 10y ago
I'd think that toxic people don't tend to be long-term thinkers.
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by ionforce 10y ago
What do you mean hostile to intelligence? Did you mean hostile to life? And then life being a requirement for intelligence?
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by ionforce 10y ago
What if your game sucks/isn't mechanically complicated and doesn't read saves? Checkmate.
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by ionforce 10y ago
How did you have the bandwidth to work there for a week?
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by ionforce 10y ago
> South Korea is almost entirely urban much like NYC Is this even true?
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by ionforce 10y ago
You've never seen a Perl or PHP codebase age poorly? That's unbelievable.
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by ionforce 10y ago
This isn't the first time I've heard of this. I like the sound of it.
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by ionforce 10y ago
But maybe they encounter so much noise in their hiring process that this actually is the correct process at scale. It may minimize "humanity" for potential interviewees, but it optimizes for lack of heart ache on their end. Is my
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by ionforce 10y ago
> programmers have no idea what makes a good programmer I disagree. I think we do know what we want, but there is no cheap/easy litmus test for this. If time, money, and opportunity were free, the way to find out if someone is a goo
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by ionforce 10y ago
> But one thing i never see interviewees do is outright ask, "Wait, what does this question actually tell you about me?" I kind of get what you're saying but it could easily be construed as openly challenging the interview
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by ionforce 10y ago
> bring in some previous work Surely your prior work is under some sort of NDA? It's all proprietary (unless it is open source).
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by ionforce 10y ago
Maybe some people are too proud to play the game. Fundamentally, I agree that it is silly to ask questions that don't have a high degree of relevance to the job in question. But I am conflicted. Why haven't we (as an industry) don
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by ionforce 10y ago
But paying out of pocket and commuting, wasn't that your decision to put yourself into that scenario? It's immediately (and clearly) lop-sided.
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by ionforce 10y ago
> Information Engineer What's this?
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by ionforce 10y ago
Not an expert. My guess is that it is about ranking available slots. Like given a wealth of available times for you to do X task, what makes some block X more "optimal" than block Y? Also there's some constraint satisfaction.

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