jghn

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by jghn 12y ago
I'd argue that having that breadth of knowledge is nearly as valuable as the ability to actually write code, so I don't know that this is such a bad thing. The ability to understand the complexities and tradeoffs across a large ra
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by jghn 12y ago
At my work we use Codility. Every applicant is given a link to a codility test and the decision to proceed to phone screen/etc is made based on their result. There are some exceptions made, i.e. it's not a flat "you need to s
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by jghn 12y ago
And for those who didn't see the live presentation, they all made the point that the biggest story here was that they hoped this announcement would galvanize the community in order to drum up more attention, excitement and thus money.
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by jghn 12y ago
In theory (and hopefully) but all of the non-sexy stuff ends up as political wedge issues. And when that happens we have people like Palin decrying research on fruit flies in Paris, France.
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by jghn 12y ago
It doesn't equal, but it's close, if you include Stanley's previous donated money. He's now donated more than Eli Broad by about $150M
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by jghn 12y ago
UO was released early 9/97.
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by jghn 12y ago
I agree that there's a hint of ageism there in the standard case (i.e. the one you describe), and that's likely due to seeing someone w/ 15 years of experience in Java registers (perhaps subconsciously) as "old guy"
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by jghn 12y ago
Of course now that many people have agreed that syntax is a silly thing to worry about, they've moved on to claiming that the impossibility is quickly picking up frameworks and libraries. In my career I've made drastic shifts in t
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by jghn 12y ago
I've been working with scala for about 1.5 years. My background previously was mostly Python & R for the previous 10 years although I had been working w/ Java a little here and there for about a year prior to switching to Scal
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by jghn 12y ago
I've had a Nest thermo for about a year. For me the #1 thing about it was the smartphone app - in particular the ability to tell it to turn on the heat if we were coming home earlier than normal (or the opposite). Our radiators take a
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by jghn 12y ago
The MBTA does this these days although its main use is w/ the busses, where it has been a godsend. Since the bus tracking apps arrived busses went from something I actively avoided taking to using all the time to navigate the spokes in
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by jghn 12y ago
It actually wasn't completely horrible before they knocked in down in preparation for IKEA. There was a crappy movie theater which was cheaper than other local options. There was Good Times Emporium which was like a cheaper/crappi
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by jghn 12y ago
My company uses HipChat, and my group has been liking the video & audio features. My company also uses gmail & the google suite and traditionally it's always been a pain when trying to do a hangout chat w/ someone who hasn
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by jghn 13y ago
The X10 costs a wee bit more than $100K though. Considering they've carefully controlled access to it to just a small handful of key genome centers, I doubt they'd be handing the things out to random startups.
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by jghn 13y ago
It's much, much better than it used to be but it is still not as good as the Java support. I write both in my day job and while I much prefer scala, anyone who feels that IntelliJ's scala support is equal to java is deluding thems
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by jghn 13y ago
I've often wondered how most people do that (metrics, I mean). I don't feel that I'm in a unique situation where I have worked in groups on projects. The work is divvied up but often multiple people have at least some amount
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by jghn 13y ago
How is this different than the OP? You said that you're keen on a real world problem, except that BSTs can definitely be involved in a real world problem. If anything, this problem is more complicated than the one the OP presents. Fr
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by jghn 13y ago
R predates Google, and derives its name from S
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by jghn 13y ago
I have never bought the party line that learning languages for a new job is difficult, particularly from hiring managers. Multiple times in my career I've taken a job which required a new language, scala most recently. These all involv
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by jghn 13y ago
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