john_moscow

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by john_moscow 9y ago
Just a curiosity question: why COBOL? Since it's not mainstream anymore, this makes the process of finding a job way more complicated. As a person who has never programmed in it I'm simply curious what makes it worth all the extra
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by john_moscow 9y ago
For an average investor a "1000-employee company" sounds much more impressive than "10-employee company", even if the revenue is the same and the rest 990 folks are browsing catgifs most of the time. Kinda like hiring fi
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by john_moscow 9y ago
Maybe just add a special topic flag "politics" and let everyone have a convenient switch in the profile settings whether they want to see those topics in the feed or not?
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by john_moscow 9y ago
Wouldn't the patent be immediately rendered void due to prior art anyway?
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by john_moscow 9y ago
Or perhaps bigger companies that have better financial results simply get extra cash to spend on hiring people that they don't need in terms of directly solving business problems, but that improve the company's public image.
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by john_moscow 9y ago
>Without concrete ratings in place, the promotion and raise process is going to look different. The process for managers might also take a big longer, Hornsey said. That’s because it won’t be as simple as giving the biggest raise to the
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by john_moscow 9y ago
If this is a common problem, why isn't there an industry of consulting firms helping startups with that transition?
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by john_moscow 9y ago
I dunno what kind of a PhD the guy mentioned in the article had, but the most important thing I learned from my unfinished PhD was how to actually convey your ideas to others. Go from an idea to a paper, put it into a few slides, entertain
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by john_moscow 9y ago
> Something like 3 decades of cultural development have trained developers that the most important risk they face in hiring is accepting someone underqualified, rather than passing on someone who is in fact qualified. I blame the easy in
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by john_moscow 9y ago
Spend at least as much time evangelizing what you have developed and promoting it to others as you spent developing it. Otherwise even the best code will risk ending up in a trash can.
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by john_moscow 9y ago
Why? Both C/C++ and Python are just tools and they have different strong/weak sides. I can't see much harm in combining the strong sides of 2 worlds. That said, isn't PyPy ( https://pypy.org/ ) already doi
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by john_moscow 9y ago
Looks cool. But why asm? Generating C or C++ code and letting the GCC optimizer do the heavy lifting for you could probably get you a massive perf boost.