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by jordanpg 9y ago
Hawking plays The Guide Mark II in the new BBC radio dramatization of book 6 of the Hitchhiker’s Guide “trilogy”: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p060hy01 A wonderful, somehow fitting, celebration.
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by jordanpg 9y ago
I thought this was going to go in quite a different direction. In addition to culture, programmers might want to just code because their time is so consumed by meetings, support, and chat, that they hardly have the chance during normal work
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by jordanpg 9y ago
Agree, this just looks like a subset of JIRA with a snappier UI. Atlassian would do well to pay attention.
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by jordanpg 9y ago
In my organization, github PR threads and JIRA comment threads tend to be ignored or forgotten after their inception, and chat gets results right now. We also use Trello, Confluence, google docs, and of course email for some things. I thi
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Goblin Fights in D&D Are the Worst(kotaku.com)
6 points by jordanpg 9y ago|2 comments
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Many of the ethereum projects are extraordinarily well documented. I would recommend skipping the blog posts and just use truffle and the ethereum official docs. http://truffleframework.com/ https://solidity.rea
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> This is uncomfortable, but it’s possible we have to allow people to say disparaging things about gay people if we want them to be able to say novel things about physics. What about all the novel things about physics that we won't
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It's not obvious to me that "fundamentals" apply here. This is literally unprecedented and cryptocurrency economies are uncharted territory.
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Using an undocumented API, however, carries significant risk for production operations.
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Yes, but a great many sites don't, and for those, you need Selenium + browser, full stop.
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Is Facebook Spying on You?(gimletmedia.com)
1 points by jordanpg 9y ago|0 comments
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Right. They were chosen because experienced Java devs should be extremely comfortable with them. Not just familiar, but basically experts. And if they're not, it's a big red flag that casts a shadow over really anything else
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I've learned that a decent proxy for this mythical silver bullet of hiring is basic questions about tooling and networking. Gauging someone's vast, claimed experience in some language or technology can be tricky, but if they can&#
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There seems to be a weird inversion in the minds of many commenters here: that they are somehow entitled to dictate the terms under which they are selected to work somewhere. Isn't the point that if you want the job, you do whatever i
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Well, they are very obviously not true, as obvious as any other supernatural claim that is patent nonsense. My point is exactly that religion gets special treatment in this particular context. Sure, we can debate the good/bad stuff,
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by jordanpg 9y ago
I'll acknowledge the hard work and kindness of (some) religious people if you'll acknowledge that we are talking about beliefs that are very obviously not true. This isn't mean to be sarcastic, it's a statement about the
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by jordanpg 9y ago
> until something happens to you that pulls your perspective, your personal perspective, so far out of line with your current beliefs, you will never believe I would argue that these are the circumstances under which it is most important
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It's not just that the code is already written and debugged; in many cases results have been published using analysis done with this legacy software. Using the same code ensures a certain amount of consistency between experiments from
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by jordanpg 9y ago
In 7 companies since leaving graduate school, I have seen precious few examples of "management" that weren't exemplars of the Peter Principle. It's become synonymous with "bureaucrats" for me. The only flavors
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by jordanpg 9y ago
Appearance matters so much in this discussion. There are 40 year-olds who are obviously 40 year-olds, complete with greying beards, burgeoning bellies, and a wardrobe consisting of nothing but polo shirts acquired from years of conference a
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by jordanpg 9y ago
Before starting, I was expecting this piece to be about semantics, not syntax. Something like line comments encouraging concision, where block comments are too large of a canvas. If I had to distill my criticism about block comments, it wo
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Java EE 8 and GlassFish 5.0 Released(blogs.oracle.com)
2 points by jordanpg 9y ago|0 comments
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It feels like the author started by coining a catchy turn of phrase, "premium mediocrity", and then just started writing until he tenuously connected it with his various insights about the psychosocial dynamics of Millennials. The
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by jordanpg 9y ago
It's interesting that word length emerges as such a clear proxy for difficulty. I often find it easier to think of a longer word or phrase (assuming no wordplay) than something short and obscure -- the parameter space is much smaller.
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There is powerful opposition in our line of work to this type of thing, particularly the standardized tests. I don't fully understand it because I think that certification exams, etc. have clear, if limited value. I think it stems fro
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Agree, but what is the alternative from the standpoint of the interviewer? These types of challenges are simple to state, self-contained, easy to timebox. For the interviewer for a say intermediate-level enterprise software backend positio
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by jordanpg 9y ago
Are there any HackerRank-like apps out there that go beyond simple code challenges?
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It has always been something of a mystery to me that billions of dollars of revenues are somehow extracted from the internet in this form. My reaction to advertising in all forms is visceral and strong. I don't really understand it, b
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I would be curious to know what alternative folks recommend for people in this situation. That is, people working full-time as mid- to senior-level professional software developers, who have no formal CS training at all and would like to re
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by jordanpg 9y ago
In addition to complicated, making things unpredictable makes things very difficult for programmatic scraping: * machine-generated HTML and CSS identifiers * randomly inserted, unused HTML elements * images instead of text

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