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by jsankey 16y ago
An idea I've tried a bit in the past (and would like to try more, given the chance): ask a question that you don't know the answer to. This shifts the power balance of the interview - you don't automatically have the answer over the candid
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by jsankey 16y ago
However, new hire orientations now provide this card along with a full handbook of other more specific rules and legal regulations, as the way Nordstrom operates has changed. Hopefully the 75-word card still sets the tone, and the full ha
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by jsankey 16y ago
There don't seem to be many. But I believe it has been used quite extensively in internally-developed applications, never intended for the mass market. The same goes for Swing as well. So although end consumers might not see them, it will
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by jsankey 16y ago
I have a theory of conservation of "ly"s. They seem to be disappearing quick ;) from adverbs in spoken English, so I figure they have to pop up somewhere else.
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by jsankey 16y ago
I have indeed installed apps this way. I admit that most apps I've installed are from the market, although that's missing the point. Frequency doesn't matter as much as the actual ability to make the choice independent of Google (or indee
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by jsankey 16y ago
Although I agree with the general point that Android is not totally open in an absolute sense, I think you too easily ignore the ways in which it is open relative to the iPhone. First and foremost, I don't have to jailbreak my phone to inst
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by jsankey 16y ago
I work in Plain Old Java most of my day, but have side projects in both Clojure and Python. I agree with the consensus here about the error traces in Clojure, but I'd like to point out this is not inherent in the platform. When I'm progra
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by jsankey 16y ago
Yep. The NetBank project also seems to have involved every second developer in Sydney at some point or another.
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by jsankey 16y ago
Lucky you don't use my bank: it might just tip you over the edge :). Not only does the back button not work (most of the time), but they've also specifically added back-button detection so they can tell you why: For security reasons you’r
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by jsankey 16y ago
Google's Dalvik VM is specifically designed for mobiles. Presumably a lot of the engineering trade-offs made in light of that would make Dalvik relatively weak on servers. So I'm not sure Dalvik would be a great starting point for Google t
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by jsankey 16y ago
A neat collection of tricks, but I'm not sure I would ever actually employ any of them (except perhaps storing the length -- although I'd like to check that it makes a difference first). There just doesn't seem to be a major advantage to a
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by jsankey 16y ago
If communication is solved then it can work well. That's a big if . For most projects, the work is not that difficult in a technical sense. The hard parts are accurate communication and managing change over time. IMO these factors are
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by jsankey 16y ago
Good point. The more believable explanation is this transcription misrepresents the situation -- the fact that it was shocking should have made me question it.
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by jsankey 16y ago
When the investment was made, lots of people had shares in the business. They had not done the paperwork on the shares etc and had not realised that just telling people they would be looked after to avoid paperwork would create big headach
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by jsankey 16y ago
Agreed. Although the post makes several good points, there isn't really a key insight there. The author fails to convincingly boil it all down to a single concept of "truth". Rather, it feels the term is just stretched this way and that
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by jsankey 16y ago
It's not unprofessional to make a compromise in order to meet a short term practical goal. It is highly dependent on the context and the type of short cut taken, but some quick fixes are simply the most pragmatic option. Great engineers, e
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by jsankey 16y ago
It would be neat if there were some way to make this "debt" more visible to non-developers. At the moment it could be easily forgotten (by non-developers) after the initial deadline is hit, leaving no time to pay it back before the next "c
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by jsankey 16y ago
Fair point, but how about this: they've committed to 3 months anyway, so why not try charging for 3 months? Just don't touch the money coming in during that period. If they reach the end of that time, and it's not working, issue refunds a
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by jsankey 16y ago
with the emergence of competent sync features built in to Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, it’s hard to see users paying for a service that they can now get for free After taking so many knocks, it's easy to be disheartened. But why no
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by jsankey 16y ago
Great to read about success the "hard way" -- over the long term, and without using free as a "hook" to bring in the initial users. And despite taking a slow and patient route overall, they would have failed faster (if the idea crashed) th
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by jsankey 16y ago
You think "rapidly changing apis" is "right from microsoft's playbook"? Microsoft has been known to abandon a platform (VB6 being the prime example), but they have also put tremendous effort into preserving compatibility in their APIs. So
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by jsankey 16y ago
we actually copy verified bugs from Bugzilla into an internal bug tracking system, and we then use that internal bug tracking system to drive bugs to resolution What an utter waste of effort! For more time spent doing grunt work, you giv
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by jsankey 16y ago
Are you thinking of having a library (or even market) of these designs, or is your goal more to allow each site builder to personalise their site in fine detail? If you are thinking of the latter, or both, maybe you should consider having a
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by jsankey 16y ago
I wonder how many people who read this at the time wrote it off as unrealistic. Although there are several stated goals that have still not been reached, the difference between the goals and reality are small in the scheme of things. (Muc
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by jsankey 16y ago
The example of the complication involved in making Strings in switch statements efficient intrigues me. The point is that implementations are more complicated than they might first seem. But it looks in this case like the additional compl
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by jsankey 16y ago
Not necessarily the best example: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1916286,00.... (Building a Media Empire Around I Can Has Cheezburger)
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by jsankey 16y ago
My CS honours thesis involved deriving regexes (well, DTDs for XML documents, but it is essentially the same problem). The quality of the results depends a lot on the amount and quality of the input (how well it represents what you are real
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by jsankey 16y ago
I like what the author has to say about commenting, as a counter-point to those that think comments are a sign of bad code: ... I think by focusing on this communication, the code becomes inhertitly (sic) better, because you think more dee
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by jsankey 16y ago
This reminds me of uni days, when I had a habit of compiling a quick snippet to a binary called "test", and would be left mystified when I ran it and it just exited immediately. I hate to admit how long it took me, on multiple occasions, t
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by jsankey 16y ago
How does the author propose to start financially rewarding power users in any case? What sort of perverse incentives would this create? It seems to me that such rewards would conflict with providing real value, so I'd be interested to hea

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