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by jtheory 11y ago
The problem is that "secure version" is a constantly moving target; the taskforce would need to go around once a month (or whenever there's an urgent vulnerability discovered) and update apps that needed it. If Docker apps we
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This sounds like an oversimplification, though: > Bundling dependencies for production environments has always been and always will be a terrible idea. We're considering Docker currently -- not for the distribution model at all, sin
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Patients Know Best -- REMOTE ONLY. At present we all work core hours in London time, give or take a few hours. We're hiring mid-level developers -- full-stack, really (we're all full-stack more or less!) but we've notice we&#
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by jtheory 11y ago
I have no association to hackcampus. But if they're fairly new, that kind of feature (to save you probably less than a minute, and not applicable to a many of their applicants) might well be on the list, but shouldn't be top-prio
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An intelligently-designed IDE is still going to be far easier for anything but constant, everyday use -- the learning curve of "start using this with context menus, then gradually learn the shortcuts for the things you do most often&qu
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Heck, even email in a browser still is rough going, and I'm using a webmail interface Google has been working on for ages now, in Google's own browser -- but I still write most of my emails in a native mail application. "Edit
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The interviewer makes that calculation -- is it worth taking the time, in exchange for more practice interviewing? And it may actually not be PTO; I've done plenty of remote interviews at odd hours to accommodate candidates. The compa
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I can see how this would be useful. On the other hand, from the perspective of a company who you might theoretically interview with... remember that running the hiring process isn't free for us. It's a much bigger deal with small
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This is excellent advice specifically because it's not about "prepping for interviews"; honing these skills simply makes you more valuable to any company, and it's an aspect of your capabilities that you can show off i
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http://www.launchnik.com/footio Receive feet No fancy algorithms (yet), no automation (yet). I will personally send you a foot I think you'll like every day, entirely determined by your preferences. Each foot will come
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Offendy has both a CKO and a CNO? Presumably the Chairman is the only one doing any work. This quote was on the money: "It’s an unique opportunity to meet awesome people and change the world!" It reminds me of the old (old, ol
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The main omission -- what does the company make? Cleverly written for a specific target demographic, though.
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Ask HN: Safely use services in the cloud?
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I agree about critical thinking, but how do you test it? I've seen signs of poor logic crop up just when going into detail about past experience; but otherwise it can be hard to see -- particularly when the candidate has been working o
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by jtheory 11y ago
It's still relevant today, unfortunately, in some industries where upgrading is prohibitively expensive. E.g., you'd need to buy a new POS system, or paid millions to have custom-made medical software recertified (or re-written) t
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by jtheory 11y ago
We don't use coding in interviews partly for this reason -- but more importantly, it sounds to me like the problem here was partly that flub, but possibly more an issue with your communication skills. One of the principal things I look
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by jtheory 11y ago
This is a nifty find, and might make a little bump in the popularity of an acknowledged classic, but faking it would hardly be worth risking her career & reputation. The granddaughter's job is managing L'Engle's estate. P
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Loved this book when I was a kid, as well (and there were sequels, I think?). It's curious -- nowadays the summary of the plot only rings a vague bell, and "Camazotz" is not a name I recognize at all. I don't think I&#x
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by jtheory 11y ago
It's the sort of question that needs more data than just what I think about it. But for a gut feeling -- no, not at all. No one wants to support old browsers, and if you pay for custom site development, it's a common practice to
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by jtheory 12y ago
> There's no reason for a book like this to even acknowledge it's existence. That's not right; of course there's are reasons, though you're welcome to debate how much weight those reasons have. I don't kno
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by jtheory 12y ago
I haven't read through more than the ToC at the moment -- but here's a quick summary of what I'd be interested to see, aside from just putting together uncluttered (and as-semantic-as-possible) HTML and maintainable CSS: Supp
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by jtheory 12y ago
A lot of people seem to be haunted by what they imagine people are thinking of them. Surely everyone around me is reading these articles as well, and looking at me, and thinking "ah, he's not bad, but obviously not in that class
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This is the point where I stop and say "oh well, wait another year and maybe then..." "Evergreen browsers only" is reasonable to ask for lots of sites; but "This site only works properly in the Chrome browser"
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It seems to support 4 simultaneous notes at a time, using the computer keyboard (e.g., press down zxcv together), but if you hit a 5th key it's ignored. For key velocity (is that what you mean by instrument expression?) -- there's
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Interesting, and quite responsive. Audio generation in JS that I've tinkered with elsewhere tends to seem responsive until you try to make music out of it, at which point the poor timing is painfully obvious. At the moment this seems
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It depends on your goals, of course. For lots of adults these days, walking is the only exercise they get. If they're lucky it's a brisk walk. Making that little bit of exercise consume less energy isn't really a goal in t
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Nice wrap-up: ...For any of these systems (not including the Osborne), I'd spend no more than $6,000, or half as much as for the Displaywriter. Godspeed as you follow this advice; meanwhile, I'll be spending nothing, stic
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by jtheory 12y ago
This is what we do! I'm at Patients Know Best; we've been live for a few years now, and the momentum continues to grow -- this is an issue that is hitting a tipping point. The article touches on several important aspects of worki
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Comparison to a disorder doesn't seem to be going over so well. Well, yeah. But I look for these little optimizations all over the place; it's entertaining. Oddly enough, I'm more successful when off the computer. Like,
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Final is a useful keyword -- a way to make the compiler flag up risky code. :) The problem (the rest of the time), though, is that if you're writing object-oriented code, some values are simply null. Some data points are unknown, or

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