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by justinhj 9y ago
When the interviewer gets angry (wrong or right) I take that as a useful filter not to work there
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by justinhj 9y ago
I think part of the reason for whiteboard style interviews is that programmers don’t have a professional body evaluating their programming skills and knowledge like many other professions do. You can have a CS degree without really being mu
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They are probably put off by hiring issues. Even if they pay over market rates it’s hard to convince people to live in Vancouver because of the high cost of living
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by justinhj 9y ago
You need a Canadian passport to use nafta and that takes around 5 years at least What US companies do in Canada is often have an office where people can work on a temp visa while waiting for their status in the US
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by justinhj 9y ago
Apple have to approve every app before it is release so the cost to them is really the approval process.
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by justinhj 9y ago
haha same here. I was spending $100 a year just to run an app on my phone that I didn’t want to release
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by justinhj 9y ago
She retired in 97 and still has health coverage by her employer. Is that typical in the US? Is it very expensive to insure someone in perpetuity like that?
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by justinhj 9y ago
See SF’s muni train for an example of this double disadvantage. the trains run slowly and unpredictably stopping at red lights with the traffic
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by justinhj 9y ago
I thought of this quote while reading the article: It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport." Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain a degree of
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by justinhj 9y ago
If your job is to prevent very rare events (the number of people willing or capable to take down a passenger jet is apparently very small) then I guess you could get away with it for a long time
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Also Chenzhen IO is wonderful
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by justinhj 9y ago
I was recently in a city in SE China which is having great success with these bikes. A scan with Wechat unlocks them. they have team size of guys in Uniform going around clearing them up and cleaning them all the time, which is probably not
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by justinhj 9y ago
Exactly. Allowing people to play older games for free has a positive effect of keeping interest in your brand alive but at the same time you’re losing potentially paying customers that are just as happy playing the free 10 year old game
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by justinhj 9y ago
Plus the fact that to a person with cash difficulties going to their 401k to get money wouldn’t be easy. Even if you can find someone to help you they’re going to mail you a cheque some time in the future. Hence the success of pay day loan
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by justinhj 9y ago
this is about as generic as you can get https://github.com/openfaas/faas/blob/master/README.md any process type on a swarm of k8s cluster
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If you lived in Canada or followed their operation here you’d probably take a different view
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As a lifelong programmer that pursued programming even before I had a computer I am very biased here but... teaching people how to code at school is very empowering because the devices they carry around with them and the servers they intera
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by justinhj 9y ago
Robert Sedgewicks Algorithms II on Coursera covers a few graph search techniques
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this title was more clickbaity but in a good way. made me click after spending some time (fruitlessly) trying to figure it out
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by justinhj 9y ago
Your railroad question made me think... back in 1830s there was a huge need by both the public and industry for a railroad network. These days transport is a mess in some ways but it’s not a huge need for anyone. On the other hand the issue
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by justinhj 9y ago
This happens to me enough I’ve gone through three iPhone screens and one iPhone camera. I now keep my phone in a wallet case with an extra protective screen. There’s no attraction for me to have an iPhone with more glass
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by justinhj 9y ago
There is also a Scala repl and scripting tool http://ammonite.io/
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by justinhj 9y ago
Exactly the same happens with a four way stop. It needs 4 sign posts with stop written on
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by justinhj 9y ago
My path to functional programming started with Paul Graham’s lisp essays and books and then SICP and Scheme. I visited the world of Haskell but only half heartedly as I was much happier in a dynamically typed world for my hobby projects. As
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by justinhj 9y ago
I’m a British person who had immigrated to North America. A four (or more) way stop sign is not replacing a yield at an intersection, it is replacing a roundabout. The reason you must come to a full stop is to signal to other drivers the ti
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by justinhj 9y ago
I started working on games in the early 90s and was one of the first to use C instead of asm because my game was targeting Amiga and PC and didn’t involve significant cpu intensive graphics etc. However the rest of the company was working o
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I feel your pain. Call of Duty still implements split screen though
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I'm 46. I spend a lot of time working on side projects and courses, and thinking about the future of my industry (video games). Every 5 years or so I've made a major shift in my area of expertise (from graphics and performance, AI
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by justinhj 9y ago
Surprisingly org-mode is nowhere near as old as emacs. It was "born" in 2003
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The only improvement I'd like for the current web page is that on mobile you have to zoom to vote. If the up and down votes were at separate ends of the item header that would make it more usable

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