justinhj

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by justinhj 13y ago
To be inclusive should add a day for atheists and misc religions too. Monday works for me
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by justinhj 13y ago
I'd like to see an equivalent for parsing common shell commands and their arguments. Just converting the short form to the long form would be a good start
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by justinhj 13y ago
You'd be surprised. It may be a small country but if us highly populated and also has a rich long history
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by justinhj 13y ago
The article author comes across as bitter. He's clearly talented and productive, but likely is not strong at the kind of skills you need to solve puzzles in an interview setting. A good interviewer will be able to spot that and evaluat
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by justinhj 13y ago
People in the north of England are said to be warmer and friendlier than those in the south. The north was mostly industrial and rural whilst the south has London's financial district and the Home Counties where the "posh" li
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by justinhj 13y ago
Well if you put it into a bank account the money will actually be being invested by the bank anyway.
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by justinhj 13y ago
The only thing I find odd is the deleting of the bash history. There are no passwords in there, unless you type one by accident.
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by justinhj 13y ago
My bank never calls me. They send a secure message over the banks online system or leave a recorded message on my phone. They don't give a number to call back, so that I have to look up the real one. Not that those measures would have
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by justinhj 13y ago
I'm a bit confused about how you use this system with immutable keys. At face value it's a great idea, but I need a simple example of how's it is used to say retrieve a piece of data, then later update that to a new value. Is
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by justinhj 13y ago
I used to write animation, physics and AI code for video games. I got the point where I was just moving company to company and writing the same system. What I moved into was still video game related but server side. This way I had to learn
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by justinhj 13y ago
That's a great reason to go into management. I also was in a position where I felt there was nothing else to learn as I could just build the same thing over and over. I moved into a different technical area instead.
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by justinhj 13y ago
I read the emacs lisp code quite often. It's very nicely documented and easy to read in general.
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by justinhj 13y ago
See my other replies. Many less people can make video games than want to.
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by justinhj 13y ago
There are skills involved, and I wouldn't say they were lesser than those needed for programming. But in the same vein, I'd say spending a few days learning to make bread to sell in a cart does not compare to the years it takes to
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by justinhj 13y ago
People outside the industry make these kind of generalisations all the time but in practise it's nonsense. Sure millions of kids may want to be video programmers, but very few are qualified (i.e: can program well enough and have suffic
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by justinhj 13y ago
Inherent reason to me would be that the skills of food vendors are more common and easily acquired than those of game developers. I have a BSc in CS and over 10 years experience. This guy learned to make bread from his girlfriend and opened
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by justinhj 13y ago
You'd need to sell a lot of bread to make even an average US game programmers salary. The reason being that the work is creative and technically skilled. There are fewer people able to do it and that pushes up salaries. Like any indust
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by justinhj 13y ago
Because it's a great market
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Emacs lisp animations (dantorop.info)
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by justinhj 13y ago
Assessing empathy would be inaccurate and subjective. The act of assessment may bias the final result. The random selection into two groups should do better than that, assuming the sample size is statistically significant. This experiment c
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by justinhj 13y ago
Using go mode, autocomplete and goflymake helps a lot on emacs too.
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by justinhj 13y ago
I really like this project because for me one of the most impressive things about emacs is the way that it can be extended and the self-documenting nature of those extensions. I'll be interested to see if the same principals will be us
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by justinhj 13y ago
I amused myself with a grumpy cat 404 http://heyes-jones.com/404
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by justinhj 13y ago
For iterates over a range and returns the index and the value. If you don't use the index the underscore just ignores it.
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by justinhj 13y ago
I count New Mario Bros WiiU in that category. Or do you mean new as in an order of magnitude bigger like the jump that Mario 3d was when N64 came out?
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by justinhj 13y ago
I was at first annoyed that coal was described as cheap in the article, and then relieved to hear that in the US the EPA is adding the environmental cost back into the equation. Hope that China follows in the reduction of coal fueled power.
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by justinhj 13y ago
Until then an option to choose Dvorak for the user and manual remapping of the keys would work for apps that want to support those keyboards.
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by justinhj 13y ago
The link to the article about "Starcraft crashes because it uses linked lists" seems underhanded. That article talks about intrusive lists and why they are useful, and what the down sides are. The actual crash seems to be related not to the
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by justinhj 13y ago
I don't recall ever mistaking function calls with control structures.
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by justinhj 13y ago
The fact that you're easily doing your tasks and looking for more challenge (and the reward that comes with it) suggests you are a good developer. What is it about phone vs on-site interviews that makes you do less well? I would try to thin

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