justinlloyd

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by justinlloyd 13y ago
"Winners could be following in the prestigious footsteps of computer pioneer Alan Turing" And we all know what happened to Alan Turing. "with a salary between c £26k - £60k" I would love to work for a spook agency nobody
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by justinlloyd 13y ago
Telling someone with "Impostor Syndrome" to "act like you've made it, because you have" is like telling someone with severe clinical depression they "just need to cheer up."
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by justinlloyd 13y ago
"You can't teach a person to paint, or to write, because you can't teach them talent, the same is true with math." Never a falser word spoken.
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by justinlloyd 13y ago
Whenever I am at a coffee shop I take out my iPad and turn on a prepared Keynote presentation that can be read from 10+ feet away saying something like "Mobile Engineer and Big Data Hacker - Come Talk To Me!" and then a URL at the
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by justinlloyd 13y ago
I am on the waiting list, depending on limits and schedule of the service I will be using this about three or four times a week to do a daily commute between my condo in Los Angeles and eBay in San Jose. It works out to about what I would p
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by justinlloyd 13y ago
I have a Surface Pro (128GB) with a bunch of development tools installed on it, and I use an MB Air for development too. I will take the Air over the Surface any day of the week. With the Air I get: better keyboard, better battery life, sna
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by justinlloyd 13y ago
35 years has taught me that saying "no" as an engineer means you are being an "obstructionist" or "not a team player." I am most definitely one of those because I was taught to say "no" very early on.
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Ask HN: Heading to SF for conference, anybody want to grab coffee or beer?
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Ask HN: Suggestions on networking for work in SF/Bay Area
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by justinlloyd 13y ago
Four or six (depending on my work) Dell 30" LCD displays at 2560x1600 oriented in either landscape or portrait or more often, a combination of landscape and portrait. Each monitor is mounted on Humscale M8 monitor arm. An early image o
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by justinlloyd 13y ago
People who claim they have nothing to hide never grew up in a small village or community. People love to politick. People love to gossip. People love to single out those that are different. People love to be busbodies in other peoples'
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by justinlloyd 13y ago
_why are you fetishizing this guy?
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by justinlloyd 13y ago
This presumes that a) You want to work at Google and b) You consider Google to be doing interesting stuff that it would be worth applying. I don't. They aren't.
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by justinlloyd 13y ago
You can draw any line you like through a single data point. But you also kind of missed the original reference.
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by justinlloyd 13y ago
A truism of life: If you drive an R8 around, eat the best pizza you can and dress as Da Vinci, people will call you crazy and lock you up. If you drive an R8 around, eat the best pizza you can and dress as Da Vinci when you $35,000,000 in t
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by justinlloyd 13y ago
I have been consistently disappointed by offered salaries for any position that does not explicitly state a salary range up front, before you begin the interview process. Some of the offers have been so low-ball that it isn't even funny, e.
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by justinlloyd 13y ago
re 10x: I filled out the profile more completely and then emailed one of the founders to say "I'll supply references if we both decide to move forward with this." They said they would be in touch. Not too worried about 10x. I am used to pic
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by justinlloyd 13y ago
Yeah, I was miffed and mystified by the whole process. Excited to participate but annoyed by the sheer opacity of the pipeline. You're experience went a little further than mine, I got no offers. Ah, what a blow to the ego. ;-) Regarding t
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by justinlloyd 13y ago
This usage of the word "hacking" is obviously one I haven't heard before - you put a tracking pixel in your profile so you could log who viewed your auction. You probably got busted because you used getclicky. I put tracking on my auction p
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by justinlloyd 14y ago
Yes, I was personally contacted by one of the founders after I made an enquiry. I was asked to fill out their online doohickey to evaluate whether I would be allowed to "be on their team." Haven't done much of anything with it right now as
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Ask HN: What did you put in your DeveloperAuction profile?
1 points by justinlloyd 14y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Do you put day or hourly rate on "Who is hiring freelancers?" threads?
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by justinlloyd 14y ago
Is that a lot? Not trying to be funny. I just don't know.
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by justinlloyd 14y ago
There is a reason that classic game developers don't become front-end web developers. We've already dealt with bitchy little machines that demand precise instructions to get the flashy results we want out of them, why do we want to do that
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by justinlloyd 14y ago
Worked on Firefox/Windows but I had to enable scripts and then enable cookies and then got stuck with a stupidly annoying animating background that totally distracted from whatever the author was trying to say. I got about a half-sentence i
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Show HN: AngelHackLA Hackathon capture of my work over two days(otakunozoku.com)
1 points by justinlloyd 14y ago|0 comments