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by jw2013 13y ago
I alway love Github as a company because Tom Preston-werner's storytelling of how Github is a company that optimize for employees' happniess. I hope Github can state something positive for this issue, otherwise it is a big hit to
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by jw2013 13y ago
Is there really the need to use 80 people for this feature? Why it seems to me that is just because of excessive programming hours in total available at Facebook rather than the real need for this new feature. Just curious.
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These tech intros are pretty cool, yet can I ask how does the team acquire users? That seems to be harder than the tech challenges for Trello IMHO.
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That is not true. First of all, there are at least a few c# opening each month in whoishiring monthly.post. Second, a quick inspection on these posts already gave me a few of these opening that were both looking for junior dev and supports
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by jw2013 13y ago
I thought Oceanic 815 was found on the ocean floor?
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So when there was only 15 secs left, I got 4xxx points and my opponents only got xxx points. Then I was told I was lost (because I got no possible move I assume) and he was won, but that is really a bad game-winning condition because there
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Ask HN: why are you staying up so late?
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by jw2013 13y ago
always start with something core to your product. If there is only one feature you can add to your current product, what will you add? If there is only one organization you decide to support, which one will you choose? Choose only one and m
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by jw2013 13y ago
"If the watch was so smart, why didn't it tell me at 9 PM that it was low on energy and that I should put it on the charger overnight." Not all people have the same sleeping pattern. While 9PM may be cool enough time to remin
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Otherwise story: some preparation boosted my score 200+. And I dare to say I am not alone.
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how was the DBA Dijkstra & co. designed back then? I guess it's about the time the relational database started to emerge?
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Dijkstra: How do we tell truths that might hurt?(cs.virginia.edu)
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so why not start a startup if you are 10-100x more productive than the average? I doubt in a large political corp people will even notice you are super productive. The job can even be boring because the superviser may assign everyone in th
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by jw2013 13y ago
Facebook buy WhatsApp because it fears to die, much more than it wants to grow. On that point I don't think $42 a user is too much.
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Sanders, that is quite an inspiring story. I wonder if all your six tries are for the same startup, or do you actually changed your ideas during these six times.
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This looks to be great. But is there anything to set this apart from so many desktop-version assembler?
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that's a good point. if the first guess point (60.000000N, 10.000000W) is a mile away from the wanted point. Then doing binary search on range say [60.001000N, 10.000000W] and [59.999000N, 10.000000W] will most likely to hit a boundary
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Just rounding a location integer can be done in less than 10 assembly instructions. May be the time spent on that can well be compensated by transferring less data (orginally we transfer a float now we only transfer an integer). Anyway, the
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by jw2013 13y ago
No, as long as they send precise distance radius info, a person's location can easily be computed with very very small margin of error. The easiest fix is just to send less precise location radius. The user does not care whether anothe
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by jw2013 13y ago
I can't believe they don't do a simple fix that can be done in less than a minute. This is a serious information leaking issue. The time they spent on replying emails to the author are long enough for just get the fix done.
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And added on that is there is already a pretty established site with same domain name (excluding TLD) called " http://repl.it/"
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by jw2013 13y ago
Similar story here. Now not only these "big" companies as Facebook, Google, Microsoft focus mainly on algorithms and data structure during interview, to my surprise some of the early startups ask heavily for whiteboard coding... I
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by jw2013 13y ago
yes, you can, but since the core of above line is unchanged because the you need the functionality of that line, they can still regex the core part (but not the whole line since there are some random chars or random numbers you put)
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but 4coin can add some simple code (e.g. use regex) just to remove that line from scrapped content before sending it to the user though.
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How about the anti-portfolio of some of the most prestigious VCs, say union square venture? I always thought USV missed few to-be-facebook startups. Anybody care to give us some names?
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by jw2013 13y ago
Interesting... You may want to check out my program to search (and optionally) apply to all the jobs listed on HN. the difference is you searched jobs in the "Jobs" column, but I search on Who's hiring post. This is the url: