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   by karterk 12y ago

   For most medium sized companies, hiring is an important but very time consuming process. So, almost every part of the process is designed to scale as the company grows. While there are companies which have a take-home problem, most will req
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   by karterk 12y ago

   Thanks a lot for the feedback about the bugs and the pricing plan. Do you have an email address through which I can reach you (mine is in my profile).
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   by karterk 12y ago

   Quite a few. Code execution support for Java, Ruby, Python, C, C++, PHP, Node/JS, C#.
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   by karterk 12y ago

   We posted a prototype of Codassium last year, and received plenty of positive feedback. We went ahead and built a full product out of it, and we're eager to share it with everyone on HN. We still have a Lite version of the app which su
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   Show HN: Codassium – A better way to conduct remote interviews(codassium.com)

   41 points by karterk 12y ago|14 comments
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   by karterk 12y ago

   I simply don't like the fact that someone can change a link that I submitted to something else. Moderators have the right to kill a story or ban a user for valid reasons, but changing a link to point to another completely different art
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   Good code seldom emerges right away(codassium.com)

   3 points by karterk 12y ago|0 comments
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   by karterk 12y ago

   Thanks for writing this. A small feedback: "The power of transformation over APIs... without the hassle." does not really convey what you do to a potential customer. People have very short attention spans and you have only a few s
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   by karterk 12y ago

   If you can crack portable power supply using solar energy, there is a huge huge market here. For e.g. most parts of southern India are scorching hot most part of the year. Land is cheap in rural areas. Power cuts are common 8-10 hours a day
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    by karterk 12y ago

    The settlement will give 3-5K per employee. Hardly anything. I wonder why they settled, instead of going ahead with the trial. I'm totally unsympathetic with these companies, and now they are just getting away literally free.
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    ‘Sell me this pen:’ The real answer to The Wolf of Wall Street’s challenge(m.theglobeandmail.com)

    22 points by karterk 12y ago|4 comments
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    by karterk 13y ago

    Boring system themselves do not ALWAYS build badass businesses. It's knowing when to stick to boring systems vs taking the chance on something new. A lot of systems start off as someone's side-project. It's a calculated risk
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    by karterk 13y ago

    Depending on the kind of market you deal with, you will quickly realize that the bar for customer support is really low. People often sound surprised when they get a response to their email within 12 hours. Responding personally to their qu
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    by karterk 13y ago

    I think you're approaching this in the wrong way. And, trust me, I have been there and done that over and over again and failed numerous times. People work on a side project for multiple reasons, and give that your reason is simply to
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    by karterk 13y ago

    With servers being a commodity these days, I can only think of rare use cases where this would be helpful vs just scaling horizontally behind a load balancer. Also, in most real world systems I have seen, the real bottle neck is in the I&#x
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    by karterk 13y ago

    Judging a persons character by what they have said and done in the past is standard, and fair, practice. You judge a CEO by the actions/decisions made in professional context. You don't use a personal decision to extrapolate wha
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    by karterk 13y ago

    For the search index, I wonder why they did not go with ElasticSearch or Solr, and decided to roll their own replication/distribution layer. RAFT is much simpler than Paxos, but it's still something pretty difficult to get right (
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    by karterk 13y ago

    Have you tried applying to work posted in the HN freelance hiring threads? There are many such niche software dev contracting listings. Here's another one: http://www.authenticjobs.com/ I suggest you build a few "
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    by karterk 13y ago

    Depending on the terms of your employment, this might not even be possible, but you should try augmenting your primary source of income with some part-time consulting. While the lure of the profitable side project is hard to resist, it&#x27
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    by karterk 13y ago

    Good analysis, but I'm skeptical that this is not already accounted for in the military radars. Given that so many flights fly everyday in almost every route, it becomes really easy for any country to sneak an aircraft anywhere. Such a
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    by karterk 13y ago

    Maybe this is the designer in me speaking, but I immediately thought of width x height.
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    by karterk 13y ago

    Hi Chris, Try out Codassium ( http://codassium.com/ ), which is built exactly for this use case. Disclaimer: I helped build it. Google Docs is just too painful for both the candidate and the interviewer. You might also want t
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    by karterk 13y ago

    Over time, I have come to realize that what usually constitutes a startup idea is very hard to "share". Sure, you can express it in words, but an idea in your head is usually far more subtle than the words you can string together
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    by karterk 13y ago

    1. Don't be too hard on yourselves. You tend to make mistakes, and there is no way to become better without making them. Put the past behind and move on. Easier said than done, though. 2. Failure is the default state of any venture. Gi
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    by karterk 13y ago

    When you don't have a client, you should find a customer. It boils down to what your motivation is though. Not everybody wants to invest their time on a side project.. but if that's okay for you: 1. Pick a problem that you'r
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    by karterk 13y ago

    Elasticsearch mostly "just works". The latest version of Solr has made clustering easier (requires managing Zookeeper), but before that, it was either ES or nightmare. Lucene is one of those projects which hardly has any real comp
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    by karterk 13y ago

    I tried Windows Azure recently - their cloud storage option to be specific. I was shocked to find out that they did not even have a UI for simple operations like uploading to the bucket etc. Yes, I know they're targeting developers, bu
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    by karterk 13y ago

    I would suggest Scala. It's a vast, vast language and has something to offer in both the OO and functional paradigms. It also has actors (borrowed from Erlang), lazy evaluation, and a beautiful collections library. There is also an exp
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    by karterk 13y ago

    K's successor Q is used heavily in financial systems and costs a bomb. Despite all the big data rage these days, I think Q has been handling very high volumes of data for a while now with some amazing performance. The 32-bit trial vers
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    by karterk 13y ago

    I worked at a consulting firm previously which handled mostly these kind of projects. Their hourly rates were a notch higher than other local firms and so usually dealt with projects with needed delivery guarantee or projects which can&#x27