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by kaspm 10y ago
I believe it's spelled "Stroustrup"
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by kaspm 10y ago
I would say this is fine, this position will likely inherit the bad juju from the previous candidate and should go into the position eyes-wide open. What they need is a person who can acknowledge previous mistakes and make incremental chang
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by kaspm 10y ago
Even at the companies (both big and small) that utilize this method for interviewing/hiring, generally aren't having their engineers work on these types of problems day-to-day. You utilize tools to solve business or technology iss
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by kaspm 10y ago
I agree, my first thought in seeing this headline, even the applicable market of people is much, much bigger for Pokemon GO. In addition to the entire market of Tinder, there's also kids and married people.
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by kaspm 10y ago
Don't forget more relevantly, RIM who had the smartphone market completely locked up but couldn't get comfortable with a large, keyboardless, touchscreen device that was graphically oriented despite Microsoft having created these
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by kaspm 11y ago
How about "Any run-of-the-mill engineer can design something which is either elegant, efficient or effective, a good engineer designs systems to be two out of the three, a great engineer designs them to be all 3."
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by kaspm 11y ago
And I also fundamentally disagree with the notion that moving a large amount of realtime data reliably and with accuracy, monitored and consistent with relatively little failure is not an interesting engineering challenge in itself. I find
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by kaspm 11y ago
The world is already short-sighted (e.g. Climate Change)
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by kaspm 11y ago
I don't understand why this is on the top of Hacker News. It seems to be one person's opinions and experiences about complex issues that face hundreds of thousands of engineers in thousands of companies across the world. Nothing i
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by kaspm 11y ago
Of course they would have usable skills - general understanding of computing, superb analytical minds, 36 years of advancement in education, excellent problem solving ability. At most they would have to learn a new lexicon of programming la
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by kaspm 11y ago
I think in this case it just means the new slimmed-down Google won't include X, Calico, Wing, etc...
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by kaspm 11y ago
I think perhaps instead of saying "powerpoint should be banned" perhaps poorly built diagrams and powerpoint slides with too much data that are meant to be read should be banned. Slides and visuals as part of a presentation are us
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by kaspm 13y ago
This probably would have been better put as "*nix-based" operating systems. If you include MacOS, iOS and Android as nix-based, it's very much happening at both the consumer and the enterprise level.
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by kaspm 13y ago
In context it was meant as reference to the story of Bangladesh, meaning you don't know how lucky you are until you travel a bit of the world. My story however, is pretty typical, I worked through my 20s and didn't take time to tr
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by kaspm 13y ago
| put in long hours and do very good work And in addition, you have to have the mental fortitude for this kind of career. Despite not being "well-known" there is an intense amount of competition from a group of the most ambitious people in
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by kaspm 13y ago
Yeah, there are many legitimate reasons to prefer Mac to Linux or Windows, not the least of which is that Ruby gems just work better on a Mac because they are developed there (regardless of whether you will have to figure out those problems
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by kaspm 13y ago
100% agree, developer here who sees snarky recruiting posts like this and immediately says no thanks. Makes it clear the company is gimmicky and not focused on the true challenges of software development: clarity, focus and rational decisio