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by kethinov 12y ago
Every detail you just described exactly mirrors my experience. The VP of engineering, the math puzzle I hadn't seen before, trying to solve it in a Google doc rather than with code I could compile. All of it. I did end up solving it, b
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by kethinov 12y ago
Yeah, that's what I told the interviewer as well.
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by kethinov 12y ago
Probably a combination of scheduling issue + normal process. I got the impression they subject candidates to much more vetting than normal, but it was also not uncommon for a week or more to go by between interviews.
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by kethinov 12y ago
I recently completed five (yes, five) interviews with Stack Exchange and had to give the "no" answer to "do you have any questions?" on the fifth interview. After five interviews, I pretty much had all my questions answe
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by kethinov 12y ago
Thanks for sharing that. The pain of all this would much greatly lessened if they would make a decent non-browser-based desktop client, or at least open up their server-side conversation history API to third party client development.
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by kethinov 12y ago
It's a real shame, too, because XMPP had the potential to become the next HTTP or the next email. I've said for years that instant messaging is a terrible hellscape of competing protocols, mostly proprietary. Imagine if when visit
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by kethinov 12y ago
Sweet! I just tried it on my Mac and it works! Blu ray on a Mac! :D
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by kethinov 12y ago
Does anyone know the status of blu ray menu support for VLC? I heard it was being worked on but I can't find any current info on the status and challenges associated with it.
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by kethinov 12y ago
Yep, that's definitely a bug worth reporting! ;)
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by kethinov 12y ago
Can't get those years spent in prison back after a false conviction either.
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by kethinov 12y ago
In other words, "be exceptional." A fine platitude, but not useful advice that you can reasonably expect everyone to follow. You can only be exceptional if there is a large group of ordinary people to stand out from. Being excepti
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by kethinov 12y ago
Really looking forward to this. Great new design. Trident without the legacy bits. And free upgrades to get people onto the latest software as quickly as possible. I'm liking this new Microsoft.
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by kethinov 12y ago
Impostor syndrome is also frequently abused by successful people who want a socially acceptable way of denying that much of their success actually was due to luck and timing.
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by kethinov 12y ago
Definitely good advice. I'd like to add also that a simpler approach is often the best choice for experts as well. The big complex frameworks simply are not the right tool for many (perhaps even most) projects.
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by kethinov 12y ago
That's not an economic argument, it's a political one. You're saying there's no political will to publicly fund research at current levels. I do agree with your analysis of the status quo, but that status quo can change
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by kethinov 12y ago
It's possible for them to do both. It's also possible to imagine a system that does the good one without the bad one.
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by kethinov 12y ago
Remote: Office Not Required by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson. The book hit me at a particularly receptive moment. I was on an airplane headed to a meeting that easily could have done remotely just as effectively without the exces
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Call for new project name suggestions for node-webkit(github.com)
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by kethinov 12y ago
I'm interested in this thread because it had so many instances of unstated premises hostile to remote work and I felt someone should say something to set the record straight. It saddens me that you chose to ignore the substance of my a
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by kethinov 12y ago
This is sad! I work with some people from Russia on some stuff on GitHub and this is not going to help. :(
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by kethinov 12y ago
You don't think that "we prefer folks to be in the office where they can interact with others with less friction" is stating a requirement of physical proximity to collaborate effectively? That's how I read it.
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by kethinov 12y ago
We're not talking about subjective stuff like company culture, we're talking about factually disprovable statements like "you need to be in a physical office to collaborate effectively." That's an objectively false
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by kethinov 12y ago
Yes, I completely agree and didn't mean to imply otherwise. Working remotely is a skill unto itself like any other and it must be developed and honed across an organization. I guess what frustrates me is so few people see a need to dev
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by kethinov 12y ago
"And because we were all together in the same room when Vitaly found it, we isolated, analyzed, and weaponized it in minutes, rather than in hours or days." It wasn't because you were all together in the same room, it'
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by kethinov 12y ago
I know you're just trying to build the best team you can, but in the interest of full disclosure every time I see someone say something like, "in the office where they can interact with others with less friction," all I see i
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by kethinov 12y ago
Easier said than done. Very few employers permit remote work, particularly top ones. And several are openly hostile to it.
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by kethinov 12y ago
One could say the same thing about the mandate to move to SF or lose your job. Not everyone wants to live in the city. You might call suburbia a hellhole, but some of us see the city that way, particularly given its cost of living.
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by kethinov 12y ago
Context should be established by headlines on news sites like Hackers News. I know we're a technical audience, but I'd be willing to wager more than half of this site's audience has no clue what that title is talking about. P
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by kethinov 12y ago
This kinda reminds me of the opening scenes of Silicon Valley. Just imagine someone getting up on stage and yelling enthusiastically, "Simpler, faster, and better relaxed concurrent priority queues!" To a round of muted applause.
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by kethinov 12y ago
Ah Scrum arguments. The biggest source of No True Scotsman fallacies on the internet.

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