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by leed25d 5y ago
I'll do it. I'll have to do some DD first, though.
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by leed25d 5y ago
I have been using the Joplin ( https://joplinapp.org/ ) note taking app for a while now. I like it so far. Not stored in git, though.
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by leed25d 5y ago
A 10 page resume scares some people
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by leed25d 5y ago
Here's a question that I sometimes ask an engineering candidate: You have a list of 100 numbers with values in the sequence 1 to 100. Each number of the sequence appears once except that one value is missing and one value is repeated.
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by leed25d 5y ago
$1.88 / hr as a window washer for a paper company. This was in 1963, the company had five mills and a window washing crew of 6 high school students on summer break.
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by leed25d 5y ago
If you are an old chunk of coal then I am one of the original trees. I removed my college dates as well as the first 20 years of my CV, and I am thinking about removing some more.
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by leed25d 5y ago
I don't see it that way at all.
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by leed25d 5y ago
I think that if companies expect a day of your time to do some kind of coding challenge and another day for an in-person interview then they should pay the going consulting rate with a 2.5 multiplier.
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by leed25d 5y ago
How about policies like those enforced in some European countries where it is illegal to contact an employee outside of normal working hours?
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by leed25d 5y ago
I will assert here that Pyramid will teach you more about software engineering than either Flask or Django.
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by leed25d 5y ago
Just talking money here? I would say a 20% increase + equity. The equity offer would have to be a grant, not an option.
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by leed25d 5y ago
programmer
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by leed25d 5y ago
Congress has outlived it's practicality. We have the technology to implement a direct democracy. Fire those old, pasty-faced, morally bankrupt stooges.
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by leed25d 5y ago
When I was in college --names are elided to protect the guilty-- the school of education was a hot mess. There was a verbal meme around the campus that went something like this: those who can do those who cannot do teach thos
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by leed25d 5y ago
How dare they push me
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by leed25d 5y ago
When they do that at my table, I lower the tip percentage
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by leed25d 5y ago
So now that someone owns the original source code --with no prior art-- can they copyright HTTP?
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by leed25d 5y ago
It took me three tries separated by years beginning in my late thirties. It is not an easy thing to do and I am not sure that it can be taught. That being said, I will tell you what I did. I started going to AA meetings. I went to 90 meet
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by leed25d 5y ago
emacs
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by leed25d 5y ago
I'll be 75 years old in October 2021. I have been programming more or less(1) continuously since I graduated from college in 1974. (1) there have been a few periods of off-time related mainly to layoffs and company closures, most nota
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by leed25d 5y ago
I quit drinking 24 years ago in 1997. I haven't had a drop since 19MAR1997, I was 50 years old at the time.
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by leed25d 5y ago
One thing I like about it is that it uses the fossil scm. Fossil scm tracks files, not content (as git does). This property makes fossil an ideal scm for doing some kinds of static code analysis which need to track files across a history o
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by leed25d 5y ago
doesn't work should be range(1, 101). I got called on that in an interview once.
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by leed25d 5y ago
I would like to dive into it from a high diving board before I swam across it. Yes, to answer your question, I would definitely swim across it.
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by leed25d 5y ago
Why is this on Hackernews?
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by leed25d 5y ago
No one ever asks how to exit emacs because there is no need to exit emacs.
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by leed25d 5y ago
I don't really use it that often, my default search engine is DDG. I sometimes do !gm searches though.
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by leed25d 6y ago
I once asked the CEO of a very small startup if there were any barriers to entry. I had an offer the next day. When I got there everybody was using the 'barrier to entry' buzz phrase. I am sure that that question had a great
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by leed25d 6y ago
"""What Miami Can Give Techies That San Francisco Can’t """ Property that is going to be under water in 20 years?
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by leed25d 6y ago
Ubuntu. I use it purely on inertia.

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