lhnz

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by lhnz 13y ago
It's not that black or white. I was a cynical student myself. I flunked a few of my classes simply because I looked at them and decided they weren't useful or interesting to me. This was at a particularly anti-authoritarian point
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by lhnz 13y ago
Right, very condescending.... 1. At no point do either of your definitions mention that the properties or terms are mutually exclusive. 2. You made a comparison between a resume and a portfolio, as opposed to a resume and a portfolio piece.
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by lhnz 13y ago
Such a ridiculous comment. What possible ethical reasons do you have for trying to insure the purity of resumes and portfolios? Why can they not interbreed? Portfolios authentically demonstrate ability in a way resumes cannot, hence either
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by lhnz 13y ago
> The aim of this resume is like all other resumes, to get an interview (1). If not, its not a resume (2), its part of a portfolio (3). So what you're saying is that: a resume exists to get an interview (1), and therefore if it&#x27
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by lhnz 13y ago
>> But it shows that the so called designer has failed to understand what the point of design is. Design is supposed to facilitate, NOT make things harder. You are the confused person here. Design isn't meant to facilitate unders
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by lhnz 13y ago
"Reasoning from first principles" is just a bullshit way of saying, analogise using fundamentals and don't hand-wave or fit to a narrative when you have empirical data. The example with material constituents of a battery is s
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by lhnz 13y ago
> We sent a long message explaining our reasoning, and, surprisingly enough, the student said he understood our reasoning, but thought his roommate would be a perfect fit. Pay it back. Next time you interview somebody great that isn&#x27
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by lhnz 13y ago
There are lots of fake github profiles with tonnes of forks with no code committed. Be careful. You have to look at the code to see if they're good, and you should have a conversation about it to find out their thinking process. I&#x27
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by lhnz 13y ago
Narratives are important. While it's true that companies often look to hire for a particular skill set and therefore eat up the narrative of a specialist, the skill set of a generalist is a lot more useful in a small startup or if you
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by lhnz 13y ago
That sounds correct, though there definitely has to be a location which is somewhere in between the two polar opposites. I find it hard to believe that Silicon Valley was always as expensive as it is now...
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by lhnz 13y ago
The perfect location for a startup would have: 1. Low cost of living. 2. Low house pricing/rent. (As rent-seeking forces people into being wage-slaves.) 3. Low regulation and bureaucracy. 4. Low taxes. 5. Edu
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by lhnz 13y ago
As much as I like Github, they really are concentrating on some very niche features.
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by lhnz 13y ago
And I am happen to live in the UK where we have CCTV. ...you are right, we have woken to a truly disturbing reality.
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by lhnz 13y ago
Face-to-face is the only way. All emails or SMS or phone calls have to be just stuff like "Hey, how are you are doing? Do you wanna meet up and have a beer."
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by lhnz 13y ago
The most damaging thing is that I literally have no idea what is safe now - even good actors might unwittingly have been backdoored at the hardware level. I'm taking all private communication completely off the internet to minimise my
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by lhnz 13y ago
You would have thought San Francisco's crime rate would have been higher with all of these unauthorised API usages... (Yep, the data was pirated by a guy in San Francisco. Ironic.)
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by lhnz 13y ago
The sick thing about this is that they named the two programs Edgehill [0] and Bullrun [1] after early battles fought in civil wars . I can't see how they will be able to maintain that this is still about terrorism or espionage from o
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by lhnz 13y ago
So basically investors won't even give you the time of day if you speak with a non-foreigner accent and aren't affiliated with an ivy-league university. Everything I've heard about startup investment recently has made me feel
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by lhnz 13y ago
You're right. I meant to say one of the signs of a leader, you also need charisma && (authority || prestige).
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by lhnz 13y ago
No, that's the number one trait of a great employee - and the sign of a leader. The number one trait of a great developer is literally their ability to quickly write amazingly elegant code and manage complexity.
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by lhnz 13y ago
> You honestly think programming will become such a vital skill in everyone's job that it'll be taught along side reading and math to young children? I'm in the UK, and yes: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/e
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by lhnz 13y ago
It's not the sacrifice which you should worry about. These things don't happen quickly. Watch the curriculum of young children change. 10 years is all it will take.
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by lhnz 13y ago
Don't worry about it. I was the same back when I was 16. You can fix your social awkwardness if you want to. It's just a set of behaviours and beliefs which represent how others see you and the opportunities you feel are accessibl
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by lhnz 13y ago
Aside from the main point of this article, could anybody recommend a good algorithms/data structures book? I want something that gives examples of when you should use particular techniques/theory and the benefits and trade-offs
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by lhnz 13y ago
You value what you can judge. (Similarly, you value what you can measure.) Being able to test the ability of somebody in algorithms to a high ability level is a useful late-stage signal. I always thought it would be interesting to just ask
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by lhnz 13y ago
I am being endorsed for technologies that people in other departments think I use (which I've often not touched), while corporate management are busy endorsing each other for "Entrepreneurship." :) My most endorsed skills I h
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by lhnz 13y ago
Well duh, didn't you get the memo: the Hackathon is a marketing hack to attract talented developers who will then work on your startup projects for free! Amazing. May the best marketer win!
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by lhnz 13y ago
It's pretty easy to link psuedonyms together so I don't think you're right.
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by lhnz 13y ago
> They (and their advertisers) stand to benefit massively the easier people are identified and profiled. How? Surely people are just easily matched on a pseudonyms?
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by lhnz 13y ago
Some very opinionated people in this thread. My two cents... I've had similar experiences to the guy who wrote the article. Something about interviews seems to make my heart race and I can stumble on very simple code. This is in strong

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