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by lj3 9y ago
Efficient programming is all about knowing how to use CPU features and memory to your advantage. If you don't already know C, I suggest "Learn C the Hard Way"[0]. After that, here's two great places to start: "What
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by lj3 9y ago
If they don't care about engineers being cheap, why did Google, Apple and Intel collude to keep wages down? https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/16/silicon_valley_415m...
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by lj3 9y ago
May I ask why you don't use it anymore?
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> Furthermore, it turns out that you have multiple HN accounts - that comes across as scammy to me. None of them are active. I've quit the site more than once. I can't imagine why...
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Is it? I've been posting here for years (under other names, not just this one) and I didn't know that. I guess I never noticed that people were posting up their own projects and not something they just thought was interesting. I&#
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I made a single post almost a year ago and now I'm 'closely connected'? What a joke. > I'd rather stick with the Wikimedia Foundation. I don't care. I'm only aware of infogalactic because it's an altern
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by lj3 9y ago
> but it could not remain that way if it got to anything like the scale of Wikipedia. I would encourage you to learn a bit more about it first. It will not be following wikipedia down that path.
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You can try to create one on infogalactic.com. I doubt they would object.
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by lj3 9y ago
Here's a good companion piece that focuses on CPU features rather than memory: "What's new in CPUs since the 80s and how does it affect programmers?"[0] [0]: https://danluu.com/new-cpu-features/
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by lj3 9y ago
Brand name recognition is powerful stuff.
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The former. The author has been posting about this since 2009. From the comments section of TFA: > I trust people who 1) respect basic principles of science … such as “don’t just ignore dozens of well-done studies that run counter to you
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When the site comes back up, you should have a look through the site's blog and come to your own conclusions. IMHO, Tom Naughton cites more studies more accurately than the vast majority of so called 'health' authorities.
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> All he needs to do is put "I wrote homebrew" in his resume; and it'll matter. He did put it on his resume and it didn't matter one bit. Lattner got offers from Google without having to do the interviews. Max was s
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by lj3 9y ago
> I wonder if any of these shops regularly measure the performance of their custom containers You don't know? Maybe you should find out before slinging around accusations of cargo cultism.
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by lj3 9y ago
Everybody is privy to the classified intel the IC has on the matter thanks to the many, many security leaks they've had in the past year. Nice attempt at the 'disqualify', though.
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With absolutely no evidence to support it. On the other hand, we do have concrete evidence that the intelligence community can make their own attacks look like they came from Russia...
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I wonder when the MSM will realize that nobody believes them when they say 'the Russians did it!' This article sounds like it came straight from the plot of an 80's movie.
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> It's not trendy or popular at the moment but asking somebody to write some simple code on a whiteboard is a really good indicator of whether or not they're a good programmer. This again? This has been argued to death on HN. A
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If nobody recognized his name then it wouldn't matter because nobody would know what he had done. Just ask the guy who wrote homebrew (Max Howell. I had to look up his name).
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Name recognition is worth its weight in gold. This is why online marketers are always going on and on about personal branding.
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> I hate it when leaders that probably never served in the military use metaphors they don't understand for pushing employees to the limit. It's a brilliant bit of persuasive rhetoric, though. Very few people know what special
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> Do you have data that shows how fast and easy the take home test approach is so I can compare? I only have anecdotal data. I'm not aware of any solid data around take home tests. All I can give is yet more anecdotal data, which is
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So, based on the new information presented in the article that people who can talk clearly about code can also write code, are you likely to change your interview practices to omit the take home task and ask the candidate to talk about code
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> In that case you might be screening for people who can talk but not actually code or people who can code but might not be the best communicator. From TFA and literally the thing that started this whole thread: > Furthermore, no matt
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I worked with somebody like that once. He would get massively frustrated because he needed that back and forth to think through ideas and I was giving him nothing. I would get frustrated because I had to digest information before I could sa
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Those are my preferred types of interviews when I'm an interviewee and a technique I've used a few times on the other side of the table. It's so effective and efficient. I don't know why it isn't used more. Maybe it
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by lj3 9y ago
Thanks for responding! This answer had one interesting tidbit the other one didn't have, which is: > the reason we bin the generic ones is that we have never found a fit through one of those. That's an interesting bit of patter
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I've seen it work well for people. Those people spend a lot of time talking to, getting to know and befriending people on the business side of things, like managers, VPs, and technical leads. Think of it like sales. Salesmen don't
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I'm not interested in the generic "everybody." I'm intersted in accatyyc's experience specifically. Not every company bins generic applications. It would be interesting to see if accatyyc's company can afford t
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Yup. Been there. Done that. The numbers game gets a better result because very few companies can accurately describe what they're looking for in a position or a candidate. Unless you can directly talk to somebody with hiring authority,

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