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by lrobb 14y ago
The opportunity cost is the most frustrating aspect. I've solved several "sample" problems from companies, and been involved in full day interviews writing code on the whiteboard. The worse was spending a day writing some sample code, then
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by lrobb 14y ago
Agree on the 2 & 3... I've probably been out of school (CS) for longer than most on here have been programming. Not being able to come up with KMP on a whiteboard in an interview hasn't kept me from playing no small part in producing mi
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by lrobb 15y ago
Not nearly. You might not see any movement in a house... but maybe there's a bouncer asleep in there after working all night. Much better to see that the family announced they were spending the day at the beach.
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by lrobb 15y ago
The caveats in moving state to the client is that it's a huge perceptual shift for developers, with a steep learning curve. From my perspective we're coming full circle back to client/server desktop apps... only instead of C++, we're doin
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by lrobb 15y ago
“There are too many of them investing in too many deals,” snickers one prominent venture capitalist. “This doesn’t end well for a lot of white-haired guys who should know better.”
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by lrobb 15y ago
I had not seen that! Explains so much... In the neighboring programming-language kingdoms, taking out the trash is a straightforward affair, very similar to the way we described it in English up above. As is the case in Java, data objects
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by lrobb 15y ago
Are java programmers the most egregious abusers of the Gang of Four? Twice now, I've been faced with a metric crap-ton of Java source files for reading / writing to a device. Anything you could possibly imagine, gets defined as a class. The
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by lrobb 15y ago
"I find OOP technically unsound. It attempts to decompose the world in terms of interfaces that vary on a single type. To deal with the real problems you need multisorted algebras - families of interfaces that span multiple types. I find OO
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by lrobb 15y ago
The govt. view is rather simple: Someone has a lot to gain by eliminating overtime pay, and that someone (corporations are people too, in the US) is likely to be or become a donor to said bill sponsors.
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by lrobb 15y ago
Wow... A hits driven business? I had never thought of it like that before, but it makes so much sense and explains so many things... Like why google is willing to pay 1-2 million per developer... But half of the bay area companies on care
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by lrobb 15y ago
Whether I consider it bad or not is irrelevant. It's the (US) law.
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by lrobb 15y ago
You obviously didn't bother to read the article or it's references.
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by lrobb 15y ago
I think you could make a convincing argument that _why would fit the legal definition of a Limited-Purpose Public Figure. http://www.citmedialaw.org/legal-guide/proving-fault-actual-...
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by lrobb 15y ago
It's a rather bizarre argument... That would exclude about half of the celebrities that we know... "Prince", Lady Gaga, et al...
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by lrobb 15y ago
In the renowned 1993 study of young violinists, performance researcher Anders Ericsson found that the best ones all practiced the same way: in the morning, in three increments of no more than 90 minutes each, with a break between each one.
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by lrobb 15y ago
Getting a buzz from booze may boost creativity: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/338406/title/Vodk...
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by lrobb 15y ago
I served as a VP & President for a small non-profit club. Two takeaways: 1) You don't really have any power. You need to lead by example and empower other people rather than command. 2) The personality required to establish a project i
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by lrobb 15y ago
What I am asking is whether great places to work inevitable decay as the company gets large Odds are you will definitely lose that personal connection as you go from working for "the owner" to working for a manager that reports to a VP th
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by lrobb 15y ago
Do you really have problem #1 with just 3 people? I was always impressed with the feature set on fogbugz, but never had a real need to use it: http://www.fogcreek.com/fogbugz/features/project-management.... My timekeeping needs were satis
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by lrobb 15y ago
Offtopic.. But I'm not so sure about this. I used to work on downloadable desktop apps, and we always played to the lowest common denominator. It ended up being a big weight around our neck when we wanted to do something 'cooler' but a litt
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by lrobb 15y ago
Do you really need to write up a whole framework of code to justify the price you put on a site? Not at all! They're not paying you to write code: they're paying you to get them a result. This. I'm reminded of the post by Rob about his st
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by lrobb 15y ago
OP: "Yahoo! thinks they can bully Internet newcomers ..." Wait... Is he still talking about the facebook lawsuit?
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by lrobb 15y ago
I messed up the formatting on that. I agree with your point, and posted that job ad in support of it: To disqualify someone because they are using C#/.NET is arbitrary and stupid, and apparently came from engineering.
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by lrobb 15y ago
Exhibit B: We code in Ruby, but are open to engineers with strong backgrounds in any interpreted or functional languages (Python , Lisp, Scala, Erlang . . .). Even a Java background might be OK, if you can show us that you are still learni
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by lrobb 15y ago
I wanted to relo to the bay area last summer and agree. What was more bizarre, to me, was that most of the companies never bothered to look at my sample code or projects... and a few in fact said they didn't care what I had done (and proc
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by lrobb 15y ago
6) Wake up when your life is half over, and realize all that bucking-up and Machiavellian conforming has sucked the soul out of your life and left you an empty shell of a human. Does anyone remember when Monster.com had that super-bowl comm
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by lrobb 15y ago
This. I was reading someone's blog the other day about how they were rewriting their app in node.js... whereas a few years before that, I remember that they had rewritten the app in rails... Their product could've been so much further along
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by lrobb 15y ago
Pay isn't that well correlated with respect. Exhibit: The "starving artist" vs the "slimeball lawyer".
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by lrobb 15y ago
IME the interviews have been more like "build this Escher painting with balsa... You have 2 hours".
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by lrobb 15y ago
Yelp has really let me down Following the crowds is rarely worth the effort, whether it's the popular-kids crowd, or the brogrammers.

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