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by lsiebert 11y ago
Hiring interviews often contain shibboleths that serve as cultural markers. It's a way to exclude people who are different while claiming that hiring is a meritocracy.
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by lsiebert 11y ago
I think a fair bit of regulation around employment has stepped up as unions have been weakened. Strong unions allowed people to band together to prevent unfair working conditions, but since the unions were dependent fundamentally on the bu
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by lsiebert 11y ago
I often use the command line utility ag to see where a particular function or method might be called.
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by lsiebert 11y ago
Metafilter. 5 dollar one time fee, actively moderated intelligent conversation about the best stuff on the internet. An ask question section that's quora without people trying to market themselves, and more. The 5 dollar fee (plus occa
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by lsiebert 11y ago
You could argue that most age discrimination is probably not at entry level positions, but more people wanting to pay rockstars in cans of rockstars not the wages that a great experienced engineer deserves.
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by lsiebert 11y ago
Eclim is headless eclipse autocomplete in vim, so you get best of both worlds, pretty much.
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by lsiebert 11y ago
Sadly, the Library of Congress Exemption for server based games ( https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2488067/2015-2721... ) doesn't apply here.
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by lsiebert 11y ago
First this isn't a user survey, as they aren't users yet. That would be different. I'd start with general questions about how things work currently. You can then use those for improvement metrics. For recruiters, I'd c
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by lsiebert 11y ago
My job informs consumers about products that may be of interest, gives them real money/gift cards/other rewards for doing so, and includes fun games for them to enjoy as part of this transaction. If they don't want to see my
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by lsiebert 11y ago
It's hard for some people to have empathy for those who are less advantaged then them. People don't see all the things that went right for them, and so they imagine that everyone is equally fortunate, and thus anyone who isn'
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by lsiebert 11y ago
Uber drivers aren't consumers, they are independent contractors. The better metaphor would be IOS developers.
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by lsiebert 11y ago
I think the alternative (and we can debate whether it's the right choice) is to regulate companies like Uber that are monopsonies for a segment (in this case Uber is the only buyer of Uber drivers, and works to reduce the elasticity of
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by lsiebert 11y ago
It's interesting to see people criticizing a software tool for it's potential uses and effect on society when that tool isn't cryptography.
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by lsiebert 11y ago
The slowing pace of innovation as measured by time saved. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/magazine/are-we-doomed-to-... The trend since the 1970s in which the wealthiest reap the majority of any econom
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by lsiebert 11y ago
I wish they would profile users based on the most commonly used features and data segments and load those first, and the rest asynchronously.
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by lsiebert 11y ago
Basically you do a reverse fisher yates shuffle. You are selecting n of N items, where N is unknown, in one pass, where every item is treated as unique, and where n is your sample size. First get n items from N in an array of size n of cand
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by lsiebert 11y ago
Also for github repos, project maintainers, email if you want a response, don't use an issue or the wiki or form. I just got a minor rails gem updated today that had people complaining about the lack of updates in issues by emailing th
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by lsiebert 11y ago
You know what's worse? Javascript numbers are all floating point numbers, which means integers are 53 bits long. So, you might think this library would try to address issues this can cause, but nope, this is the average statement you&
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by lsiebert 11y ago
It's important to have approximate knowledge of many things, including how to look up and figure out the shit you don't know. That said, I think you balance assumptions vs knowledge in order to be effective. Like you assume that
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by lsiebert 11y ago
A random thought. Linting and static analysis tools for code smells might be correlated with bad code, in which case a tool that let you see that package A has huge monolithic functions and poor test and Package B is modular and simple and
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by lsiebert 11y ago
The thing is, at the edges of people's knowledge there are two issues. One is, people want to demonstrate what they know about the topic, even if they can't answer the specific question. If you ask me to explain elliptic curve cr
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by lsiebert 11y ago
Most git commands actually start as perk or python scripts before being rewritten in C.
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by lsiebert 11y ago
Wait, what happened to the Laser Cutter that was there, that Carlos was training people on?
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by lsiebert 11y ago
I never got an invite to this. I started working in the city two weeks before the shut down, so perhaps this is for the best. But I have gone to: A game of space ships on the frontier and brown coats, using Nerf Guns, run in a Dungeon. A g
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by lsiebert 11y ago
www.yuml.me is text based, which I prefer
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by lsiebert 11y ago
I could have found a mentor. Hell I'd still like one, even now.
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by lsiebert 11y ago
I remember friends loving it, as it was built into gmail in a way that the people behind @facebook.com email addresses can now only dream of. It's roll out, as a opt out social network with poor default privacy, was probably the wrong
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by lsiebert 11y ago
Hmm... there is probably space for a service here. Find out who applies to boot camps, interview them, find out who gets accepted to boot camps, interview them, then interview the graduates and any drop outs/people cut after the progr
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by lsiebert 11y ago
Only once so far: https://github.com/git/git/commit/75d2e5a7b038debee406805c9e... is my git commit ;-) But seriously, I commit regularly, and rebase locally before pushing, whenever possible. It's not re
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by lsiebert 11y ago
I think people are ignoring the huge cash reserves that Google and Apple, among others, have. I fully expect more acquisitions if VC funding drops out.

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