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by maxk42 8y ago
Would you mind sharing what tech you've been working with?
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by maxk42 8y ago
This pisses me off so bad: Quicksort does NOT have "the best big-O". It's big-O time complexity is O(n^2). Big-O refers to the worst case time complexity. Quicksort will on average take (n log n) time complexity, but t
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by maxk42 9y ago
If your company is trying to be environmentally-conscious and they don't allow telecommuting, then they are failing to do the one thing that would have the biggest impact on carbon emissions for most tech companies.
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by maxk42 9y ago
I use gmail as an archive of all the data / communications I've ever received. Now that messages will expire and be removed from this archive I suppose it's time to look at alternatives.
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by maxk42 9y ago
I'll throw it out there that I think coding boot camps are partly responsible for this situation. Yes, there were several very reputable ones, but there were also a lot of shady joints operating as little more than diploma mills. The
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by maxk42 9y ago
> Now I'm at node-land (I had no issues with PHP I just needed something with concurrency and PHP didn't have it at the time) Did you realize the V8 engine is single-threaded?
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by maxk42 9y ago
There is an approved list of ingredients at the FDA for what constitutes "artificial flavors" and "natural flavors": (a)(1) The term artificial flavor or artificial flavoring means any substance, the function of which is
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by maxk42 9y ago
I'm specifically referring to a coding challenge taking eight hours. A two-hour total interview process would be fairly minimal.
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by maxk42 9y ago
They wanted it done by Monday. Then I got to choose which day of my weekend I wanted to sacrifice: I chose none and I'll begin my new position at a company that respects my time Monday. To be clear: I've been given take-home &quo
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by maxk42 9y ago
This literally happened to me last week. On a Friday night before my girlfriend's birthday they sent me -- without warning -- an assignment that "should take about 8 hours". I told them to give the job to someone hungrier t
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by maxk42 9y ago
About time. Now fix your vim distro.
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by maxk42 9y ago
I've hired a lot of remote developers over the years and it has pretty much been a flop 2 / 3rds of the time. I had some reasonably good success with Columbian developers a few years back, but the two most outstanding devs I hire
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by maxk42 9y ago
You don't need a washer / dryer. You wash them in a bucket with soap. Only takes a few minutes.
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by maxk42 9y ago
Wow. Blast from the past. I played Dead of Night 20 years ago. Are psionists still useless at night?
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by maxk42 9y ago
The problem is I want to work ten hours a day. But my employer can't legally do that without paying massive penalties. So I have to take a part-time job on the side for much less money per hour.
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by maxk42 9y ago
Unfortunately, a lot of people are going to want real text.
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by maxk42 9y ago
You failed the test. Back to Security 101 with you! The point being made is that all passwords should be hashed and a hash is going to be fixed-length. Therefore there should be no limit on password length beyond, say the limit of the tot
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by maxk42 9y ago
The performance appraisal process at most workplaces, sadly, is nil. You have to be your own advocate. Been there a while? Time to take the boss aside and say something like "You know I've been here for " + time + " &
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by maxk42 9y ago
Ha! Hi Dave! I've been watching your little business flourish via your LinkedIn page for a couple years now and it's been a joy to observe it blossoming. Keep up the good work and I bid you continued luck in the future!
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by maxk42 9y ago
The idea is to use WordPress as the generator: Not the generated site.
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by maxk42 9y ago
Security is a lot easier to reason about on a static site. Especially if you're leaving the server security up to, say Amazon and hosting off of S3 or a CDN.
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by maxk42 9y ago
I think I ended up using "WP Static HTML Output" (not sure how to make the link citations here on HN, but the URL is https://wordpress.org/plugins/static-html-output-plugin/ ) because it exports to S3,
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by maxk42 9y ago
This is likely to be an unpopular answer, but the best choice is probably WordPress. I just used it to generate a network of about 40 static sites because (1) it has literally thousands of beautiful, professionally-developed themes for fre
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by maxk42 9y ago
When a salary range is given it's because the budget is constrained. Jobs without a salary range listed typically pay the best.
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by maxk42 9y ago
Yes, congratulations to this individual who has built a classifier that classifies news from sources they like to peruse.
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by maxk42 9y ago
Love my XPS 13 but hate Ubuntu. I've never tried replacing it with Fedora or something different because of all the custom firmware. Has anyone had any experience with this? Was it a pain?
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by maxk42 9y ago
I think he was assuming the subject was terraforming. Without a magnetosphere, the atmosphere will keep being blasted off into space continuously, and it'll be impossible to terraform.
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by maxk42 9y ago
Perhaps the average person in the 1700s with a specific glass for wine did?
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by maxk42 9y ago
What I'm saying is it's possible that because the loop is so small the hardware prefetch is not done loading its page of data yet. This causes a cache miss and forces the hardware to think it has to reload the instructions each l
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by maxk42 9y ago
Educated guess: The processor is trying to prefetch instructions. This loop is much tighter than most code that would typically be written, so an incrementing loop causes a branch misprediction. The processor is still loading instructions

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