mingpan

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by mingpan 13y ago
Your biggest roadblock will be trust, not technology. Players will have a hard time trusting you or each other without some existing reputation.
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by mingpan 14y ago
Are they asking for a timing attack, then?
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by mingpan 14y ago
Even so, "a recent member of X team with Y role and Z complaint" is pretty uniquely identifying.
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by mingpan 14y ago
It's a trade-off to some extent. You can have more automation and less customization, less automation and more customization, or somewhere in between. A lot of existing tools for dealing with CRUD apps address a particular set of needs some
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by mingpan 14y ago
Is functional programming really mainstream now? I think knowledge of its existence is mainstream, but interest in it still is not. Most people give me strange looks when I tell them my current programming language of choice is a Lisp diale
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by mingpan 14y ago
A big point that recruiters emphasize with a client is that they can bring in good candidates who otherwise would not have had interest in a position (and whether they actually fulfill this is not the point here). Since you found and applie
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by mingpan 14y ago
From what I've seen, people are angry at a certain subset of the Ruby on Rails community, but then they take that anger and generalize it to the Rails community or even the Ruby community as a whole.
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by mingpan 14y ago
I'm also wondering the same thing as others. What specifically made it worthwhile to make this a separate language, as opposed to a domain-specific language implemented on top of an existing language with an existing ecosystem? You could ev
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by mingpan 14y ago
Corollary: "Think before you speak."
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by mingpan 14y ago
If you rent cheaply (sufficiently far uptown or certain parts of the outer boroughs) and live cheaply (this excludes a lot of dining/entertainment options but leaves plenty more), you will be fine on that salary. I'm from Queens, and as muc
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by mingpan 14y ago
Feels kinda like a cross between ProtoBuf and MessagePack. We already have so many serialization formats, though. What is the compelling use-case for this one?
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by mingpan 14y ago
I've been using Clojure for a while now. Do you have any particular recommendations for resources for getting started with ClojureScript? I tried a while back and got really confused.
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by mingpan 14y ago
I'd be curious to hear about where interviews don't work this way.
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by mingpan 14y ago
From what I have observed in myself and others, I suspect coding is something that anyone can learn to do. Some people may be particularly predisposed, but for others, effort can go a very long way to compensate. A lot of programming knowle
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Ask HN: No reply to job application. What should I do?
7 points by mingpan 14y ago|6 comments
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by mingpan 14y ago
I can't imagine what he was originally thinking.
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by mingpan 14y ago
The hardest part of such a thing is getting adoption. Commercial players in the space have incentives to push their own offerings very hard. Technologically, there have been a number of fully distributed and decentralized systems. Financial
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by mingpan 14y ago
You should ask the specific companies. Some titles don't have accepted meanings but will mean something to a particular company.
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by mingpan 14y ago
I think this is a real issue, but is separate from the original point of this thread. The same thing happens to a much larger degree to artists, musicians, and all sorts of creative types. It's a job that enough people enjoy that there's a
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by mingpan 14y ago
This sounds like a very interesting deal. It wouldn't be right for my particular circumstances, but I imagine there are others out there for which it is a good fit. I would be really interested in hearing progress reports from your venture(
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by mingpan 14y ago
It is funny. Although, I don't think that comparison is completely fair. Usually, a startup that has started hiring has already achieved some degree of progress, traction, and demonstrated potential.
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by mingpan 14y ago
It's intended to be used for security testing against one's own machines, demonstrating a vulnerability if it exists by directly exploiting it. The general nature of such tools, however, is that they can be used for good or for evil. It's j
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by mingpan 14y ago
Have you looked into Clojure? It is a Lisp dialect with JVM integration. It has a reasonable sized library ecosystem, and the interop functionality would allow you to use the existing ecosystem of Java libraries where native libraries do no
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by mingpan 14y ago
That was some serious WTF factor. However, I'm not so sure I agree that public shaming is the correct response.
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by mingpan 14y ago
The average is probably a misleading figure here, though.
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by mingpan 14y ago
I'm curious why they chose those particular syntax and operator naming conventions. Of course, syntax is superficial to some extent, but this seems a bit extreme.
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by mingpan 14y ago
You learn a lot in college. It's a structured environment where relatively well-curated information is supplied to you at a reasonable pace. You could find the same information elsewhere, of course, but it is often hard to know where to loo
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by mingpan 14y ago
The other potential concern is that stuff of this sort could get accidentally learned. Suppose there were some sensitive fact about some subset of the population, and suppose it happened to correlate with response to some advertisement. If
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by mingpan 14y ago
Another factor is predictability. When you write a line of code in a low-level language like C, you have a reasonably accurate approximation of what the machine is actually going to do for you at that point. Moreover, things like memory man
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by mingpan 14y ago
The official cheatsheet is great for looking up how particular library functions work. Additionally, you can browse it to get an approximate idea of what the standard library offers. http://clojure.org/cheatsheet 4clojure offers many quiz

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