misterjangles

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by misterjangles 13y ago
The OP admits that he didn't even try to answer the question. The interviewer basically gave him the answer, but he didn't ask for help or ask if he could look up setTimeout. The OP's takeaway seems to be that he should have
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by misterjangles 13y ago
It can be a huge problem depending on the query that the server is running and the amount of traffic on the site. Avoiding completely useless auto-complete queries is fairly low-hanging fruit since it's so easy to fix.
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by misterjangles 13y ago
It would depend on whether they're looking for a promising candidate or somebody who is already experienced. If they wanted the later then it would be obvious this was not the guy. Still, I think spending 5 extra minutes of your life
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by misterjangles 13y ago
It probably is a bit of both but there's no question that they are dead-on about many of the obnoxious and egomaniacal aspects of HN.
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by misterjangles 13y ago
What is that supposed to mean? Did you even look at the site?
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by misterjangles 13y ago
They dodged the hardest issues and politics by piggy-backing on the actual site to obtain the data. So you cannot really say that they did what the government contractors were unable to do. But without a doubt they eliminated all of the cr
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by misterjangles 13y ago
Their site doesn't ask for any data except your zip code then forwards you on. Where does HIPA come into play?
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by misterjangles 13y ago
This is pretty much identical to what eBay and PayPal have been doing to sellers for years. They do offer "seller protection", though, which guarantees that that will come up with a valid reason for taking your money away when a
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by misterjangles 13y ago
You're missing the point. What you are not realizing is how many people actually fail fizzbuzz. If it seems so simple and useless to you because it's easy, then you are not one of the people who will ever be weeded out by a fiz
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by misterjangles 13y ago
To me fizzbuzz eliminates certain types of candidates who have absolutely no reasoning skills. You would be surprised at how many people are out there who have learned how to regurgitate lessons from school but seemingly have no clue how t
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by misterjangles 13y ago
I thought it was going to be a historical article about issues and features being considered in early PHP versions!
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by misterjangles 13y ago
Ah, thanks!
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by misterjangles 13y ago
Exactly. Good clients will understand "hey, this guy just saved us $150k". Bad clients will think "I just paid a programmer to do nothing!" Learning to recognize and get rid of those bad clients (or convert them into go
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by misterjangles 13y ago
My sarcasm detector is showing erratic results from your post. AJAX was 3 years from being invented and John Resig was about 10 years old in 1995. Perhaps a whooshing sound should be made though, if I didn't get the joke..?!
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by misterjangles 13y ago
The tricky part is often convincing a client that pre-planning is a necessary part if the process and, though it is billable time, will ultimately save money. Many client don't appreciate that programming is not just writing code. Als
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by misterjangles 13y ago
Of course everybody would like their team to be all "A" level players. But unless you work at an elite startup with a tiny team and buckets of cash - you have to learn how to build a team from players of all levels. An all &quo
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by misterjangles 13y ago
I have been on both sides if this, although as a boss I have always tried to give others the glory and take the heat. Also I probably do swoop in with ideas, but I don't leave people high and dry to figure them out. The solution is re
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by misterjangles 13y ago
Great post. I've been holding off on an update due to the navbar issue and not wanting to deal with it at the moment. Thank for the write up!
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by misterjangles 13y ago
Absolutely a great manager will inspire and motivate the team,. But, it is called "work" for a reason. Its a two way street. The employee has to put forth some effort as well. Your manager is not there to entertain you. At th
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by misterjangles 13y ago
Same thing has happened to me though I'm older and just trying to work and stay current in technology. I deleted all of the social apps on my phone, then installed a browser extension on my desktop that limits you to X minutes per day
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by misterjangles 13y ago
If you ever own a company and you find yourself writing a salary check to somebody who you suspect did jack-shit all week - it's kinda amazing how difficult it is to not go into Ebeneezer Scrooge mode. Even if you know that people are
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by misterjangles 13y ago
Yea I've seen them too. I'm like, ok this guy is fresh out of college with no work experience and he's done major redesigns for Nike, Budweiser and Home Depot?! I definitely don't mind seeing whatever work a new grad ha
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by misterjangles 13y ago
eBay at one time was dealing with a lot of seller fraud with sellers that didn't ship, shipped you a rock instead of a laptop, etc. over the years they started adding more and more buyer protection to keep shoppers from being scared a
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by misterjangles 13y ago
If you go to the javascript console there's a whole game in there too!
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by misterjangles 13y ago
As a non designer I like looking at them too. I will admit that I usually think to myself - this designer has no paying customers this month. But, I feel like they are hustling and trying to drum up clients. When I see these in a designer
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by misterjangles 14y ago
Nobody really says "here is a task I am delegating to you." Delegation sounds more like "I need this by Friday" or "How long will XYZ take?" or "Let's put this task on the top of your priority list." Learning to delegate tasks is a tricky
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by misterjangles 14y ago
I think this could definitely help with some of the bulk testing which would be fantastic. It seems like it might be difficult to test really complex CSS (which is the stuff that probably needs the most testing) like drop-down menus, inter
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by misterjangles 14y ago
I liked turntable but it I felt like it required you to be a bit active to get the full benifit, whereas I think I'm usually a bit more passive in my music listening.
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by misterjangles 15y ago
It's frightening that this would happen to a company that actually has a relationship with google in as much as having an account rep. Those of us nobodys who are just running generic ads with no personal contact would have no recourse at