mmorett

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by mmorett 14y ago
For you. But you don't get to make that decision for everyone else. Stop trying to impose your value system on others. It's clear you don't like using a mouse. Then don't. Keep using a 1970s keyboard if it suits you. Bon a petite.
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by mmorett 14y ago
Unless things have changed recently, Quora requires users to sign in to simply read a post. The problem with that should be obvious. A user is not there to serve Quora. Quora is (theoretically) there to serve the user. Users not familia
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by mmorett 14y ago
You're rarely going to use them...so let's ask a candidate about them. This analogy is proving more accurate as I read thru the comments.
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by mmorett 14y ago
"Maybe you'll be sitting across the desk from me one day and you'll get to work with an awesome team of talented engineers. Carefully selected." What an arrogant prick.
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by mmorett 14y ago
"Our job is to stop you getting hired." So then, by definition, you have perfect employees. Congrats. I'm sure this extends to the perfect sales team, perfect product team, etc. That is impressive.
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by mmorett 14y ago
Agreed. It was too damned long to even begin to dig in. The fact that he keeps posting it (whatever it is), it just wasting space.
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by mmorett 14y ago
My pet peeve is that you are interviewed as though you should be God, and you would be so lucky and privileged to work on this pristine, perfect codebase...only to find out that the codebase is not all that perfect, and the development
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by mmorett 14y ago
Let me offer an explanation: maybe the job he was applying for asked for knowledge and experience in Java, Spring, Hibernate, Grails, Javascript, SQL, CSS, writing stored procs with PL/SQL, performance tuning, node.js, and Git...and the bi
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by mmorett 14y ago
"That you could go away and learn what color the middle wire is is great. But the guy next to you has been fixing wiring in distributor caps for years. And right now, I need people that know what color the middle wire is." If you're hiring
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by mmorett 14y ago
That's gold. I've been using "clear" this whole time and hated it, particularly since I'm used to "cls" from MS-DOS. So, for me, the way to clear the screen was: cls <enter> clear<enter> lol. I see Cmd + K on the menu now, b
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by mmorett 14y ago
"The fact that Emacs and Vim lack features attractive to newcomers tells nothing about their value. Musicians and Craftsmen invest years in learning their tools or instruments." Those editors have value to folks that have invested time in l
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by mmorett 14y ago
"It certainly takes some time to learn how to do things, macros, search and replace, move blocks of text, install some good plugins, etc... All of this is incredibly fast and ergonomic as opposed to move your right hand to the arrow keys ev
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by mmorett 14y ago
"you mean emacs right?" Lol. I'm not taking that bait. :-) FWIW, I had never tried emacs before and decided last week, ironically, to try it for the first time. I fired it up, poked around, tried to do something useful and then wanted to
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by mmorett 14y ago
I mean this with all sincerity, but did I understand this correctly? Using Terminal to sift thru HN articles, only to open them up in a web browser via the "c" key or the Enter key? I fail see the point. If you have a browser, you don't
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by mmorett 14y ago
Good post, but one major flaw in the comparison to carpentry: "It doesn’t matter how many years experience in carpentry you have had or how well you can design furniture or cabinetry if every time you try to cut wood you struggle with makin
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by mmorett 14y ago
I was able to use it at the same time I had IDEA 11 up with both using the same project. It was interesting. Every time I'd switch to the other IDE window, each one detected some changes to the project structure and wanted to reload it. Ot
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by mmorett 14y ago
These guys are so one dimensional. If it's not an algorithm, they have that deer in headlights look. For all the stupid interview questions they throw at you, they sure make a lot of mistakes thereby begging the question: the puzzle interv
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by mmorett 14y ago
"However, better layout (ie. more paragraphs) would help." Yes. I saw that huge block of text after just reading the GigaOM article and just skipped right over it. I came here to see what people thought on the matter, but I wasn't about to
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by mmorett 15y ago
Add node.js, MongoDB, backbone.js, Redis, neo4j, coffeescript, html5, CSS3, python, django, zend, spring, hibernate, web services, etc. They want to hire perfection, but are themselves imperfect.
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by mmorett 15y ago
Perhaps it's the laundry list of technologies, frameworks and related technologies associated with a primary language. Some of these expectations are legitimate, but some/many border on postings just shy of "deep expertise in just about eve
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by mmorett 15y ago
It's a long shot and I'm not trying to be cute, but Shark Tank (and the help the sharks can provide by virtue of their connections/experience) might be worth looking into.
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by mmorett 15y ago
No. Let me repeat that. It's not your money. You are not entitled to someone else's money by virtue of their mere presence in the country. Want money? Work for it. Save it. Earn it.
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by mmorett 15y ago
> You may not even make the poor richer, but you will make the rich poorer. Good. "Unneeded, unspent money" is none of your business. It's not your money.