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by nadam 14y ago
I like this book, very inspirational. About 'Less features' I've mixed feelings. In lots of markets (for example I am building a markdown editor for windows) you have lots of free competition, and one of the most important competitive advan
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by nadam 14y ago
As a hacker my first thought after reading this is that how the improvement of speech recognition technology combined with something like google glasses could help deaf people.
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by nadam 14y ago
1. It is ridiculous to tell somebody not to learn something in his spare time. 2. Atwood says: "at least high school level math are fundamental to performing the job of a politician. Or at any job" Do you know what is high school level math
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by nadam 14y ago
developer and salesman: I miss the marketing guy from this story. (Or at least either the developer or the salesman should also wear the hat of a marketing guy.) I think the rule of thumb is this: if you sell to the 'masses' you need great
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by nadam 14y ago
"Who are your users going to be?" That's a very hard question because a 'word-processor' is a horizontal product [1]. I want people to use it instead of Word. I want to create great UX, easy to use, clean interface, fast operation. But shou
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Ask HN: Looking for markdown-editor feature ideas
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by nadam 14y ago
I am not a marketing expert, but my reaction to this article was that it pretty much depends on what 'market phase' we are in. In a new market with no competitors what matters is that someone created an automatic cat feeder at all. In a mor
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by nadam 14y ago
I've never attended any conferences in my life (and I have been programming for 25 years (16 years professionally)). I can buy books, read online, watch videos online on more programming topics than I have time/capacity for. My tolearn.txt
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by nadam 14y ago
I had the luck to understand this very early (being 17 years old). I've gone to math and physics competitions, and while I had good results I could see that there are the top level guys who are above my level: there is no point in directly
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by nadam 15y ago
I am afraid the terminology you use is not canonical. A hash (function) is any function that maps a big variable-length data structure to a smaller (fixed-length) data structure. A checksum is a special hash (function) which has the purpose
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by nadam 15y ago
I try to expand on the 4 metrics I came up with: fastness: This can be measured by giving the person a not too hard (but not completely trivial) algorithmization problem, and see whether he/she can solve it in 15 minutes. Someone 'fast' is
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by nadam 15y ago
I think most programmers can earn more by doing 'finisher work' than doing 'starter work'. I am a starter by heart, but I earn more money by maintaining a big Java system than I would have working for example at a small startup. Of course t
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by nadam 15y ago
I find it very hard to characterize myself, I constantly struggle with it. I enjoy starting things and don't like finishing/maintainging other peoples code especially if I cannot see their philosophy. When trying to figure out where my limi
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by nadam 15y ago
Thanks! Currently I am reading these books: Mark Joshi: The Concepts and Practice of Mathematical Finance Daniel Duffy: Introduction to C++ for Financial Engineers (I already know C++, but I read this because of the finance related stuff.)
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by nadam 15y ago
Part of the respect is a better pay, which is important to me as I have small children to care about. But the main reason is that so far I enjoy learning quantitative finance. " contributing to the problem of programmers not being taken ser
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by nadam 15y ago
"People who can code in the world of technology companies are a dime a dozen and get no respect" Generally in business, those people whose job title is 'programmer' or 'developer' or 'software engineer' get relatively little respect even wi
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by nadam 15y ago
What kind of compressed data structure I would use depends heavily on so much things (the probability distribution of the data, the probability distribution of different access patterns) that it is very hard to design a data structure for a
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by nadam 15y ago
Sure. This is the most informative public document I've found on the Google hiring process, it contains the 35% and 25% estimation: http://www.qqtm.info/Interview/Google_Guide.pdf The 0.5% (in fact less than 0.5%) comes from Google itself
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by nadam 15y ago
"Now, people much more junior expect all of that, plus crazy workplaces, free meals, free babysitting, free carwash, free haircuts, etc." Junior or not, only a tiny percentage of people can get these perks. For example google recieves 1 mil
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by nadam 15y ago
"Command and Control probably worked great in the toothpaste factory where Charlie Bucket’s father screwed the little caps on tubes." I thought that it is totally obvious that the more intellectual and complex the task is, the less the hier
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by nadam 15y ago
I agree with everything you say I just don't understand why you say that I am mislead. Of course he could code it in one hour. Probably he came up with it in a bright moment. But a researcher has to think for years to come up with something
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by nadam 15y ago
"If you can build large scale systems, you can code complex algorithms." Not sure I agree. Architecting/Maintaining huge systems and inventing very smart algorithms are very different skills. Both can be learned to some extent, and a progra
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by nadam 15y ago
"But it is also short-sighted. You are not only a 'creator', you are a user too" The question is: To what extent? If we measure how much income a person have from intellectual property and how much money they spend on intellectual property
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by nadam 15y ago
"you need to know the subject better than the person that you're interviewing. If you don't, you have no hope of screening for good people." I think it is not necessary and not possible that the interviewer know more about every subtopic th
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by nadam 15y ago
I don't understand why is there such a strong emphasis on these kind of interview questions. I think showing a piece of nontrivial code which the candidate have created in the past tells a lot more about the candidate. For example this tell
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by nadam 15y ago
"do you think it's more important to have a deep knowledge of a few topics or a fair understanding of a lot of topics" I have been thinking a lot about this. My conclusion is that the optimal thing is somehow both. When I say both, it sound
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by nadam 15y ago
“Entrepreneurs get distracted by fundraising, so I just did that part first." It is like a Hollywood diva saying (after getting into the 'circles'): "Women's hands get ugly because of the lot of washing and cleaning, so I've bought myself p
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by nadam 15y ago
"Design is about how things work" True, but this definition is a bit vague. Even if we think that this is not vague, then people with graphics design background should stop calling themselves designers, and engineers (who have years of trai
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by nadam 15y ago
Thanks, I will have look at it.
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by nadam 15y ago
My general feeling is that there is a business-model problem in the tech industry. The most important technolgies are underfunded. They are created by smart people in their free time, or by companies who do not have enough money. For exampl

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