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by nezumi 16y ago
So HN comment history contributes to the application process? It makes sense, but as a lurker I have to admit I'm a little unsettled by it. It makes me wonder if my tendency to take a backseat and only raise my hand if I'm sure what I have
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by nezumi 16y ago
The first thing to bear in mind is that language learning for an adult is a completely different proposition from language learning as a child. Kids are wired for it, they have the time, and usually have external pressure to make progress.
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by nezumi 16y ago
There are really only a couple of uses for trivia questions in technical interviews: verifying someone's resume (i.e. if you claim to be skilled in some area, trivia questions should be, well, trivial) and as a jumping-off point for a discu
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by nezumi 16y ago
It might seem like a big scary test, but it's not. Sure, that's how things were in academia where you've been most of your life, but interviews are only superficially like tests. So the first thing is, stop worrying about the outcome and fo
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by nezumi 16y ago
Looks nice, although the changes are given away by hinting problems on my Linux box: http://ploader.net/files/92540a2c2b68cfe8b49f2301f628f860.pn... (I've no idea what it would take to fix this but I can provide more info about the system
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by nezumi 17y ago
Is there anywhere we can get information about the failures, to try and get a balanced view? Is it time for another communal spreadsheet?
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by nezumi 17y ago
Sadly Yegge's solution to his innumeracy consisted of trawling through the same list of categories which presumably failed him at school. I wonder how that turned out? There's a reason hackers tend not to be good at 'high school math' - it'