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by nollidge 14y ago
How do you apply?
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by nollidge 14y ago
And the directions are still pretty confusing. For example, I had no idea the debris' orientation mattered until I saw the examples. And what happens if there's a dispute about whether the debris is aiming at a planet or not? And also, can
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by nollidge 14y ago
Everybody check the calendar.
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by nollidge 14y ago
It doesn't. The selling points are A) the social component (what are my friends reading?) and B) keeping track of books I want to read.
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by nollidge 14y ago
Chrome on Windows has horrendous @font-face rendering.
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> It is impressive though that they have been able to still innovate without breaking backwards compatibility. Indeed. The .NET IL compiler actually supports closures by generating a class with the lambda's method body as method on that
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by nollidge 14y ago
> In clean object-oriented code, the internal state of a class is not exposed to the outside. So then you don't write getters and setters for that stuff in C#. I don't get your point here.
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by nollidge 14y ago
Since Java doesn't have pass-by-ref, this would probably be just as awkward as try-catch.
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by nollidge 14y ago
And the two things I notice Java has that C# does not (static methods on Interfaces, and functional interfaces) have completely viable alternatives in C# (extension methods, and Action/Func, respectively). This really smacks of catch-up.
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by nollidge 14y ago
Yes. I increasingly get the feeling that I'm stuck in .NET-land because that's the only thing that recruiters feeding off of LinkedIn seem to care about when they "network" at me.
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by nollidge 14y ago
> We tell the candidates to solve the problem in any programming language and that the goal is to show off problem solving, testing and design skills.
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by nollidge 14y ago
Eh, let's figure it out later.
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As an American it's pretty stale to me as well. I feel like there's enough cross-pollination of our cultures that it shouldn't be that novel anymore.
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by nollidge 14y ago
Since I'm not a researcher I can really only speak to my experience around Milwaukee. Basically any town within Milwaukee County doesn't (as a rule, there are exceptions) have that kind of space. But further than that, there's quite a bit o
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by nollidge 14y ago
Yeah, I should've said "exurbs and beyond".
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They're really only that big out in the exurbs.
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I think there's utility in weeding out posers. That's why fizzbuzz is even talked about in the first place. But I think there should also be a real test, with Internet access available.
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> Putting someone in front of a computer gives them the freedom to google So? I use google all the time while coding.
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by nollidge 14y ago
Ugh. See, and if my mom asked that, I know she's looking for a barebones high-level explanation that she can grok, so I can be a bit fuzzy. But when an interviewer asks me that? I can't tell if they're just screening out the dummies, or if
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by nollidge 14y ago
Personally, I'm vaguely aware that JS does ASI, but rather than waste brain space trying to understand it, I just use semicolons with everything. And anyway, what better test of language facility is there than having the person code somethi
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by nollidge 14y ago
Also stop with: interviewing based on rote memorization. Yesterday I had a really crappy (third-party!) phone screen assessing my ASP.NET and some general web dev knowledge. Questions included asking me what the stages are in the ASP.NET pa
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Add to that the fact that we can control domestic horse breeding, whereas controlling human breeding is, you know, frowned upon .
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For better or worse, the word "cynic" has changed meaning over time. My usage matches definition #1 here: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cynic?r=75&src=re...
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Viewing the world through cynicism-colored glasses.
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> .NET is not a language. It may as well be. VB.net and C# are the only .NET languages that have any traction, and the differences between them are almost entirely superficial. Off the top of my head, the only significant difference is
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by nollidge 14y ago
It's very simple: if you don't have the right to be offended, then you don't have freedom of thought, much less freedom of speech. That you cite Rowan Atkinson's support of free speech as a defense is incredibly ironic. He's not saying you
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by nollidge 14y ago
I am not a person prone to hyperbole, so please understand that when I say this is one of the stupidest things I have ever read on Hacker News, I'm not saying so for the hackneyed dramatic flair. This... is one of the stupidest things I hav
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Just bought myself a Seletric II off of Ebay a couple weeks ago. The thing is magnificent. The only electrical component is the motor running the driveshaft, otherwise all of the operations are mechanical. For example, pressing a key makes
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by nollidge 14y ago
Much more useful than the Udacity HTML5 games class, which bizarrely dives into the bookkeeping minutia of looking up sprites in a collection of spritesheets for an entire unit (edit: unit of the class, I mean)
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Reading your comments, and not wishing to cause offense, I would guess that you're not neurotypical. Communication is messy, and being outside the neurotypical territory may explain why it's frustrating to come across these things. I apolog

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