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by paulrpotts 11y ago
I don't have a great simple answer for this. I think it some combination of maybe looking at code samples, talking to previous employers, maybe doing some code in a timed exercise, either on or off-site, or maybe even contracting with
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by paulrpotts 11y ago
You might consider whether this is really a valid test, or just something that you _think_ truly evaluates whether a candidate can do the job. In my experience hiring, it's not that valuable. I do think some kind of screening for basic
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by paulrpotts 11y ago
You might take a look at this article from the New York Review of Books on "STEM" jobs and all the noise about the talent shortage. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2015/jul/09/fren
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by paulrpotts 11y ago
I have kind of gone off Moleskines due to their price and low page count. For my software development work, I've recently taken to buying 9x12 sketchbooks (Canson artist series at the moment, but sometimes whatever is on sale at Michae
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by paulrpotts 11y ago
Just FYI... I know it is considered uncool to correct writing, and I'm often told that grammar is irrelevant these days. I don't mean to be that guy, but I also don't believe grammar is irrelevant. Personally, I always get br
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by paulrpotts 11y ago
I have this trouble with mathematical topics in isolation. It bit me in school as I was very good in most of my classes, but when I had to learn (for example) trig identities, and various rules in calculus in order to slog through problem s
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by paulrpotts 11y ago
I once put up a YouTube video of "Auld Lang Syne." I was playing this song myself on guitar, double-tracked to provide a backing track. I got a copyright claim from YouTube. The lyric we all know was written in 1788, although he m
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by paulrpotts 11y ago
Wow, I am a little baffled by just what kind of chain of failures could result in a bug like this. The token lexing stage should be eliminating whitespace as the very first stage of compilation.
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by paulrpotts 11y ago
Has this been studied in any kind of a systematic way? Put someone allegedly sensitive in a room with a router behind a screen, and see if they can reliably detect when it is turned on and turned off? I'm willing to believe that someon
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by paulrpotts 11y ago
If you are buying a 2014 model, given that it seems to be non-upgradeable, I suppose the answer is "yes if you want that much memory." Whether you want that much memory depends strongly on your application needs. If you already ha
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by paulrpotts 11y ago
Well, it's an interesting question! I started learning C almost 30 years ago and while I have learned a lot of other languages: C++, Java, Scheme, Dylan, NewtonScript, Visual BASIC, some Haskell, a little Forth, various assembly langua
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by paulrpotts 11y ago
The wording the article uses is offensive. A dad isn't in the delivery room just to "witness" the birth, or at least he shouldn't be. He's there to support the mother, advocate for her, help her make decisions regar
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by paulrpotts 11y ago
I pay DreamHost for web hosting and e-mail hosting and managing domains for me. This is just for family and personal web sites. I don't have a dedicated server. There are a few downsides. DH provides SpamAssassin, with configuration vi
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by paulrpotts 11y ago
I was getting a long-ish walk in, of 45 minutes to an hour and a half duration. That did great things for my spine and my mood. I know it's not easy for everyone to find an hour and a safe and pleasant place to walk but if you can, I r
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by paulrpotts 11y ago
I've always heard it in my head as Urrr LllYeh (sounds a bit like you are saying "oh yeah," except in a guttural voice, with your mouth full of blood)
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by paulrpotts 12y ago
I suffered from depression for many years and took several medications (a half-dozen SSRIs) with varying degrees of success for five years or so. The medications would get me energized to make some life changes that were helpful, but would
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by paulrpotts 12y ago
Glad to hear it. I think once you've used one of the monads the whole concept starts to make a lot more practical sense.
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by paulrpotts 12y ago
Mr. Muppet, I am not a Haskell expert, but I had a similar coding issue that I blogged about a while back. I was threading a score value through some code that calculates an updated gameboard. The solution (well, one solution) was a writer
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by paulrpotts 12y ago
My Titanium PowerBook G4 purchased in 2000 was my main machine for _everything_ for seven years or so. I used that machine HARD, for software development and writing and even recording audio for my earliest podcasts. I went through several
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by paulrpotts 12y ago
I'm pretty sure Haskell has raised the bar for level of abstraction. This is at least partially because it is of interest to researchers pushing the limits of what programming languages can do. Just an example: http://math.a
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by paulrpotts 12y ago
My jaw kind of dropped when I saw the Lush/Ride ticket stub and realized -- I was at that very show!
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by paulrpotts 12y ago
College students often feel at the time that they are completely overloaded with work and barely getting through (in some cases that is true, especially students who are working or non-traditional). But looking back, it is pretty clear that
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by paulrpotts 12y ago
Keep in mind that writing something like this is not actually going to be perceived as helpful to most people who may have difficulty with Haskell. Consider a couple of possibilities. First, you may be unusually quick, gifted, clever -- wha
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by paulrpotts 12y ago
I used Ubuntu on several generations of home-built boxes, the most recent a Xeon on an Intel motherboard, but Ubuntu has reduced compatibility with my motherboard's video. I just moved to Fedora Server 21 and left the GUI off altogethe
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by paulrpotts 12y ago
I sent a resume. Would consider relocating the family to Norway. The projects sound interesting to me as a polyglot programmer who has interest in and experience with development from the very low level to the very high level.
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by paulrpotts 12y ago
Sent a note with resume. I am curious because as an experienced embedded developer, I feel I've kind of tapped out the limits of how fast and effective development can be in C, and the "modern" C++ does not excite me very muc
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by paulrpotts 12y ago
Location: Saginaw, MI Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Maybe Technologies: Old-school programming (C and C++ primarily, Java, Objective-C, embedded, DSP, drivers, but also dynamic languages, and a keen interest in migrating to projects in f
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by paulrpotts 19y ago
I keep reading negative comments about this posting, but I think I'm reading a lot of defensiveness. I think it is important to keep in mind that, as I read it at least, Paul is not trying to slam people who work for others. He's really try