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by pj 17y ago
broken links in the past were the result of actions of the creator of the content, however, in the case of url shorteners, the broken links are pointing to content that still exists, in the same place it was when the link was created. There
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by pj 17y ago
And the house of cards begins its collapse. Let's hope it crumbles fast and we can rid the web of these shorteners before they cause more damage to the future of the internet.
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by pj 17y ago
I like to write my code in my head before I write it with code. Try to imagine all your code and then the code you are going to write and then run through it in your mind. Think of some special cases in your mind. Suppose you are writing
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by pj 17y ago
Wow, well that was a great rebuttal. Perhaps you should review logical fallacies. If you'd like to disagree with what I say, attack what I say, not me.
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by pj 17y ago
idlewords is right. You may think regex is too low level, but like i said in my comment, you want to learn things that you can use anywhere. Almost every programming language has regex support. Plus, regex is hard for a lot of people -- e
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by pj 17y ago
Okay, so here again is an opportunity for me to talk about my company, but I will try to avoid it. Here's the deal. The web is the future. So for application domain -- the web is where it is at. And the web includes mobile. Mobile dev
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by pj 17y ago
Qrimp
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by pj 17y ago
If you billed fixed rate and the client changes the requirements, then you change the fixed rate. Say you estimate the cost at $10,000 and they want you to make a change, you say, "Okay, but this change wasn't included in the $10,000 so we
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by pj 17y ago
I think tools are an important part of the equation. Say you are paying someone to demolish your concrete driveway. Would you pay someone with a jack hammer who can get the job done in an hour the same rate you'd pay someone with a sledgeh
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by pj 17y ago
Qrimp
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by pj 17y ago
repost of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=747619
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by pj 17y ago
There are still a few differences. Countries are bounded by geography, but corporations can be in multiple countries. Also, people are born citizens of a country, but they aren't born customers or employees of a corporation. Countries, f
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by pj 17y ago
I've gone into a company with software systems that were a complete rat's nest, learned the enviroment, accessed files and utilities needed to make changes, and implemented a significant change in 2 days. A lasting and flexible change that
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by pj 17y ago
As an analogy, corporations are to countries as stock is to currency. So, if that is the case, perhaps we can help understand what is going to happen in the US by examining what has happened to companies in similar situations. What are som
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by pj 17y ago
Excellent! I really like this idea. I'm going to work on how to implement this in my hiring strategy.
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by pj 17y ago
You're correct, mine was in California. But they've tainted the reputation of the brand IMO and I won't use any of them from any state anymore.
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by pj 17y ago
As an employer, I want employees who can solve problems whether they are under pressure or not. You really want an employee working for you, or even a team member in your group who can't work under pressure when your site is down and they
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by pj 17y ago
Are you saying that the context and type of the problem in the interview doesn't matter at all? I think it doesn't matter if it is consistent for all the candidates. A company can't change to suit every employee. Working for a startup l
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by pj 17y ago
OMG, this is the most absurd thing I've heard in a long time. I think it's really a symptom of a much deeper problem with American government and that is that the "system" is getting so big that no one really knows how to fix it. I see thi
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by pj 17y ago
Hmm... I see your point. Perhaps we disagree on the word "work." When I think of "work" I think of moving a company in a desired direction. A lot of people think of work as "sitting in a cube." The question is, "How do we determine if the
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by pj 17y ago
When I think about building software, I think about the long term benefits of the software to humanity, or if I'm working for a particular company, the benefit to the organization. So if I am going to spend my time developing something, I w
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by pj 17y ago
I agree. The questions the OP asked are all very easy. It'd be easy to describe a function to find the longest common subsequence of a set of strings as well. The reason such a question is asked is because it isn't something that we do
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by pj 17y ago
I would actually enjoy a one week type engagement to get a good fit for a company. It works both ways. You are selling your time. They are selling their environment. The problem is that the employer is accepting a lot more risk than the em
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by pj 17y ago
Crows commute into urban areas just like humans. This is just one example of the many urban areas with commuting crows. I've seen them do it in Vancouver, BC as well: http://www.prattmuseum.org/kachemak/survived/crows.html They use tool
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by pj 17y ago
I highly do not recommend BlueCross Blue Shield. They are not a reputable company. They will cancel your plan without telling you. I went to a doctor once thinking my plan was fine only to be told days later that my insurance had been
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by pj 17y ago
Wow. Funny though really, I heard a story in the past about how hardware companies assign the worst members of the team to build the software drivers and such. Hardware it appears to them is the hard part and software is the easy part and
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by pj 17y ago
Well, you know. Twitter has put themselves right in the middle of a national uprising in Iran and so are facilitators or perhaps enablers of conflict. I don't want to get moralistic or anything like that, but it should be expected that if
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by pj 17y ago
Their typical error image is a whale carried by birds. This image is funny because it's bird carried by whales. The image is a little more lively as well, with gradients and such.
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by pj 17y ago
One of my friends is an IP attorney and I had a conversation with him about the ridiculousness of patent law and software and his response to me was, "I think one of the problems with software engineers and patents is their over-estimation
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How Spellcheckers Work(pcplus.co.uk)
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