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by pq0ak2nnd 8y ago
Or when the CEO (petite woman) and co-founder (old man) go to VC meetings and everyone thinks the the co-founder is in charge and the CEO is his secretary. Shit like this is rampant.
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by pq0ak2nnd 8y ago
Long membrane communication.
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by pq0ak2nnd 8y ago
I wish this article had actual substance and not just a listicle of off-the-cuff one-liners.
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by pq0ak2nnd 8y ago
Me, and people like me who bring flamebait to HN and risk turning it into /.,reddit or worse, 4ch . Sometimes I just forget and get all troll-y and flame-y, and I hate that shit.
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by pq0ak2nnd 8y ago
You busted me: I guess that's my age showing because I didn't know Excel -had- a new data model. What's it called and how is it different than sheets, and when was it introduced? I was using Excel2013 up until I left the proj
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by pq0ak2nnd 8y ago
Oof.
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by pq0ak2nnd 8y ago
I have said these EXACT words, my good friend! Short answer: - Corporate inertia + familiarity + fear Very long answer (rant warning): - The XLS was used by multiple teams, from multiple sites, from multiple projects. It drove project-level
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by pq0ak2nnd 8y ago
Dammit, I did it again. Sorry, thanks for calling me out. That's actually why i -like- HN, so few flamewars.
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by pq0ak2nnd 8y ago
Truer words have never been spoken.
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by pq0ak2nnd 8y ago
FTFY: "Excel THINKS IT CAN DEAL with many gigs of data thanks to PowerPivot and the addition of an in-memory database." It's so cute when I hit ctrl-downarrow on a blank sheet and Excel sends me to row 1,048,576. Wishful thin
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by pq0ak2nnd 8y ago
In my 25+ years of using Excel, here's what makes a pro: 1. Someone who knows how to use two dimensional TABLE()s and vector functions. 2. Someone who can implement an imperative convergence (such as Newton/Raphson or non-plug-in
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by pq0ak2nnd 8y ago
Summer 1981, 11 years old, learning logo on a ][. It sure beat the hell out of trying to draw a straight line in HIRES mode in assembly: goddamn skipping every six horizontal lines made no sense to my pre-teen brain that couldn't grok
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by pq0ak2nnd 8y ago
Nice strawman argument, but you undermined your own argument: Electron apps are not generic browsers that run random content from the web: they are fully debug-able projects, and the developers have full control over what is deployed. You k
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by pq0ak2nnd 8y ago
You are correct: I didn't specify what I was hiring for. I didn't have a need for plug-and-chug hackers to knock out one-off fixes, i had a need for talented programmers to groom into software and system architects that would main
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by pq0ak2nnd 8y ago
true. it's like interior decorator vs. interior designer if you're just going to move couches around and put down throw pillows, who cares about a solid foundation of design fundamentals and architectural psychology.
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by pq0ak2nnd 8y ago
Having hired programmers since the 90's, OP is correct. Think of it with this analogy: a hacker with no comp-sci foundation is to hacker with comp-sci foundation the way a car mechanic is to an automotive engineer
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by pq0ak2nnd 8y ago
Local UI? electron + ES6 + html5 + no package installs + linux/macos/windows portable = why bother with anything else?
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by pq0ak2nnd 8y ago
Wasn't Facebook part of the class action lawsuit that sought to supress wages and colluded in anti-poaching between Intel, Apple, Microsoft, and Adobe? They may pay more, but they collude to make sure people couldn't leave without
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by pq0ak2nnd 8y ago
Is it really that bad being a software/hardware engineer in Europe? I was thinking of entering via Holland (easiest work rights) and then after a few years try to work in France or Italy where it is almost impossible to fire someone, s
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by pq0ak2nnd 8y ago
Same to you.
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by pq0ak2nnd 8y ago
How much longer until every project is written in its own language? This doesn't actually bother me: there is so little difference between the proliferation of new languages that "mastery" is kind of a meaningless term. Previ
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by pq0ak2nnd 8y ago
Actually, I AM going to be that guy. I have zero tolerance for people who claim to be experts. You had one experience and used an idiom (incorrectly) to sound smart. So tired of smug upstarts like you.
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by pq0ak2nnd 8y ago
99% of the time? Sounds like 100% of the time since we're only talking about a sample size of one company. Serious generalization. More like "a bird in hand".
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by pq0ak2nnd 8y ago
"Selling and support is harder and takes more time and effort than writing code." So is this.
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by pq0ak2nnd 8y ago
Can someone recommend a good resource to analyze entropy in a file as the author discussed?
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by pq0ak2nnd 8y ago
Are you vegan now?
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by pq0ak2nnd 8y ago
I find it interesting to consider the implications of the quality that comes out of mastering on iOS vs a real studio (where you have a trained engineer and dedicated equipment): the former is of lower quality, but it doesn't really ma
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by pq0ak2nnd 8y ago
Is it the RealityTV mentality, where everyone wants to be famous, and building on solid foundations to solve problems with "boring" engineering isn't as sexy as being Tony Stark?
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by pq0ak2nnd 8y ago
every programmer needs to do this at some point in their life. it is too easy to take take modern languages for granted. but i'm a little disappointed that you dogged `make`. i think the programming landscape would be a lot more effect
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by pq0ak2nnd 8y ago
So... many... frameworks ... What's the C version of Sciter?

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