prophetjohn

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by prophetjohn 13y ago
I think I agree with all of that. Especially the "interviewing is hard" part. But what's wrong with having someone sit in front of a computer to write some code? At the company I'm leaving, we ask candidates to do a smal
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by prophetjohn 13y ago
| Google does the same kind of software interviews as anywhere else. [...] | You code on a whiteboard and it's supposed to be compilable in C or Java. It may seem like a strange idea, but not all places interview like th
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by prophetjohn 13y ago
I think by 'cromulent' he means acceptable
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by prophetjohn 13y ago
Austin, TX | Full-time, Intern | Software Engineer Come pair with me at mobi! We're seeking talented, full-stack software engineers that are smart and get things done. We're most excited about finding seniors, but all experience levels are
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by prophetjohn 13y ago
It's also possible that the intent was to make a purchase with those bitcoins.
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by prophetjohn 14y ago
I might be willing to overlook the lack of test for an intern or very junior person, but not above that level. Writing the code in an "unusual" language, would net big bonus points, though. I get tired of seeing the same solutions in Java a
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by prophetjohn 14y ago
However the candidates know up front that we are a TDD shop, so for us, a big part of knowing that a program is behaving correctly is having passing unit tests.
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by prophetjohn 14y ago
This is good feedback. We've only gotten one submission that we thought was grossly over-architected, but it's worth revisiting what we tell candidates to lead them in the direction of not trying to show off and to just write the code as th
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by prophetjohn 14y ago
Here's the strategy we feel is working pretty well for us. First of all, our tech stack looks like this: Java/Spring(MVC)/MyBatis/Hibernate/etc Ruby/Sinatra/ActiveRecord/etc JavaScript/Angular/etc A bit of SQL (MS) We look for candidates of
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by prophetjohn 14y ago
Wait, not knowing what "grok" means is a "pretty good" filter for a person who is unsuitable for a role as software engineer?
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by prophetjohn 14y ago
|A popular [quick sort] optimization is to end with an insertion sort What's so hard to test about this? If your quick sort code and your insertion sort code aren't all shoved into one function, you just test them separately.
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by prophetjohn 14y ago
Looks like raphael https://github.com/pcottle/learnGitBranching/tree/master/lib
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by prophetjohn 14y ago
Our application is currently jQuery and vanilla JS managed with require.js. I recently led spikes investigating both Angular and Ember. I landed on Angular. I found Ember to try too hard to be Rails when JavaScript is not Ruby. If you've go
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Ask HN: How do you pair program with a remote team member
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by prophetjohn 14y ago
Want a comprehensive list? Preferences > Key Bindings > Defaults.
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by prophetjohn 14y ago
ctrl+C/cmd+C That's gets the whole line including carriage return when nothing is highlighted. You could also cmd+L (expand selection to line) and then cmd+C if you already had something selected.
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by prophetjohn 14y ago
How representative is the typical accent you hear on Doctor Who of the average English accent? And in case I'm conflating a bunch of very different accents, I'll just go with Matt Smith's Doctor[0]. [0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FxKc
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by prophetjohn 14y ago
Private offices sounds terrible to me. I wonder the extent to which silos of knowledge are created by confining every developer into their own office and discouraging outside communication. I would suffocate in that environment. I vastly pr
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by prophetjohn 14y ago
I think "wtf?" is in response to it being both "Compatible with iPhone 3GS" and "NOT compatible with [...] iPhone 3GS"
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by prophetjohn 14y ago
Traditional fashion wisdom is that socks should match pants. If you match your pants to your shoes, it makes it look like you're wearing high-tops. It draws attention away from your shoes when you want to be drawing attention toward your sh
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by prophetjohn 14y ago
Is there a case in JavaScript where operators with the same precedence are not evaluated left-to-right?
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by prophetjohn 14y ago
The above example is at least academically interesting since you can reason through it with a bit of programming experience and intuition about operator precedence. Does plus or pre/postfix increment have higher precedence? Probab
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by prophetjohn 14y ago
I have determined by experience that 9007199254740995 (which is 2^53+3) is the smallest not representable integer in Javascript. Here's something to drop in your browser console as an amusing illustration of this 90
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by prophetjohn 14y ago
-1 unread happens if you (or someone else) deletes a comment. It should fix itself after a page load.
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by prophetjohn 14y ago
If there ends up being enough interest, I'll support FF and Safari.
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by prophetjohn 14y ago
Great idea. I changed it to only be bold comments if the number of unread comments is greater than 0 and less than the total number of comments. It's been pushed to the Chrome Store. Thanks for the feedback!
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by prophetjohn 14y ago
I agree that the style in your link is cleaner looking. I don't have a very good sense for how to make things look nice. I might clean it up a bit because my goal is to keep HN simplistic but just add the few features that I've been itching
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by prophetjohn 14y ago
I was conflicted about whether or not to update new comments inline or force a page refresh. So the behavior with the comments is intentional. I may end up changing it if it's confusing. As for the other problem, I'm confused about why that
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by prophetjohn 14y ago
I've uninstalled and reinstalled a couple times on Mac and a Windows VM without getting that message. I know Google checks the manifest file on upload for validity, but I've seen reports[1] of seemingly random installation failures. Have it
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by prophetjohn 14y ago
I've got the same setup as you. Are they wrong or just not showing? Console errors?

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