rhapsodic

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by rhapsodic 8y ago
> At least where I live women outnumber men at universities - meaning that if one partner in the relation has an "important career", it's very soon going to be more often the mother. You can't logically conclude tha
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
>They also wash the cutlery! From what strange and wondrous land do you come?
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
>In the canteen I use they wash plates and crockery. Imagine if that practice came to America American here. What is this "washing of plates and crockery" of which you speak?
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
> In this situation I could see him detesting the way his relationships were poisoned with money and not wanting his daughter to rest on her laurels waiting for a payday. That's your takeaway from this? > “You’re not gettin
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
>I'm not saying he wasn't an awful father, but he actually did leave her a multi-million dollar inheritance according to Wikipedia He was not only an awful father, he was an awful person.
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
> I'm hoping this is sarcasm. Is it really not obvious considering that the post to which I was replying said this? >> His reaction in denying her the Porsche seems to me to be about telling her she has to earn such trinket
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
> “You’re not getting anything,” he said. “You understand? > Nothing. You’re getting nothing.” Did he mean about the > car, something else, bigger? I didn’t know. His voice > hurt—sharp, in my chest. Yep, a wise fa
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
It is truly amazing how he is hero-worshiped while Bill Gates is vilified. The early secretaries at Microsoft became millionaires from their stock options while many who played key roles in the success of Apple got their salaries and bennie
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
And it should be noted that the person the GP was smearing was not accused of pedophilia. He was hounded out of his job for supporting a ballot proposition that was ultimately passed by a majority of California voters. I tried to reply to t
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
>Then explain to me why the French are using Go, To etc. instead of TB and GB like everyone else? Probably because some French law mandates it.
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
I would like to see a similar analysis applied to living and working in Silicon Valley or San Francisco, as opposed to some metro area in the Midwest. I have a hunch that given two similar people, one in each place, with similar careers, fi
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
As I've said before, the only way the internet rage mob culture will dissipate is if participation in a rage mob carries the risk of being subject to a retaliatory rage mob. That's why I love to read stories like this, and I wish
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
I'm old enough to remember when high-wall cubicles were standard fare, and they were mocked and derided as soul-crushing corporate cost-cutting measures. But they gave you a lot of privacy, relatively speaking. And you could still have
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
>It's so nice to build something that works without JS in the first place and then just add some JS and CSS3 animations. Yeah, but JS buys you a lot. There are certain things that you can accomplish with JS that you absolutely can
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
>A huge reply after being so damningly called out? Serious question: what the hell are you talking about? >It's like the flip-side of foobar... WTF does that even mean? >avoid like the plague any place where all the tech
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
>This title is misleading. The post actually says that the reason "simple" comes first is because without it you can't have "correct" (nor "fast", not that that matters so much). So he's not sayin
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
>But I would put $10 down that if I asked you to assert that all medical software in current use that has never killed a patient because of its software issues is therefore "correct", you'd walk back hard. You'd have
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
>Sure... but define "correctness". How about this, for example: The patient lives.
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
>You're right, future times are more complex and might require more attention to detail. But I think you can still achieve the requirements in a simple way, perhaps by storing it as UTC + lat/long and running a script to updat
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
>I disagree. I just can't get more specific without specific cases to examine. You should probably mention somewhere that you're the author of the blog post under discussion. And it looks like you're going to make a repu
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
> The rules for implicit coercion in JavaScript are rather unintuitive. Yes. And a lot of self-described Javascript developers don't even know that. Because they've never read a book or any other document that explains thos
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
> If you cannot achieve correct without simple, redefine correct. More hand-waving.
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
> The reason is straightforward: if your > solution is not simple, it will not be > correct or fast. A very hand-wavy statement, and not always true.
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
I think you're reading too much into the phrase "rattle off". By that I simply meant that the interviewee should know those things well enough to answer correctly and confidently. And it still amazes me that this position see
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
Nadya, whether or not that's the best thing to test for is beside the point. All I'm saying is that, in my view, a professional Javascript developer should know those things. And apparently, a lot of people on HN disagree with m
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
> You are the reason I keep a few pieces of esoteric code in my interview notebook. I'll gladly answer yours as long as you can answer mine. I don't see those examples as esoteric at all. Ignorance of those basic things can r
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
>Does that mean I am hired? :-) Not necessarily, but it puts you ahead of about 80% of all the other candidates in consideration.
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
>I'd much prefer a length check than truthiness check if I wanted to test for empty strings - that way if any nulls or undefineds come through, they would show up as errors. That may well be the best approach in some circumstances
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by rhapsodic 8y ago
Nadya, I don't understand the vitriol in your reply. If you think I'm being unreasonable not hiring someone who doesn't understand those basic aspects of the Javascript language, I would be interested in hearing your reasonin

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