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by riazrizvi 14y ago
Python 3 is a cautionary tale for enhancing a language. Break compatibility to prioritize Unicode, change behavior of widespread calls like .keys()/.values()/.items(), and make comparisons more rigid. Each of these is a major alteration in
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Ask HN: What's the best technical interview you've ever had?
4 points by riazrizvi 14y ago|1 comments
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by riazrizvi 14y ago
The article has an agenda to promote low taxes. It casts the net flow of head count out of California as bad. In the Bay Area where I live, I personally see that when people talk of leaving they complain of the cost of living, but that is a
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by riazrizvi 14y ago
A class action lawsuit is a great idea. It is clear from the comments here and on Kickstarter that this situation has been worsened by conflicting expectations. A lawsuit will help clarify what the public can expect from crowdsourcing, and
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by riazrizvi 14y ago
Though the better you get at organizing your code, the less you need to push your working memory. In the first decade of my coding life, it took me a while to 'warm up' and 'cool down', distractions were extremely irritating. In the secon
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by riazrizvi 14y ago
Reduce the problem by reducing the software patent's lifespan, say to 7 years? That would force innovation to be more business-efficient and greatly reduce the number of patent trolls.
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by riazrizvi 14y ago
Awesome example of awful business writing.
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by riazrizvi 14y ago
It's a problem that many have: http://www.joyofquotes.com/step_quotes.html
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by riazrizvi 14y ago
I think sitting at a desk all day, diverting most of your focus on problem solving instead of self-regulation has a lot to do with it.
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On the contrary, it is useful to have a comprehensive, substantive measure of technical skills. Having one does not preclude additional assessments, as you assume. I have been continually disappointed with the lack of extensiveness in techn
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by riazrizvi 14y ago
Now if you could write tests that correctly determine which box a candidate fits in, you would have something very powerful indeed.
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by riazrizvi 14y ago
It would seem that 180HP is indeed a bad idea. These boards are aiming for 2.5 horses, which sounds like a blast.
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then, wow, she's getting screwed.
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by riazrizvi 14y ago
It feels like her role is an auxiliary function, like Office Manager or QA, so I think her generic analysis works. If her role was central to the business, then I don't think she would be valuing her contribution with a one-liner like 'Empl
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by riazrizvi 15y ago
When speculators (HFTs) trade they either move prices in the right direction or they make a mistake and move prices in the wrong direction. When they move prices in the right direction, they provide a valuable price setting service to the m
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by riazrizvi 15y ago
only 54 stackoverflow users have a reputation over 100k, that means 30% of the elephants are on HN
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by riazrizvi 15y ago
I thought I'd give DuckDuckGo a try, thinking a search engine must be good to have people start using it, when Google does such a bang up job already. Seemed fine at first. Then I typed in my own name, and unlike Google, DuckDuckGo decided
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"all the programs that could be written have already been written"
2 points by riazrizvi 15y ago|1 comments