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by seekely 15y ago
This is not, nor are similar whiteboard questions, a good interviewing problem. Not because the problem is particularly difficult or uninteresting, but because no matter how much the interviewer wants these questions to just be 'signals' o
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by seekely 15y ago
SEEKING WORK - San Francisco OR Remote. My portfolio: http://happykoalas.com I'm a backend developer with strengths in PHP, Java and C++. My background consists of stints in the video game industry, co-founding a new media advertising st
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by seekely 15y ago
Better seems very subjective. I spent more time trying to figure out how to read a re.vu candidate's charts and visualizations than quickly digesting useful information about the candidate. I am a fan of exploring portfolios. I am not a f
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by seekely 15y ago
Good looking shirts are all about good fit. None of your models have a shirt remotely fitted for them. The pictures currently do a disservice for both the shirt and the model! Fun idea, though I am not convinced it will go far as a busine
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by seekely 15y ago
WakeMate is the only YC company that left me feeling completely duped for dropping cash on them. My whole experience with the product felt like a sham. Good on WakeMate for having the opportunity at a 2.0, because I personally feel like t
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EA open sources their internal version of STL(github.com)
89 points by seekely 16y ago|36 comments
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by seekely 16y ago
You no longer need an association with the military to sign up for USAA's checking/savings accounts. They're just really quiet about it. I made the switch to them a couple months ago. Signed up online and had an account minutes later.
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by seekely 16y ago
There are unhappy people in every industry and in every position. But the game industry has surpassed the tipping point for popularity and 'glam' to make the detractors have enough social incentive/attention to be very vocal. There are leg
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by seekely 16y ago
This observation is just not true, or maybe it varies depending on your position. As a developer in the industry, you will rarely be without a job or in a position where you can not jump to another studio. Once you are in the industry, you
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by seekely 16y ago
And I don't think the apologizing to families and stupid hours will ever completely go away because working in games for many is a big part of their life/identify/pride for better or worse. Given 1 year or infinite years, some people will
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by seekely 16y ago
Keep in mind your friend is at one studio of many under the EA umbrella. Just like the entire game industry, some studios are a mess. Unfortunately (and probably unfairly) EA takes the brunt of the bad PR. However, EA and most other studi
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by seekely 16y ago
Ha, we're on the same page. I meant the line in a 'if EA wishes to stay in business, they will have to recoup their costs from their customers' way.
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by seekely 16y ago
This is not the same mentality as the pirate discussion. A pirate gets a $60 game for $0. That's a huge price discrepancy. At used game stores like Gamespot, the difference between new and used is often $5 or less. It also doesn't matter
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by seekely 16y ago
The used game market is money left on the table from the perspective of EA. A company should not leave money on the table if it makes fiscal sense to grab it. EA was probably 'comfortable' with the used game market as long as they were rol
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by seekely 16y ago
I don't think it's theft at all. It's perfectly rational for a gamer to buy and sell used games. But it's also perfectly rational for EA to try to make as much money as possible from the used game market which completely undermines its bu
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by seekely 16y ago
The hostility against these decisions always frustrates me. The market will sort this out, and I'm pretty sure despite all the moaning, it will fall in EA's favor. You can't expect EA or any game publisher to just give their product away. E
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by seekely 17y ago
A facebook group was created http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=354809954022
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by seekely 17y ago
A facebook group was created http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=354809954022
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Atlanta HackerNews Meetup #2: Thursday Mar 11th 7pm at Rira Pub(facebook.com)
31 points by seekely 17y ago|8 comments
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Tell HN: Atlanta HackerNews Meetup #2
7 points by seekely 17y ago|0 comments
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by seekely 17y ago
We search both blog content and blog comments, so if a TechCrunch article or TechCrunch comment mentions you, there is a good chance it will show up in the dashboard. Given the volume of tweets versus blog comments versus blog content, the
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by seekely 17y ago
Thanks for the feedback. For many searches, there is a lot of noise and very little signal. This is a big usability problem. As we progress the product, we want to get really good at identifying the signal and filter out the thousands of
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by seekely 17y ago
To somebody just using Tweets (keep in mind that we currently also pull from Amazon, YouTube, Blogs, Blog comments and any RSS/Atom feed), we provide an extra safety net with our moderation. If you just incorporate the Twitter api directly
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by seekely 17y ago
Is something like this even possible? Can Windows physically tell a battery 'don't hold charge anymore'? Isn't it more likely laptop batteries are always going bad (and boy are they), but now it happens to be at around the same time as a Wi
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by seekely 17y ago
You can prevent this circumvention by only allowing the client side generated hash to be good for one login attempt. This is done by giving the client a unique challenge string for each login request and hashing the password with the challe
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by seekely 17y ago
Our little segment starts at 2:00 in the posted video. The best part... We have been working very hard on a new product to be released in the next month. My head has been buried in work and I, the guy in charge of all the servers and infra
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Fuzzwich (YC 07) featured on the Rachael Ray show (of all places)(rachaelrayshow.com)
24 points by seekely 17y ago|6 comments
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Google releases a Chrome extension to identify web app performance problems(googleblog.blogspot.com)
82 points by seekely 17y ago|15 comments
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by seekely 17y ago
Meant to hit the up arrow. Hit the down arrow by accident. My apologies. I agree completely. There are now so many subscription billing providers, writing your own, for such a small service none the less, is a big waste of time.
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by seekely 17y ago
The amount of work, dedication, persistence, and pain Phelps has endured to achieve the results he has is no less than the work, dedication, persistence and pain an engineer on the first Apollo mission endured. Phelps and the engineer just

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