shady-lady

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by shady-lady 8y ago
Does error handling not exist anymore?
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by shady-lady 8y ago
missing from that list is: https://news.ycombinator.com/classic not even hidden there as a  comment
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by shady-lady 8y ago
what site? i can only see manning for $36. not on amazons.
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by shady-lady 8y ago
Deleting facebook & twitter and de-gamifying as many other websites as I can (via tampermonkey scripts) is great. reddit (my) karma score, & poster usernames -> hidden HN (my) karma score -> hidden slimming down everything to
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by shady-lady 8y ago
> That if a thing is more readily available more people will do is just flat out wrong. for real?
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by shady-lady 8y ago
Netflix & Amazon for sure.. > Facebook ..and being more liberal & exploitative in sharing user data than any company before > Airbnb ..and subverting local regulations. > Uber ..and subverting local regulations.
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by shady-lady 8y ago
I think it goes without saying that you have to get & use a product before becoming addicted. If a product is more widely available & readily sold, then there are going to be more people addicted. Criminalization has nothing to do w
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by shady-lady 8y ago
maybe those who don't fully internalise the risk go use it..because now _it's legal_ and why would the government let anything be sold in a normal retail setting if it wasn't ok to use? so, you & I are ok but the next gen
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by shady-lady 8y ago
> they've replaced 80% of the front counter staff with self-order kiosks > replaced 80% of the front counter staff Have you any credible source for that or any source at all? Snopes has more info on a similar statement: https:&#
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by shady-lady 8y ago
> I want to make sure you're interested in that work Is the work something so unique that it's not roughly the same as work in multiple other companies? Is the work going to be such that it's going to continue to be intere
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by shady-lady 8y ago
> A day is nothing for someone looking to leave a current position. Take a day off of work, what's the problem? Seriously. You're leaving anyway. Most people talk to more than one company if they're planning on leaving a j
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by shady-lady 8y ago
> The other aspect is that some of us actually like our work and want to succeed at it: Work is work. Your employer pays you money to do work. If you do work outside of that, it doesn't mean anything other than you don't w
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by shady-lady 8y ago
Just taking issue with the 'Erm, is this reporting' line. Most news things are reported through observation, not participation.
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by shady-lady 8y ago
> Needless to say, you can't objectively compare two candidates' progress if one of them spends half the interview trying to get their environment set up! If most of the issues revolve around having roughly the same environment
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by shady-lady 8y ago
> Coding questions ideally yield an answer that can compile and run and return correct output for at least some valid sets of input. That's about as objective as it gets. Except for coding style (incl. naming convention), code organ
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by shady-lady 8y ago
Step 1 should be verify the information you're counting as facts.. re: McDonalds & ingredients > This means the same items are made in the same way with the same ingredients in very different economies around the world, making t
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by shady-lady 8y ago
Also from the article: > Google's security team first disclosed the vulnerability privately to Epic Games on August 15, and has since released the information publicly following confirmation from Epic that the vulnerability was patc
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by shady-lady 8y ago
> This is a well-known problem with any "reality-based" programming Panorama isn't a "reality-based" programme. It's an undercover investigative programme. The problem with "reality-based" programm
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by shady-lady 8y ago
In all the articles written about SPAs being faster, 99% of them miss the mark when it comes to the why - namely the above. I can't remember ever seeing one of the fundamental reasons explicitly being called out..leading to vast amount
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by shady-lady 8y ago
> When I look back at my life, I'm not going to regret spending extra time in the office. Did you mean you're not going to regret not spending extra time in the office? i.e. family > work or did you mean work > family
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by shady-lady 8y ago
> No, the reason is that CSS and JavaScript has to be reinitialized and reapplied to the page again. Glad to see this mentioned. Hopefully legions of devs can least now UNDERSTAND why SPA can be faster & what makes it so.
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by shady-lady 8y ago
> phone manufactures would struggle to make a halfway-decent operating system They'd have bought from one of the other mobile OS vendors(Symbian, MS) or made their own (Nokia w/Maemo). It could be argued that Google distributin
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by shady-lady 8y ago
> Had they made Android a walled garden like Apple, they wouldn't have been fined....Android is free, which unequivocally is a net positive for consumers It's unequivocally a positive if they play by the rules. They fell foul o
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by shady-lady 8y ago
I don't quite get the last sentence. > who could look at how Europe treats Android and come to the conclusion that Google made the right decision by being open? Google was fined on antitrust grounds. I don't see which direction
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by shady-lady 8y ago
> think of it as double-entry bookkeeping just think of it as bookkeeping, period. a ledger of all events. absolutely nothing to do with double entry (which for accounting; from wiki: "The double entry has two equal and correspond
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by shady-lady 8y ago
Hopefully bi-temporal tables get added to Postgres soon. I think it would cover a few of the use cases that people are turning to event sourcing for(excluding scale).
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by shady-lady 8y ago
notwithstanding that (itself an interesting data point) > before being allowed to have an actual conversation with a peer about the role?
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by shady-lady 8y ago
> It sounds like you don't think much of testing, if you're expecting tests to be handed to you Should have been clearer They should have tests to cover their code (not the code I'm going to right).. This cuts down on me a
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by shady-lady 8y ago
To add to this; if a company does want me to put effort into proving I can code a solution to whatever problem, then they better have gone to the trouble of: a) setting up a git repo with working code in it (including tests, dependencies an
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by shady-lady 8y ago
> If you complain about having to spend a couple hours outside the interview on work, maybe you don't really want the job that bad enough Maybe I'm talking to more than one company and don't feel like subjecting myself to

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