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by shaftway 10y ago
I like how the author just re-invented if statements. Even still called them "if". Compare: [snip] { title: 'Has the user searched yet?', test: !!pageData.searchKeyword, if: { true: { [snip
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by shaftway 10y ago
The large companies keep that gravy train rolling. If they don't do refreshes, people walk after their last vesting event. The hot new thing is to do continuous vesting with annual refreshes. That way you're constantly accruing
723.
by shaftway 10y ago
Except, it's a much deeper cost. Have you ever gotten a ticket? There's the points on your license, the increase in insurance rates, the risk that another 2 or so infractions at this level will cause your license to automatically
724.
by shaftway 10y ago
The worst of my time was using Oracle, around 2008. Back then SolarWinds was just a consulting company. And I don't really do much relational work anymore. A lot of my stuff ends up being documents with simple keys organized in hierarc
725.
by shaftway 10y ago
I kind of inferred this, rather than outright stating it, but I like SQL. The concepts are elegant, the language is a little kludgy but not obscene. I can never really remember the semantics of left, right, outer and inner joins, but I usu
726.
by shaftway 10y ago
Can you give a succinct definition of what `git add` and `git checkout` do without relying on documentation?
727.
by shaftway 10y ago
Oh, I'm sure there is. I'm also sure I have zero idea how to access it, request one, or who to even start talking to about it.
728.
by shaftway 10y ago
It's not so much existing at the fringe of performance, but there have been weeks of my life lost to needing to tune a query or an index. Sure, some of that time is actually building the index I just added. But I don't want to hav
729.
by shaftway 10y ago
I love that I'm at a company that I haven't had to use SQL. I don't know if I could even find a relational database here. But in a classic meme sense: "It isn't you I hate SQL, it's what I have to think about
730.
by shaftway 10y ago
There's rigidly following a recipe. And then there's "I want to make some kind soup and I have nothing in the house that can be used as broth". I keep most of the staples that don't go bad on hand, but there are pl
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by shaftway 10y ago
We never did this, because realistically it meant one trip to find what's in season, go home, find a recipe, then go back to get anything else we need. Things got better when we tried a farm-to-table service that would deliver a box of
732.
by shaftway 10y ago
3. Software Architects don't get to spend all day every day building sandcastles of the mind; sometimes they have to get down in the trenches and write some low-level code. If they won't do it during an interview, they probably wo
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by shaftway 10y ago
Feature requests: - On back-nav, grab the query from the URL. - Use window.location.replace() until the text box loses focus, or the list is scrolled, or for a bit of time, or something to indicate that the user has finished typing out a qu
734.
by shaftway 10y ago
Frankly, the phonetics were trivial. So it's really... Amazon: ies12# Facebook: otto16& "Otto" made me think 8, and that led me to "sei" (I read stuff upside down when reading to my kids, so I flip letter orders
735.
by shaftway 10y ago
My current team is glorious: 1 hour every other week. I've been on teams that average 3 hours per day. Honestly I'd bring a laptop and work through them. If there's that much information to distribute, I probably don't c
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Ask HN: Do you moonlight?
1 points by shaftway 10y ago|1 comments
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by shaftway 10y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote with occasional visits or SF (Moonlighting) 5 years of Android development at Google/Android team, 7 years of backend processing in finance. I haven't freelanced in 15 years, but I have done significant amoun
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by shaftway 10y ago
I currently prefer using Protocol Buffers for configuration. You can use their built-in text formatter [1] to do plain-text configs. The default format isn't terrible [2], but I've been thinking about using that code as the basi
739.
by shaftway 10y ago
My wife was a teacher. Their union was one of the most dishonest thing I've ever seen, with the school running a close second. When we were having our first kid, my wife made the mistake of telling the school she was pregnant. Over the
740.
by shaftway 10y ago
As an interviewer, I don't trust references one tiny bit. I've literally asked you to cherry-pick a handful of people to say that you're good. I don't know who these people are. They'll either say you're good
741.
by shaftway 10y ago
You are assuming that the business doesn't use a third party monitoring firm. Ultimately, whenever you visit any place, business or home, the data is under the control of the owner and anyone they abdicate those rights to.
742.
by shaftway 10y ago
This is often useful even if you're not the flier. When I'm picking someone up it lets me know when their flight was delayed, and when I'm traveling it lets my wife know when I'm available.
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by shaftway 10y ago
>Did I sign anything saying Google or Apple could use my data? No. This opens up the door for class action law suits in some US states at least. I'm pretty sure that if this was going to happen, it'd already have happened. Next
744.
by shaftway 10y ago
> Probably if 99% of their revenue comes from advertising you can call them an advertising company So what is Google then? As of 2015 Q4, ~90% of revenue comes from ads and it's trending down vs. other sources. http://qz
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by shaftway 10y ago
Using net carbs (since you don't digest fiber), those beans drop to 12g of carbs. Also don't forget rice: Beans: 115 cals, 12g carbs Rice: 185 cals, 33g carbs
746.
by shaftway 10y ago
> what kind of weirdo doesn't like spaghetti? Type 2 Diabetics?
747.
by shaftway 10y ago
FWIW, the Google GitHub contribution guidelines encourage you to use your personal email address to make contributions if you already have one. They cite a few reasons, but one of them is to maintain access/credit/identity/wh
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by shaftway 10y ago
Actually, I don't care if she was or wasn't trying to hide something. That's so common these days and I'm cynical, so I expect politicians to be trying to do that. It's the willful ignorance that troubles me. Som
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by shaftway 10y ago
I totally agree, and this was the scariest part when I was hired. But you do have some choice in the matter, and you are expected to stay in your first role for 18 months. I was hired into a "crufty ad department" and made my mov
750.
by shaftway 10y ago
Not at all. I'm a 15 year veteran. No chance I'd move into management or project management. First, I'd hate the job. It'd move me away from the code, which is where I enjoy spending my time. Second, the problems I&

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