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Osmo Wiio: Communication usually fails, except by accident (37signals.com)
2 points by siavosh 15y ago|1 comments
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by siavosh 15y ago
This is magical, I can't correlate the combination of visual/symbolic/musical elements to any real world analogues. Auditory/musical interactions should be explored by more people in the startup community.
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by siavosh 15y ago
At my company I feel like we have a pretty good system set in place for screening technical skills. The issue is that after 3-5 phone screens, and a day long in person plus a happy hour afterwards, there's still a significant cultural risk
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Ask HN: Are your failed hires usually due to bad skills or cultural fit?
5 points by siavosh 15y ago|2 comments
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by siavosh 15y ago
-How has the turnover been? -How much tome do teammates socialize outside of work? -What percentage of your time is support? -Is mentorship valued? -Which best describes the engineering culture: deadline or quality driven? -How many hours o
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Ask HN: What questions did you wish you asked before accepting your current job?
15 points by siavosh 15y ago|10 comments
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by siavosh 15y ago
I agree with the flawed voting scheme. What I don't understand is why the number one voted comment thread is on how great C# is when I can't last remember an article on HN talking about C#. This whole thread seems so contradictory to my per
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by siavosh 15y ago
The trouble, as always, are the more vulnerable people in society. Folks who may not have a lot of options, or really need to stay at a current job. They are more vulnerable to this sort of exploitation. I wish facebook would organize an ad
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Clojure inventor Hickey now aims for Android(iwebguyblog.wordpress.com)
3 points by siavosh 15y ago|1 comments
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by siavosh 15y ago
As a long time skeptic, but a new convert to TDD, it also occurred to me that I was also reaping the benefits of immediate feedback after each build analogous to Bret Victor's theme in his talk and demo at CUSEC. It definitely increased my
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Ron Johnson: Retail's new radical(management.fortune.cnn.com)
1 points by siavosh 15y ago|0 comments
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The genius of RealTimeWWII(siavoshb.tumblr.com)
1 points by siavosh 15y ago|0 comments
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by siavosh 15y ago
This talk really resonated with me. As engineers, I think we can acknowledge the power of abstraction/reason/focus. But too many times we find ourselves idolizing these things. A couple golden quotes from the video: "The left hemisphere is
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RSA Animate - The Divided Brain(youtube.com)
4 points by siavosh 15y ago|1 comments
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by siavosh 15y ago
I understand it would be frustrating to some people some of the time. And HN is definitely a place with above average posting qualities. But I just can't help to think that even here (not to mention most other forums) a significant portion
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Make it slower and harder for your users(siavoshb.tumblr.com)
2 points by siavosh 15y ago|4 comments
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by siavosh 15y ago
I had the same reaction, the talk was amazing. And for me, it finally made it clear how someone can do something as hard as a startup and not give up: it takes belief in a (time invariant) principle.
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Tim Ewald demonstrates the simplicity of using Datomic from code(datomic.com)
2 points by siavosh 15y ago|0 comments
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by siavosh 15y ago
Good stuff. Curious, did you use Noir?
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by siavosh 15y ago
What's nice about this is you don't need to switch screens to pause the music if you find yourself writing/coding and need some quiet when you're in the zone. Granted you can do this with the mac play/pause physical buttons but that would r
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Seth Godin: Information Density(sethgodin.typepad.com)
1 points by siavosh 15y ago|0 comments
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The perils of gamification(siavoshb.tumblr.com)
2 points by siavosh 15y ago|0 comments
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by siavosh 15y ago
Oh boy, the financial wizard porn articles are being peddled again, right when the markets are supposedly OK. I hope we all don't have such short term memories.
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by siavosh 15y ago
Interesting. Two trends I pick up on at glance: 1) increased use of indentation 2) abandoning commenting for self-documenting code (and the occasional header comment). I'm guessing these are pretty universal trends, no?
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A fresh new Dropbox on the web(blog.dropbox.com)
205 points by siavosh 15y ago|46 comments
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by siavosh 15y ago
Good point. When I saw his email volume, I wondered how I would feel looking about at an entire decade and seeing how much time I spent on emails. I'd probably feel a lot of regret. But like you're saying the point of QS shouldn't be regret
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by siavosh 15y ago
This is amazing. I think the quantified self movement is going to be huge. With more personal tracking gadgets (fitbit, jawbone, nike fuel), measurements are going to become more and more seamless, passive, and complete. Not only will you g
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by siavosh 15y ago
What made Clojure stick out for me was its easy access to the vast java libs, and its philosophy on concurrency. Both (I could be very wrong) seemed novel in the functional world.
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by siavosh 15y ago
I spend half my day in iOS development and the other half on a Java web stack. I love the RESULT of Obj-C+Cocoa Touch, you can achieve amazing user experience. But I'm reaching the point thinking: it's 2012, I'm an application developer, wh
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by siavosh 15y ago
Can someone explain why there are large sections of the universe that are unmapped?

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