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   Ask HN: Asking what you did wrong in an interview?

   7 points by sown 14y ago|24 comments
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   by sown 14y ago

   Neat! I didn't know WebGL was available yet. I read about it a while ago. Can any random person go write WebGL code?
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   Ask HN: How do you decide what project to work on?

   8 points by sown 14y ago|5 comments
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   by sown 14y ago

   Pointers are sometimes not arrays. :) extern int *x; extern int y[] x is a pointer to an int and y is a pointer to an array of ints of unspecified size. It's equivalent to saying float x and then extern int x somewhere else. Th
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   by sown 14y ago

   > I absolutely love this stuff. The photos to me are strangely eerie, and even perhaps a little sinister. It's actually reassuring to me. It's rocks. We understand rocks. I'm surrounded by them. There may not be a blade of grass, a gasp
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   by sown 14y ago

   So what's the deal with WebCL? I can't write code with it yet?
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   by sown 14y ago

   My family has owned small businesses before and one of the more annoying parts is dealing with the credit card machine and merchant vendors. The rates were always high, the machines were kind of confusing to use and were expensive. The depo
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   by sown 14y ago

   I've heard of killer apps but I wonder if there's such a thing as a killer vendor/customer. I hate being too dumb to work at places like this. :(
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   by sown 14y ago

   Every time I want to go to an event at hacker dojo it seems like it gets canceled. Can I just go there and ... hang out?
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    by sown 14y ago

    > You first have to do market research, come up with an angle, partner with a merchant or five, write a content plan, build it, market it, etc. It seems like you could make a website about that without some kind of selling angle because
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    by sown 14y ago

    You need feedback on whether you are doing well or not. That's the other part of on-line education that is missing.
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    by sown 14y ago

    Neat. Does this mean the nature of working there is going to be different? I've been through an acquisition before and everything changes afterwards.
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    by sown 14y ago

    Where do you get the music from?
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    by sown 14y ago

    Any areas in particular?
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    by sown 14y ago

    Wow, I really made people mad.
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    by sown 14y ago

    > If you're worth $300 million and you don't plan to take, say, a year or two off to play and connect with your soon-to-be-firstborn child? If she were male, would you say the same thing?
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    by sown 14y ago

    > Hmm, you sound like you've got yourself upset by reading all the Marissa Mayer news, then trying to compare yourself to her and falling short. Am I right? No, not really. But this does sound like reasonable advice.
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    by sown 14y ago

    How do people get good enough to get hired where ever? Let's say I'm using this as a sort of test rather than wanting to get hired somewhere. Some people I see are so productive, those fabled 10:1 engineers but I don't see a path to getting
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    Ask HN: How do you get to be good at this?

    3 points by sown 14y ago|6 comments
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    by sown 14y ago

    Wow. I'm dumbfounded at how much more clever and sophisticated attacks get. It will never end! I fear that I cannot be of much use anymore. I remember back when buffer overflows was the exploit and I viewed it as some kind of sorcery, eve
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    Ask: I wasn't able to attend IO2012, can I order a pair of developer Glass-es?

    1 points by sown 14y ago|1 comments
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    by sown 14y ago

    So, say hypothetically, if I wanted to try my hand at implementing a toy version of something similar for fun, what would I need to at least have a grasp at?
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    by sown 14y ago

    Heh. np. i realized i sounded harsh so i deleted it.
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    by sown 14y ago

    > The Vice-President simply has no power to order anything more complex than pizza. He can suggest, plead, and implore, but someone else has to actually take the responsibility for the action and order something to occur. Although offic
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    by sown 14y ago

    Thanks for that pointer. I've been messing around with Django. I figure backends seem to change but CSS3/HTML5/JS seems to be the triumvirate for the time being.
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    by sown 14y ago

    No, they did say why, after a bunch of vetting; I phrased it weird, sorry. I think I did OK, but I don't have any web app experience, and I can understand given the small team in MV. Your team did well, although, I'd like to have tried the
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    by sown 14y ago

    What if I have no real web-app experience other than what I've taught myself but I do have experience with binary analysis, embedded and kernel in MV? I had a few phone interviews a few months ago and I get the idea that's why I didn't get
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    by sown 14y ago

    Thanks for this pointer.
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    by sown 14y ago

    This is neat! Can you implement a SuperMemo type quiz? I think that's a good killer feature for good performance from students for both udacity and coursera. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperMemo
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    Ask HN: Best HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript books/tutorials for a kernel engineer?

    4 points by sown 14y ago|6 comments