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by steven777400 9y ago
Have you actually received offers at the junior/mid level? Or are you just thinking of applying? I wouldn't worry about "years" too much. It's very very easy to work a number of years and still be a "junior&q
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by steven777400 9y ago
Another key aspect is new security approaches to consider during development and integration. Currently an API can be secured as desired, and everything else can be hidden behind the firewall. With the serverless approach more thought has
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by steven777400 10y ago
Looking at some of these examples/techniques reminds me of the "Enterprise FizzBuzz" that we used to make fun of... except now no one is laughing and it's a serious technique. The magic Redux strings are were I draw the
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by steven777400 10y ago
To affirm your anecdote, I had a friend who bought a fourplex in a somewhat depressed area, lived in one unit and rented the other three. It was an unmitigated disaster and a terrible experience. I spent some time with him trying to help
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by steven777400 10y ago
I'd like to know more about this too, and how Tesla and other companies plan to address it. I'm particularly concerned about the potential environmental impact of dumping a bunch of batteries into landfills. Is there a battery re
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by steven777400 10y ago
Respecting both your disclaimer on #3 and the older date on the article, it's amazingly depressing to realize that probably most participants in a program DON'T reach their goal weight. This is saying that even of only the relati
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by steven777400 10y ago
Sorry for being unclear. You said: "Nobody bats an eyelash when doctors refuse to help with executions". So I just wanted to flip it around; if the doctor willingly agrees to assist in an execution, what, if any, implications or
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by steven777400 10y ago
Interesting to flip it around, though: is the doctor who administers a (legally ordered) lethal injection a monster? Why or why not? Or, who gets to decide yes or no? And where is the line? Is the programmer who writes code for a survei
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by steven777400 10y ago
I'm not much of a banana guy, so I don't know if it's always been the case, but at my local supermarket there are usually up to four varieties of bananas to choose from, and always more than just one. The usual big yellows ta
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by steven777400 10y ago
The author's comment on access to a mediocre/unknown university instructor for a high fee vs free access to a very good set of lectures (Khan) is one of the doubts that led me to quit my job as a college instructor. I had kind of
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by steven777400 10y ago
I'm not involved in the previous discussion at all, but given my limited knowledge of the facts, I'd propose a solution like: "Berkeley should keep these videos up, and work to add subtitles and accessibility features to them
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by steven777400 10y ago
As some others have mentioned, the title vs the text confuse a little. The main difficulty in the thought process is what is meant by "my job". Of course, it can't literally be just my job. It would have to be a class of jo
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by steven777400 10y ago
This seems disturbingly severe. Someone misread body language, was corrected, and immediately apologized; you say that's a negative? Also, what happens to more serious crimes when a person is released from prison? I've had severa
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by steven777400 10y ago
This was a useful article. We're starting to have the accessibility discussion for our externally facing sites/applications, driven in part by new state requirements for assessing and ensuring accessibility. There's often th
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by steven777400 10y ago
A decade ago when I was teaching computer programming full time at the community college, I told my students that their online portfolio would be the most important thing to differentiate them from their classmates. I'm actually slight
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by steven777400 10y ago
This isn't a product per-say, but an accomplishment in the "finish a project, no matter how small" category. Our house is heated by a combination of wood stove and electric blowers and the inside temperature varies quite a l
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Show HN: RPI-based temperature monitoring and reporting(github.com)
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by steven777400 10y ago
Keep in mind, as others have said, the "accepted wisdom" is coming out of high-income, high-velocity, technology companies. However, a lot of development is done at companies whose primary business is not software (or not technol
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by steven777400 10y ago
This hits me almost every time I think of something. Recently someone suggested to me a game of "snake" (like the old QB game) that used the tilt sensor in the phone to direct the snake. Should be pretty simple. A few searches la
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by steven777400 10y ago
I share your frustration. Part of the problem seems to be with most devices they are quite nice "out of the box" but over 6 to 12 months the experience degrades; battery and storage performance drop dramatically. I'd like t
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by steven777400 10y ago
What happens if the wrong cable/adapter are combined? I'm just curious as a non-Apple user. I mix-and-match USB-B chargers and cables between my various devices all the time, and never experience a problem (except maybe slower t
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by steven777400 10y ago
I love reading accounts like this. It's fun and well written and I enjoy the photos too. I work in a cube farm of grey cubes on boring LoB applications. I know I'll never be skilled enough (or, more correctly, I'll never be
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by steven777400 10y ago
Not trying to nitpick, but at least a tiny sliver of this data is misleading: the Amtrak stations markers include locations that are definitely not passenger rail stations. For example, the map shows a half-dozen dots on the southwest Wash
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by steven777400 10y ago
Honest question. Your example of the external conditions that enable the 34 year old wine to shine. How does that work with the wine? In other words, if I substitute the cheap modern wine that otherwise won in the blind taste test, what
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by steven777400 10y ago
One counterpoint. We (hiring managers and team leads) complained up the chain for a while that we couldn't hire or retain skilled developers. The state Dept. of Personnel did an industry salary survey, using tools like this, and conc
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by steven777400 10y ago
Big-O technically means "worst case", which for Quicksort is O(n^2), although usually (in normal cases) it runs better than that. Other sort algorithms can guarantee not worse than O(n log n).
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by steven777400 10y ago
I've had success with the "T style" where I list the stated requirements verbatim from the job posting on one side and how specifically I meet those requirements on the other side. Combined with some narrative about relevant
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by steven777400 10y ago
I'm not disagreeing at all, I'm just curious your source for "dry and cold winter". NOAA's Jan-Feb-Mar 2017 predictions for California show normal to warmer than normal temperature [0] and generally normal precipit
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by steven777400 10y ago
I'm sorry you're upset. I regret my original comment, and trying to remove it, today I found out HN doesn't let users delete comments older than a certain small amount of time.
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by steven777400 10y ago
The memory is that these old factory/manufacturing jobs were high paying (middle class), secure, and accessible to people of low intellect, minimal education, and limited social grace. The proposed replacements "caregivers, retail

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