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by superplussed 9y ago
This is usually delineated by wisdom vs intelligence. Intelligence is raw horsepower, and wisdom is the ability to make good decisions. In the context of older developers, I don't think you can really assume wisdom has been an outcome
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by superplussed 9y ago
I agree, it seems poor sportsmanship on the part of Codewars. I mean they could have a special leaderboard for those who "hack" the game in one way or another. It seems in the best interest of the software itself, but also of th
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by superplussed 9y ago
I love when CEOs talk about how they set aside dedicated time for this, Jason Fried comes to mind.
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by superplussed 9y ago
Power inbalance man, that's the point.
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by superplussed 9y ago
I saw him speak at a fireside chat here in Berlin, and was struck by his overall juvenile attitude and idiocy. Given that that was his "shtick" I guess he was just hiding in plain sight. But I'm surprised that his poor judg
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by superplussed 9y ago
The person every kid wanted to be in the 70s was Jimi Hendrix. The person every kid wants to be in 2017 is Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerburg. The zeitgeist has moved on.
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by superplussed 9y ago
I'm really hoping that in the next 5 or 10 years that "clean meat" or meat created from animal cells becomes a viable alternative. This is the future, and with it we will drive costs down and food safety up.
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by superplussed 9y ago
The "Is group chat making you sweat" is using a verb form "continuous aspect" which not all languages have. It's more of a feeling of being in the middle of the situation, where "Does group chat make you sweat
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by superplussed 9y ago
And don't underestimate the cost that comes with a) having to justify your quirky Coffeescript codebase to potential hires and b) not getting the hires you want because they won't work in Coffeescript. This was my main motivation
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by superplussed 9y ago
I'm not buying it either. I think some people are trying to inflate the perceived value of the bootcamps.
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by superplussed 9y ago
Yeah, the senior titles for people with 1 or 1.5 years out of bootcamp don't make any sense at all, and cast doubt on the validity of the data. Come on, we've all worked with smart people that are a year or two in to being a devel
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by superplussed 9y ago
Yeah, this didn't make sense to me. It's the most important real-estate on the page, and not only is he humble-bragging, but he's instilling some doubt into his commitment to the project. "And to be honest I still do a
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by superplussed 9y ago
What did this statement mean: "It’s very difficult for American startups to relocate post-Trump."
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by superplussed 9y ago
Not to be too contrarian, but I'm a 45 year old developer whose (basically) only code that is currently in production is what I've made in the last year. Code is generally eventually thrown away, whether it's garbage or not.
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by superplussed 9y ago
Yeah, whenever new hires complain about the lack of completeness or correctness of documentation, I'm like: that's a great place for you to start. It also seems to be a great signal of the attitude of the new hire, because the p
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by superplussed 9y ago
I love all of your advice, but I would start straight-away with writing tests. Not only is it low risk, it is the best way to start understanding the code base, and gives you an avenue through which you can start introducing small refactor
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by superplussed 9y ago
In 1981 I'm not sure that it was so obvious that computers would take over the world, definitely not to the general public. For context, I was 10 years old at the time, and was the only kid in my school that owned a computer, a TI-99
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by superplussed 9y ago
I agree that it's a great idea, are there competitors? But just a little feedback on the tagline, the "10x" sounds a bit amateurish, since it's not backed by any data and just sounds like over-hyped marketing speak. &q
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by superplussed 9y ago
This seems like the likely answer. Of course an unchecked algorithm would come to this conclusion, the key being that the algorithm is acting "without supervision". But it seems like negligence to not be supervising these algorit
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by superplussed 9y ago
Is it feasible to attend the CCC as a non-German with only a basic grasp of the language? I've always had the impression that it was very German-language oriented, but seeing the amount of English in this thread has me reconsidering.
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by superplussed 9y ago
What formatting did they remove, the indentation?
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by superplussed 9y ago
Again, I said there is nothing wrong with taking a break. To me working on developer tooling is taking a break. Maybe to you it isn't, so going to someone's desk for a chat would work for you, or going to play ping-pong in the l
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by superplussed 9y ago
As I said in my comments, it's not about not being at 100% capacity all of the time. No-one is, but there are honest ways to communicate that. What's crazy to me is strategically lying to your employers IN ADVANCE, to set yoursel
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by superplussed 9y ago
I wouldn't post anything on HN that I wouldn't want my boss to see, and frankly if I was your boss I wouldn't be that happy that: "I just tend to bullshit my way through a work week.." "..build interfaces that
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by superplussed 9y ago
Come on, this is just a blatant PR piece. Lot's of people do lots of things to fund their struggling startups, but very few get a full article plus advertising photos on the BBC. Well done guys, kudos, but come on there is no story h
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by superplussed 9y ago
Of course this is the only common-sense answer, I'm amazed I had to scroll this far down to find it.
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by superplussed 9y ago
Seems like the opposite of anarchy :)
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by superplussed 9y ago
SVG is such a superior format for icons, it scales perfectly, is very efficient size-wise. The only annoyance is getting them inline so that they can be styled with CSS.
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by superplussed 9y ago
The monetization made off of Youtube should offset all of that and then some.
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Ask HN: Do you talk out-loud to yourself when you program?
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