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by suresk 11y ago
The thing about saying "it just works" and attempting to hide everything from the user is that it is really, really frustrating when it doesn't "just work". The amount of hardware and software bugs I've encount
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by suresk 11y ago
I was always kind of annoyed that they didn't have any of this, and the only way you could kind of get some small part of it was by signing up for their affiliate program, so I'm a little excited for this. I know there are a lot o
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by suresk 11y ago
I've been doing Java development for over a decade and have dabbled in the C#/.NET ecosystem a handful of times. My knee-jerk reaction is always sort of similar (and I write posts about stuff I miss [1] about what I miss), but I d
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by suresk 11y ago
"name and shame" without giving the other side a chance to respond seems a little unfair, and from the tone of the article, one has to wonder if this is the model for how the site will work. I don't know that something like t
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by suresk 13y ago
Until taxpayers start demanding more accountability and professionalism from their police force, they should be stuck with those bills. Police do stuff like this (and get away with it) because the public, generally speaking, assumes that an
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by suresk 13y ago
Thanks, but it looks like it has been shut down? http://www.placeling.com/
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by suresk 13y ago
I've been slowly working on a few things, and hopefully can finish them during the winter: 1) Shared Places The idea is that you can have public or private lists of locations that can be shared with other people, and would be integrate
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by suresk 13y ago
I find it slightly odd that Apple goes into a decent amount of technical detail on the processor in the iPad - calling out the number of registers and transistors - but still doesn't ever disclose how much RAM is in the thing. This is
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by suresk 14y ago
The funny thing is, in almost any discussion about exception handling in Java, I hear the opposite complaint - too many APIs throw checked exceptions. I've been leaning more and more to liking it when APIs force consumers to at least be awa
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by suresk 14y ago
The problem with this attitude is that these same "idiots" also get called out when they follow their non-STEM passions in fields that don't have nearly the expected economic return that STEM fields so. Just watch any thread on college degr
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by suresk 14y ago
I have a hard time believing the claim. I've certainly seen a fair share of new graduates disappointingly lacking in certain areas (for some reason, this seems to be especially true of those who hold a Masters degree but have no work experi
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by suresk 14y ago
Perhaps its because I play MMOs and other online-only games, but the endless complaining about DRM and always-online play is getting a little boring. What I have to wonder, though, is how they botched the launch so badly. They know when the
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by suresk 14y ago
I think this is a good start if you are saying "minimum viable web developer". Plenty of programming doesn't involve the web. In the context of web development, though, I'd add/change: 1. Decent familiarity with HTTP. 2. Fairly good Linux s
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by suresk 14y ago
Those are fair arguments. The main reasons I think ARs are poor for home defense: 1) Their size makes them unwieldy in the home. My AR15, with the stock fully collapsed, is still 32" long, which makes it less than ideal for navigating aroun
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by suresk 14y ago
IMO, gun policy is a fairly complicated and nuanced area - I am still not 100% sure how I feel about a lot of things. Thanks for taking the time to write up a thoughtful response.
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by suresk 14y ago
I have a question about the 2nd amendment: Is the right to bear arms absolute, or is it subject to reasonable regulation? Example: There are a lot of weapons I cannot legally acquire, for example: I can't buy an M249 machine gun, most autom
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by suresk 14y ago
I agree that it is disconcerting to see guns like an AR-15 being targeted merely because they look scary or military-like, but they do have a number of attributes that make them ideal for mass-shootings, which tend to occur at short-to-medi
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by suresk 14y ago
This seems like a reasonably good process. This item under "DONT'S" is a particular annoyance for me: * Don’t ask those who interviewed the candidate before you what they think. Form your own first impression. For some reason, some people f
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by suresk 14y ago
I think it is important to distinguish between urban and suburban areas, in which case suburban areas actually have the most gun owners (since they contain roughly half the population, and suburban households are more likely to own a gun th
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by suresk 14y ago
That is a really good point and it complicates a lot of string-based questions, which is why they are almost always constrained (either implicitly or explicitly) by assuming that the string is ASCII only, which seems reasonable to me. There
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by suresk 14y ago
Since we're using anecdotes - I know and go shooting with a lot of people, and I don't know a single person who only owns 1 gun, it is either 0 or 2 or more (I personally own 3). The reason is that different guns have different uses. If som
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by suresk 14y ago
Now, that was a puzzle :) It was pretty fun to diagnose, even if the knowledge isn't incredibly useful and probably a lot less impressive than it might look at fist glance. Figuring out how stuff works (and why it doesn't work like you thin
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by suresk 14y ago
That isn't a bad solution. You obviously hope that someone you're interviewing can come up with something like that fairly quickly, but I certainly wouldn't disqualify you based on your method of solving it or an initial off-by-one error. &
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by suresk 14y ago
I don't see how reversing a string is a "puzzle" - I'd put its difficulty on par (or maybe slightly harder than) fizzbuzz. In most mainstream languages, it requires 2 pieces of knowledge: 1) That a string is implemented as an array of chara
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by suresk 14y ago
I agree that the hiring situation in our industry is less than ideal. The irony is that, for all of the data we use and tools we make for others, our hiring practices often rely on few tools, limited data, and lots of gut feelings about wha
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by suresk 14y ago
Right, but you listed Google and RIM's stock price as though comparing the two prices by themselves is significant. It isn't. RIM could have substantially more shares outstanding than Google. Comparing their market caps? A little better. Co
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by suresk 14y ago
Granted, Google's future is much brighter than RIM's at this point, but raw stock price is a pretty bad way to convey that - it contains 0 information beyond what it costs to acquire one share in the company.
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by suresk 14y ago
If I'm an employer and you are working for me, I am asking you to solve a problem because there is some value in the result. If I'm interviewing you, chances are, the result has no intrinsic value - I already (hopefully) know it. What I wan
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by suresk 14y ago
I'm sympathetic to this - I don't have a CS degree and most of my last jobs have been through references from people I've worked with before, so I haven't had to answer any tough programming questions in an interview in quite a while. I'm s
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by suresk 14y ago
Having a "hot spare" cloud provider is going to be so complex and expensive that it probably would kill the idea of using Azure, Amazon, etc for most companies. Unless you run your own DC, you are still outsourcing part of your infrastructu

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