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by tom_b 15y ago
This is a well done summary that is really appropriate for any RDBMS. More than worthwhile if you deal with hierarchical and relational data.
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Trees and Other Hierarchies in MySQL (Relational/hierarchical data overview)(artfulsoftware.com)
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This is always a tough question from corporations. Best is to know a little about the range the specific company is offering for entry level jobs. You'll not see much variation on that. If you have to come up with a number and justify it,
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by tom_b 15y ago
Exactly - Nortel had a big portfolio of phone switches (the DMS-10 and DMS-100 are the two that leap to mind) and I would assume a rich collection of switch patents as well. Too bad they blew up - can anyone recommend a good write-up about
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by tom_b 15y ago
I don't necessarily disagree with your statement that getting the best BI tool is more important than the cheapest. I think far more important is for a good BI developer or someone in-house with deep domain knowledge and "power," for lack o
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My daughter was exactly the same at age 2 and has completely flip-flopped at daycare. She was initially very reserved around kids (and still is around new adults), but is very social with the other kids in her daycare classes. It took a
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by tom_b 15y ago
I think a key observation is that working with a REPL just makes dev feel so light and quick. I love it and have found it to be a big part of the joy of programming.
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by tom_b 15y ago
I presume pair programming, putting the candidate at a desk with a shared keyboard and monitor and rely heavily on feedback from the evaluating partner.
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by tom_b 15y ago
I suspect there may be something to the idea of Lisp supporting multiple paradigms of development. If (and this is a big if) you had enough exposure to the virtues of imperative, functional, and declarative programming styles and (second b
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I think it would be fun to think of this in a more high-level language where data structures could be autonomously tuned by a VM or interpreter. That way, you could start out with lists when prototyping and building up your app, but under t
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by tom_b 15y ago
Not unless they know some Oracle incantations I've not heard of. I'm going to guess some home-rolled column store similar to KDB. [EDIT] re: Oracle stuff I've not heard of - there is tons of Oracle scale/performance stuff I've never even ha
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by tom_b 15y ago
Sounds HFT to me. Plus functional programming. KDB like? Quit teasing Out with it. Sounds like fun with lots of real hackability and responsibility built in. Would love to hear more of what you can share. You mention a SQL db - have yo
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by tom_b 15y ago
You've probably seen it already, but cpervica also just open sourced his B+ tree component of Tarsnap. http://www.tarsnap.com/kivaloo.html It's a specialized key value store. I'm reading through the C code for it. It will be fun to read
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Three-hour-a-week-language (Fluency in hacking)(johndcook.com)
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by tom_b 16y ago
The first open standard for multi-dimensional cube analysis is SQL. For those interested, the link to Dr. Dobb's is shockingly poor. Check out the official site: http://www.olap4j.org/
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by tom_b 16y ago
We use an open source product with a paid support contract. I took over admin of this tool last year and was shocked to find that we get a license year-to-year for the product based on renewing our support contract. So, a free tool has a
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by tom_b 16y ago
I think this is particularly insightful. What you've stated is a raw and pragmatic consideration - what is it that I want to do and what library lets me get that done the fastest? Coming from justin.tv, this insight may be more start-up pe
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by tom_b 16y ago
For another point of view, as long as we are slinging ancedotes . . . My wife teaches a large, but graduate level, seminar. Every semester, a small number of students are caught blatantly plagiarizing sources in papers. These cases are re
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by tom_b 16y ago
I'm particularly interested in learning more about how HN'ers with side businesses have hacked the "High Touch Sales Processes" Patrick mentions. I have some thoughts for a B2B project this year but worry that I vastly underestimate the amo
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by tom_b 16y ago
Wish I could give you more points for "must mention actual company name (not just the recruitment agency)" One of the ways I even find out that a company exists and uses technology <insert your favorite> is to look in the job listin
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by tom_b 16y ago
Hmmmm. Given a language X that is not used in actual development in an organization, at what point does interviewing with whiteboard coding in X become just another credential? I like (FTA): "So I’ve picked a question that forces candidate
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You must be able to browse, read, and understand the underlying source code and programming language of the application being tested. I have worked on teams at large IT providers where test teams were marginalized because testers were essen
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by tom_b 16y ago
I'm trying to wrap my head around "thinking like a language designer" when approaching software dev. It's the viewpoint in this article that I'm intrigued by these days - that building DSLs in Lisp is a source of great expressiveness in co
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My friend forwarded me the video demo link for this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GhNXHCQGsM&feature=playe... Very nifty. I'm looking forward to reading the machine learning code involved in this.
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by tom_b 16y ago
Anyone from Twitter who can comment on the cultural/engineering ramifications of this? I would be tremendously interested to hear from former Ruby hackers who have been shifting (back?) to Java via the Netty tool mentioned in the OP. Defini
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by tom_b 16y ago
I had a negotiation completely implode using glassdoor and payscale along with "insider" info on salaries at a company. But I had naively given a complete salary history when asked early in the process. Since I was currently working for le
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by tom_b 16y ago
WTF? They don't have a 1:1 ratio in max security prisons. I simply cannot imagine how a fortune 500 company would let a division or org get this out of whack. Do these managers do anything but "manage?" E.g., are they also customer contac
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by tom_b 16y ago
I have two pre-K children. My wife and I both work FT. After each baby got to around 7 or 8 months, we used an outside-the-home daycare provider. We both work some from home. This was critical at the time, as neither of us was in a posit
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by tom_b 16y ago
Love the idea of rotating "managerial" or "lead" person in a small group. I'm on a small team within a larger organization that we support (in dev and tool usage). A challenge for us is that people in the larger org are used to having a ma
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Hit up your local college library. Mine has a copy of it and it has been there every time I've gone by to check it out.

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