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by vdnkh 11y ago
>C# is a great language to work in when making backend services for websites, IMO (even though there's a whole load of crap that comes along with the framework). Exactly how I feel. I've been working professionally with C# prof
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Author created a spreadsheet with her salary/few other salaries of coworkers on it, posts it to google internal social network, 5% of workers fill it out, people start asking for better salaries, managers mad, her peer bonuses (coworke
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by vdnkh 11y ago
Wow, the first graph in this article looks exactly like the graph of the bubble phenomenon ( http://i.imgur.com/Amon5PR.jpg ). I guess stability will increase, which is a good thing.
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>People use Reddit (and HN) to get away from the bulk of the world, not to have the bulk of the world join them on their private anonymous message boards too. Actually, I think of it as the opposite. I go to Reddit to get the bulk, and o
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Not sure if you intended this feature, but using HTML as a chat message is awesome
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Sentiment like this is a huge double standard that nobody seems to notice. When somebody says "All Muslims are terrorists" because an extremely small proportion of them ARE terrorists, you (rightfully so) get people saying that yo
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>2. To make a fasion statement. Bingo. I enjoy the satisfaction of having an extremely complicated mechanical device winding away on my wrist, but it's ultimately a piece of jewelry. This is evident in the industry itself. Most wa
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Evidence in the context that Baidu "cheats". I agree, it's not a bad thing. But from my experience it seems they copied Google's interface (which is functional and pretty) but had a complete misunderstanding of how to im
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by vdnkh 11y ago
Just some anectdotal evidence, but at work I had to implement a clone of our Google Maps application in Baidu Maps for our customers in China. The only reason I was able to use their API was because they copied Google's interfaces, in
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by vdnkh 11y ago
My editor, Joe Brown, who came into the room to watch the machine at work, remains convinced the machine was programmed to play a piece of composed music. A bit off topic, but there exists a program [0] which generates instructions from a
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[0]Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., voted against the measure today, as he did last fall. [0] http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/06/02/411534447/... I thought I heard earlier this week that Sa
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I really dislike them too but I'd be shooting myself in the foot if I didn't study these problems. Learning them has also made me a better programmer since I graduated with an ECE degree and never had a formal data structures clas
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by vdnkh 11y ago
I'd rather not say, but they're a moderately trendy mid-sized business marketing company located in NYC. I thought I nailed that interview. The first question I got rather handily; I got the first part off the bat, the second part
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You're expected to ask them. It's a minefield, really. But it's really not far off what I do on my job. When I get a spec I always ask questions like that. It's just hard to come up with scenarios when you've been g
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There's many more grading points to a computer solution. You're not graded for code style on the whiteboard; from what I've gathered, having an algorithm + code to implement is sufficient (not counting the verbal part). On th
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by vdnkh 11y ago
In the same interview I wrote about in this thread, I also had a computer question. Had an hour to complete it. I knew the answer from the outset, and just had to work out a few details (was working in Mono for the first time). And you know
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by vdnkh 11y ago
Practice On my first real software interview, even though I got 90% of the answers correct, I didn't get an offer. I didn't ask specific enough questions, constrain the problem, or quantify my reasoning to satisfaction. And the
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by vdnkh 11y ago
I feel like MS is pretty good with their acronyms. Usually just Windows% or Microsoft%. OSS, on the other hand, is a bit ridiculous. It's time [to] explain the meaning of "Hurd". "Hurd" stands for "Hird of Uni
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by vdnkh 11y ago
This is a colossally stupid idea. How is this better than someone having a cellphone? Are you always holding it outstretched on your hand, anticipating a cop to drive by any second? Or can it crawl out of your pocket to defend your civil ri
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by vdnkh 11y ago
>Shame it's so big. 40mm is actually on the smaller side for watches. Divers start at 42mm typically. The Apple watch she purchased is also 42mm.
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by vdnkh 11y ago
I work in the Windows sphere at work and I really like Powershell. It has a ton of great features out of the box (especially for parallelism) as well as solid bread and butter operations. Although it's a bit verbose and not as mature a
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Why not use f.lux? At work I turn it up to max at all times of day and it's really much easier on the eyes. I hardly noticed the redness after a day or two.
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This is great, I'm making my first website now and you've given me a lot of great ideas for design. And made me feel bad about mine!
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>"...They blame it (horrific profits) on consumers getting concerned about what they put in their bodies." Even though health food has become fashionable (for perhaps less than rational reasons), I believe that greater awarenes
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by vdnkh 12y ago
Do you remember any questions? I'm going to be applying there soon and I'd like to know.
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by vdnkh 12y ago
I'm getting "Range requested not satisfiable" but no crash. Am I vulnerable or just doing it wrong?
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Interesting article. My first job was working in a park in Monmouth County, NJ. Of the two parks I worked at, one was completely fenced off from deer while the other had small sections fenced off to study the impact of deer on forest regene
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That's pretty cool. I hope to work there some day. My hours now are flexible; I come in and leave an hour early to avoid traffic.
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>Usually home by 8 or 9pm I assume they got into work at 8 or 9am? That's terrible. I'm really glad that I work a standard 8 hour day at my small no-name company.
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NPR does lean heavily left. I listen to it every day. I wasn't implying anything other than the BBC and NPR both lean left.

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