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by vinhboy 9y ago
We need a mindset change. Jobs that can be done remotely, should be done remotely. Making people commute to office buildings to fill cubicles is crazy. They should be able to live where they want and not waste 2 hours a day burning fossil f
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by vinhboy 9y ago
Agreed. I'd also add that the UI for the app needs work. Ordering coffee for a group of people becomes a huge hassle on my phone because their search is not precise, and customizing drinks is a bit cumbersome. I spent like 20 minutes t
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by vinhboy 9y ago
I guess you're right. I am obviously not that smart... Haha.. But to your point, Steve Jobs is an example of that. He had blue collar adoptive parents, but his birth parents were PhD level people. I am not gonna put my foot in my mouth
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by vinhboy 9y ago
> his father taught statistics and his mother became one of the first professors of Russian literature in South Korea I notice that really talented people, always have talented parents. Rarely do I read stories about poor blue collar par
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by vinhboy 9y ago
LOL... yup, that's typical New Yorker writing. I am college educated and I have a hard time reading it, so it's not just you.
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by vinhboy 9y ago
Wow, the data point about rape is an interesting tangent. I guess with people like 45 and all the stories from Silicon Valley, it's not that surprising. But sad none the less. Maybe we can follow the OP's lead and use technology t
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by vinhboy 9y ago
> maybe there is another underlying problem. The problem is that sometimes I am in the zone from like 10pm - 1am. So naturally I am tired during the day. A few minutes to nap for 3 hours of "in the zone" ain't a bad trade
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by vinhboy 9y ago
Mass + New York + Canada + Seattle + Oregon + Cali will form the nation of America 2.0. Open borders to all US citizens. The rest of the US can mine coal, frack, or whatever they want to do. They think that's where the jobs are. Doesn&
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by vinhboy 9y ago
The clarity of these kinds of comments on HN makes me so happy. In the Trump-era, it warms my heart to see there are still plenty of intelligent people who understand complex problems. I know this is a stupid, and almost patronizing comment
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by vinhboy 9y ago
> It would ultimately take days, from June 12th to June 14th, for Vickery to download 1.1 TB of publicly accessible files Do security firms have special permission to do this? Because as a private citizen, I am pretty sure I would go to
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by vinhboy 9y ago
I didn't know these kind of places existed until I had to interview. I honestly thought it was too niche and must be some kind of scam. But after like two months into my job search and feeling hopeless, I signed up for one of the sites
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by vinhboy 9y ago
I mostly agree with you and I very much do what you suggested. After all my interviews, I spend a lot of time researching the question to see what the correct answer is. For example, in one interview they asked me to make a crossword puzzle
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by vinhboy 9y ago
Thought about this extensively. But I feel the imposter syndrome creep up every time I go this route. My mistake is that I spent too much of my career working for tiny startups with 1 or 2 engineers, doing grunt work. I never got the chance
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by vinhboy 9y ago
I appreciate this stuff immensely. In one of my interviews, the interviewer was teaching me stuff. He asked me if I knew about this and I said no I haven't used it. Then he showed me how. It was a good experience. Edit: I remember now.
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by vinhboy 9y ago
> If it's specifically about feedback on the whiteboard exercise That's exactly what I am asking for. I am not looking for feedback on me personally, but I would like to know why I failed the whiteboard. If I did something wron
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by vinhboy 9y ago
I eventually got hired by a good company that really needed a Ruby developer for a short term contract. From what I can tell, so far they seem very happy with my depth of experience and ability to take charge. I am very full-stack, so all t
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by vinhboy 9y ago
After 10 years of working in web development, I was on the market a few months ago. It was the most humiliating and defeating experience ever. I basically failed all my whiteboard interviews (that includes using things like coderpad). Most
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by vinhboy 9y ago
What is the google SEO game like for themes nowadays? I see so much competition. It is even possible for a new player to get on the first page? I feel like all the big outfits like thememonster etc own all the real estate.
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by vinhboy 9y ago
Same here. I use facebook because I enjoy the content that my friends share. I am not using it because I believe “I have nothing to hide”. I am sensitive to privacy and secrecy. I will fight for it every chance I get. But I willingly share
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by vinhboy 9y ago
Instead of using all that resources on a new UI, they should have fixed their jobs search. I only go to linkedin when I need a job, yet their job search is terrible. It has no real filtering or sorting. And what it has doesn't really w
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by vinhboy 9y ago
I found this video very interesting. I always hear about the sexist tech culture, but I've never been a witness to it. Seeing this video helps me get a more complete picture. I can now see how an asshole like this would take his attitu
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by vinhboy 10y ago
I found the churner.
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by vinhboy 10y ago
I work in a building next to a Xerox rented building. Apparently Xerox does a lot of government contracting. They bid on government IT contracts and hire people to work on them.
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by vinhboy 10y ago
> he did not expect how far the Slack Desktop App would take his invention Kind of funny to read this article, after just reading that Electron article.
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by vinhboy 10y ago
If any facebook developer is here today.. > She didn’t have the Facebook Messenger app; she’d never seen my messages. For goodness sake, fix this. This is a HUGE UX BUG in facebook. I've gotten plenty of important "hidden"
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by vinhboy 10y ago
> Nobody likes paying high taxes, but I don’t mind. How refreshing. I agree with him. Paying my taxes is a point of pride for me. It's a repayment for all those years I was poor and the government paid for me to live and go to schoo
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by vinhboy 10y ago
Regardless of how much your software has made me sweat, I still think it's great software. My comment was more about the interview process, not your software. Good job creating it. I wish it was free... Haha...
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by vinhboy 10y ago
I think coderpad.io is the modern day equivalent of a whiteboard. It's nice that you get REPL and a keyboard, but the unnecessary pressure of being watched, critiqued, and timed are all there. My mind just goes completely blank wheneve
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by vinhboy 10y ago
> that "Russians" hacked the election That's not the claim. In fact, multiple people have said that is not the claim. The claim is that the Russians influenced the election in favor of Trump by promoting propaganda against
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by vinhboy 10y ago
Too bad there are not many questions about the technology. But it's interesting how he ran a successful business all these years by keeping it pretty low key. No mobile, no api, etc... That's very counter to the mobile-first, API-

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