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   by wellpast 10y ago

   If I saw "University athletics award" on one resume and "University athletics award for someone on financial aid" on another - I am going to be thinking less, one of these persons is lower-class and more Why the heck is
2. 512.▲
   by wellpast 10y ago

   Just for the record I've worked on large codebases but 100,000 LOC isnt the goal just an example. Mastery of course (typically) yields smaller code bases.
3. 513.▲
   by wellpast 10y ago

   I'm 40 with 20 years of real and varied industry experience (big and small companies; crossing systems, desktop, and much web/distributed dev), rabidly curious, and deeply study (and use on real, often side projects) bleeding edge
4. 514.▲
   by wellpast 10y ago

   Still, JVM languages are wonderful and meet this criteria. Groovy --- print "Hello World" Clojure --- (print "Hello World")
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   Iteration is not Design(medium.com)

   1 points by wellpast 10y ago|0 comments
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   Hackertyper.net(hackertyper.net)

   2 points by wellpast 10y ago|0 comments
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   by wellpast 10y ago

   http://hackertyper.net/
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   by wellpast 10y ago

   Always relevant to this discussion: https://medium.com/@_princeb_/the-parable-of-the-two-program... (This isn't the original source, I realize.)
9. 519.▲
   by wellpast 10y ago

   Anyone know this technology well enough to know if sunglasses and a scarf of some sort would prevent my being recognized if not making me look somewhat silly or suspicious.
10. 520.▲
    by wellpast 10y ago

    If you're able to ferret out the what from the code, then your code must be defect-free. Otherwise we need to know via the comment (contract) what is the what, so that we can fix the bug (or even know that there is a bug).
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    by wellpast 10y ago

    This is just lipstick. The real problem is branching - when reading code I have to think through two conditional cases. In this particular example (where you have to validate a client request), I don't see a way out of branching. Howev
12. 522.▲
    by wellpast 10y ago

    > Code comments document the why, not the how. I disagree. The _what_ is what your comments should tell me. The contract, and its preconditions and postconditions. Nothing more, nothing less.
13. 523.▲
    by wellpast 10y ago

    That could be pretty easily achieved. The selections are saved to backend local storage but could easily be switched to use chrome.storage.sync...
14. 524.▲
    by wellpast 10y ago

    I found that dragging a selection, and then using Ctl+C and Ctl+V is very time consuming when needing to select structured data repeatedly. There was also the extra matter of getting the cursor in the right spot without accidentally clickin
15. 525.▲
    by wellpast 10y ago

    OP here. I built this as a side-project to help quickly select content from web pages for all kinds of use cases. I was surprised to not find anything else like it in the Chrome store. For anyone that has built a open-source productivity to
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    Ask HN: Is this useful?

    4 points by wellpast 10y ago|7 comments
17. 527.▲
    Show HN: SuperSelect – Super-fast text selection

    1 points by wellpast 10y ago|0 comments
18. 528.▲
    by wellpast 10y ago

    >i make a new project to kill that persons meaning in life or their job You sound the angriest of them all...
19. 529.▲
    by wellpast 10y ago

    Oth though Clojurescript is fun af.
20. 530.▲
    by wellpast 10y ago

    Any chance of open-sourcing "polloi" in the near term future?
21. 531.▲
    by wellpast 10y ago

    This post self-admittedly fumbles as do many efforts at trying to tackle this question. The question is wrong: What makes a Senior Software Dev? That's a title , subject to the vagaries, needs, politics, and culture of a specific busi
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    by wellpast 10y ago

    This is such a straw man conversation. Of course it is a fallacy to think "I could build that in weekend" and translate that to a claim about the inefficiency of a company. I think that's what is being responded to in this th
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    by wellpast 10y ago

    I agree with your two interpretations. But to clarify that is my position: I believe Uber is overstaffed by an order of magnitude. It seems after reading through this thread that I am definitely in the minority on that opinion, but I'm
24. 534.▲
    by wellpast 10y ago

    Okay. Then how many engineers would Uber need to have for you to say "that's too many"?
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    by wellpast 10y ago

    To me the question isn't "Think you can build it in a weekend?" You mentioned 5 product "concerns" that Uber must contend with to make a point. No doubt if we brainstormed more we could come up with perhaps 10 or 20
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    by wellpast 10y ago

    There's a naïveté in saying "I could do that in a weekend" as a measure for employee bloat, but that's making a straw man of the question. It is nearly always more probable that a large company with several hundred or mo
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    Wunderlist outage, six hours and counting(status.wunderlist.com)

    3 points by wellpast 10y ago|1 comments
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    by wellpast 10y ago

    > I love literature and theatre. I love great movies. Yet, I can't remember any work of art, no matter how good, that consumed and drained me as much as the Cyberdemon in DOOM. But unlike many encounters with art, DOOM never changed
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    by wellpast 10y ago

    > The Entanglement is a term from the computer scientist Danny Hillis, referring to a new era of technology that we find ourselves in, where no single individual can possibly understand what we ourselves have constructed. In other words,
30. 540.▲
    by wellpast 10y ago

    All you need is one instance where one agent mistakes that the other agent feels when that agent doesn't -- and then I think your fallacy is moot.