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by wikwocket 12y ago
Algorithm and coding questions are indeed lacking. They may end up revealing your true ability to do the job, but it's like deciding on an architect by seeing how well they can cut wood and hammer nails. It's true that discussion
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by wikwocket 12y ago
Have you tried weworkremotely.com, or searching for "remote" in the monthly HN "Who is Hiring?" threads?
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by wikwocket 12y ago
One factor to consider is: what is your profession, and what does the market for that profession look like where you now live. For example if you are a developer who just moved to the Austin or Chicago area, I would say, leave the company a
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by wikwocket 12y ago
Disrupt what? Building custom hardware boxes and paying people to gather their behavioral data? I can't see a lot of young hackers jumping on this problem. Nielsen's actual business is getting data (staggeringly enormous amounts o
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by wikwocket 12y ago
Let me get this straight. It is hard to review, test and maintain code in Excel workbooks, so we should instead write custom software for these tasks?! Custom software is, to a non-hacker, the definition of "difficult to review, te
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by wikwocket 12y ago
> How many hidden industries like the pallets one are out there... Within one standard deviation of the mean, all of them . Most hackers trying to 'disrupt' things naturally only work on what they know. So a lot of solutions
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by wikwocket 12y ago
If you see code that checks for every possible type of exception or input error, do you think that code is secretly hoping that an exception occurs? Or do you just think the programmer is trying to cover all the bases so he/she can dec
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by wikwocket 12y ago
s17e
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by wikwocket 12y ago
Lines of code. Oh, you said quality , not quantity ... Same answer.
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by wikwocket 12y ago
The Geocities take down was announced well in advance, and I recall dozens of groups attempting to archive all or most of it. Search for "geocities archive" and you will see a number of archives. I hope you find what you lost. Let
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by wikwocket 12y ago
The only "online platform with quality jobs" that I know of is StackOverflow Careers. :) Sadly, anonymous online marketplaces are not the way to get decent-paying, non-crazy people to hire you for software gigs. I know some people
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by wikwocket 12y ago
The reason that so many online and brick-and-mortar stores have sales is, unsurprisingly, that they work. The rational approach may be to prefer low, constant prices all the time. But neither the market nor consumers are rational. Look at J
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by wikwocket 12y ago
Like the old proverb: "The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second-best time is now."
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by wikwocket 12y ago
It sounds like your main problem is confidence. The simple act of having more confidence revolutionized the way I look at interviews. Look at it this way, if you've really been developing that long, you're a fricken veteran. Unles
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by wikwocket 12y ago
When I need ideas, I like to search existing icon repositories. Here are some ideas: - https://www.iconfinder.com/search/?q=past - https://www.iconfinder.com/search/?q=future
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by wikwocket 12y ago
DBAN (Darik's Boot And Nuke) is my favorite solution. You can put it on a bootable CD, bypass your OS, and just wipe the disks easily. Here is a link to a bunch of other solutions as well: http://superuser.com/questions
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by wikwocket 12y ago
This depends a lot on your situation. If you work for a medium-to-large company, you may be called on to learn new technologies for new projects, new business initiatives, etc. If this happens too often it can be a bad sign, but in moderati
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by wikwocket 12y ago
Here's another Feynman lockpicking anecdote: a video about his exploits cracking peoples' safes at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Waw11zhaKSk
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by wikwocket 12y ago
The canonical quote is that "we lock our doors to keep honest people honest." Practically, we cannot guarantee the security of our locks, or homes, or cars/bikes, etc. But we erect barriers to help enforce societal norms rega
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by wikwocket 12y ago
Well, on the one hand, you are at a unique the time of your life when you can invest your time into a startup (assuming you are single, and willing to eat some ramen). On the other hand, clearly you could be doing better, and any skills&#x2
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by wikwocket 13y ago
Um, actually I believe that dang's post is him literally saying that cases of Option 2 are mistakenly classified as Option 1, and that this is unfortunate. And that people should know about the voting ring detector so they don't
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by wikwocket 13y ago
Good grief kids have it hard today; to go get a high-paying job writing code all day long with 10% raises in the future, or to keep on playing video games for a living... we are really failing this generation! Just teasing, OP, hope you don
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by wikwocket 13y ago
This shouldn't be an issue. Pending comments are now only enabled on a per-thread bases, if a moderator specifically turns them on: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7484304
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by wikwocket 13y ago
MS Access is often a great tool for this. It works well for datasets that are too big for Excel, but too simple (1 table, only 5mm rows) for a true database app. Plus, if your comfort level is closer to Excel than MySQL, or you have experie
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by wikwocket 13y ago
Cool, reminds me of invoiceomatic.io, which has a 'robot' theme. I look forward to invoicepirate.com (invoicing for piracy), invoicezombie.com (invoicing for reanimating dead projects), and invoicedinosaur.com (invoicing for ancie
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by wikwocket 13y ago
Very interesting heuristic! I can see why data mining could be so useful for e.g. Paypal: analyzing data on known-fraudulent and known-valid transactions, looking for unexpected correlations... Although in this particular case I wonder if t
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by wikwocket 13y ago
Numberphile's Pi playlist: highly recommended! http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4870492ACBDC2E7C
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by wikwocket 13y ago
I don't see this taking off: - Worst case: they get 80% of the work they pay you for, and a chronically depressed employee because the side business isn't working. - Best case: The side business takes off, they lose an employee, a
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by wikwocket 13y ago
I'm afraid there is not really a reliable, scalable way to make nontrivial amounts of money, with no risk and low setup time. This would essentially be the perpetual motion machine of money, i.e., guaranteed not to exist by the laws of
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by wikwocket 13y ago
So? I see what you are saying, but when it comes to employment, you make your decisions based on what you want and need, not what anyone else thinks. I would never advise someone to keep working a job that takes advantage of them, just to

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