xenocratus

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by xenocratus 8y ago
That's very true, at least in my experience - best devs seem to be the ones who can find their way quite easily without supervision. BUT not all people like or are comfortable with that. For example, if you've started learning pro
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by xenocratus 8y ago
Thank you for the tip! I'll try and do something along those lines. The problem is time, unfortunately - especially when developing products, the timelines are quite restricting: tickets are estimated by the team, large deviations usua
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by xenocratus 8y ago
Been trying that for a while (to demonstrate things), and while I've spent tonnes of time helping colleagues (even more senior ones) both in my team and in others, it's almost irrelevant when it comes to management. (Been doing th
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by xenocratus 8y ago
Nope, same job titles. And no, not necessarily the best programmers. Sure, some of them are/were somewhat better to begin with, but by providing them with more growth prospects you're widening the gap. Edit: I mean, sure, I'd
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Ask HN: Dealing with Preferential Treatment
7 points by xenocratus 8y ago|8 comments
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Ask HN: How to deal with favoritism?
2 points by xenocratus 8y ago|2 comments
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by xenocratus 8y ago
I remember seeing a piece of code on dwitter where someone was trying to see if they can inject any code in the page. And it was working. So yeah, I'd very much rather avoid that website. Trying to allow users to put their own code on
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Ask HN: How and where to mentor people new to programming?
2 points by xenocratus 8y ago|0 comments
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New Ghostscript exploit found(lgtm.com)
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by xenocratus 8y ago
Isn't consumption essentially you letting someone else be on the producer side? I agree that for one entity it might be good to produce and not consume, but it makes no sense as a general statement. Production and consumption can only
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Ask HN: Where to write a tutorial series?
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by xenocratus 8y ago
If there's anything I've learned about security, it's that "personal" (i.e. not the result of collective work of a group of experts that was reviewed thoroughly, openly) implementations of cryptographic algorithms a
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by xenocratus 8y ago
I think they're interchangeable but to me "engineer" sounds too formal so I'd go with developer for myself (I actually studied electronic engineering and didn't enjoy the hardware side, so I'm happy to stay awa