AndreyErmakov

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by AndreyErmakov 10y ago
>> HN is unabashedly homogeneous. I think you've summed the nature of HN pretty well. I wish I knew that before I joined (recently), but unfortunately I had to learn it the hard way. >> The set of opinions that will not get
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by AndreyErmakov 10y ago
Any road will support a horse-drawn carriage. Unless you take extraordinary measures and start building vehicles using wheels with special profiles for which custom-designed roads will be necessary where those wheels will be held on track l
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by AndreyErmakov 10y ago
What if it happens to be my opinion, the way I view things? I should be able to express it, right? I can't really crop my ideas if some parts of them are not well received. They come as packages, I either tell what's truly on my m
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by AndreyErmakov 10y ago
Dear AnonymousUserWhoLikesToHideTheirName, That's just hilarious. For as long as I'm saying things that conform with the majority's opinion, I will be upvoted. But when a have a different opinion, then I will be downvoted unt
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by AndreyErmakov 10y ago
As a rule, never travel to a job interview on your own expenses, unless it's just a few USD/EUR for a local bus/train ticket or something similar. That would demonstrate to them that you don't value your time and money a
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by AndreyErmakov 10y ago
In some places, $500 is about a half-year salary from which one has to live and feed their family. Nobody in their right mind would waste it on an electronic toy.
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by AndreyErmakov 10y ago
I agree. And yet, this seems to be the rare type. Often it's just a few people in the staff that are trying to do things the right way, for the others it's simply a nice job (with few responsibilities and seemingly no obligations)
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by AndreyErmakov 10y ago
>> Not helped by lecturers who'd either always been lecturers or lecturers who'd left industry 15 years earlier (this was 2005 so they'd have left in 1990). Exactly what I'm talking about. I've met graduates w
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by AndreyErmakov 10y ago
Academia carries with it a larger amount of authority than a random programming forum. Students have the expectation that the academic staff is generally knowledgeable and wise and what they say in all probability is very important, has to
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by AndreyErmakov 10y ago
Thank you. So this is a personal attack then. Frankly, I expected better from the HN community. It looked more evolved when I was just an occasional visitor prior to joining. Rather disappointing.
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by AndreyErmakov 10y ago
Your comment saddens me and only confirms what I've been suspecting: a lot of people including those working in academia don't take education seriously and do not comprehend the far-reaching repercussions of their actions. General
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by AndreyErmakov 10y ago
What/who does "GP" refer to?
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by AndreyErmakov 10y ago
The long term effects may be just as devastating. Consider that as a lecturer every your word will carry a meaning. Even an innocuous remark may turn out to be something that will stick with one of your pupils for years and will lead them t
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by AndreyErmakov 10y ago
Not the first time that I see academia teaching their students the wrong way of doing things. I had to work with some graduates with certain strange ideas about approaching the work and tried to teach them an alternative, at least open thei
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by AndreyErmakov 10y ago
When I was a beginner I also tried to design all kinds of fancy, flexible and auto-adjusting stuff. With years I came to the understanding that most of it is just unnecessary and wouldn't diminish the user experience in any way if you
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by AndreyErmakov 10y ago
Thanks for the link. Based on some of the screenshots posted over there it indeed looks like what I've been observing on my machine (version 47-something). Not a problem really. Never used Chrome before. Only installed it out of curios
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by AndreyErmakov 10y ago
Actually, the web is more open than it was a decade ago. Back then I had to use IE-only tricks to make my pages look okay in IE. Today I don't care anymore. It's been several years since I last used an IE trick, and I have no plan
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by AndreyErmakov 10y ago
If I may contribute to the article somehow, I'd tell people this: stop using JavaScript for basic markup. I sigh every time I visit a site whose entire navigation structure is spit out in front of me as a disorganized wall of text, and
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by AndreyErmakov 10y ago
I didn't realize Chrome was becoming the default testing environment. I find it weird, given its terrible font rendering. I tried using Chrome but just couldn't. Smaller size fonts render weak, pale, bleak, like drawn with a dull
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by AndreyErmakov 10y ago
It's not that much of a joke, more of a curiosity, if you choose to look at both words from a certain angle. I realize that their etymology might be different, but in the end of the day their spelling has become close and the concepts
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by AndreyErmakov 10y ago
What is the point of pushing people out of their comfort zone? Practical software engineering doesn't happen when you're uncomfortable. Discovering quality solutions requires concentration and immersion into problems.
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by AndreyErmakov 10y ago
So we all realize technical interviews serve no practical purpose and should be quietly abandoned, but instead of looking into the future and discovering better ways of identifying talent, people keep inventing stuff that makes the torturin
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by AndreyErmakov 10y ago
Because hiring is akin to dating and therefore it suffers from the same problems: 1) It's mostly about subjective impressions and often weird ideas of what a suitable date/candidate must be. There are no official rule books or gui
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by AndreyErmakov 10y ago
>> You are not your job. Very true. I hold the same liberal view as to what people truly are. An interesting idea just struck me. If a seasoned software developer quits his full-time job to work on a startup of his dream, while taking
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by AndreyErmakov 10y ago
>> The best handbook of all, though is simply the study of great writers whose work you love That is definitely the way to approach things. If you come into writing by choice then it's because you've been drawn to it. Which
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by AndreyErmakov 10y ago
It's true that the golden era of the non-English writers lies mostly in the past. What is not true is that the past writings are now invalid/deprecated or whatever term you may coin. If I had a choice between the body of the past
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by AndreyErmakov 10y ago
Right to the point.
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by AndreyErmakov 10y ago
It's interesting that the author pursued a degree in literature and that's what ultimately pushed her away from that career path. It seems to be a common theme where a formal education in creative arts makes people want to do some
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by AndreyErmakov 10y ago
Certainly. Yet there's been a tendency later to declare SQL wrong and deprecated and to incite everyone to forget about it and go with an ORM as the only way. I do not accept that. The stronger the ORM zealots are pushing the more repu
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by AndreyErmakov 10y ago
You are quite correct on all your points and I agree with you. I suppose I could have expressed my idea better. What I meant is that for people with a programming aptitude there are no barriers these days. Whether they want to jump directly

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