Gnolfo

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by Gnolfo 10y ago
I totally agree. The npm ecosystem and the generally accepted practices in js these days come close to the bash style of composing & chaining a bunch of solid, specific little programs together to solve problems trivially that would ha
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by Gnolfo 11y ago
You can't reliably beat the market. People who say they can are saying so out of some combination of: 1) lying (to others and/or themselves as well) 2) cheating (insider trading, boiler rooms, etc) 3) drawing conclusions
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by Gnolfo 12y ago
In addition to what others are saying (location spoofing, etc) another factor to consider is this was in Littleton, CO. Specifically, about 5 miles away from Columbine.
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by Gnolfo 13y ago
That's Pynchon. You're describing Pynchon. At least some of the time, and FWIW the reviewer definitely seems to get him & his style. The 8th paragraph in there is an excerpt from the new book, you'll notice it is 3 sent
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by Gnolfo 14y ago
"They're not important" as a rationale for being selectively discourteous and/or unprofessional will put you under the adage of "Beware the person who is nice to you but rude to the waiter" in the eyes of those who you deem are worth keepin
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by Gnolfo 14y ago
Yeah, I had a limiter put in mine as well so that it only made a request every 6 or 8 seconds. No worries on the suggestion. Those threaded comments can be tricky sometimes. Hey, if you do hear back from them about their stance on this sor
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by Gnolfo 14y ago
User comments, but going by users rather than threads. That way you could get a profile where someone posts, or turn it around and see what prolific posters existed in a given subreddit. The thing is it wouldn't sweep everything. Instead
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by Gnolfo 14y ago
I ran into the same problem. I started a pet project that involved scraping reddit (though for a different purpose than AMAs). Their robots.txt and an admin writeup from somewhere on their site made me realize that I'd probably just have
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by Gnolfo 15y ago
That's all well and good but we're a far cry away from concluding there's a lack of sufficient power to effect change. We're not counseling someone who's just become paraplegic about their hopes of running a triathlon, this is a situation
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by Gnolfo 15y ago
> I suspect though, that its extremely hard for someone to police themselves to avoid giving a candidate points for giving the "right answer". It can be hard. But I'd argue getting caught up with what to say and what to ask only makes
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by Gnolfo 15y ago
If they think a question that gets at "What are your main priorities in looking for new employment?" is bullshit, I hope they do walk out of the interview so I don't waste anymore time on them.
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by Gnolfo 15y ago
If they ask for your input and then move on to the next question, absolutely. But at that point you're blaming the tool and not the user. The conclusion to draw is the interviewer is lazy / doesn't know what they're doing if they ask a qu
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by Gnolfo 15y ago
I really don't see how this is manipulative, who exactly are they trying to fool? The "tapping into something deeper" isn't some tricksy ploy to reveal more than you want, it just means the question is crafted to address several layers of
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by Gnolfo 15y ago
Nothing is stopping people from knowing proggit/HN/etc as a short list of tech sites that they should say they keep up with in case the question gets asked. This becomes cyclical when you view the interview as a meta-game of right answer s
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by Gnolfo 15y ago
The takeaway is you don't want spineless employees, you want them free thinking and unafraid to speak up when they sense something is wrong. That being said, "argumentative dick" doesn't immediately equate to star employee, in fact I'd say
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by Gnolfo 15y ago
The most dangerous thing about this controversy is that people will take knee-jerk reactions to Daisey as an indication that nothing is wrong with the world of electronics. What's more dangerous is what this suggests the proper reaction i
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by Gnolfo 15y ago
In Daisey's response: "I am proud that my work seems to have sparked a growing storm of attention and concern over the often appalling conditions under which many of the high-tech products we love so much are assembled in China." He doesn
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by Gnolfo 16y ago
Eerie. Having been in/around Tempe for the last 16 years, as soon as he said "There's a coffee shop here in Tempe..." the first one that came to mind (of the many, many non-starbucks coffee shops in this area) was the exact one he meant.
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by Gnolfo 16y ago
Sorry, I should have been clearer on what I meant. Google/etc CAPTCHAs don't work 100% against anti-CAPTCHA. As those articles suggest it's a fluctuating 80% or so, and obviously an ongoing arms race. My point was more to the fact that th
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by Gnolfo 16y ago
"Spammers are lazy" does kinda work for the multitudes of small-traffic sites out there. Put together some unique or custom validation to keep out spambots and odds are that's all you'll ever need. The thing is, for big sites like Google o
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by Gnolfo 16y ago
It's not the single odd submission that comes up that is really what offends, it's more of the slippery slope it invites that historically can overwhelm the quality of popular websites. Take the frequency of outlier commentary and multiply