am391

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by am391 4y ago
A big part of the problem is the perception of what work is. When someone can see you at your desk hitting keys or standing in front of a white board drawing diagrams there is the perception thaat you're doing something. When you'
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by am391 4y ago
I'm not a lawyer and the best advice is to check everything with a lawyer...that said it sounds like the contract would be covered by Cypriot and (if you're in the south) EU law. I live in Ireland and these sorts of clauses are pr
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Ask HN: Are LeetCode-style coding tests useful?
1 points by am391 4y ago|4 comments
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by am391 4y ago
First of all, you are not alone. When I read your post it really resonated with me. I've been developing software professionally for 25+ years and have had 3 bouts of burnout and have gone through the same fear, uncertainty and doubt y
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Bee gold: Why honey is an insect superfood(bbc.com)
1 points by am391 5y ago|0 comments
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by am391 5y ago
I feel your pain :) Complexity kills projects and the will to work on them. It can be caused by either over or under-engineering. With the first you end up with extraneous layers of abstraction and badly applied design patterns that make it
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by am391 5y ago
The issue here isn't so much over or under-engineering, but rather "Are we building the right thing?" or "Are we building the thing right?" In a startup you don't know if you're building the right thing so
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by am391 6y ago
That made me smile....thanks @jmnicolas :)
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At Stripe, a Rethink on Recruitment(bbc.com)
3 points by am391 10y ago|1 comments
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When Will We Find Aliens?(bbc.com)
1 points by am391 11y ago|0 comments
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In Defense of the Technical Interview(irreverently.me)
2 points by am391 12y ago|0 comments
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Testosterone could prevent heart and diabetes deaths(bbc.com)
1 points by am391 12y ago|0 comments
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by am391 12y ago
Thanks for writing this post. I'm visually impaired (but not blind) and can get by making minor adjustments to my work environment (font size, contrast, etc), but reading this was truly inspiring. Thank you.
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How a Blind Person Programs(blog.freecodecamp.com)
429 points by am391 12y ago|135 comments
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by am391 12y ago
As an Angular user these changes concern me greatly. Not just the scope of the changes (which is huge) but the timeframe as well. What really worries me is that with version 2 still some time away the scale of the changes will frighten peop
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by am391 12y ago
Not meaning to sound snarky but it isn't this growth pattern reminiscent of a pyramid scheme ? Obviously I'm not suggesting SO is a pyramid scheme, but if that's how the reputation system works surely it's an indication
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by am391 12y ago
Sure, checkout Chapter 2 ( http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-13.html... ). It shows how you can define data structures such as lists or trees from a simple pair concept and then define generi
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by am391 12y ago
I'm reading SICP at the moment and have to say it's been a real eye opener. I'm finding that seeing concepts I take for granted when I'm programming being built up from first principles changes the way I think about the
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5 Types of Partnerships to Avoid as Startups(sosventures.com)
3 points by am391 12y ago|0 comments
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by am391 12y ago
> I'll take a good writer over a puzzle-solver any day Absolutely agree, but I'd extended it to good communicator. Communication touches on so much of what we do as programmers, be it talking to customers, sharing ideas amongst