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by bjacks 11y ago
Has anyone noticed that the GitHub reviews on Glassdoor.com only start from May 19th, 2015? Have they been deleting bad reviews? Seems really suspicious. https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/GitHub-Reviews-E671945_P3....
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by bjacks 11y ago
Because of GitHub's cultural issues towards women and sexism. I.e. the whole Julie Ann Horvath/Tom Preston-Werner/Zach Holman incident.
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by bjacks 11y ago
Hi there! I was wondering what your tech stack is, and is the software engineering role a remote job?
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by bjacks 11y ago
Can anyone explain what a sequential programming language is? Context here: "I guess I’d underestimated the difficulty of implementing Anything-over-TCP in a sequential language. Just because it’s really really easy in Erlang doesn’t m
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by bjacks 11y ago
It's Recurse Center, not Resource Center!
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by bjacks 11y ago
I totally agree with this, it was like 'here's a solution using category theory', but what were the alternatives? How is this useful/applicable to me, and why should I learn category theory?
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by bjacks 11y ago
I know, it's amazing, would love to know what the tech is behind it, it seems super secretive. Here's a link to his company who built it: http://kswaveco.com/ - no details unfortunately.
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Kelly Slater's New Man Made Wave Project(surfermag.com)
3 points by bjacks 11y ago|3 comments
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by bjacks 11y ago
There's a reason they call it Man Jose!
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Riot Games bought out by Tencent(riotgames.com)
20 points by bjacks 11y ago|7 comments
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Gilt Groupe in Acquisition Talks with Saks(cnbc.com)
1 points by bjacks 11y ago|0 comments
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by bjacks 11y ago
I think that if the author re-wrote the first method in a cleaner way, composed of lots of smaller methods with descriptive names then the code would be a lot more readable, and you wouldn't even need to debate the whole multiple retur
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by bjacks 11y ago
Once a company has gone public is it common for lots of staff who have stock to quit?
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by bjacks 11y ago
I'd really like to know what it is about a resume or in an interview that makes someone seem like more of a 'product programmer'. Is it the particular things they have worked on at other jobs, i.e. their experience, or is it
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by bjacks 11y ago
Maybe you're not as decent as you think you are.
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by bjacks 11y ago
I don't understand how verifying a TSP is any different to solving it - I.e. don't I have to do just as much work to verify that a particular solution is correct as if I was solving it from scratch? I.e. brute force?
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What would you earn at Buffer?(buffer.com)
3 points by bjacks 11y ago|0 comments
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by bjacks 11y ago
How can I buy shares?
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by bjacks 11y ago
I love this part of the article, it's incredibly important to remember this: "The web is the greatest entrepreneurial platform ever invented. Lowest barriers of entry, greatest human reach ever. I love the web. Permission-less, gr
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by bjacks 11y ago
Because the victim is dead and they can't find any family.
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by bjacks 11y ago
Probably trashy women's gossip magazines, lots of pink etc. That would do it for me.
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by bjacks 11y ago
A little off-topic, but has anyone else found that a lot of Haskellers fit into that "pet technologists" category? I've worked with a number of them, and seen them sneak Haskell in, despite it not being the best choice for th
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Slack's Design Is Not Secret Sauce(medium.com)
5 points by bjacks 11y ago|0 comments
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by bjacks 11y ago
Afterwards. I was basically in shock at the start of it..
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by bjacks 11y ago
Actually, this exact thing happened to me. I was asked to come in for a couple of hours to meet the team and see the office. When I arrived I was taken to a room where I was interviewed for 3 hours, by 3 different interview teams. Two of th