hanswesterbeek

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by hanswesterbeek 5y ago
Writing well is underrated. Too many people think they do it well. Kind of like Dutch people and their command of the English language.
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by hanswesterbeek 5y ago
I like Sentry. I don’t like boasting about virtuous deeds. 155k is nice, could be more.
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by hanswesterbeek 7y ago
Whenever I've interviewed people I've always made sure to them feel comfortable, so any anxiety does not get in their way. Then, we talk and I look for all the qualities they /do/ have. Sadly, lots of interviewers get a
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by hanswesterbeek 7y ago
AKA "rush to keyboard" syndrome.
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by hanswesterbeek 7y ago
Indeed! This cultural / historical angle of looking at the issue hits the nail on the head.
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by hanswesterbeek 7y ago
Remote work ftw.
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by hanswesterbeek 7y ago
One reason to complain is that these interview-questions usually bare so little relevance to the actual job.
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by hanswesterbeek 7y ago
Haha yes, at that point, nailing the interview will just come down to how well you are able to gauge what the person at the other side of the table wants to hear. "Hmm, is this a tabs or a spaces guy?"
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by hanswesterbeek 7y ago
Clojure just seems "too weird" to too many people, albeit for all the wrong reasons. Its syntax looks like a 6ft hurdle to newcomers, especially if they have lots of experience in C-synthax-languages. But anyone who just /tr
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by hanswesterbeek 8y ago
We also don't absolutely _need_ good health to somehow still enjoy success but it certainly helps, doesn't it? It's quite the same with education.
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by hanswesterbeek 8y ago
Ah, so /this/ is where these Googlers draw the line?
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by hanswesterbeek 8y ago
Clearly nobody lives in a legal vacuum. Those days have been gone for a couple of millennia.
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by hanswesterbeek 8y ago
All the tech aside (because I suppose they'll kind of get it done sooner or later), what I really want to know on this subject is: who's legally responsible in the case of an accident?
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by hanswesterbeek 8y ago
Your argument sounds a lot like an argument that excludes the middle. It is perfectly reasonable to work for a government or a company while at the same time demanding that decision-takers within that organization do not completely disregar
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by hanswesterbeek 9y ago
AirBnb have their own issues, and plenty of bad press about cities popular with tourists crumbling under the load AirBnB are causing on their communities.
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by hanswesterbeek 9y ago
I think that something like Stack's Blackbox is the best idea. This ansible-based setup also explains the concepts pretty well: http://ansiblecookbook.com/html/en.html#how-do-i-store-priva...
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When remote teams can work (can they?)(enhance-ict.com)
1 points by hanswesterbeek 10y ago|0 comments
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by hanswesterbeek 10y ago
That article is really good.
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by hanswesterbeek 10y ago
What, so only $2.5M for that wreck?:)
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by hanswesterbeek 10y ago
I've speed-read the nytimes article for you: the author is right.
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by hanswesterbeek 10y ago
That article reads identical to the first few chapers of The Circle by Dave Eggers.
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by hanswesterbeek 11y ago
What I worry about is the the hybris that is prevalent in the tech industry.
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by hanswesterbeek 11y ago
LOL @ calling Uber one of the "greatest businesses of recent times".
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by hanswesterbeek 11y ago
Still, he was totalitarian and Singapore as a city feels like Disneyland. Phrases like "Move along citizen" and the work of Aldous Huxley came to mind when I visited. So only if you view the world in monetary terms only does this
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The dark art of selecting your custom software vendor(enhance-ict.com)
1 points by hanswesterbeek 11y ago|0 comments
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by hanswesterbeek 13y ago
'credit card acquiring' :) You mean black-hat hacking?
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by hanswesterbeek 13y ago
There's no disputing that. I'm just voicing the sentiment of main street hoping that we techies take it to heart.
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by hanswesterbeek 13y ago
Exactly. The tech-industry is horribly naive. It operates based on the idea that the general public perceives them as those friendly shy nerdy guys from school. Wake up, guys. People have had tech giants invade their life way too much and
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by hanswesterbeek 13y ago
Yeah those poor high-tech workers have a really rough life indeed, it's time someone did something about it!
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by hanswesterbeek 13y ago
Some light: http://falkvinge.net/2014/02/28/the-gox-crater-crowd-detecti...

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