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by lrobb 11y ago
The more interesting post was the link to Phil G's blog post about the MIT reunion: "The medical doctor was at the peak of his career and in no danger of being fired. The university professor had the security of tenure and was loo
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by lrobb 13y ago
> In the construction industry, a contract might not explicitly say that the building has to comply with local building, fire and electrical codes - that's taken as a given. That's because you have to have a license to perform
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by lrobb 13y ago
Does this headline come from the most awesome copywriter we've ever seen?
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by lrobb 13y ago
You can do that with Scala as well. (or groovy or clojure...)
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by lrobb 13y ago
Also have an 8 yo and I can't think of anyone in my peer group that isn't thinking about their child's college. Of course mine attends a private school, so we may have different demographics. As one of the parents told me, w
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by lrobb 13y ago
StackOverflow solved a lot of usenet's problems, while creating an entirely new set of problems.
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by lrobb 13y ago
Yes.. It reminds me of a recent interview with matz: "The ones who do not challenge themselves to create new things are often falling behind - they learn a hip new language today and try a new web framework tomorrow, but still lack the
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by lrobb 13y ago
"My experience gave me the feeling that this was more of an interview assembly line than someone really interested in my relevant skills" That's exactly what it is... Effective interviewing is hard, and like most things hard
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by lrobb 13y ago
The fact that this is even a question at all, let alone one that could make it on to forbes, is symptomatic of the tech industry being a giant echo chamber. Are you a bad [lawyer | accountant | civil engineer | doctor | musician] if you don
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by lrobb 13y ago
Spammy. But under no conditions could a 100 employee business be defined as a LIFESTYLE business! Wiki: In conventional business terms, lifestyle businesses typically have limited scalability and potential for growth because such growth wo
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by lrobb 13y ago
This is eerily similar to what happened with seo: people started to realize there was more money to be made teaching people how to make lemonade than there was in actually selling lemonade.
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by lrobb 13y ago
Indeed... Why?
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by lrobb 13y ago
in my version the fisherman had a nest-egg and a supportive village, killjoy... ;)
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by lrobb 13y ago
Sounds like the parable of the mexican fisherman: An executive from America was standing at the pier of a Mexican village, taking a much needed vacation. It was his first in more than 10 years. He noticed a small boat docked with just one f
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by lrobb 13y ago
It certainly appeared that way to me as well. Although I don't really use ATMs much today, it used to be a fairly regular occurrence to arrive at an ATM then have to find the "next closest ATM" due to the machine having connectivity proble
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by lrobb 14y ago
Days since a sizable number of hacker newsers confused java the language with the jvm with the browser plugin: also 0
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by lrobb 14y ago
It's illegal in the US as well.
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by lrobb 14y ago
It is a normal question... I never said it wasn't. It's part of an interview process that includes an in depth review of your projects and roles, a technical screen, some design questions, et al. "Wtf do I do"? I don't hire people that beco
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by lrobb 14y ago
Well, around here you need more than just technical skills to get a job. As always YMMV.
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by lrobb 14y ago
True... I much prefer to ask what they have done in the last year to improve as a developer, and what they feel they need to do in the next year. But as an interviewer, you always have to be wondering how honest a person is being. That's
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by lrobb 14y ago
Those are actually good questions. The work history serves as a nice interview warmup and is a good gauge of a candidate's ability to communicate. A bad answer is to mumble out what's on paper in front of you. A good answer will reframe t
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by lrobb 14y ago
I agree. When I read this list, my first thought was "I know exactly when you started programming, and the types of apps you were writing".
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by lrobb 14y ago
Some of my most enjoyable programming involved writing high performance multithreaded socket services with a copy of Advanced Windows at my side (back when tech books were relevant). I do have a certain amount of nostalgia for the days when
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by lrobb 14y ago
It's amazing how smug we can be and how we can lose all sight of perspective. When apple released their kit, there were already competitors in the marketplace. What the wright brothers did was much more akin to inventing the first computer,
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by lrobb 14y ago
That's some unfortunate grammar.
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by lrobb 14y ago
>>you do his effort to help no favors by upvoting it to the moon I think you're vastly overestimating this board's power & influence.
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by lrobb 14y ago
Said the exact thing his other post said: Enter profile information Your profile and +1's appear publicly in search, on ads, and across the web.
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by lrobb 14y ago
“Some idiot in our organization or in the Media Lab had disabled the camera, and they figured out the camera, and had hacked Android.” Sounds like a great guy to work for. #sarcasm.
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by lrobb 14y ago
I feel like I just stumbled into a jr high lunchroom conversation.... What the hell is wrong with you people that this makes it onto the first page?
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by lrobb 14y ago
Or, change your utensils and embrace being a short order cook.

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