mmorett

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by mmorett 11y ago
The L.A. freeway system is not about L.A. It's about Southern California. Comments that suggest public transportation don't take into account the unique layout of SoCal. Here are just a few of the things to take into account, c
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by mmorett 11y ago
First sentence: "Did we not give you an offer? Did you reject an offer?" Third sentence: "If I remember right and we did reject you..." --------- Where do I even begin with this.
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by mmorett 12y ago
After reading all these (good) comments, I thought I'd go to SO now and try and pitch in and answer a question or two in my domain of expertise. You know...give back to the community. Be a part of the solution. I found a question tha
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by mmorett 12y ago
Do you expect lawyers or doctors to work for $20/hr? How about plumbers and electricians? But you expect a competent developer to work for $20/hr?
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by mmorett 12y ago
A couple of thousand? 9k won't even allow you to retire in Afghanistan. :-)
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by mmorett 12y ago
And there's a reason why Google is hiding or manipulating their numbers. They're poor. If they were good, you know darn well they'd be bragging about them. So they play tricks and games to try to hide that data.
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by mmorett 12y ago
I like the way you commented on his comment.
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by mmorett 12y ago
I understand the problem. I just don't give it any validity. The renters think their wishes and desires to live in a specific area are more important than other people who wish to live in that same area. It comes across as immature
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by mmorett 12y ago
It's called supply and demand. It's called life. Things change. The world doesn't revolve around families that "shouldn't be uprooted and have their lives thrown into disorder". If those families wanted to be a
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by mmorett 12y ago
We have a reasonably regulated market. What we don't have is a system where people get to live where they want to live without regards to what they can afford. SF renters need to back up the U-Haul truck and find new places to live wh
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by mmorett 12y ago
And replace the free market with what? Communism? Where people like you try to show your brilliance at dictating how things "should be"? GTFO.
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by mmorett 12y ago
Fair enough. Then they can go to medical school. Or law school. Or be an accountant. Or an investment banker. They could take up the trades (electricians, plumbers, carpentry). Maybe help animals--be a Veterinarian. Work on the dark sid
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by mmorett 12y ago
Yet another thread full of HNers sitting back and contemplating various ways to take other people's money like a Soviet central planning committee. Can you fuckers stop worrying about how much money someone else makes or whether the
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by mmorett 12y ago
Who gives a shit where they "want" to live. I'd like to live on the upper east side in Manhattan. Time for them to move to a place they can afford and stop the whining. I hear Detroit has a lot of cheap housing.
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by mmorett 12y ago
Because it's free. Or they learned it over the years (and began with it, because it's free). IntelliJ is only $199, yet "professional" developers insist on using Eclipse. Like, $199 is too much to spend on your craft.
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by mmorett 12y ago
>I don't see how anyone with practical experience developing commercial software could write something like this. Exactly. Using IntelliJ "holds me back", but if I bust out vim, somehow my code will miraculously get bett
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by mmorett 12y ago
I normally just lurk, but I signed in just to upvote him. Still laughing...
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by mmorett 13y ago
I'm torn on this. I get what quanticle is saying, that Big-O is very important. I've developed an appreciation for it even if I didn't take CS in college (I took the redheaded bastard stepchild major of CIS). quanticle is sug
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by mmorett 13y ago
Lol!! You're killing me. I need to work tomorrow and you're gonna have me up all night thinking how to optimize this thing. It's only 5 lines of code. Hashtable, huh? I don't like them because they're synchroniz
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by mmorett 13y ago
That's the $64,000 question. If I knew the answer, that would be my startup. It's a tough problem. It almost makes one beg for some sort of one-off certification (bar exam?) so we can put that to rest for ever after. I'll
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by mmorett 13y ago
Then please accept my apologies. I enjoyed the anagram thing as it forced me into looking into it.
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by mmorett 13y ago
"In my experience, when we are programming on the job, we're given the problem and we have time to think about it. We have time to research possible solutions, we have time to try stuff out that we know will most likely fail, and
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by mmorett 13y ago
HN seems to lack reply links in some messages so I need to answer you here. "If you can't check an anagram given the definition of an anagram and the programming language of your choice, what problems can you solve? It's not
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by mmorett 13y ago
Since a reply link isn't available for spacemanaki's comment, I'll stick it here: "The purpose of a question like this, and of the classic FizzBuzz question, is to be a lightweight test of whether a candidate can actuall
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by mmorett 13y ago
I happened to have a conversation with someone about this recently. Software developer: the career where you study to get the job, toss much of that away when you actually do the job, then study for the interview for the next job, where yo
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by mmorett 13y ago
An even easier way is to check StackOverflow. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9321654/java-anagram-find... One of the comments mentions: "Just had a phone interview with Amazon and this was the exact ques
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by mmorett 13y ago
LOL!!! I coughed up my beer on that comment. I feel so dumb. Yes, I was thinking palindromes. Either way, I blew that interview. :-)
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by mmorett 13y ago
https://gist.github.com/MichaelMorett/6576434 I think I'd get yelled at in an interview for this one since I didn't punch down to String manipulation (which is probably what they're really looking for).
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by mmorett 13y ago
I think part of the problem is the breadth of material for which you can be questioned in. Since I live in the Java world, let me use that as an example. I have heard of anonymous classes. I've never used one on the job. Maybe tha
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by mmorett 13y ago
"so let's test them while blaring a foghorn in their ear" I hope I don't get yelled at, but damn that was funny. That stated it so perfectly. The only "stress" in software development that I see on the job is

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