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by sown 11y ago
Do you use a lot of joins, writes along with the queries? I'm curious as to what might happen with other profiles.
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by sown 11y ago
I wonder if this is a prelude to some acquisition or merger to make the company more sellable.
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by sown 11y ago
This seems like kind of a trick question. The vast majority of interviewers want to hear what they want to hear, or at least have you agree. We've all been conditioned to expect this. Then, here comes along someone with a different que
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by sown 11y ago
This is a real and substantial hack. Most adults wouldn't think of doing this.
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ALL of Wikipedia in One QR Code?(youtube.com)
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by sown 11y ago
> ... start something yourself. Or contribute to an open source project. Or write a book. Do something that will have your name put on it. You say this like I've not thought about it or tried it myself. :) It's difficult since
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by sown 11y ago
> Impulse you rather Not sure I understand. Anyways, I've been around engineering teams for a while now and here's what I mean: there's always some principal engineer or fellow (in the terms of a title) that is greatly est
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by sown 11y ago
> Being able to take an idea and turn it in to a product is a brilliant skill that startups absolutely need, but equally, once the product is out there being used, you need the other skill set to maintain the product and add new things w
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by sown 11y ago
Not to be a jerk but I'm going to sound like a jerk, but know it is from a position of love: linked lists and arrays are both fundamental data structures. At the very least you now learned about them. I want you to read this: http:&#x
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by sown 11y ago
Thank goodness. I thought I was going crazy. Thank you for pointing this out to me. That jar file is not in the sdk I downloaded.
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by sown 11y ago
Stuff like logins are extra work the user has to do and it increases your bounce rate -- people seeing it, and then just leaving because of it. You might want to try comparing how many people show up vs how many people register. Then you&#x
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by sown 11y ago
As an aside, has anyone else noticed on Android SDK 1.10.0 ParseQueryAdapter seems to have disappeared?
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by sown 11y ago
This sounds kind of like an exo kernel?
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by sown 11y ago
I'm a fan of line_profiler: https://github.com/rkern/line_profiler % cat > l.py @profile def slow_func(): for i in xrange(1048576): continue
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by sown 11y ago
I think it's actually makes you look secure in your self, maybe even a bit gutsy. I'm not sure what the right word would be here, but it I like it. Someday, I hope to join the ranks of VCs but I figure I need to figure things out
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by sown 11y ago
I remember seeing this concept appear over the years. I suppose this means they solved heat dissipation and vibration issues?
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by sown 11y ago
I just noticed notice in the browser window. I didn't recall seeing it earlier so when I saw this headline, I clicked on the link. I chuckled when I saw this: http://i.imgur.com/CHqRSEZ.png :)
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by sown 11y ago
What does this mean? If there was a supernova eons ago in another galaxy and I'm the only human who had been hit by a cosmic ray, does that mean it didn't exist or happen until ... ? Does measurement have to include an agent? Coul
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by sown 11y ago
I only recently developed this skill a little. The Ruby application server I looked at was for doing social network feeds. Posts/Likes/Comments go in, feeds come out. I followed some common code paths for things such as posting
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by sown 11y ago
> f you can't figure it out yourself but ask me questions, if you try a simpler problem first, if you talk and explain what you are doing, if you run your ideas with me asking what I think, if you are determined to figure it out, as
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by sown 11y ago
Time + Internet = A smaller world that doesn't forget
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by sown 11y ago
Maybe just luck, along with good diet and exercise. He looks better than my grandpa did at 70.
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by sown 11y ago
> Curate your portfolio, show only your best work. You say these things like I hadn't thought of them. :p :)
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by sown 11y ago
> It's about gaming the system to get a job. When you are in a position to hire other people, you can worry about a less awful method to select candidates. That's true. I have other features that reduces my chances of getting
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by sown 11y ago
> Indeed. So all the talk about C and C++ vs Java and C# was just an excuse. I am willing to bet there are more excuses hiding. Maybe. That was another poster, though. :) For me, I've spent most of my career fixing bugs. not much n
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by sown 11y ago
> No experience? Make a portfolio of your work. Yes, I've been doing that. I get close to getting hired often this year but they usually find some reason to not hire me. "We think you're a great hire, a really smart pers
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by sown 11y ago
> If you think that's important, why didn't you fix that in the mean time? Knowing nothing else about you, I'd be immediately put off by you not learning on your own.. Speaking as someone in a similar situation, even after
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by sown 11y ago
This burns a little as I got turned down for a job I think I would have done really well at. I'm wondering what I did wrong exactly. I accepted defeat as graciously as I could but I don't know what my future holds. I love programm
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by sown 11y ago
> How is it the best way if you are not going to be writing code on a whiteboard on a daily basis on the job you are going to be interviewing for? It's not. I hate whiteboarding as much as you but I try not to think of it that way.
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by sown 11y ago
> Google is filled with smart people.. but their interview process is pretty stupid. My guess is that they're unable or unwilling to improve the process but they don't really have to since they're deluged with candidates.

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