synnik

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by synnik 15y ago
A big sincere thank you to the author for giving concrete examples of why this is bad, instead of general fearmongering and ranting.
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by synnik 15y ago
I'm 21 years into my career myself, so the web is younger than my carrer. At this point, I do full stack development as well. And... I think you are taking on more than you need to for the discussion at hand. If you are an excellent JS prog
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by synnik 15y ago
I had a course in grad school in which we wrote our own database system, including having to calculate the storage to disk... as in, calculate the sectors, and where you had to break fields to a new sector, and read/write the raw binary dat
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by synnik 15y ago
Good. Convince all your peers to do the same.
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by synnik 15y ago
You are missing the point. There are established mechanisms for change in this country. I grow weary of people acting like we need to rise up and take drastic action, when most people have not even gone through our established processes. An
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by synnik 15y ago
Like, vote in the upcoming elections?
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by synnik 15y ago
This article raises red flags on the author's credibility. This looks less like a truthful account of a story, and more like a frustrated small company who had a partnership go bad, and are trying to defame their partner. A whole web site,
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by synnik 15y ago
If you complete phone screens on 1 out of every 10 inquiries you send, you are doing very well in my opinion. If those phone screens do not turn into full interviews or offers, that is a statement on how they went, not on company responsive
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by synnik 15y ago
I also wonder what may have been different if this was not placed in the context of a very public experiment. How many of the purchases were political statements? I think the same model needs to be employed, without any commentary, to get a
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by synnik 15y ago
Some suggestions: 1) If you are going to suggest such a massive scope of changes, offer to help instead of just dumping a list out there. 2) Check to see if the poster on HN is actually the author of the article. Doesn't look like it in thi
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by synnik 15y ago
This may be the best example I have ever seen of a great idea that has been completely destroyed by a horrible choice of implementation.
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by synnik 15y ago
Highcharts' zoomable graphs are a killer feature at the moment. They are not difficult to use, and I use them to show 30 days worth of data (2880 points per graph) in my monitoring apps. They work on mobile and web out of the box, too. I'm
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by synnik 15y ago
I don't see a serious problem with a low retention rate from reading HN articles. I do not come here to memorize every item that flies through... I probably read 50 items a week on HN, but the reason I come back is for the 2-3 items per wee
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by synnik 15y ago
Could you set it up so we can input our own Facebook ID instead of having to grant your app access? I personally have the entire app platform disabled on my account, and do not intend to turn it back on.
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by synnik 15y ago
Asimov hashed through all this quite thoroughly in the Foundation series. But it is always interesting when we catch up to classic sci-if and work towards actual implementations of what was pure imagination only a short time ago.
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by synnik 15y ago
Whether or not non-friends can message you is a privacy setting.
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by synnik 15y ago
People are missing the underlying root cause of the lower quality programmers in India -- Culture. There, upward mobility is the goal, not being the best programmer. People take a programming job for a year or two, then look to "advance" in
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by synnik 15y ago
The fact that you keep jumping in and defending yourself after every negative comment makes you look like you are seriously lacking confidence. Nobody is questioning that you believe in what you do and are doing well at it, and enjoying you
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by synnik 15y ago
When I first saw his headlines a while back, I had the same question... But there is a very reasonable answer - he is bringing to light a gap in the availability of bone marrow for his particular ethnicity. It is not that he is personally m
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by synnik 15y ago
Yes, it is ridiculous. They are ensuring that they get people who are interesting... and all the exact same flavor of interesting. It feels juvenile, even if they intended it sincerely. Maybe they are find people, and maybe it is a fine com
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by synnik 15y ago
Just be smart... My favorite bad example is a former kung fu teacher of mine. He was in a motorcycle accident that put him in a wheelchair a number of years ago. He recovered, mostly. And I always had sympathy for him, assuming he was a saf
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by synnik 15y ago
This may or may not be true... it is an example of the old statement that I learned in martial arts" There is a vast difference between having 10 years of experience, and having 1 year of experience repeated 10 times. The reason there are o
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by synnik 15y ago
Some of us are working full-time on renewable energy projects - my company is one of them. The US may not have a policy in place, but the Senators we have met with are supportive of our efforts, showing us where more general business polici
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by synnik 15y ago
As a hiring manager, this does not make sense. Why should I pay $50 just to make initial contact with one person, and then still have to do the full recruiting and interviewing process? Recruiters will do all that for me for free, and pre-s
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by synnik 15y ago
Clearly, since it IS the top comment, HN as a whole disagrees with you. I believe that discussion about appropriate language and communication styles is very applicable to HN. We're trying to be a better, more insightful discussion board wi
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by synnik 15y ago
I do think this is a better idea than the existing boards. But I won't use it yet. I would be interested after it has traction -- 1) As a hiring manager, I want a broad pool of talent to select from. That pool does need whittling, but how d
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by synnik 15y ago
That isn't exactly how it works -- It is a valid argument for raises, especially early in your career. But at some point, you are no longer selling your personal value to your boss - you are competing with other programmers who are willing
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by synnik 15y ago
According to the article, he does take weekends off to relax. And 16 hours a day is not unrealistic, if that is all you do. No kids, no family, no friends, no TV, no games. If you have a passion for your work, and no life outside of work...
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by synnik 15y ago
This has been tried before and discussed before. The problem with it is that it sends a message that, "I am more important than you, and nothing you say can possibly be important enough to be worth keeping." Now, maybe that is even true. Bu
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by synnik 15y ago
I'm less interested in what college students think about office work than I would be to see what changes they may have (or not) after 3 years of experience. I'm not disputing the results... I've just noticed that a few years of experience t

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