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by variety 16y ago
You don't have to rely purely on subjective human judgement. And yet (aside from mega deal-breakers, like clearly overstating competence in some category) that's pretty much what hiring decisions come down to: "Are they for real? Can I
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by variety 16y ago
What is greatness, you ask? It is the ability of a man to stand on his own, against the whole world, against the very flow of time itself: Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me;
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by variety 16y ago
all the into you => all that into you , of course
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by variety 16y ago
To be fair, sometimes proficiency in some framework or CMS or vertical skill area does matter a lot more than you think it does. Remember now, the problem isn't that they get candidates who don't know $whatever_niche_topic, it's that the
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by variety 16y ago
Conversely, we can think of this as a rather poor filtering technique, because it grants an a nearly automatic pass to anyone who happens to have read any of the popular programming books (or blogs) where the "problem" is presented in easil
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by variety 16y ago
Design patterns, at least as defined by Fowler and company, ... have no justification in robust software design. I don't particularly venerate the concept of design patterns, nor would I bother asking about them during an interview. But
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by variety 16y ago
That she was "bored" by the exercise doesn't necessarily mean that she doesn't share you and your brother's bold, hard-driving, searingly intense curiosity about the world, and the nature of our ability to infer knowledge about it. It might
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by variety 16y ago
That's cool. Still, it's better form to at least try to not to use language that smacks of category-based discrimination. Just stating your age, for example, will instantly repel anyone in the pushing-30-or-over set.
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by variety 16y ago
And very heavy, 3-pager tl;dr pdfs at that.
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by variety 16y ago
So -- blatant age discrimination, huh? That's... awesome, dude.
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by variety 16y ago
This is just like any other claim to own some particular piece of real estate: it will have abundant "standing", "merit" and "legitimacy" as soon as she is able to back her claim up by force. It's been that way since the beginning of time;
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by variety 16y ago
There are plenty of reasons not to publish on CPAN. Not everyone has time to "babysit" all the modules they write (and deal with people's complaints that they're misnamed, aren't complete enough, etc). Also, lots of people who were once pr
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Stuxnet's Targets(spectregroup.wordpress.com)
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by variety 16y ago
Umm, for one thing, the description of the instruments as "derivatives" is not due to Kedrosky, but to Avi Levy, the author of the Bloomberg article he was quoting. You did see that he was quoting another article, didn't you? Also, it's no
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by variety 16y ago
Someething like a github repo for every arXiv submission - shouldn't be that hard to do.
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by variety 16y ago
Basically, you should only take a significant options stake if you're in love with the team, the work and the business models for their own sakes. A good quantifier for "in love with", BTW, is if they're doing something that you would alm
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by variety 16y ago
Well, the global history of hype, at least.
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by variety 16y ago
silly, yes. but nonetheless, an accurate reflection of how many people view that sphere of activity known as "perl scripting." i.e. pretty much like bash scripting, but with slightly different punctuation.
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by variety 16y ago
It's Paris , man. You don't need recommendations. It's mind-blowing, sensory overload everywhere. Just walk down the street.
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by variety 16y ago
Some of Northrop Grumman's more interesting accomplishments under Ronald Sugar's tenure: Acting as goodwill ambassadors to the people of Iraq: Northrop Grumman’s subsidiary, Vinnell Corporation, has been catching a lot of flack lately. The
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by variety 16y ago
Or Zagat, or Yelp -- or anyone willing to setup up to the task of answering simple, pertinent questions like "how do I find a decent Thai restaurant nearby that's open at this hour?" seriously. Trophy cases for badges. Jeez.
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by variety 16y ago
But as the community is growing, this is kind of inevitable. And desirable. What HN needs is enhanced search (and tagging) capabilities, precisely to allow user to select content from specfic regions (and in different languages). For examp
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by variety 16y ago
His sudden withdrawal from a successful musical comedy career was a mystery to many. Well, the official explanation was that Henry Kissinger's winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 made musical comedy obsolete: "It was at that moment
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by variety 16y ago
"Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention."
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by variety 16y ago
Because Wikipedia -- to its credit -- has no intention of being acquired by anyone.
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by variety 16y ago
The djb way: "straight, no chaser": http://cr.yp.to/ qmail in particular, and also (if you like math) primegen. BTW, his code is not easy to understand (quite the opposite) -- there are few source comments, and most of these are
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by variety 16y ago
BTW also: you're young, and most likely have neither a family, nor a terribly serious relationship that can't buck the strain -- so go ahead, kill yourself with work for a year or two.
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by variety 16y ago
The main benefit you get from being a consultant for a while is that you get to learn just how much BS lies at the heart of most "consulting", as well as the companies that like to hire (tons and tons of) consultants. That is, mostly consul
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by variety 16y ago
Hate to say this, but reading that article made me feel like I was reading Foursquare's obituary, 3 years from now.
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by variety 16y ago
You probably should have left a long time ago, from the sound of what you're saying. Main thing to keep in mind (and that people too often forget in situations like these) is that you don't owe it to them to stay in this job. If somethin

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