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by wikwocket 6y ago
Say what you will about Twitter, but is a globally distributed database with trillions of entries, which has to add and sort and display billions of those entries in real-time for 100+ million daily active users. And it has to resist nation
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by wikwocket 6y ago
Would you want to date someone who seemed desperate to get into a relationship? Who seemed like they were having trouble getting a relationship at all, let alone a good healthy one? Same principle.
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by wikwocket 7y ago
Since these are riffs on fizzbuzz, the goal is just to evaluate whether a candidate can use programming to solve these at all, i.e. whether they can 1) think through how to accomplish a basic task with some data and code, and 2) implement i
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by wikwocket 7y ago
For what it's worth, protected branches are pretty clearly listed as a "Github Pro" feature in their pricing page. I agree that it'd be nice if they warned you about features you're using that will be turned off, b
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by wikwocket 8y ago
I get your analogy, but I think there are tons of hammer conferences. There are conferences for most any language with wide adoption. There's also a Slack conference (not "TeamChatConf," but a "Slack Frontiers").
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by wikwocket 8y ago
I'm sure lots of e-commerce companies feel this pressure. Where I work, an Additional Revenue team was created for this kind of thing - sponsored results, ads, cross-sells, etc. It's viewed as free money on the table, since it is
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by wikwocket 8y ago
Random unsolicited internet advice: never decide not to apply because you don't feel good enough. We all experience imposter syndrome, and most job postings are just wishlists of unrealistic qualifications copy-pasted by HR anyway (thi
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by wikwocket 8y ago
The inability to filter explicit songs out is maddening! And it's a glaring omission to anyone with young children. I have seen it skip from a My Little Pony song to an explicit Patton Oswalt standup bit (perhaps because he voiced a ch
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by wikwocket 8y ago
As a parent, I agree. One should not shy away from talking about "advanced" topics. Kids are naturally curious and bright and I think we should encourage their desire to learn and understand complex things. I worry that if you try
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by wikwocket 8y ago
Nothing really prevents this; a company I work with does something similar, and as long as you engineer your use of the platforms to be flexible and not rely on platform-specific features (for example MailChimp and SendGrid use slightly dif
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by wikwocket 9y ago
Based on comments on HN, people are surprised that a company that "just runs a website" can employ "so many people." But this is a platform processing hundreds of millions of dollars among hundreds of thousands of users.
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by wikwocket 9y ago
They did not do hard research, since they are still designing their game, but they did present it to playtesters. I think this is an appropriate level of diligence for a product early in the design phase, it's the equivalent of the &qu
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by wikwocket 9y ago
Absolutely. "Programming" with cute icons may not make you a "great" programmer, but that's not the goal. It's to get you interested in the idea of telling a computer to do cool things. As an example, my daught
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by wikwocket 9y ago
There was some great prior discussion of the topic of kids, text, and coding in a thread about Scratch 3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14274249
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by wikwocket 9y ago
https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/ is also a great community, with great discussions. Part science, part fantasy. People tedn to post long fun answers that remind me of XKCD's What If? series.
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by wikwocket 9y ago
One micro-solution to the "what's deployed right now" problem is to have a health-check url for your app, which includes info like what git commit was used to create the current build, when it was deployed, and some basic app
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by wikwocket 9y ago
I wouldn't lose sleep over it. Deep Learning is great at making recommendations or classifications, given petabytes of data, but not even close to automatically solving general-purpose computing problems. For example, I can type an err
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by wikwocket 10y ago
For what it's worth, Groovy does have types. It is not dynamically typed, but optionally typed. Throw a @CompileStatic annotation on your classes (or use a global withConfig) and it is very nicely typed, using Java's type system.
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by wikwocket 10y ago
I think this is a good point. There's a real risk that a homework you think is simple is a little more complicated because you're making assumptions. I think it's good to have a few current team members actually code it up (n
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by wikwocket 10y ago
I think this is good advice. It's better to see first-hand pain points that businesses experience as opposed to looking for an "idea" i.e. dreaming of a solution and then trying to find a matching problem that it solves. If y
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by wikwocket 10y ago
I think many of us do enjoy complexity (when it works), and have a bias for complex systems that seem cool. After all, one of the reasons many of us are in engineering is that we aren't afraid of complexity, and indeed have an aptitude
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JetBrains Development Technologies Survey 2016(surveys.jetbrains.com)
2 points by wikwocket 10y ago|0 comments
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by wikwocket 10y ago
Location: Chicago suburbs Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Java, HTML, JavaScript, web services, REST, Docker, Hadoop, SQL Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/sidaefy4pmf9xbm/Resume%20-%20Hac
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by wikwocket 10y ago
I am working on Neal Stephenson's REAMDE. I say "working on" as opposed to "finishing" since it's more of a side job than a casual read. You don't really make progress, you just sort of periodically put an
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by wikwocket 10y ago
An hour seems a good compromise, since one reason you may want to change your vote would be if the post was edited after you voted. An hour provides enough time for the edit to happen, and for you to see it and change your vote. If this is
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by wikwocket 10y ago
Thanks for the video link - the slides are great, but the video is even better, since a bunch of the slides are animated. Actually, 'animated' describes the whole presentation pretty well. :) Clearly a thought-out and well-crafted
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by wikwocket 10y ago
In a timely note, World Backup Day is March 31st: http://www.worldbackupday.com/en/ Sadly, in my experience, we only back stuff up after personally seeing a big loss. And there's a strong cobbler's-children e
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by wikwocket 11y ago
If you ever charged $250 an hour (even if that was the "I hate you go away" rate), then congrats, that's your new hourly rate. Everyone paying less is getting a screaming deal on the friends and family plan. Try charging more
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by wikwocket 11y ago
If you have played your cards right, your last day should not be anything special, as you should have started wrapping most things up weeks to months ago. Then your last day can simply be doing any last-minute cleanup, administrivia, anythi
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by wikwocket 11y ago
If it is no longer common to do this, you have the potential to stand out all the more for performing this social courtesy. This is not one of those things like wearing a suit to a shorts-and-sandals startup, where they say "Oh what a

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