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Ronald Raiden posted:all of those are pretty cool things also so is algorithms who did you used to be
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i was so bored at my old job i wrote most of an arm emulator in coffeescript during the downtime when they thought i was loving around on HN or facebook or w/e
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rotor posted:who did you used to be A Big Fart
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graph posted:A Big Fart before that I was coaxmetal
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rotor posted:alternately just move to sf and get paid the same at some startup for just dickin around yeah but a house in chicago isn't 1.5mio, unless you live on the lake/loop
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dazjw posted:i was so bored at my old job i wrote most of an arm emulator in coffeescript during the downtime when they thought i was loving around on HN or facebook or w/e literally cannot bring myself to open a text editor if I'm not being paid for it
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trex eaterofcadrs posted:yeah but a house in chicago isn't 1.5mio, unless you live on the lake/loop neither is a house in sf unless you live in a really fancy part
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rotor posted:neither is a house in sf unless you live in a really fancy part slight hyperbole but aren't even normal houses "in the city" like 750+?
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trex eaterofcadrs posted:slight hyperbole but aren't even normal houses "in the city" like 750+? my place is around 600, 650. 3bdrms, decent yard.
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Sulk posted:upsides: money java is an upside
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Please stop encouraging terrible programmers from moving to the bay area. There are enough of them already.
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volkadav posted:I'm glad that you like writing performant server-side code, good on you, but realize that node is only (sort of, in some situations) fast because it embodies a particular design pattern, not because it happens to be javascript. lol @ anyone who thinks writing js is writing performant server-side code but that's not actually important if your business is a normal for-profit business and not some valley vc "web scale" bullshit that requires suckling at a constant teat of investors to keep functioning: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1509-mr-moore-gets-to-punt-on-sharding dhh posted:The general advise on sharding is that you don’t until you have to. It’s similar to Martin Fowler’s First Law of Distributed Object Design: Don’t distribute your objects! Sharding is still relatively hard, has relatively poor tool support, and will definitely complicate your setup.
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rotor posted:my place is around 600, 650. 3bdrms, decent yard. hm, still more, but not as bad as i thought. 400 will get you a p decent place in chitown, but it's also a huge rear end city, you can get a place for like 60 if you REALLY wanted.
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rotor posted:literally cannot bring myself to open a text editor if I'm not being paid for it i havent rly done any proper coding since i graduated like 6 months ago cos im completely unmotivated. kind of burnt out i guess. the story would be very different if i were actually paid to do it X hours a day. i do still rly enjoy digging my teeth into a problem and am mad into maths+cs+coding but i dont tend to do it in my free time for fun any more. how am i supposed to differentiate myself in the eyes of an interviewer from some useless shitlord that knows nothing like are there any interviewers out there who will actually give me a pencil + paper and let me play about with ideas and solve some problems rather than asking me about poo poo i dont even remember
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Rufo posted:i havent rly done any proper coding since i graduated like 6 months ago cos im completely unmotivated. kind of burnt out i guess. the story would be very different if i were actually paid to do it X hours a day. i do still rly enjoy digging my teeth into a problem and am mad into maths+cs+coding but i dont tend to do it in my free time for fun any more. how am i supposed to differentiate myself in the eyes of an interviewer from some useless shitlord that knows nothing all of them
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Rufo posted:i havent rly done any proper coding since i graduated like 6 months ago cos im completely unmotivated. kind of burnt out i guess. the story would be very different if i were actually paid to do it X hours a day. i do still rly enjoy digging my teeth into a problem and am mad into maths+cs+coding but i dont tend to do it in my free time for fun any more. how am i supposed to differentiate myself in the eyes of an interviewer from some useless shitlord that knows nothing you should totally show intervieweres goatkcd rufo.
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i could rewrite it to use proper computer vision algos i guess cos its a complete joke atm + also written in php
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Rufo posted:i do still rly enjoy digging my teeth into a problem and am mad into maths+cs+coding but i dont tend to do it in my free time for fun any more. how am i supposed to differentiate myself in the eyes of an interviewer from some useless shitlord that knows nothing my interview for current position was good like that: a tour of my github, i describe how and why i wrote some things certain ways, etc.
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I don't really have anything on my github and its not really an issue right now but I think for down the line it would be cool to have some stuff or contribute to a thing, the problem is yea, I suck at doing projects that aren't for work or school.
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Ronald Raiden posted:I don't really have anything on my github and its not really an issue right now but I think for down the line it would be cool to have some stuff or contribute to a thing, the problem is yea, I suck at doing projects that aren't for work or school. my problem is figuring out what to work on and how to contribute. do people just a) read every line of code looking for issues, or b) use/try to break the programs intentionally? also another issue is a lot of projects on github are uninteresting plugins/extensions for X program/Y language :\
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at uni i used to fix bugs in OSS stuff for practise by the simple expedient of a) use OSS product b) encounter horrible bug c) fix it note that step b may take several seconds so be patient gl
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dazjw posted:at uni i used to fix bugs in OSS stuff for practise by the simple expedient of I actualyl encountered a bug in an oss produt I am using now... but its hosted on sourceforge????
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Sulk posted:my problem is figuring out what to work on and how to contribute. do people just a) read every line of code looking for issues, or b) use/try to break the programs intentionally? also another issue is a lot of projects on github are uninteresting plugins/extensions for X program/Y language :\ personally when i look at code samples i'm looking at their coding style. you can learn a lot about a person by looking at their code. for example, here is some code from a real candidate: code:
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Code samples are also a way for candidates to show their enthusiasm - you can tell if a person likes to code, by the code that they write.
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Dr. Honked posted:personally when i look at code samples i'm looking at their coding style. you can learn a lot about a person by looking at their code.
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DSMCSSLT - Don't Send Me Clown School poo poo Like This
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to weed out the undesirables we always ask: for a given string, output a list of unique characters and their number of occurrences like 90% of applicants can't figure it out
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CaptainMeatpants posted:to weed out the undesirables we always ask: if they use a bloom filter you can disqualify them on account of then you know they read hacker news
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BonzoESC posted:if they use a bloom filter you can disqualify them on account of then you know they read hacker news I know how to sue a bloom filter but I woudln't have thought to use it unless I was in a do fancy poo poo mindset already. If i was just given that task in real life i'd just use a loop + dictionary probably.
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Ronald Raiden posted:I know how to sue a bloom filter but I woudln't have thought to use it unless I was in a do fancy poo poo mindset already. If i was just given that task in real life i'd just use a loop + dictionary probably. that's the answer we look for cause it's a real life answer
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Lol bloom filter. If you do it an array then use an array
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i dont like that maps are called dictionaries in c#
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BonzoESC posted:
ur supposed to count them though the_string.group_by {|x| x}.map {|k, v| [k, v.size]}
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Shaggar posted:i dont like that maps are called dictionaries in c# u can also call them associative arrays if you want. BUt no languages do that. The fact that they are a basic data type that you don't need to do anything fancy to use in python is super convenient.
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Btw I meant array not map I know some "developers" are confused about the difference from php-induced idiocy
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Ronald Raiden posted:u can also call them associative arrays if you want. BUt no languages do that. the best one does
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Tiny Bug Child posted:the best one does php "arrays" aren't even proper dictionaries. iirc you can only use like strings or ints as keys or something gay like that, I forget.
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Someday I'm gonna get sent to interview some ~promising fresh grad talent~ and I'm gonna ask "hey, like, what are arrays?" and they're gonna say "idk" or "those are the things where you have, like, keys and values, right?" and I will say "thanks for saving me some time, bye bye" while fantasizing about breaking their fingers do I don't need to worry about them running loose and capable of programming.
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# ? Apr 26, 2012 18:31 |
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Ronald Raiden posted:php "arrays" aren't even proper dictionaries. iirc you can only use like strings or ints as keys or something gay like that, I forget.
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rotor posted:if ur in sf and are basically competent with js & python get me your resume im neither of those but if the money's right i'm willing to relocate
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