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Re:Goodreads Has No Incentive to Be Good on Friday June 30, 2023 @06:54PM (#36543638)
So goodreads reviews are being abused and Amazon needs to fix it. Well if it becomes big then they will.
This links does not work, typo?
Re:Ask HN: Three Uses of Inheritance? on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @11:28PM (#35270207)
nah, it was something like when to apply inheritance. One : Use it for code re-use to abstract out common code. There were 2 others.

Ask HN: Three Uses of Inheritance?

I seem to recall coming across a post or comment on HN or somewhere else (really sorry, I am not able remember correctly) about how inheritance can only ever be used in three scenarios.I think it referenced an article or post from some professor.One such was Inheritance for re-use. Other two I do not remember.I have been searching on and off for quite some time but have not been able to locate...

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Re:The art of the error message on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @06:11AM (#16114086)
So is there a guide for error messages when the message is not client facing. The grammar, format, etc. +1 if it also provides language specific info , for example in Java use e.getMessage() etc?
All of the startups started before Trump.
Re:Firefox is on a slippery slope on Monday December 18, 2017 @02:14AM (#15950015)
The problem is that you guys can't even see how wrong it was. Only when it is starting to gain publicity and blowing in your face, then you are even "starting" to have a discussion about it.

There were very disappointing answers by mozilla employees on r/firefox.

Re:Rip Your Resume in Half and Other Things You Won't Hear from HR on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @01:32AM (#15912469)
While one pager resumes are the standard advice (and yet not many people know that), I see that the author of this article is biased towards the resume skills of a person.

You are not judging the person on his technical merits and suitability of the role but rather his resume skills. Unless the role you are hiring for is creating resumes.

Again, "tell me why I should hire you and in plain english" is just a bad question and a bad intent. You as an interviewer need to judge that and rather say here is why you should join.

Re:Interesting Codebases on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @03:35AM (#15390809)
Can you also suggest how much time one can expect to spend on a particular codebase (which are listed) to get any meaningful take-aways?

I am interested in exploring codebases now that I have sufficient experience and feel confident (and not initimidated). This will be useful because then I can start from the smaller (simpler) ones and move on to the complex ones later.

Any recommended path, please do suggest.

Re:Reasons to Switch from Chrome to Firefox on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @11:30PM (#14660554)
My main gripe with Chrome is it takes too much time to load for me even if it has to load no tabs on opening. Comparing this with firefox, FF always beats chrome (and note that firefox will always have around 60+ tabs to load, it probably doesn't matter). I have had 3-4 machines (without SSDs) and this difference is always there.

I didn't even used to keep Chrome installed a couple years back , it took an astonishing ~60 seconds or so to start.

Re:Ask HN: What code samples should programmers read? on Monday June 05, 2017 @10:06AM (#14487647)
Which version did you read? I would be interested in giving it a look through, but I expect the newer version must have grown in complexity.

Ask HN: Good resources/books to learn software design for a developer?

Experience level 2-4 years, language agnostic.GoF's desgin patterns (and Head First design patterns) are the only ones I know of.Goal would be to improve myself as a software developer (preparing for interview design questions would be an added bonus).Some topics that come to my mind would be:1. Applying design patterns to real world problems. Ex. how would a you design an elevator system?2....

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Re:A Saner Windows Command Line on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @08:54AM (#11388861)
I have been using ConEmu since December and I am yet to run in issue. I use it with Gow and clink.

What issues did you face?