tdenkinger
Re:The anatomy of the perfect technical interview from a former Amazon VP
on Friday August 16, 2013 @10:44AM (#6224284)
This was not my experience. I did not get an offer after being flown out and spending the day interviewing. I did not do well in the whiteboard coding, but I found the people I interacted with to generally be interested and smart.
Re:Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 crashes at SFO
on Saturday July 06, 2013 @05:56PM (#6000218)
Basically, the United flight holds short of runway 28 as he may need a little more time (this is the United flight CNN showed sitting there, probably).
The ATC controller knows something has happened because the first time we hear from 214 heavy, the controller tells the pilot emergency vehicles are on the way.
Then some captains on final announce they're going around and some ask for redirect (one clearly to San Jose). The controller then tells some flights on final to go around.
Finally he's directing rescue units to cross all runways where normally they'd hold at each runway to be directed.
Ask HN: A/B/C testing - something bothers me about this one.
Say you have a piece of digital content (a song or book), and you sell it on iTunes, Amazon and on your own website. You're interesting in finding out which of those sales outlets your customers prefer.So, you devise a test: you'll create three splash pages, each has some marketing copy and a single link to one of those sales outlets. Randomly, one third of your visitors will see the iTunes...
Re:Out of acqui-hire stage
on Friday April 27, 2012 @11:25AM (#3899454)
Forgot one: "Go for profitability, make poor decisions, bounce along the bottom for awhile, and then liquidate."
The most likely path.
Re:Google Drive vs. Dropbox Terms of Service
on Thursday April 26, 2012 @08:26PM (#3896816)
Those sentences do not say the same thing. Most worrying: "promoting" in the Google terms.
Re:Digramly - build diagrams online with great ease for free
on Thursday April 19, 2012 @09:32AM (#3862876)
The UI for arrows was hard to figure out for a few minutes, but once I did I found it to be the right experience. Drag into space, you get an arrow to the same shape; drag to another shape, you get and arrow to that shape. That feels nice.
Re:Ask HN: Should software QA people be able to code?
on Thursday March 22, 2012 @10:18AM (#3739762)
I appreciate the answers. Now I need to figure out a way to nudge the QA team toward learning to code.
Ask HN: Should software QA people be able to code?
I have always expected that people dedicated to software QA are able to write code. Not large, complicated systems. Just straight-forward procedural scripts in a well-known language.Am I asking too much?It seems to me that without that knowledge, you lose a lot of perspective on how software works. I think you also possibly miss opportunities to automate some of your most tedious tasks.
Re:"We don’t do programming, we do strategy"
on Sunday March 18, 2012 @11:44AM (#3719917)
On a recent Ruby Rogues podcast one of the guys mentions that if you want to see what software applications need to be build in an organization, see what people are doing with Excel.
"Excel is a coping method." - James Edward Gray II
This has definitely been the case in all the companies I have been at.
Re:RubyMine 4 is Here to Make You Feel the Productivity
on Thursday February 16, 2012 @01:49AM (#3597696)
I'm a vim user. I'd use RM when pairing with someone not well versed in vim. Otherwise, I find it slow and difficult to work in.
Re:Facebook's S-1 Filing
on Wednesday February 01, 2012 @07:59PM (#3540928)
They won't be able to exercise their vested options for several months (usually six, as I recall). And many won't have vested 100% yet. That keeps people around.
Re:IRB session to existing ruby process.
on Wednesday January 25, 2012 @09:40AM (#3509834)
If you're so inclined, I'd also like to hear about the hot code reloading information you've found.
Re:Show HN: Pitchdeck Inspired Resume
on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @09:45AM (#3451933)
The top is "expertise" and the bottom is "how often I use it". Not clear, for sure.
Re:Why I use vim
on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @10:11PM (#3450293)
There's a bad link in the article. The link to "Vim My new IDE" should be:
Re:Show HN: An iPad app to teach kids how to program
on Monday December 26, 2011 @11:19AM (#3393165)
Congratulations for getting this out in front of people. Good luck. I'll be checking it out.
Re:Poll: What's your yearly bonus?
on Wednesday December 21, 2011 @07:32PM (#3379772)
Isn't percentage more interesting that raw amount? It would be to me anyway.