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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite UNIX tools?
on Friday March 07, 2025 @09:23PM (#43296967)
pbpaste and pbcopy to read and write to the clipboard and then combine with your favorite grep, sed, tr, cut, etc.
Re:Ask HN: Who's been hired through Hacker News?
on Friday July 12, 2024 @09:54PM (#40951138)
Got hired by a startup in 2011 via one of these threads. Hired someone from another thread a few years later. Thanks HN!
Re:Ask HN: What hobbies have you picked up recently?
on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @09:51PM (#37852594)
Bodyweight workout. Gym and equipment not required.
Re:Lithium discovery in US volcano could be biggest deposit ever found
on Saturday September 09, 2023 @08:09PM (#37451600)
Sounds a lot like Michael Crichton's Congo
Re:Ask HN: What are long-lasting tech skills?
on Saturday June 10, 2023 @08:22AM (#36269862)
CS fundamentals like algorithmic complexity. This can also help in interviews where Leetcode-like format seems to be the norm.
Aim to work at places that are flexible on the experience with tools (software, framework, OS, etc.).
Re:Ask HN: Who Got Hired?
on Sunday June 04, 2023 @07:36AM (#36184802)
I got hired at a startup posted here in 2011. I also hired someone from HN a few years later.
Re:Ask HN: US-based non-enterprise programming conferences?
on Saturday April 15, 2023 @07:14AM (#35579532)
Re:Ask HN: Tell me about how you bombed a technical interview
on Saturday April 08, 2023 @03:56PM (#35496973)
Bombed more than one technical interview but here's one example.
Phone screen interview with Google. Interviewer asked about how I would keep track of the nth highest value in an infinite stream of values. I said I would use a heap. Then interviewer asked to me write the code for that heap in a Google Doc. I can't remember what I wrote, but I'm pretty sure that I barely got started. Boom.
Lesson here is that simply knowing something in general might not be enough. If you think you know something, try implementing it from scratch to be sure.
Re:What are your favorite books on Audible?
on Saturday March 04, 2023 @08:20AM (#35020584)
https://www.audible.com/pd/Educated-Audiobook/B075F8MBMQ?act...
https://www.audible.com/pd/Bad-Blood-Audiobook/B07C8GVTB5?ac...
https://www.audible.com/pd/Boys-Will-Be-Boys-Audiobook/B002V...
https://www.audible.com/pd/Shoe-Dog-Audiobook/B01CRM17MS?act...
https://www.audible.com/pd/21-Audiobook/B002V8MEZS?action_co...
https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Game-Audiobook/B002V1K17I?act...
https://www.audible.com/pd/Masters-of-Doom-Audiobook/B008K8B...
Re:Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2022?
on Saturday December 17, 2022 @11:40AM (#34029355)
The 2% Way by Myron Rolle
Re:Ask HN: Inherited the worst code and tech team I have ever seen. Ho...
on Sunday September 18, 2022 @09:02AM (#32887192)
"Have everything in writing, complete with date and signatures"
It is possible that the executives won't take it well to all of the formality here (writing and signatures). How would you convince them that this is necessary?
Re:Ask HN: What do you think of GraphQL?
on Saturday May 21, 2022 @02:45PM (#31460635)
Compared to REST APIs, I like how it eliminates the coarse-grained vs. fine-grained decision for designing queries in APIs. You can just spec out the model and let the clients decide what they need.
Re:Ask HN: Please recommend a router without need for a cloud account
on Monday December 27, 2021 @11:50AM (#29704064)
My Arris modem/router combo didn't need a cloud account.
Re:Ask HN: What are the problems that are willing to pay more than $10...
on Saturday November 06, 2021 @05:41PM (#29134054)
Great question!
Some mechanism to significantly improve intelligence. This could be in any form: book, coaching, game, etc. Some examples of benefits:
- Avoiding making mistakes that cost time among other things (an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure). Programming bugs are on my mind at the moment but could be in other areas as well.
- Make faster decisions with more confidence
- Crush programming interviews
Re:Amazon-backed EV maker Rivian discloses nearly $1B losses in IPO fi...
on Saturday October 02, 2021 @04:59PM (#28732024)
Yup! Also enjoyed the other two docs (Long Way Round and Long Way Down) but those were using non-electric vehicles.
Re:EV startup Rivian announces $2.5B funding round led by Amazon, Ford
on Saturday July 24, 2021 @09:58AM (#27940988)
Rivians were featured in the Apple TV+ documentary series A Long Way Up which was pretty good for those looking for travel/adventure stuff.
Re:What are top lessons you learned the hard way between age 20 to 30?
on Sunday July 11, 2021 @06:58PM (#27805181)
- Finding a life partner can be really hard for some (and that some might include you). Ain't going to happen for some of us.
- You'll become more self-aware over time (what you really want out of different parts of life) but can take some time to get there.
- There is a lot to learn, and college will only provide a fraction it. The rest is up to you, and your life will reflect it. How to dress well, cook, stay healthy, establish relationships, think deeply and logically, overcoming your weaknesses, and more.
Re:Ask HN: If your job was remote, which city would you choose to live...
on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @10:25PM (#20580659)
Can't vouch for this but the podcast TechMeme Ride Home has been promoting weworkremotely.com
Re:I'm a Data Scientist and It's Not My Passion
on Saturday April 27, 2019 @12:46PM (#19766388)
Yeah, this seems like a more realistic perspective for most people. Find something you can like with tolerable downsides.
Re:Ask HN: Did HN bring a change in your life?
on Saturday January 05, 2019 @01:46PM (#18833403)
Yes, I got a job from one of the Who's Hiring threads. Beyond that, it is a daily news source. I check it multiple times a day to just get a sense of what smart people are talking about (glance at the comments and almost never read the source material).
Re:From Java to Go, and Back Again (2016)
on Saturday June 23, 2018 @03:02PM (#17382802)
Interfaces can also provide read-only references of a instance. Consider interface Foo with accessors only and a MutableFoo implementation with accessors and mutators. The creator of the MutableFoo instance can make all sorts of changes to the instance but then pass it around as a Foo that can't be modified. Another option is to simply put all the state in the constructor so that a Foo never needs to be mutated; however, that might not be elegant in some cases state is incrementally accrued.
I do acknowledge that XImpl is kinda ugly as name.
Re:Ask HN: What has HN given you?
on Sunday February 18, 2018 @08:16PM (#16410066)
A job that I've had for years and 2 people that I hired via the "Who's Hiring?" threads. Beyond that, a sense of what smart techies are talkin' about via the headlines and some comments.
Re:Ask HN: What Podcasts would you recommend for the college students?
on Sunday February 18, 2018 @01:55PM (#16407514)
Acquired. It's about acquisitions and IPOs.
Re:The Guy in the Glass: a Poem About Being Yourself (1934)
on Friday November 03, 2017 @09:58PM (#15623433)
Was made aware of this when listening to the Starbucks episode of the Acquired podcast (http://www.acquired.fm/episodes/2017/4/3/episode-34-starbuck...). Great podcast and great poem. I never read poetry, but this one sounded so right.
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II Turns 20 Today
Jedi Knight turned 20 years old today according to Wikipedia. Even though I haven't played video games in many years, I still have fond memories of playing this title as a kid. Vast, mysterious, dark, and a lot of fun. This topic isn't what you usually see on HN, but I thought this kind of crowd might enjoy a trip down memory lane.
Choosing Between Being an Engineering Manager or Individual Contributor (IC)
Re:Ask HN: I'm 19. Should I leave my education for my startup?
on Sunday June 21, 2015 @03:52PM (#9754734)
Finishing your education is the better option given a long-term perspective. You can always join a startup after you're done with school. At least you'll have something valuable even if the startup fails.
Re:Ask HN: What to do in L.A.?
on Sunday May 04, 2014 @11:05PM (#7696796)
TMZ Tour
Re:How to Think
on Sunday March 09, 2014 @02:00PM (#7369222)
Analyzing for a fixed duration and then going with your gut is what I've tried. However, I still get that nagging feeling sometimes that I'm not sure about a decision. In these cases, I either ask someone for their opinion or simply defer the decision, hoping I'll think of the right answer in the shower. Of course, I still need to work on discipline. It's very easy to spend a while on a decision because you can't get away from it until you feel you have a right answer.