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Adamantcheeseon Ask HN: Should HN implement a fact checker for its links and why/why not?

NLP along with an awfully difficult problem that would've probably been solved somewhere else first? I don't think it's worth the effort. The community does a fine job moderating itself.

Adamantcheeseon Ask HN: What are your thoughts of Leetcode and HackerRank

They're useful, but they shouldn't BE useful. Their existence only exacerbates the crappy algorithms interview. It's akin to trivia for anyone in a position that they have to program for.

Adamantcheeseon How to pass a programming interview (2016)

Is it just me, or does this read like a massive farce? That everything that Triplebyte is trying to solve they just... can't?

Adamantcheeseon Tell HN: Skype stopped support for Firefox on web skype as of today

Browser support messages are still a thing?

Adamantcheeseon Ask HN: I casually came up with chained unary operators, do you like them?

Reminds me of good ol' APL.

Adamantcheeseon Creeping on You in the Cold Drinks Aisle

It lacks any sort of depth and it doesn't look like there's any product in stock honestly. I think it needs more work before it'll be a product people want, and even then, what's the market? I don't think retailers stocking junk food are going to be swapping out their doors for these at all. It's just not worth the investment, more than likely.

Adamantcheeseon Ask HN: Has anyone curated a list of hidden interview questions?

So does anyone know the root password?

Adamantcheeseon There May Be Money in Internet Art After All (1999)

This and the following three webcomic pages are probably the closest thing I've seen as "internet art" in it's most literal sense. http://www.avasdemon.com/2112.php

Although I guess now it's really commonplace, Patreon and all.

Adamantcheeseon General Motors starts taking orders for its electric bicycle

It looks like a horrible bike if you have to actually pedal it, the wheels are tiny! You might as well get a moped or something instead of that, which would stick out like a sore thumb and be a good target for thieves. Also where do you lock it up if you have to? Or do you just fold it up and take it inside? For some reason it doesn't seem like it was made by a person who's ever ridden a bike.

Adamantcheeseon Ask HN: What are some good back end website ideas?

How about a game like chess or checkers or go that you play against an AI?

Adamantcheeseon “Illegal” Lego Builds (2006) [pdf]

That channel is partially why I made the comment. Using LEGO to do things that obviously strain the pieces beyond what's intended is not advisable. Really fun though!

Adamantcheeseon “Illegal” Lego Builds (2006) [pdf]

Also note: don't use pieces outside of LEGO or Technic. That includes powerful motors attached to technic axles, steel axles or bricks, bearings, etc. The bricks were designed with certain assumptions in mind and you will ruin your pieces over time doing that. Source: experience.

Adamantcheeseon Launch HN: Modern Labor (YC W19) – Paying People to Learn to Code

>Right now the curriculum is JavaScript (React, Redux) and Python and focuses on the web, which is only one sliver of the software universe.

And I highly doubt you will expand beyond this given who you are likely to be contracting with.

Adamantcheeseon Ask HN: How Would You Explain HN to a Two-Year-Old?

People write about cool things and you can read about cool things. The cooler a thing is the more people look at it.

Keep your vocab limited when explaining to kids. Otherwise you'll go down a rabbit hole of "what does that mean". Which is fine if you want to do that, but a 2 year old isn't going to remember a lot of it.

Adamantcheeseon Ask HN: Which companies are improving recruiting?

I've used Triplebyte and Hired in the past as a candidate. Triplebyte is good only for web development positions (front or back), and Hired seems completely useless. Every time I get emails begging me to submit my resume and then immediately get rejected. Makes no sense at all.

From what other people comment here and my own opinion, the filtering that most job boards use are complete garbage. Sometimes I want to search for a keyword, but I have never seen a single search where I can exclude a keyword. Or some implied tags just aren't used to help expand or narrow search results. And also PDF resumes just aren't able to be parsed correctly, even in very simple formats. But I would never be able to tell if it was parsed correctly as an applicant for some ATS systems because there's no feedback. As far as I'm aware, digital resumes should be in more use, but every ATS requires a new account and inputting the same information. Even when the company board listing is provided by the same company as another board listing! Workday is one example of that and it's infuriating!

And then there's the whole problem of HR people putting out the job listings. The horrible inaccuracy of some of them makes it really confusing as to what a company is actually looking for and if I would be a good fit.

Basically, I can't find what I want, I don't know what's happening, and I don't know what you want. And the best way to solve all of those is to 1) make better search tools, 2) give me more feedback and tell me when things go wrong instead of rejecting me outright for a software error, and 3) have the person in charge of a position write the job listing or talk to the candidate.

Adamantcheeseon Ask HN: Show Us Your Personal Website/Blog?

http://temporary.directory/blog

Going to probably make another blogpost soon about how I'm so mad at Lenovo's bullshit.

Adamantcheeseon Is “Senior Software Developer” a Meaningless Title?

It's almost guaranteed to be useless considering I've gotten recruiting emails for 12+ years experience as a junior.

Adamantcheeseon Ask HN: How would you sort HN users by quality of comments?

Hand select comments and produce a training set. Train some model, pump every comment through it. Make a histogram of all the values you test and any user that is a statistical outlier from that dataset (towards higher values) will be added to a list of "high quality" posters.

Adamantcheeseon Ask HN: What is some information you're not able to find on the internet?

I know a lot about how Blu Ray sucks.

Adamantcheeseon Show HN: Colorffy – 3-colors gradients generator

If you want to sell whatever you have, despite function, would you rather purchase something that "looks old" or something that "looks new"? I suspect most people would go with the latter. Since "looks new" sells, people will design it in that matter.

Note that "looks new" and "looks old" are relative terms to the last design. That's why they're trends and cycle back and forth.

Adamantcheeseon Ask HN: Which side project do you plan to do in 2019?

Gotta try adding a feature to an app I use. Partially there, learn some Android along the way. Already learned about dependency injection.

Adamantcheeseon This person does not exist

So how long before we have a dataset to say if an image was generated or not?

Adamantcheeseon Ask HN: What technology do you think will take off in 2019?

WASM for native desktop applications.

Adamantcheeseon Wanted: Cofounder for YC S19. Robotic Tunnel Delivery of Groceries/food/packages

So why not use pneumatic tube transport instead? Too small? Also a failure of a vehicle can block a tunnel entirely, maybe electrified rail would be better. I'll keep an eye on your project, seems neat.

Adamantcheeseon Ask HN: What’s the most important software in the world?

Any network protocol implementation.

Adamantcheeseon Show HN: Tech jobs with salary range

What does this offer that other job boards don't? The statistical ranges offered by say Glassdoor show you an estimate which is more than good enough for most cases, as you should be negotiating your pay anyways. And the salary range on some of these listings is so massive that I can't say it provides me any information at all.

Adamantcheeseon Ask HN: What can I do so that Monkeys do not chew my fiber optic cable?

Electric fence? Bitterant? Maybe some of those bird-prevention spikes that get put on trees or buildings in cities? Re-route the cable through steel conduit/electrical boxes? Armored cable? Motion sensitive alarm/lights/water spray? Really depends on your budget and how silly/effective you want this to be.

Adamantcheeseon Ask HN: What is the hardest challenge in the hiring process for you?

I want the jobs to be written by someone who knows what you need to actually do in the job rather than by HR, because I don't know what you want.

Adamantcheeseon Show HN: Searchable career-paths built by scraping publicly available resumes

I think there's some parsing issues, because I would hate to end up at the end of my career as "Software Development Intern 12".