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horatiocainon Dating Sites Are Not Built for Men

You read the most thoughtful things sometimes, thanks

horatiocainon IQ rates are dropping in many developed countries

There are tons of socioeconomic factors to consider, but I know a lot more fairly average IQ couples with 4 kids instead of two, and I know a lot more smart people who are either childfree or single than parents.

The ability to use birth control properly requires some intelligence.

The needs/career ambitions of a knowledge work career sometimes push aside the desire for a family.

Not trying to be down on people who have lots of kids! There's just tons of factors, some less obvious.

horatiocainon My dog was killed on a walk with a walker ordered through Wag

> To be fair aren't most dog walkers paid extremely little? (Below minimum wage even)

IDK what your source is on this one but the last time I got one it cost like $40 for a person to walk my dog and leave a little paper note that they pooped.

horatiocainon Ask HN: What should an ideal developer interview process look like?

Our Android dev task: write a login/signup dialog. Shows that you have layout skills, networking skills, general Java skills, etc. Candidates either bomb it or nail it, no mis-hires yet after about two years. You get a real good sense of experience level, confidence, and "I like clean code" attitude.

horatiocainon Ask HN: Why not more hiring of junior devs, then on-the-job-training?

I'm a fairly senior mobile/web dev (12 years full time, part time and hobbyist before) and the best part of my job is mentoring the juniors! I push hard for hiring people who are hungry and fun to work with, and it's paid my company dividends. You can spend a few months training a junior or a twice the time hiring a senior, and the juniors always bring good energy and open minds. It's not for every company but I have enjoyed it immensely.

horatiocainon Ask HN: What concepts, if popularly understood, would most improve the world?

They don't need to prove that, it's the default.

horatiocainon Founders need to get radically better at sales

Humanity needs to get radically better at funding startups without all the salesmanship

I swear to god, there needs to be a much, much better system to just incentivize people building useful-to-humanity inventions. So far we've tried: survival (got us fire and farming), traditional societies (got us guns and religion), and capitalism (ouch)

horatiocainon The Great Endumbening

Been around the world and found That only stupid people are breeding The cretins cloning and feeding And I don't even own a tv

horatiocainon Mystery of the ketchup cups

It turns out we've been doing journalism all wrong!

horatiocainon The Source of Dr Seuss’ Lorax?

Stand that? Why would you? With all today's science? You'd have better luck with GDPR compliance

horatiocainon Ask HN: Got a CS degree, but I’m unable to be programmer. What can I do?

Forget CTCI, that's all bullshit. What have you built? Show it off, build more stuff, and find a team you can work on.

horatiocainon Ask HN: Do you have a do-nothing job?

Jesus this is my life :\

I used to write the best code :). Now it's meetings, checkin, answer questions, talk to QA and directors, maybe a PR if someone else didn't get it.

It sucks but I guess my job is to do all that dumb stuff so that my team can be 100% productive. They're awesome and don't deserve to have to go to meetings.

It seems to be working though, the team fucking cranks like never before. I do wish I could grab more than like one bug a week.

horatiocainon Ask HN: Do you have a do-nothing job?

What location are you in? In my experience, Seattle and Boulder have open slots for junior devs that pay pretty okay, just show up and be ready to sling some code. Agree banking is the pits.

That said, it sounds like you have a pretty good gig. Might want to start shopping around.

horatiocainon Ask HN: How to improve my code review skills?

Presume that the next dev to be hired will be the founder's slow nephew. Make sure none of the conditionals are too hard to read. No nested ternary operators, no bullshit variable names, no magic numbers. That's like rule 0 stuff. Past that I think it depends more on language and conventions and stuff.

horatiocainon CodeReddit – Reddit that looks like code

Nicely done!

horatiocainon Inmates can no longer receive book donations. They have to buy them

this is a boring dystopia for us, but two layers of it for the inmates

horatiocainon Google sued for allegedly discriminating against conservative white men

Haha, nice

horatiocainon What Amazon's Alexa economy pays the people building its skills

Virtually nothing

horatiocainon Americans are dying younger than people in other rich nations

That's what happens when we shoot em

horatiocainon Ask HN: Would you live differently if you had proof you were in a simulation?

there is no reason to believe we're not in a simulation.

horatiocainon Apple Says It Slows Older iPhones to Save Their Battery Life

"she only updated because someone sent her some emojis that her phone didn’t understand and now is it’s running like crap" is like basically the state of the art for code running in 2017

horatiocainon Ask HN: Do you reply to recruiter emails?

holy shit this is amazing, thanks!

horatiocainon BlackBerry will shutter its app store on December 31st, 2019

Blackberry's app store is still running? That is baffling.

horatiocainon WeWork employees caught spying on competition

- Regular coffee mate but ALSO French vanilla coffee mate available

- Member wifi ALSO guest wifi

- Potato chips

horatiocainon India programming skills report: only 36% of engineers can write compilable code

I just want to observe that these prompts are in broken typo-riddled English, with misformatted code.

horatiocainon Ask HN: What habits make a programmer great?

Why the kittens game? To demonstrate the effects of scale?

horatiocainon COE: Why was I fired from Amazon?

Working at a company like this sounds like a nightmare hellscape and this guy should join a startup and enjoy life again.