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Your biggest roadblock will be trust, not technology. Players will have a hard time trusting you or each other without some existing reputation.

Are they asking for a timing attack, then?

Even so, "a recent member of X team with Y role and Z complaint" is pretty uniquely identifying.

It's a trade-off to some extent. You can have more automation and less customization, less automation and more customization, or somewhere in between. A lot of existing tools for d…

Is functional programming really mainstream now? I think knowledge of its existence is mainstream, but interest in it still is not. Most people give me strange looks when I tell th…

A big point that recruiters emphasize with a client is that they can bring in good candidates who otherwise would not have had interest in a position (and whether they actually ful…

From what I've seen, people are angry at a certain subset of the Ruby on Rails community, but then they take that anger and generalize it to the Rails community or even the Ruby co…

I'm also wondering the same thing as others. What specifically made it worthwhile to make this a separate language, as opposed to a domain-specific language implemented on top of a…

Corollary: "Think before you speak."

If you rent cheaply (sufficiently far uptown or certain parts of the outer boroughs) and live cheaply (this excludes a lot of dining/entertainment options but leaves plenty more), …

Feels kinda like a cross between ProtoBuf and MessagePack. We already have so many serialization formats, though. What is the compelling use-case for this one?

I've been using Clojure for a while now. Do you have any particular recommendations for resources for getting started with ClojureScript? I tried a while back and got really confus…

I'd be curious to hear about where interviews don't work this way.

From what I have observed in myself and others, I suspect coding is something that anyone can learn to do. Some people may be particularly predisposed, but for others, effort can g…

Hi HN. I'd like your advice please. I recently graduated and am currently looking for a job. There's a certain large software corporation I would be interested in working for. I ap…

I can't imagine what he was originally thinking.

The hardest part of such a thing is getting adoption. Commercial players in the space have incentives to push their own offerings very hard. Technologically, there have been a numb…

You should ask the specific companies. Some titles don't have accepted meanings but will mean something to a particular company.

I think this is a real issue, but is separate from the original point of this thread. The same thing happens to a much larger degree to artists, musicians, and all sorts of creativ…

This sounds like a very interesting deal. It wouldn't be right for my particular circumstances, but I imagine there are others out there for which it is a good fit. I would be real…

It is funny. Although, I don't think that comparison is completely fair. Usually, a startup that has started hiring has already achieved some degree of progress, traction, and demo…

It's intended to be used for security testing against one's own machines, demonstrating a vulnerability if it exists by directly exploiting it. The general nature of such tools, ho…

Have you looked into Clojure? It is a Lisp dialect with JVM integration. It has a reasonable sized library ecosystem, and the interop functionality would allow you to use the exist…

That was some serious WTF factor. However, I'm not so sure I agree that public shaming is the correct response.

The average is probably a misleading figure here, though.