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Say what you will about Twitter, but is a globally distributed database with trillions of entries, which has to add and sort and display billions of those entries in real-time for …

Would you want to date someone who seemed desperate to get into a relationship? Who seemed like they were having trouble getting a relationship at all, let alone a good healthy one…

Since these are riffs on fizzbuzz, the goal is just to evaluate whether a candidate can use programming to solve these at all, i.e. whether they can 1) think through how to accompl…

For what it's worth, protected branches are pretty clearly listed as a "Github Pro" feature in their pricing page. I agree that it'd be nice if they warned you about features you'r…

I get your analogy, but I think there are tons of hammer conferences. There are conferences for most any language with wide adoption. There's also a Slack conference (not "TeamChat…

I'm sure lots of e-commerce companies feel this pressure. Where I work, an Additional Revenue team was created for this kind of thing - sponsored results, ads, cross-sells, etc. It…

Random unsolicited internet advice: never decide not to apply because you don't feel good enough. We all experience imposter syndrome, and most job postings are just wishlists of u…

The inability to filter explicit songs out is maddening! And it's a glaring omission to anyone with young children. I have seen it skip from a My Little Pony song to an explicit Pa…

As a parent, I agree. One should not shy away from talking about "advanced" topics. Kids are naturally curious and bright and I think we should encourage their desire to learn and …

Nothing really prevents this; a company I work with does something similar, and as long as you engineer your use of the platforms to be flexible and not rely on platform-specific f…

Based on comments on HN, people are surprised that a company that "just runs a website" can employ "so many people." But this is a platform processing hundreds of millions of dolla…

They did not do hard research, since they are still designing their game, but they did present it to playtesters. I think this is an appropriate level of diligence for a product ea…

Absolutely. "Programming" with cute icons may not make you a "great" programmer, but that's not the goal. It's to get you interested in the idea of telling a computer to do cool th…

There was some great prior discussion of the topic of kids, text, and coding in a thread about Scratch 3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14274249

https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/ is also a great community, with great discussions. Part science, part fantasy. People tedn to post long fun answers that remind me of XKCD'…

One micro-solution to the "what's deployed right now" problem is to have a health-check url for your app, which includes info like what git commit was used to create the current bu…

I wouldn't lose sleep over it. Deep Learning is great at making recommendations or classifications, given petabytes of data, but not even close to automatically solving general-pur…

For what it's worth, Groovy does have types. It is not dynamically typed, but optionally typed. Throw a @CompileStatic annotation on your classes (or use a global withConfig) and i…

I think this is a good point. There's a real risk that a homework you think is simple is a little more complicated because you're making assumptions. I think it's good to have a fe…

I think this is good advice. It's better to see first-hand pain points that businesses experience as opposed to looking for an "idea" i.e. dreaming of a solution and then trying to…

I think many of us do enjoy complexity (when it works), and have a bias for complex systems that seem cool. After all, one of the reasons many of us are in engineering is that we a…

Location: Chicago suburbs Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Java, HTML, JavaScript, web services, REST, Docker, Hadoop, SQL Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/sid…

I am working on Neal Stephenson's REAMDE. I say "working on" as opposed to "finishing" since it's more of a side job than a casual read. You don't really make progress, you just so…

An hour seems a good compromise, since one reason you may want to change your vote would be if the post was edited after you voted. An hour provides enough time for the edit to hap…