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Internet Explorer 3, an adventure in cross-browser compatibility

cjCamel — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 14:29:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.chenhuijing.com/blog/internet-explorer-3-an-adventure-in-compatibility/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20344571

Points: 1

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Paul Ford – Why I (Still) Love Tech: In Defense of a Difficult Industry

cjCamel — Tue, 14 May 2019 21:28:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/why-we-love-tech-defense-difficult-industry/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19914067

Points: 3

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New comment by cjCamel in "With Paid Leave, Gates Foundation Says There Can Be Too Much of a Good Thing"

cjCamel — Sat, 26 Jan 2019 01:11:10 +0000

That was my point? In that there’s no benefit to the child to be in someone else’s care with a bunch of other kids for the first 6 months at least, and probably quite a lot older than that.

New comment by cjCamel in "With Paid Leave, Gates Foundation Says There Can Be Too Much of a Good Thing"

cjCamel — Sat, 26 Jan 2019 00:22:47 +0000

Would like like to reword your first answer to take into account your last answer?

Also, my bad - not sure where you live but it sounds horrifying. I can't believe there is somewhere in the world where people on 6 figure salaries are the only ones with access to basic employment benefits, and those less fortunate have no government provided safety net (now that sounds morally bankrupt to me).

I'm curious as well to find out if there are any people considered to be in the middle classes? Say...two full time earners taking in less than 6 figures, for instance? Is that a rarity in your country?

>im pretty sure you will find that most paid leave is taking by people that dont need it.

Not where I'm from, no. Most of the people I know that take paid leave are families where both parents need to continue to work to cover cost of living.

New comment by cjCamel in "With Paid Leave, Gates Foundation Says There Can Be Too Much of a Good Thing"

cjCamel — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 23:07:56 +0000

> It is the sheltered people that want to get paid leave

The sheltered people in your life. Are they the ones that have mortgages?

New comment by cjCamel in "With Paid Leave, Gates Foundation Says There Can Be Too Much of a Good Thing"

cjCamel — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 22:32:06 +0000

> I think paid leave is just plain immoral. It is up to the parent to evaluate how much they care for their child vs foregone salaries.

This is delusional or dangerous thinking. Are you an ultra privileged & sheltered young man? You do realise that even if a parent chooses to work, they have to pay someone for childcare?

New comment by cjCamel in "With Paid Leave, Gates Foundation Says There Can Be Too Much of a Good Thing"

cjCamel — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 22:23:53 +0000

Disagree, within the timeframe of this topic. 0-6 months is basically all about the bond between child and parents. Sometime after that, sure, a requirement to socialise comes into play.

New comment by cjCamel in "With Paid Leave, Gates Foundation Says There Can Be Too Much of a Good Thing"

cjCamel — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 22:20:52 +0000

No-one on this thread has mentioned breast feeding. The WHO recommends exclusively breast feeding a child for 6 months, and to continue until they are at least 2 years old. I understand that this is not possible or desirable for many parents, but the choice to do so should be available.

No surprise that even the most socially responsible companies in the US are skewed towards the extreme low end of parental leave allowance relative to other countries.

US employment law doesn't incentivise long term employment full stop, so little wonder some on here find it hard to understand why it is worth paying employees to come back.

Personal Finance for Technology Professionals

cjCamel — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 09:13:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.troyhunt.com/10-personal-finance-lessons-for-technology-professionals/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18793766

Points: 4

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New comment by cjCamel in "Ask HN: What should an ideal developer interview process look like?"

cjCamel — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 13:10:41 +0000

I find the move to take home tests extremely unfair. Anyone with dependents will typically need to block out most of a day of a weekend, or risk doing it in intervals through their week.

Got a decent CV? Good luck trying to juggle applying for more than 2 interesting opportunities at once.

We mostly hire full stack web devs. IMO It's impossible to really test the abilities of each candidate across the changing landscape of front end, back end, DB & devops tech within an interview process that doesn't use a vast amount of time for everyone.

Instead, we don't whiteboard or code at all in our process at the moment, and try and get it all done in a face to face hour or two by:

* Taking their experience at face value. Examples: If they have been coding for a couple of years, don't waste everyone's time with fizzbuzz. Assume they will be able to adapt to our source control system, if they have been using a different one.

* Insisting on real world examples when asking competency questions.

* Asking generic questions about code, such as "What is clean code?", "what should you take into account for password security for a web app?", and looking for their ability to communicate as much as their actual answer.

* Looking for areas of strength and weakness to compare across candidates, rather than trying to catch them out.

* Scoring highly for enthusiasm, flexibility and a willingness to learn over pure technical knowledge.

I appreciate this approach wouldn't work for all organisations but we've done really well out of it.

New comment by cjCamel in "The Problem with Facebook and Virtual Reality"

cjCamel — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 21:34:10 +0000

Also, hello from a fellow Conrad!

New comment by cjCamel in "The Problem with Facebook and Virtual Reality"

cjCamel — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 21:32:52 +0000

I don't think Apple are behind on the tech for VR/AR. They have the pretty much everything they need in place to release a mobile VR or AR device when they choose to.

They've probably already got the AR developer mindshare, and no-one is near them for mass adoption of mobile wearable tech (watch+ear buds).

New comment by cjCamel in "Teenager beats Tetris game older than he is to become world champion [video]"

cjCamel — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 21:21:33 +0000

I agree that it's daft! Not the title I submitted.

New comment by cjCamel in "Teenager beats Tetris game older than he is to become world champion [video]"

cjCamel — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 21:11:36 +0000

OP here. That isn't the title I submitted. Mine was pretty boring, but factual. Bit miffed that it has been changed to that (though I did forget the [video] tag).

The original BBC headline was "Teenager beats Tetris champion at game old than he is", which I didn't like.

I note they have now changed it to "Teenager beats man at Tetris to become world champion".

tl;dr headlines about retro computer game championships are hard.

New comment by cjCamel in "Ask HN: What are best resources to learn new programming language as senior dev?"

cjCamel — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 10:06:24 +0000

All of the following cost money but are good:

Wes Bos (https://wesbos.com/courses/) and Scott Talinksi (https://www.leveluptutorials.com/) have some great modern JavaScript courses, most of which require understanding of coding and the basics of web dev.

For everything else Pluralsight (https://pluralsight.com) is pretty comprehensive.

Teenager beats Tetris game older than he is to become world champion [video]

cjCamel — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 10:00:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/45943854

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18282083

Points: 84

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Facebook acquiring Instagram was greatest regulatory failure of the decade

cjCamel — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 21:25:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.recode.net/2018/6/2/17413786/ben-thompson-facebook-google-aggregator-platform-code-conference-2018

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18265571

Points: 2

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Sonos as a platform

cjCamel — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 19:19:57 +0000

Article URL: https://vowe.net/archives/017304.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17700795

Points: 2

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New comment by cjCamel in "Monzo now supports IFTTT"

cjCamel — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 13:05:39 +0000

Monzo are a new UK bank, and the first bank to get onto IFTTT. It's really interesting to see what automations users are creating to make automatic transfers to savings pots, based on things like sleep, exercise, social media activity.

It's been a day so far, so once they open out more features it could be quite a gamechanger.

Basecamp “Boosts”, an alternative for Likes

cjCamel — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 14:21:28 +0000

Article URL: https://m.signalvnoise.com/introducing-boosts-an-all-new-way-to-show-your-support-in-basecamp-fae325634998

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16867586

Points: 3

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