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Any comments are my views alone and not those of my employer.
I too hate reviews like that, but I think it's due to Amazon nagging customers to leave reviews for things that are purchased on the Kindle. I am beginning to suspect they have an app or form somewhere where you tap the number of stars and write your review in a text block.
I found a recently published technical book on Amazon, which had a couple dozen five star reviews. I read a few of them, and it seemed great. The author's biography said he worked at X, a very well-known software company. I bought a paperback copy, read it, and was disappointed. The book wasn't terrible, but it wasn't written very well, and did not contain the technical depth that it appeared it would on the reviews. The book turned out to be self-published, and the technical editor was the author's boss at X. The other editors were the author's family members.
I went back and looked at the reviews, and found that many of the five-star reviewers worked at X, or if I couldn't figure out their employer, they happened to be located in the same metro area as X's headquarters. One of the Amazon reviewers is even mentioned in the acknowledgements of the book.
I think all the reviewers had good intentions to help their friend and colleague, but I think it's still misleading, as you cannot expect a someone to give an impartial public review on their colleague's work.
All in all, the book was not total junk, but perhaps should have been a 3/5 star book instead of 5/5.
An example from the article:
But it’s not a good idea to use a spray oil, no matter what oil it’s made with, because of its additives. You’re doing chemistry here. If you want good results, use pure ingredients.
It's a compelling argument, but it's not science-based. Where is the evidence that additives affect the seasoning or polymerization? It could very well be that additives have no effect, or more likely that it depends on the type of additive. If this was the only example, that would be fine, but the blog post is full of examples like this. There is no citation of any scientific source anywhere in the article!
If you are writing articles than claim to be science-based, you really should link or cite actual scientific literature. (Or run your own experiments!)
My guess is that they were expecting a much simpler application for a simple problem. Also for a JS game with a tiny backend, the Github project code is heavily weighted toward PHP (73% PHP vs 20% JS). Perhaps in their internal discussions, a word like "over-engineered" was brought up.
I'm not saying that it's bad code. It looks fine to me.
Other point is that the technical interview is a time to ask questions for the interviewee (when they allow). What is their development process? Do they iterate and prototype a lot, or is their process closer to waterfall? Assuming their stack is primarily PHP, do they use a framework? Do they follow MVC? Do they use a JS framework? Etc... Having known the answers to these questions would have helped you create an application that looked closer to their comfort zone. (Even if you don't know a coding test is coming, you still should want to know the answers to these questions so that you can know if you are getting into a situation where you might have to maintain old applications written in PHP 4, for instance.)
The key paragraph is:
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It is not needed to build web apps. My current company (a .NET web shop) has a strict rule of "no VS on the build server". I know that it's needed to build some things, like unit tests that use MSTest, the built-in Visual Studio Setup Projects, but not plain ASP.NET or ASP.NET MVC websites.
I don't think this distinction affects the grandparent comment's point.
Likewise, Python has ways for interacting directly with streams.
I'm originally from Phoenix, and it was always hard to imagine walking for any reason other than exercise when I lived there.
Additionally /dʒ/ is a single distinct sound. There is no /d/ sound in /dʒ/. It's an unfortunate issue that IPA notation might make it appear as though /dʒ/ is the concatenation (borrowing a programming term) of /d/ and /ʒ/ when it is most certainly not. The author's assertion might make sense if affricates such as dʒ represented multiple sounds, but I am not aware of any linguists that subscribe to such an idea.
So when we say "the D is silent" in the word Django to other English speakers, we are implying that there is no /d/ sound at the start of the word, and that would be correct. The author's argument does not make any sense here.
Also, there is a sizable amount of dependencies for this library, all due to the use of flot. Since most of the code doesn't use any of the dependencies, I wonder if they would consider releasing any future versions as two parts, jstat.js (containing the number crunching methods) and jstat-flot.js (containing the plotting wrapper methods).
The authors merely use some code that he published on his blog a while back at http://ejohn.org/blog/simple-javascript-inheritance/ and that's why they cite his name in the code file.
My previous position was via a university career fair when I was still a student.
And by learning C/C++, I mean really learning C/C++, not just relying the three classes that I took in college that used one of them. Lately I've been working on a C++ Windows TFTP server which has caused me to learn TFTP (very simple) and WinSock (complex so far). So I'm just curious what your thoughts might be.
That's not to say the original comment is correct either. It's just that there seems to be many more variables that just one in what determines the unemployment rate.
Another issue is that selection of stat categories for the "BE scorecard" does not match up with most fantasy baseball 5x5 leagues since it is missing AVG.
I think the idea of bringing more data visualization to baseball is great though. This is actually the topic I am using for my class project in my data visualization class (due in a couple weeks now!) I will definitely keep an eye on this site though, and hopefully you will continue developing and improving it.
Quick resume:
* Professional experience (2 yrs combined) in C#/.NET, JavaScript, Objective-C/Cocoa, and PHP.
* Side-project experience in JavaScript, Lua, PHP, and Python.
* Recent classroom project experience in C, Java, Verilog.
I'm willing to relocate within the Western US.
Wetransfer, Yousendit, Let's Crate, Sendoid, Ge.tt, etc.
My day job consists of working for a file sharing company. I can't help but wonder what other people find unique or more likely to grow in one new company versus another.
3) Children born to wealthy parents are more likely to go to better primary and secondary schools (possibly private schools, or possibly by living in better neighborhoods.) This generally leads to smarter people as mentioned in #2.
4)Secondly, wealthy (or even middle-class) parents are more likely to have a culture of appreciation for education, as education likely played some part in getting them to where they are, and that culture will tend to rub off on their children.
If the high school graduate is contributing some monthly amount to an investment account, then the college-educated graduate could also invest at the same rate, making the difference in gains greater again. On top of that, a college graduate has the potential to invest an greater amount than the high school graduate based on the difference in income.