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kevinclancy | 7 years ago | on: Google de-emphasizes 'Don't Be Evil' motto in its code of conduct

My guess is that they realized it fits into the "corporations are evil" narrative that has become popular with many angry people on twitter recently, and then decided they didn't want to feed into it.

kevinclancy | 9 years ago | on: A Competitive Programmer's Handbook

Is that sad? It's a better filter than college degrees.

kevinclancy | 9 years ago | on: Men Without Work

We can dance if we want to. We can leave young men behind. Because if they can't dance then they're no friends of mine.

kevinclancy | 9 years ago | on: When You Should Use Lists in Haskell (Mostly Not)

I think the author has made a false assumption about how lists are typically used in Haskell. Being algebraic datatypes, lists in Haskell are built on a foundation of universal algebra. The operations that you perform on them are inherently inductive: process the head and recurse on the tail. The most common tasks in functional programming, such as program analysis, fit into this paradigm nicely. So including "(Mostly Not)" in the title is misguided; the designers of Haskell and other functional languages knew what they were doing when they decided to make lists prominent in accessible in their languages.

kevinclancy | 9 years ago | on: Triplebyte expands its recruiting platform beyond YC, signs up Apple, Facebook

Not sure what book the above poster used, but Sipser is an excellent book for learning about DFAs.

kevinclancy | 9 years ago | on: Triplebyte expands its recruiting platform beyond YC, signs up Apple, Facebook

I think it's more about hiding college credentials than hiding the portfolio.

It would be great to allow programmers to show their portfolios, but that would likely enable interviewers to google them, giving away their backgrounds.

I have a few interesting projects in my portfolio that I am proud of, a reasonably high CS GRE score (a test which is unfortunately not administered any more), and a moderately good topcoder history. However, after being told by an HR person that they would not hire me because of the college I went to (a for-profit college) I started to view the relation between hiring and credentials as illegitimate. So for that reason I hope TripleByte catches on.

kevinclancy | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?

Modern Compiler Implementation in ML by Andrew Appel