PainfullyNormal

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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
I'm also interested in this, but I'm more interested in what you need to say and do to convince other people you're an expert. > everything else frontend is pretty much resolved Has it? The technologies will change again.
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
What are you talking about?
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
This happens at the end of every hype cycle. People are dissatisfied, everybody is looking for the next big thing, and a bunch of people and companies throw spaghetti against the wall to see what sticks. A winner will eventually emerge, but
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
> No control freaks - especially in leads & managers How do you test for that during the interview process?
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
This tweet[0] from about a month ago is pretty interesting. "If you ever wanted to dump someone's entire LastPass vault, this is where you start :D" The author was referring to the linked presentation slides. [0]: h
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
We had stuff like that all over the place in the last React codebase I worked on. Naming things is hard, especially when you have to name them four times: once for the hook, once for the function that can potentially be called outside of th
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
It loads in Japan (or more accurately, a Japanese VPN server). edit: Cache rules everything around me. https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:-Syf6T...
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
Oh, awesome. Thanks!
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
I doubt that was the deal breaker. I always question the company's business model in the interview. If they can't defend their business model to an applicant, how can they possibly do so to investors, customers, and/or other
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
> You will need to run a ARM Linux VM on the Macintosh - even on ARM-based Macs. Why? Apple. That's why. I'm going to need a better answer than that. The whole reason I want to learn ARM is to get closer to the machine I'm
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
What you're describing applies to all jobs everywhere, including junior and non-technical positions. Nobody hires strictly on technical expertise.
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
> She wrote that she assessed that I don't talk like their staff engineers. I've heard this from other people, too. Is talking the talk really this important to employers looking to hire staff engineers? And if it is, why?
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
How?
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
They don't seem to have much in the way of clients. For example, they currently only have 4 active "missions" in web development.
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
Win the lottery and become a 10x dev and maybe he'll dream about it.
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
I used to hate the grind, too. But, as somebody who's been out of work longer than he thought he would be and is starting to wonder how he's going to pay the rent, I long for a bit of the grind right now.
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
You know, I've been contemplating whether I should lose the pseudonyms and start using my real name for all of my online activity. This story has convinced me that it's something I need to do. That's such a crazy sequence of
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
> What will I gain? The big bonus for me is I can create playlists and sort my music by beats per minute. Vital for creating workout or "evening chill" playlists.
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
Does anybody find work on that thread anymore? And by "anymore" I mean in the past year. Postings and activity seems to have dropped off.
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
Not quite what I had in mind, but that's not a bad idea. E ink displays make for some cool projects.
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
1. Do cool things. 2. Tell people about them. 3. Stay away from any glowing screen unless I'm doing 1 or 2.
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
True story!
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
> I feel like I’m taking crazy pills You're not. If you look hard enough, long enough, you'll see this same pattern in every corner of programming. Round and round, never forward.
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
I spent serious money on a sound bar a while back. I used it twice, sent it back, and I've been using the BT headphones ever since. One of these days, I'm going to have company over and I won't know what to do. Make the walls
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
> None of these techniques is relevant anymore given that all the hardware has Z buffers, obviating the need to explicitly order the polygons during the rendering process. But at the time (mid 90s) it was arguably the key problem 3D game
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
> Only show code that is non-confidential. Back in the day, it was normal to get your former boss to sign off on showing a piece of code in your next round of interviews.
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
This may work for somebody who has an anxiety disorder, but that's not what the OP is talking about. He's basically talking about stage fright. It's a physiological reaction to "performing".
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
It's hard to understand if you're not affected by it. You've heard the term "Stage Fright"? This is the same. Something about being put in a "performance" situation triggers the fight or flight reflex. At
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
> Every job hunt for me is still around 100 applications : 10 interviews : 1 offer. These ratios have remained pretty reliable through bull and bear hiring markets. Same here. But, I'm horrible at selling myself. > I suspect peop
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
Hmm, curious. Thanks!

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