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by aen1 2y ago
Here are some slides summarizing the shorter paper this is based on: https://web.archive.org/web/20170809055122id_/https://learni... tl;dr They did a qualitative survey of what other people think makes a
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by aen1 2y ago
* decision anxiety - agree * fear of writing original ideas, both natural language and code - agree * the inability to measure things - who said this is something that is necessary at all stages? sometimes you just need it done. when you ha
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by aen1 2y ago
Why are your best practices better than whoever you'll hire's? Just accept another person to be an adult, and help you in increasingly good ways and communicate well. Or fire them if they don't
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by aen1 2y ago
Sounds like an AI wrote this. > Maintaining Culture: As the team grows, it's vital to preserve the company culture and ensure new hires align with core values. I honestly disagree. You should allow the culture to evolve, but make su
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by aen1 2y ago
Sounds great! Where do you work?
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by aen1 2y ago
1000% agree. I'd rather spin my wheels for an hour on Google than ask a silly question in public
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by aen1 2y ago
Meeting in person >1 hour away is difficult for people in many life circumstances. And if there are constant meetings, it either strains families or makes the person who can't make it feel left out
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by aen1 2y ago
Totally disagree. For introverts, "everything public in slack" means that I would rather not say something than have 50 people see my thoughts/rants/silly questions in public
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by aen1 2y ago
Why do you have to login to even try it? Non-starter.
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by aen1 2y ago
"few" https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/03/22/poll-hamas-remains-p...
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by aen1 3y ago
Thanks. I appreciate the encouragement. It was definitely pretty slow at the end of the year. It isn't about getting responses though. That is generally fine, from what I can tell. It is more that I feel like every company wants to tal
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Do any companies truly want to hire?
6 points by aen1 3y ago|2 comments
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by aen1 14y ago
This is not the first case by a long shot.
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by aen1 14y ago
Can I just say I love these threads? I got multiple interviews and an offer from a great company for an internship from one of them.
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by aen1 15y ago
Is it possible to go back to phones with physical buttons? When it was obvious where to press, and not a guessing game?
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by aen1 15y ago
Wonderful point. There's a Doctorow article I read somewhere that essentially put forth the following logic for digital distribution: There will be a group of people who would not acquire the content unless it was digital. They may buy or p
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by aen1 15y ago
Background checks will show where you've worked, unless you were getting paid illegally. Still, I agree with you. It isn't something to scream out loud.
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by aen1 15y ago
Why would I write tests for Tic-Tac-Toe? It's insanely easy to exhaustively hand-test, or just look at the code to see its validity. If you expect tests on something that simple, then you're expecting people to waste 1/3 of their time testi
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by aen1 15y ago
How is that good? It's all memorization
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by aen1 15y ago
Sounds like a decent start-up idea
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by aen1 15y ago
Sadly enough, I've been ask the UDP/TCP question many times, so I have a good answer, though I have never studied either in depth. So, in theory that would be a great question. But, it is asked too often to really be of any use.
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by aen1 15y ago
Well that is unfair. I got did not get an interview at a financial company for this reason. Unless stated explicitly, I'm not going to gold-plate interview code, because my assumption is that you are weeding out people who cannot code. If
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by aen1 15y ago
For the guy with friends that he doesn't trust. Actually, for the guy who thinks he has friends.
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by aen1 15y ago
Not to criticize unnecessarily, but what would anyone want to code web apps in C? I'm not saying rails, etc. are the be-all-end-all, but why C? To seem extreme?