alexbanks

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by alexbanks 6y ago
As I said in the other post of mine that you commented on, you're welcome to not agree with me (or anyone, I don't care), that's totally fine with me.
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by alexbanks 6y ago
We can agree to disagree.
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by alexbanks 6y ago
I mean, without knowing anything about you or your company other than what you posted above, it's hard to say. But in my experience the industry could use more morality based hiring standards, as well as morality-based repercussions fo
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by alexbanks 6y ago
It's difficult to know what/where the line is for sure, but I think lots of software has shifted away from making people's lives better. Facebook, Amazon, Uber, are doing more negative for humanity than positive I think. Sure
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by alexbanks 6y ago
I feel this way about lots more than Facebook. BigTech is committing atrocities every day, and the developers that work there are generally complicit in that behavior. I think it's fine to say "I'm not proud but the money was
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by alexbanks 6y ago
There is no reason to not be honest about these types of things (unless of course you're doing something shady). If you want to fill the position quickly, you should say so. Now, of course, as a candidate if I heard that I would jack u
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by alexbanks 6y ago
And if you were going to believe a company's metrics on productivity, JP Morgan is almost certainly not the place to start.
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by alexbanks 6y ago
In this thread: "It's not done because I want it to be different."
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by alexbanks 6y ago
Just because you disagree with a design decision doesn't change the done/dead debate. It's done, because its maintainers have agreed the project has gone as far as it needs to go, and its current iteration is stable. You (as
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by alexbanks 6y ago
Yes, and my point is to not take that critical failure out on the candidate.
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by alexbanks 6y ago
So...practically none of them...?
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by alexbanks 6y ago
If someone's resume was only wordpress sites, and they somehow made it into a technical interview for a team that managed twitter-like systems, I'd consider that a critical failure of the selection process. As an interviewer, I wo
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by alexbanks 6y ago
If it's a pub/sub model, you wouldn't care at all about how many were watching right? You'd just publish. And for something like Twitter, you'd probably Publish but then also log to some kind of "Notifications&
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by alexbanks 6y ago
This comment is all kinds of wrong. FAANG is "used to" pulling down anywhere from 150-400k. On the flipside, many many remote jobs pay significantly more than you're describing, more in line with every other non-FAANG develop
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by alexbanks 6y ago
> whenever the virus is neutralized. I suspect not before 2022. And even that is generous.
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by alexbanks 6y ago
In my experience, being an advocate for the candidate (during the interview) is the best way to make interviewing more pleasant. My goals (during the interview) are to learn as much as I possibly can about the candidate without making them
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by alexbanks 6y ago
I think it's more that the ability to work remotely has been unlocked for pretty much every business that operates online (which, as I type it, sounds kind of crazy that it didn't already work that way). At the very least, for the
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by alexbanks 6y ago
> The long term shakeout of this will be that everybody realizes that yes, we need offices. You said this, and then wrote the rest of your post about the opposite? Why do you think we'll need offices?
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by alexbanks 6y ago
If one group has firing power, and the other does not, they are not equal, regardless of what's written down.
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by alexbanks 6y ago
> It seems that our city government is essentially giving the ok for this crime to continue I don't know how you possibly came to this conclusion from the ordinances, but I would rethink this take.
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by alexbanks 6y ago
So the company that repeatedly does bad things, and continually gets exposed as doing more bad things, tells you they're not doing a bad thing, you believe them?
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by alexbanks 6y ago
From my post: > but lived in an area where you couldn't safely walk. It was 1 mile on a four lane heavy traffic road with no sidewalks.
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by alexbanks 6y ago
I just noticed this comment. I appreciate your and tome's obvious concern for the community you're a part of, and I hope very much that you both continue to enjoy it and thrive. I mean you no ill-will and wish you best of luck.
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by alexbanks 6y ago
I guess, based on all that we know about BigTech, is there any reason to actually think they're behaving this way? And if they are now, they'll continue to?
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by alexbanks 6y ago
> The author in question may be a bit of a cracked pot. > I genuinely tried to read this and take it seriously but this is just the most cringe-worthy thing I've read in ages. I'm sorry. > As a composition of prose, this
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by alexbanks 6y ago
I'm not who you're responding to, but you've responded to my posts on this topic. I think, what they're trying to illustrate, is that Haskell is still an incredibly niche language. Sure, yes, there are jobs at a handful
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by alexbanks 6y ago
How would you trigger a device with a sound without continuous capture?
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by alexbanks 6y ago
To a larger sense (the Haskell community being kind of exhausting and toxic), there are tons of examples. As cliche as it sounds, Reddit is an integral part of programming communities in 2020 and /r/haskell is a pretty toxic waste
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by alexbanks 6y ago
I"m not sure why this thread is so polarized. I am 30 and I don't have kids - I am burnt out from the pandemic and can assume that those trapped inside with their kids are orders of magnitude more burnt out than me. I feel bad for
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by alexbanks 6y ago
From me: Haskell will not catch on because the community thinks it is too smart to have to actually accommodate the programming community. Simple as that. From the article: There was an arrogance in the Haskell community. Not the evil kind,

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