bucky

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by bucky 11y ago
>I recommend we discourage phrasing like "move up to management". Word. At Etsy, we'd occasionally call out people (in a friendly way) for saying "I got a promotion to manager!" Someone (usually a more senior man
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by bucky 11y ago
Do you need help? I'm completely on board for that mission and personally feel that we as an industry do a really bad job at testing past the evangelizing phase. Teaching people how to actually test code is something I think we need to
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by bucky 11y ago
I would! I love coding exercises meant to gain information about a candidate; they're like yardsticks for my professional growth. I love evaluating how I solve a problem now vs how I would have solved it while interviewing for the job
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by bucky 11y ago
This is a reminder to me that it doesn't matter how great your idea is, or how technically impressive your product is. If the execution isn't right (in this case, who wants to do math awkwardly on their wrist with a tiny, hard to
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by bucky 11y ago
I'd search for forums for your make and model of car. Those are usually good starting places for getting information.
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by bucky 11y ago
Great post! Tons of useful information in an easy to digest format without too many words.
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by bucky 11y ago
I completely agree we should stop being paranoid about what's going to happen when we let other people loose on our beautiful code. But I don't think having private methods or marking variables const is about paranoia, it's a
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by bucky 11y ago
I love Zed cause even when he's sincerely offering help to someone struggling, he's still 100% Zed; can't even offer help without mentioning how badass he is. Whether you like him or not, being completely and utterly yourself
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by bucky 11y ago
Thanks for bringing this up. I'm now waiting to hear from our lawyers to know if we should avoid using this.
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by bucky 12y ago
This has basically replaced ack for me. I was dubious of a web -based search tool when Kelly first sent an email about it, but after trying it a couple of times, I abandoned ack. It being linkable is extra icing on the cake for me.
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by bucky 12y ago
Everyone in the company does these as well (our CEO Chad answered did his holiday rotation a couple weeks ago), typically during the holiday season when we slow down our deploys and our support volume increases. But we're encouraged as
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by bucky 12y ago
HTML5 games! They're easy, quick to set up, the feedback is instant and they're fun to play! I've been making HTML5 games as part of short, two hour collaborative coding exercises at work and it's awesome. Here's a
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by bucky 13y ago
Etsy - Brooklyn, NY. Some positions are accepting remotes (check descriptions). https://www.etsy.com/careers We're looking for everyone! Web/mobile apps/tools/testing engineers; Designers; Ops; Marketing