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by cauterized 9y ago
Yes. I've interviewed "developers" who failed FizzBuzz, and one who took 20 minutes to come up with a solution. I've never even specified a required language for it, and generally accepted pseudo-code.
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by cauterized 9y ago
Not to mention that discrimination in hiring decreases opportunities for minorities. Which in turn increases recidivism.
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by cauterized 9y ago
If you want a job at a bank (perhaps because they work on hard problems or because they pay a shit-ton), maybe not the best idea unless you intend never to roll up your sleeves or wear short sleeves. (Maybe short sleeves aren't an opt
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by cauterized 9y ago
But I did learn the principle, back in school. I've just never needed to use it.
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by cauterized 9y ago
I always refrigerate milk, just wanted to be clear about it to explain that it wasn't going sour because I was doing something dumb like leaving it open on the counter.
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by cauterized 9y ago
The problem is that if just two or three people like the lively, chatty open office, it ruins it for everyone else whose productivity suffers by an order of magnitude in a noisy environment. It's basically impossible these days to find
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by cauterized 9y ago
I see these challenges as a great way for excellent experienced developers to weed out incompetent companies. I'm a kick-ass get-things-done full-stack web engineer. I've never had to deal with one of these sorts of problems in m
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by cauterized 9y ago
I've had a similar experience. I think the organics companies just clean their equipment/tanks better or something. Regular milk with an expiration date 3 weeks in the future often turns sour within 3 days of opening, despite refr
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by cauterized 9y ago
Honestly, that sounds awful. I already guard my phone number more closely than my email because a) spam calls are more disruptive than spam email, and b) it's easy to make a throwaway or catch-all email; throwaway phone numbers are har
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by cauterized 9y ago
It's mature. The community is mature (in multiple senses of the word). The ecosystem is mature. The package management is solid. There are drivers or SDKs for basically every tool or service I would want to interface with. The syntax i
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by cauterized 9y ago
If you're building life support software or manned lunar probes, maybe you want him on your team. If you're a startup trying to find product-market fit before you run out of funding, better to ship a few bugs every week (in featur
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by cauterized 9y ago
How do you structure your reference checks? And what do you do for new hires who are very early in their careers and don't have real work references? Also, I'll note that three of the above employees were sourced via referral from
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by cauterized 9y ago
I've never had a hire go wrong for technical reasons. I have hired, participated in hiring, or inherited several developers who had to be let go for reasons related to attitude or soft skills. Some examples: - a guy with an alcohol pro
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by cauterized 9y ago
I don't get the drive to eliminate bezels. I mean, big bezels are a waste of space. On a laptop they may serve an engineering purpose, but no user purpose. But for handheld devices at least, it's nice to have enough bezel to be a
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by cauterized 9y ago
I think the difference is that in wood frame you can sometimes hear things through the walls. Whereas with concrete, any sort of impact (chairs moving, doors slamming, people walking in heels, the guy putting a nail in the wall to hang a
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by cauterized 9y ago
Definitely depends on the construction type. I will say that floor-to-floor noise transmission in a 19thC brownstone is a tiny fraction of what it is in a mid-20th-C apartment block. In the latter, you can hear people moving furniture or
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by cauterized 9y ago
What an awesome idea!
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by cauterized 9y ago
Plaster and timber flooring isn't so bad. Brick is also better than concrete. More rigid materials tend to transmit sound better.
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by cauterized 9y ago
As someone who grew up in an apartment building with concrete floors, I assure you that concrete is useless for internal noise dampening.
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by cauterized 9y ago
I wouldn't necessarily use the term "exploited" (I would save that for a different sort of situation), but you've certainly been put in an untenable position. It sounds to me as if the problem here is not the pay grade b
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by cauterized 9y ago
Why would we necessarily be what wiped them out? Intelligent dinosaurs may have been wiped out by an asteroid/volcanic activity/climate disruption (or whatever the most current theory is).
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by cauterized 9y ago
Earbuds with a good seal. Daily meditation. Convincing the guy in charge of seating plans to give me a desk without a high traffic corridor behind it. Going for a walk outside when it gets really loud or people are running around. Working f
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by cauterized 9y ago
Try TotalSpaces. Fixes a few of these problems.
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by cauterized 9y ago
I'll throw Atlassian's products into the mix. I've personally only used their SaaS versions, but believe they charge on a recurring basis in several tiers by number of seats in both cases.
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by cauterized 9y ago
Solution: take your money elsewhere. It's not even that difficult or inconvenient.
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by cauterized 9y ago
The text wrapping on that page is painful to read.
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by cauterized 9y ago
The headline is horrible. But the phenomenon they're describing has happened in other fields over history too - from secretarial jobs (once primarily male) to teaching and even to primary care medicine.
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by cauterized 9y ago
Things that benefit everyone can still be worked against. Ever heard of a prisoner's dilemma? Yes, everyone would be better off if the poor did better. But each individual corporation and service provider interacting with them is in
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by cauterized 10y ago
Depends on the purpose. Research suggests that people are both less persuadable and poorer decision makers when hungry. But post-prandial coma isn't great for meetings that require thought and focus either. Engineers often prefer their
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by cauterized 10y ago
Not sure I agree wholly with the GP, but recent theories suggest that the appendix does in fact serve a useful purpose. It can act as a reservoir for gut bacteria that are necessary to our digestive health. It helps repopulate gut flora w

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