cramey

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by cramey 5y ago
Location: Anchorage, Alaska Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Android, Bash, C, CSS, Docker, Elasticsearch, Git, Go (golang), HTML, Java, JavaScript, Linux, Lua, macOS, MariaDB, MongoDB, OpenLayers, Oracle, PHP, PostgreSQL,
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by cramey 5y ago
I did the exact same thing, 100% to charity every time. It makes me wonder if there were a lot of people also doing that. It would certainly explain the new 15% cap.
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by cramey 6y ago
I'm not sure I fully understand what your outrage is. It seems like you're concerned that judgements of acceptability change over time. Is that not to be expected?
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by cramey 6y ago
Anecdotally, most effective managers have fired around 1 out of every 7-10 people they’ve ever managed. That's a 10 to 14% hiring failure rate, which is absurd. In what other context would a failure rate that high be acceptable? Thos
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by cramey 6y ago
There's definitely benefits to having a tightly integrated team with plenty of knowledge sharing. My problem with pair programming is that it is frequently an attempt to create those benefits via force. Also, with traditional pair prog
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by cramey 6y ago
"Open source" does not mean "all patches immediately published."
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by cramey 6y ago
The source to their server seems open source licensed and available: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server Wikipedia also says their server is open source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal
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by cramey 6y ago
All substance abuse, including smoking, is a comorbidity[1]. While it's hard to find exact statistics, the US Department of Health and Social Services estimates that 50% of non-elderly Americans have a pre-existing condition[2]. Those
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by cramey 7y ago
Alright, I'll bite. How do you feed and shelter people without feeding and sheltering them?
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by cramey 7y ago
Professions like pilots, doctors and CPAs are bad examples because they have a certifying body that exists outside of the relationship between employee and employer. It's true they're not getting paid for that certification, but o
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by cramey 7y ago
I can tell you what's worked for me when hiring experienced programmers: Ideally the candidate offers code samples, I then pick through the code samples to find things that strike me as unusual or problematic and ask questions about th
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by cramey 7y ago
How many people do you think can afford to fail 10 times?