gregkerzhner

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by gregkerzhner 4y ago
I (hope) I’m like this. Im not handy at all, and have a tenant. When a problem arises for them, I just call the appropriate person (plumber, handyman, etc..) to come fix it. It’s the same thing I do when a problem arises in my own house.
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by gregkerzhner 4y ago
Seems like a no brainer - who wouldn’t want to use an awesome language like Kotlin and have it shared across iOS, Android and Frontend? However, the actual experience is full of sharp corners. Get ready for nonexistent documentation, hacky
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by gregkerzhner 5y ago
The problem with docs is that unlike code, documentation has no mechanism to keep it updated as things change. Even something really close to the code like code comments tend to get stale. Separate docs are hopeless - unless you are the o
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by gregkerzhner 5y ago
Ultimately, I file (mandatory, full time) pairing in the same category as mandatory in-office work, meant to encourage brilliance from random water cooler interactions. In a perfect world, is a fully engaged in-office employee better than a
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by gregkerzhner 5y ago
The crux of it is that pairing works for some but not for others. But often, it’s forced on everyone, usually from the top down. This is done in the name of vague benefits like “correctness” and “knowledge sharing”. Have these benifits e
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by gregkerzhner 5y ago
The part of my brain which thinks deeply and produces elegant solutions simply shuts down when I constantly have to explain my thought process to someone else. I actually have the same problem in pair programming interviews - my brain tend
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by gregkerzhner 5y ago
Pairing is great for some tasks, like higher level design and whiteboarding sessions. But when it comes to implementation (coding) time I really dislike it. I think ultimately, at the end of the day, I expect and hope that every human I wo
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by gregkerzhner 5y ago
Daily standups can be useful when its a small group of people (3 or 4) working on the same project. In such meetings participants actually have the context to make meaningful suggestions based on other's updates "oh.. have you co
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by gregkerzhner 5y ago
Same here. I subscribe and then immediately cancel, which stops the recurring billing but lets you use the service for the rest of the month.
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by gregkerzhner 5y ago
Really, entering software isn't that bad. I didn't have any coding experience before college, and after my first year (which only entailed two software classes - I took a lot of humanities that year too), I had a job writing code
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by gregkerzhner 5y ago
If you can ace a 1 hour coding interview without any preparation then more power to you! But many of us have to spend months doing practice problems to perform well in that 1 hour interview. I’ve heard many stories of people doing hundreds
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by gregkerzhner 5y ago
If it’s during open hours, you can always walk inside the store and buy gas from the attendant which should let you use your card without a zip.
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by gregkerzhner 5y ago
I love Swift too, but dislike Xcode enough to where I wouldn't use it unless I was doing iOS. Even in a medium sized project basic functionality like syntax highlighting or clicking into functions is unreliable. You get used to it be
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by gregkerzhner 5y ago
Oxymonad?
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by gregkerzhner 5y ago
MacOS is a great example - you can buy and download software from the Apple sanctioned App Store or you can get it from other sources on their websites. The fact that I can do that on an 11 inch MacBook Air but can’t on an iPad Pro (which
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by gregkerzhner 5y ago
I would argue that those "hours wasting time" looking for an answer yourself before you give up and ask someone more senior aren't a waste - they are an invaluable part of becoming senior yourself. As a senior engineer, you w
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by gregkerzhner 5y ago
Someone who is friendly but incompetent is fun to shoot the shit with, but they will also make a commit that breaks prod and duck out for the weekend leaving you to fix the mess. Less competence ultimately means more burden and headache fo
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by gregkerzhner 5y ago
An alternative to hacking your resume is simply leaving the short position off altogether. Your resume doesn't have to be a total transcript of your career. It should just be a highlight of most relevant experiences for your desired
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by gregkerzhner 5y ago
Chick-fill-a might be a bad example given their history with LGBT folks. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick-fil-A_and_LGBT_people
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by gregkerzhner 5y ago
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g-NsgOa42VE Here is your world of underground freeway biking btw
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by gregkerzhner 5y ago
Eerily similar experience here. I came to the US from Russia at the age of 9 and slowly watched my Russian slip away. 23 years later my vocabulary sucks and I have a strange accent. I have made an effort though by reading a few books in R
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by gregkerzhner 5y ago
"A cover letter is a written document commonly submitted with a job application outlining the applicant's credentials and interest in the open position" Sound suspiciously like a "paragraph about why we should hire you&q
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by gregkerzhner 5y ago
Curious - does TikTok censor content that China would find sensitive, like the existence of Taiwan or pro Hong Kong protest content?
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by gregkerzhner 5y ago
This statement "we don't usually care if you don't know find the perfect algorithm (unless it's for a senior position)" made me chuckle. I can see this interviewer writing feedback like "Well, this candidate di
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by gregkerzhner 5y ago
How do you manage data flow from your view layer to your API layer? Like for example, if a UITableViewCell has a button in it which needs to load some data from the API? Do use an event/delegate which flows from the UITableViewCell t
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by gregkerzhner 5y ago
I fully agree here - MVC scales terribly. Of course, it's not impossible to come up with a well designed MVC app at scale, but it takes a ton of skill and feels like you are fighting the framework at most steps. One particular challen
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by gregkerzhner 5y ago
I’ve been commuting on the extra light Rene Herse tires for about a year in the city and haven’t had a flat. They are set up tubeless though. They are a joy to ride and greatly improved the speed, comfort, and handling of the bike. I was
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by gregkerzhner 5y ago
My wife and I did this for 7 years as well. I had a strict "one item in, one item out" rule where for each new item we acquired, one had to be let go. She was not fond of this rule, and I can't say we followed it fully, esp
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by gregkerzhner 5y ago
Annually? Everything sounds high when you say it annually! Looking at the numbers on a smaller scale, if you don't count the unlimited wine, the monthly quota works out to be about 2.2 drinks / night - about 1.5 shouts of liquor a
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by gregkerzhner 5y ago
Thats great that you work and play in the same location, you are lucky! Now imagine if your office moved to a tiny, faraway town with no food, nightlife, or dancing. Does remote work seem more appealing?

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