langsa

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by langsa 3y ago
where are you applying that does NOT ask these types of questions? passing one to two rounds of LC type questions before going to the on-site seems like its the standard now
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by langsa 3y ago
I think the most important trait of any CTO is to be technical enough to understand what the best choice of tools to use is to accomplish the goals of the business you are running. You will be doing all of the coding at the beginning since
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by langsa 3y ago
I have been seeing this as well, it seems like the “gotcha” levels at even the early stage of interviews are at an all time high as well. A few years ago getting the “gotcha” part of a question was mostly icing on the cake as long as you co
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by langsa 3y ago
As others have said, the market right now is incredibly tough for job seekers now and especially so for junior candidates just looking to get their foot in the door. I have confidence the job market will start to get better in the near futu
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Ask HN: Transition from Web to Embedded
23 points by langsa 3y ago|11 comments
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by langsa 3y ago
This is an interesting use case, I could see why GraphQL would be useful here where the contract between frontend and backend modules is not known in full and can change often. Out of curiosity, is the reason for the contract between these
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by langsa 3y ago
I agree with you there, having GraphQL force adherence to a schema is definitely a good thing for a larger team, but smaller teams will probably get bogged down without previous experience
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by langsa 3y ago
Thanks for your reply, I would love to hear more about which one you prefer in general REST or GraphQL, or if you have different situations where you choose one or the other and why. Here were some of the things I noticed when comparing to
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by langsa 3y ago
Mostly comparing it to REST. The main turn off for me personally is it really seems like you have to reinvent the wheel to get caching to work correctly with GraphQL for non trivial use cases. Not saying that it works perfectly out of the b
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Ask HN: Does Anyone Like GraphQL?
63 points by langsa 3y ago|45 comments