ruswick

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by ruswick 11y ago
I see that you are only targeting the big companies. This is really smart, since those companies tend to pay better and their employees will have a bunch more cash to throw at their house, leading to a bigger commission. What are your plans
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by ruswick 11y ago
One reason is that this site only seems to have listings for the "top companies." These companies are very hard to get a job and and tend to pay well, so the home listings are probably skewed to suit buyers that work at the elite
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by ruswick 11y ago
I've had a similar experience. A company I was trying to intern at asked me to write a rails app for them before they would think about giving me an interview. I wrote the app (which all-in took maybe 10 hours) and sent the recruiter a
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by ruswick 11y ago
Yep. Flexbox is maybe the best development to happen to CSS in a decade. Makes layouts that were once impossible without JS into trivial three-lines-of-css solutions.
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by ruswick 11y ago
That's a pretty common thing. I don't see the problem.
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by ruswick 11y ago
Maybe. I've always thought it would be interesting to make applicants pay an application fee. This would cut down on people "spraying and praying" with their application, and would lessen the workload for companies. It would
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by ruswick 11y ago
It sounds like your process went ok. But one hour tests are one thing. Projects that may take 10 or more hours are totally different. It really is amazing what some of these companies will demand of their applicants before even granting an
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by ruswick 11y ago
Oh God.
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by ruswick 11y ago
The point is that they pay you the $100k for the time you give them as an employee. They don't pay you a cent for the interview project, so you shouldn't give them a single second in return.
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by ruswick 11y ago
Exact same thing here. I've made it a personal policy not to tolerate these types of take-home tests. My time is way too valuable to spend hours on a project only to have it ignored by the company.
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by ruswick 11y ago
Also keep in mind that applying to jobs is frequently throwing your application into a black hole and just praying. Sending a resume into the black hole is one thing. Sending a large codebase or project you worked on as part of the applicat
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by ruswick 11y ago
There's a lot of grade inflation, especially at the top level. I took 9 APs in high school, and they were, generally speaking, the easiest classes. Part of that is that, when you create a nationally-standardized curriculum, you have to
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by ruswick 11y ago
As if people who interview for Google don't just look up the most common interview questions and memorize answers before the interview...
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by ruswick 11y ago
He applied for an iOS developer role.
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by ruswick 11y ago
Typing "how to reverse a binary search tree" into google is not the same thing as solving a problem. If these problems were so reliant on individual problem solving ability, there wouldn't be dozens of books with reams of ans
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by ruswick 11y ago
Yep. I'm a current student and the thought of a professor doing some of the things listed here is comical.
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by ruswick 11y ago
Very true. I live in a a city where there are quite a few places to charge, but I imagine that there are millions of people who would be interested in an EV but don't have access to the infrastructure.
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by ruswick 11y ago
This is exactly what I thought when I read this. It's incredibly pretentious and doesn't come off well. That said, electric cars are more accessible than ever. The leaf starts at only $21000, which is in the range of most new-car
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Gulp.app(github.com)
1 points by ruswick 12y ago|0 comments
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by ruswick 12y ago
It's not a totally unreasonable complaint given that Apple has a history when it comes to security breaches. My biggest complain is that they are keeping the old 5GB iCloud limit. It's 2015. 5GB is absolutely nothing in terms of b
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Ask HN: Does anyone actually hire from 'developer bootcamps'?
239 points by ruswick 12y ago|252 comments
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by ruswick 12y ago
I don't think that's true. In my experience, development experience is relatively easy for students to obtain while in school. Internships are abundant (obviously not everyone is going to come out of school having worked for Googl
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Show HN: 400+ free, beautiful, high resolution wallpapers(thetechblock.com)
2 points by ruswick 12y ago|0 comments
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Staying fit while being a computer nerd(shawnblanc.net)
2 points by ruswick 12y ago|0 comments
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by ruswick 12y ago
The problem is that this method disproportionately hurts people who don't have the time or energy to effectively hold two jobs (one full-time position at their day job and one as an independent developer or open-source contributor by n
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by ruswick 12y ago
This model will certainly allow Tesla to access a new and much larger group of potential customers, but I doubt it will be a "main-stream" vehicle. $35,000 is decidedly in the realm of high-end luxury cars (this car is still going
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Tell HN: Heroku is Down
1 points by ruswick 12y ago|0 comments
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Nest Protect Is Back On the Shelves With a Cheaper Price Tag(gizmodo.com)
3 points by ruswick 12y ago|0 comments
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by ruswick 12y ago
Yes. This article makes the ridiculous error of totally ignoring the fact that trivial access to loans and overall exuberance around college creates NO downward pressure on prices. So long as people are willing to pay almost anything and ha
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by ruswick 12y ago
This is an interesting reversal for Github. The original FAQ implied that Github would try to market Atom commercially. I'm curious as to what made them change their mind.

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