stutsmansoft

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by stutsmansoft 4y ago
What I've been hearing is companies going mobile first and only adding web later to support a broader demographic. Anyone able to confirm/disconfirm that?
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by stutsmansoft 4y ago
I also had a bad experience with graphQL, or perhaps more accurately the Apollo client for it. I hated the namespaces on the code-generated classes and ended up manually wrapping them, obviating the benefit. It was also super brittle, when
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by stutsmansoft 4y ago
I agree that salary ranges are needed. I would add though, "leetcode" is also why companies struggle to hire. I avoid outright companies who use this as a filter, and cut the process short if I encounter it along the way. Prima do
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by stutsmansoft 4y ago
I couldn't agree more. I recently discontinued the process with a company over the leetcode garbage. Those things test one thing: how many of those puzzles have you memorized the solution to. I'm also an "old" and suspe
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by stutsmansoft 4y ago
Absolutely yes. I've been developing professionally for almost 30 years. I still love making software and I'm good at it. When I started in this industry, being able to do it at all was the barrier to entry. The processes were l
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by stutsmansoft 4y ago
This proves that in the real world, problems are solved by research and thinking. Whiteboard leetcode crap is simply a test for "have you heard the trick for this one or not?"
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by stutsmansoft 4y ago
The dealers brought it on themselves...many of them actively disincentivize EV purchases when you try to buy one. Why? They want to protect that recurring service bay revenue. Oil changes, plugs, belts, etc.
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by stutsmansoft 4y ago
I agree with everything you said here. I've been severely disappointed with the psyche of man - we've discovered a large chunk of humanity doesn't believe in science and cares only about themselves. That doesn't feel lik
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by stutsmansoft 4y ago
> I think companies that break out of the leetcode habit are going to do well. > There's a lot of great talent out there that's being passed over by these tests. Agreed. And there's a lot of great talent that doesn&#x
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by stutsmansoft 4y ago
I understand your frustration. It becomes hard to find a job you can live with.
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by stutsmansoft 4y ago
I've had some mixed experiences as an engineer without business skills. Some mistakes I've made attempting to go it alone: - Let a client go too long without paying me resulting in them stiffing me for a 14K loss. - Took on too mu
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by stutsmansoft 4y ago
It’s absurd how huge engineering teams have become. Remember the twitter app was originally written by one guy - I bet that team has 50 people on it now, and it’s not better for it.
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by stutsmansoft 4y ago
I have a similar experience level to your own, and I am equally horrified by today's interview gauntlet. This, coupled with exploding team sizes and heavy-handed process fads, have left me to consider entrepreneurship as the only viabl
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by stutsmansoft 5y ago
It was an off-the-shelf jailbreak solution, and I sprinkled it in over 100 places in the code. I read people on jailbreak forums expressing frustration that my app was "too hard to crack and not worth it." Success! But once it b
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by stutsmansoft 5y ago
I was able to dig up the sales report. https://imgur.com/a/xE9UG1B
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by stutsmansoft 5y ago
All those factors are plausible. If I can still get sales reports I will see if I can re-identify the dropoff and look for correlation. I will say it certainly -felt- like removing the DRM was a mistake at the time, because the cliff was d
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by stutsmansoft 5y ago
Correct, that was the app. It did reasonably well and tanked to near-nothing when DRM was removed, and to full nothing when TiVo finally released their own.
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by stutsmansoft 5y ago
Kinda clickbaity. I sure own my Porsche EV. I don't have the daily thrills/hassles of the constant OTA updates, because they don't do them except for the radio. Not concerned about repairability when the designs are so simple
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by stutsmansoft 5y ago
No effect? My own experience differs. I had an iOS product that was doing well, and it had some DRM to prevent jailbreakers. I had a legitimate buyer complain and after soul-searching I removed the DRM. Sales immediately dropped to near ze
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by stutsmansoft 5y ago
That's stupid. Mame 1.0 should have been the first public release to the world.
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by stutsmansoft 5y ago
And still not version 1.0
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by stutsmansoft 5y ago
I'm just over 50 and I'm finding it harder to stay in programming. Most companies want to push me upward into management (which I don't want to do) - and I feel like I'm aging out of eligibility for most development jobs
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by stutsmansoft 5y ago
Can confirm. They don't care, at least my reps in Texas don't. I get form letters loosely related to the issue I complained about, and sometimes not even remotely related.
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by stutsmansoft 5y ago
Can we not start another "meme cure" based on sketchy "research?"
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by stutsmansoft 9y ago
I made a Delphi component once. It was immediately modified in ways I disagreed with, renamed, and spread by someone else. The person who did this didn’t even have a conversation with me about it before doing so. This was before GitHub and
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by stutsmansoft 10y ago
I'm a huge fan of the "demo project" interview. It really allows me to shine where whiteboard gameshows don't. I don't need or expect payment, either. If I'm legitimately interested in the company, I am happy
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by stutsmansoft 10y ago
I think Xcode, Instruments etc are _amazing_ tools...especially for the price. Compare with the Android toolchain.
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by stutsmansoft 11y ago
See I'm the inverse. I'd take the 8 hour project over the whiteboard. Thinking in a quiet, relaxed environment beats trying to reason through a problem while also thinking about how you are "performing."
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by stutsmansoft 11y ago
I personally would love this style of job screening. I'm not at all worried about 8 "unpaid" hours.
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by stutsmansoft 11y ago
Good luck

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