therealdavesky

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by therealdavesky 4y ago
The Grateful Dead Movie, don't know if it's online. A in-depth look at GD shows mid-70's, near their creative peak. Lots of backstage footage, fan interviews, and some pretty neat animation.
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by therealdavesky 4y ago
Tiare F.M. in Tahiti. Mostly Jawaiian / Jahitian music but with a lot of weird euro, country, and retro pop songs mixed in as well.
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by therealdavesky 4y ago
Your story is sadly not unique: being broke and unemployed is awful, and there are millions in the same situation. You are not alone! Firstly, this post you made right here and now may be the turning point, at least your story is known by
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by therealdavesky 5y ago
As a recent poster to "ask HN" who can't get hired for anything in SWE due to my age, to me it seems you should count your blessings if employment is so abundant in your life that you can turn down jobs based on their motivat
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by therealdavesky 5y ago
dont forget graph theory. FB caught me off guard on a takehome project which involved contact tracing (very timely in 2021) Dyjkstra's algorithm (spelling?) and backward tracing through graph nodes
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by therealdavesky 5y ago
Also the 'metrics' being used to make the final decision are secret, most likely not known even by the interviewer. This prevents gaming the system but the lack of transparency makes it easy to imagine that MANGA companies choos
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by therealdavesky 5y ago
I spent 6 weeks doing Leetcode problems, mostly medium-level ones. However when the take-home project was assigned, my submittal crashed on their end, even though it ran on my end on two different simulators and my phone! That pretty much
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by therealdavesky 5y ago
Damn Straight. It amazes me how little interviewers seem to care about how_much_code_you_have_delivered... honestly, what else is there?
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by therealdavesky 5y ago
hawaii is only a nice place to live if you have lotsa $$$ i am willing to relocate tomorrow. just send me an airline ticket.
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by therealdavesky 5y ago
please email me at fraktalmaui@gmail.com thanks!
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by therealdavesky 5y ago
thanks for the links. leetcode is already familiar to me but i will study the others
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by therealdavesky 5y ago
thank you. my thoughts exactly!
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by therealdavesky 5y ago
I am open to contract positions or permanent positions, no problem either way. It sounded like I was just a corporate developer from my original post, so I may have confused some of you, sorry about that. I thought putting out a whole lif
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by therealdavesky 5y ago
A Jr. Developer job is just fine for me, however the last time FB talked to me they said they were looking for a particular job role (it was lead Developer) and would'nt bump me down... how do you look for a lesser role if you cant be
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by therealdavesky 5y ago
Here are answers to some earlier questions, so my situation may become a bit more clear: “Tell us more about what you want to do.” It didn’t seem on-topic to mention goals and such in my original query, so here is a short list of software g
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by therealdavesky 5y ago
great observation wrt using your own keyboard to enter stuff... it has to be remote for me for now because i am stuck in hawaii due to $$ probs they bay area would be a great place to live, but its hard to get there and i know about the net
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by therealdavesky 5y ago
swift seems like a good choice for me, and i am about to release an AR app in swift that produces algorithmic music ... what do you think about swift?
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by therealdavesky 5y ago
thanks. i hear you on the desperate employer thing, that got me a job in 2001 working for DigiEffects when their code broke going from iOS9 to OSX
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by therealdavesky 5y ago
you are right, but maybe if they asked me "whats your best area"? and then asked me to do something imaginative in that area then perhaps that would reveal more of a developer's talent than mere algorithm testing...??
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by therealdavesky 5y ago
thanks. that is a good observation. tomorrow i will be talking with a meta recruiter who has already emailed me that i am "100% what they are looking for" ...but ... maybe would you like passing these coding tests first???
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by therealdavesky 5y ago
absolutely on the skills evaluations! delivering code cant be summed up on a spreadsheet
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by therealdavesky 5y ago
ummm. also i have an iterview with meta tomorrow morning.
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by therealdavesky 5y ago
that was a great way to describe the jobs paradox right now
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by therealdavesky 5y ago
here are two side projects, please let me know what you think: huedoku.com (and the app on itunes) oogiecam (on itunes) thanks!
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by therealdavesky 5y ago
forgot to mention, i am weak in react, i like it because it is similar to swiftUI but havent been able to come up with a good project involving react and the types of multimedia apps i am currently developing... if a good idea came up to me
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by therealdavesky 5y ago
if anyone wants a lead engineer on a X-style project, something that is out in the fringes, a project with legacy code, unusual multimedia/3D projects, ATE (automated test equipment) projects i may be able to help you also can help in
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by therealdavesky 5y ago
obviously i havent applied enough. it is usually about 10 per month.
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by therealdavesky 5y ago
i forgot to indicate where I am. if I was in silicon valley it may be a bit easier to get references, currently i am in the rainforest on the big island and they sub out all their tech to the mainland here.
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by therealdavesky 5y ago
i did that for the first FB interview, spent 6 weeks writing leet puzzles down by hand, thinking them over 3X before coding, and then solving the problems. But then the interviewer hit me with a topic i didnt cover. wups!
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by therealdavesky 5y ago
sorry, i wasnt clear enough. the last half of my career was exclusively doing freelance work, Hughes laid me off in 1998.

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