throwawaysbdif

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by throwawaysbdif 10y ago
Comparing a bootcamp to random schools in developing countries is laughable. It's well known that CS degrees from most of these schools are worthless. Having been to school and coded for most of my life, there is no possible way you kn
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by throwawaysbdif 10y ago
Because I can explain anything about it. because the module is published on maven central under my name with my private key, hosted on a domain registered to me, on a GitHub account that's literally my name and a domain that's my
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by throwawaysbdif 10y ago
It definitely is broken. If I had to point it to a specific cause, I would say the main problem is that the industry is overrun with charlatans. The reason appears to be, when comparing CS to other professions, that so many schools do a poo
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by throwawaysbdif 10y ago
I'm not too surprised either, but I marvel at the amount of time wasted preparing and asking all the stupid questions when they could just look at my code for 5 minutes. Like, the main file in one of my libraries clearly uses concurren
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by throwawaysbdif 10y ago
This hasn't been my experience in general. Most of my hard interviews were at startups. To sound old and jaded, I think a lot of it has to do with the startup mentality "we only hire the top 0.0001% of coders " . Once you&#x2
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by throwawaysbdif 10y ago
I have been interviewing the last couple months and have the same opinion. I've been coding for years and have some pretty complex stuff up on my GitHub. I quickly found out that nobody looks at your GitHub, maybe 10% max. didn't