wideopenjake

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by wideopenjake 3y ago
I mentioned this in another comment, but yeah, I bombed the interview precisely because I understood the problem and its domain but failed to walk through my initial thinking process with the interviewer who was pairing with me. I was appro
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by wideopenjake 3y ago
Oh, I totally agree. That wasn't intended as a slight toward the company; rather, the solution to the problem was (if I remember correctly) only a few lines of code, but I think the test was tailored to more junior candidates, who migh
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by wideopenjake 3y ago
We did, early on, get flooded by people who migrated en masse from another social network who - for lack of a better phrase - equated 'freedom of speech' with a right to post 'shock-and-awe' content just to get a rise ou
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by wideopenjake 3y ago
I was head of technology for another "make a better world" social network, and we approached fostering positivity as a practice of encouraging constructive interaction and discouraging _destructive_ interaction. In other words, be
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by wideopenjake 3y ago
Early on in Ello's life, possibly year 1, I interviewed for a job with them - back when their office was basically one floor of a residence, and all the engineers pretty much worked at a single dinner table packed with monitors. I prob
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by wideopenjake 3y ago
As far as Spam Musubi - the US military brought Spam to the islands during WWII, and it quickly became available off-base. Combined with wartime fishing restrictions on the islands, the quickly became the easiest meat source available to lo