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Since Vincent is reading these comments- This quote popped out at me from the interview: > In general, we want CoderPad to mirror a modern development environ
by brianpgordon 9y ago
Since Vincent is reading these comments-
This quote popped out at me from the interview:
> In general, we want CoderPad to mirror a modern development environment as closely as possible, and we jump through a lot of hoops to make that happen.
I'm curious about your thoughts on Floobits, which provides a shared buffer using the developer's native IDE. If your goal is IDE parity then it seems like they'll always have you beaten.
I think that as an interviewee I would prefer my familiar IDE. And as an interviewer I want my interviewee to be as comfortable as possible. I don't do whiteboard coding, as it introduces a artificial barrier of difficulty that interferes with my evaluation. I think the same argument applies to making the candidate write Scala code without being able to determine the type of an expression at a keypress or step through line-by-line in a debugger, or even just to be unused the unfamiliar keymappings.
So what's your pitch for CoderPad in the face of Floobits? Reliability? Ease of set-up? The replay over time feature in CoderPad is really neat for the interviewer but I'd rather the candidate feel a bit more at ease than to have that feature.
BTW, love your product. We use it where I work! :)
- akanet 9y agoTruthfully, I really just wanted to buy something instead of making CoderPad. I imagine it's certainly possible for floobits, or atom teletype, or something else entirely to get enough adoption to render our product mostly useless. We're nowhere near there, but I wouldn't mind that happening. We'll make something else or I'll switch careers.
- thenanyu 9y agoA nice part of the Coderpad experience is zero-setup for the interview candidate. Being web based is a huge advantage here. I wouldn't want to waste any time debugging plugin issues, firewall configuration, etc.
- 8x8squares 9y agoGreat work with CoderPad, Vincent! Honest question from a newbie: Why developing in node.js felt slow? What did ruby offer that node didn't?
- akanet 9y agoAnother user wrote a great answer to that in the original article comments: https://www.indiehackers.com/forum/coderpad-interviewing-platform-for-programmers-170-000-mo-2b7fd0cd5f?commentId=-L-A9_QYDUEbOZw61t9O https://www.indiehackers.com/forum/coderpad-interviewing-pla...
- fragmede 9y agoRequiring the developer to install and configure software locally is a higher barrier than you think, especially compared to the experience of "go to this coderpad URL".