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That's how you reach out to inexperienced devs. And frankly, if they're posting on Reddit, they know what they're getting into. They have to set up a pretty s
by zach 16y ago
That's how you reach out to inexperienced devs. And frankly, if they're posting on Reddit, they know what they're getting into. They have to set up a pretty serious mediocrity filter.
If your resume identifies you as a badass programmer, you just toss them a copy of your resume. You know how it works, and they know that insisting that you do a programming challenge before setting up an interview hurts their chances of landing you, so they'll give you an in-interview test instead.
It's the same with Facebook and all the other places that have programming challenges -- they're there to qualify leads.
- mcantelon 16y ago>That's how you reach out to inexperienced devs. Not sure why an org like Reddit, which maintains a small team, would be interested in hiring inexperienced devs.
- redthrowaway 16y agoNobody from the original team had any experience before they started there, to my knowledge.
- officemonkey 16y ago...and now, one of the most popular sites on the internet has 6-hour outages. Coincidence?
- uxp 16y agoOutage, singular. You are talking about the 6 hour outage, not the 6 hour outages. Reddit is prone to go down more than some other high profile sites, but you are talking about a single occurrence of it going down due to a known issue that is explained in the article this thread links to. No, it is not a coincidence. Please don't sensationalize a comment about an article that clearly explains what went wrong. Go to Reddit for that.
- seabee 16y agoAs someone who hangs around in the reddit dev and downtime IRC channels, several-hour outages do happen on a monthly basis, as well as loss of some features more e.g. commenting. Reading between the lines on each outage, it was due to building the site on shaky hardware foundations. It just wasn't explicitly mentioned until now. http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/g66f0/why_reddit_was_down_for_6_of_the_last_24_hours/c1l6ykx http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/g66f0/why_reddit_was_d...
- officemonkey 16y agoForgive me for the hyperbole, but I've been getting timeouts and extremely slow page loads from reddit daily for at least six months. They always seem to have an excuse (usually about something being screwed up with Amazon), but frankly "not my fault" only works so often.
- redthrowaway 16y agoYes. The outage was due to an Amazon EBS hardware failure.
- mcantelon 16y agoDeveloping a brand new startup is a different challenge than maintaining a site that has a billion page views a month.
- redthrowaway 16y agoAlso, they really need to weed people out. They were swamped with thousands of applications the first time around.
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