Afton

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by Afton 6y ago
You're responding to an aggregate statistic with an anecdote. I too did not graduate high school, but now have an advanced degree and a high paying job. Claiming that that invalidates the notion of privilege is silly.
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by Afton 6y ago
I interpret your last line as "If an E2E test fails because of a product bug, the result should be a unit test". I've been fighting this fight for a decade now, and I'm pretty sure I've never won it for a whole team
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by Afton 6y ago
"fighting the last war"
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by Afton 6y ago
I know several developers from developing nations that have strong ties to their countries of origin, and engage heavily in various "good works" there. They have massively more resources to do so due to their salaries in the US th
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by Afton 6y ago
For sure, it's an empirical question what %age of people who would accept this kind of offer are "I have no other choice, so I accept your offer" or "I want to make sure I will actually want to work at your company&quo
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by Afton 6y ago
I think it usually involves 'helper' type folks. They end up on a project, and they 'help' the project get done. But the work they do tends to be just the boilerplate (or cut-and-paste style work), or just the gathering
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by Afton 6y ago
Someone always suggests this. The issue is that if you did this, 95% of the candidates that would agree to this kind of setup would be the kind you didn't want. If I'm sitting on 2 offers, one is a hire and one is a "Let&#x27
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by Afton 6y ago
No, you can't. There are all sorts of restrictions, which you already know. But since you are deliberately missing the point, I won't be responding. Feel free to get in the last word.
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by Afton 6y ago
> This is absolutely absurd This adds nothing to the discussion. > Your belongings and wealth belong to your estate and as the owner of it you decide how it should be distributed. Well, that's literally the question at hand. You
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by Afton 6y ago
One that really stands out is how quickly and easily I could fall asleep. Like, on a commuter bus, or watching a movie with people. And how I'd be asleep within seconds of getting into bed. I thought I was 'sleep efficient',
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by Afton 6y ago
Literally 2' of elastic fabric and some velcro...
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by Afton 6y ago
Please go see a sleep doctor, not a GP. I was diagnosed in my late 30s, and I was definitely not overweight at the time. In retrospect, many things that I thought were normal (or even positive) turned out to be very clear symptoms of chroni
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by Afton 6y ago
I do this too when I need to reduce my caffeine intake. It allows me decouple the habit of drinking coffee from the addiction to coffee.
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by Afton 6y ago
Youtube, for me. It's not perfect, but it is often good enough.
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by Afton 6y ago
Background No specific antiviral drug has been proven effective for treatment of patients with severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Remdesivir (GS-5734), a nucleoside analogue prodrug, has inhibitory effects on pathogenic animal an
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by Afton 7y ago
Mandatory voting is necessary in the US because of the amount of voter suppression. It should be hard to stop someone from voting.
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by Afton 7y ago
I don't think that's it at all. It's the 'normal' person being concerned whether they are at risk. While lots of people 'know old people' or with pre-existing conditions, many people have youngish parent
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by Afton 7y ago
You 100% don't need my permission. But even if your feedback as valuable, couching it in this kind of language isn't. Also, just telling someone that their idea is shitty, even if true, isn't valuable feedback without a dis
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by Afton 7y ago
Someone did something because it interested them, and someone posted it here because someone here might find it interesting. So I generally know why those people did what they did. But what about you? Why are you posting what you are postin
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by Afton 7y ago
I feel like you may not have read my comment very generously. I am very familiar with the point of a test. Let me try again to explain. There is a cost to a brittle test. UI testing suffers from this more than other kinds because there are
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by Afton 7y ago
I've worked with selenium for a couple of years. There are a fair number of gotchas, but it's definitely possible to write pretty deterministic tests. For one, retries of selenium actions are just necessary. So necessary, that you
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by Afton 7y ago
These examples show the system being very tightly coupled to the actual html. IME this leads to very brittle tests that fail due to restructoring/reorganizing/redesigning. My two cents: I've never seen automated visual regres
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by Afton 7y ago
I interviewed several people who wanted internal transfers. People who took 30 minutes to write a function like "write a function that takes an array of ints and returns the largest value". I have no idea how they got hired in the
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by Afton 7y ago
Yeah, big company, lots of variation in the interview process. Ultimately, the hiring manager has final authority, but if someone came out strong against you for some reason, they might be loathe to override. But it does sound like a strang
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by Afton 7y ago
Meh, likely you're just used to the ways that cars fail to obey the law. Every day on my driving or biking commute I see cars failing to signal, rolling through stop signs "because you can't see from the actual stop sign&quot
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by Afton 7y ago
All my info is old on this point, but I doubt that there was company wide measurement here. This was an individual giving their own personal opinion/reasoning.
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by Afton 7y ago
I got verbal feedback exactly one time (at Microsoft) during my attempt to land a post-1-year of university internship. I had solved the algorithm in a few minutes, but when trying to code it up, I struggled a fair amount before figuring it
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by Afton 7y ago
"That’s why Doug tied that brick to a pencil — to prove a point. Of all the tools we’ve created to augment our intelligence, writing may be the most important. But when he “de-augmented” the pencil, by tying a brick to it, it became
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by Afton 7y ago
Thanks for replying.
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by Afton 7y ago
Your first paragraph is strawmaning. At no point did I demand that you recommend a 100% fix. You made a claim about how the industrial age was the problem. I was trying to make a point that even if true, that doesn't really buy you any

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