DavidWoof

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by DavidWoof 7y ago
Articles like this seem reasonable on their face, but in practice I really think what they come down to is "I have prejudices, I don't want to admit them, so I have all sorts of soft criteria like 'happiness' that allow
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by DavidWoof 7y ago
np, I was probably sloppy in my description. In the hand, two players hold AKo, there's another deadcard king in a folded hand, and Postle calls a all-in pre-flop with 54o. That's a +EV call, but only because of the exact comb
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by DavidWoof 7y ago
We're talking about pre-flop actions. It's literally impossible to throw away quads pre-flop in hold-em. You may be thinking about a different form of poker.
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by DavidWoof 7y ago
There are hands that make this virtually impossible. In one well-known hand where both his opponents have AKo and Postle goes all in. AKo is a very good hand, but it's a much worse hand if two people hold it. Even if Postle had magi
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by DavidWoof 7y ago
I've been Rider almost exclusively for about 2 years now, ever since I've been coding Core. VS is fine, but VS w/Resharper is a dog. With Rider, R# is a first class citizen, which makes a huge difference. Not to mention th
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by DavidWoof 7y ago
I fear we've gone down a wrong turn. You may be 100% correct that fears about instability are irrational and not well-grounded, which is the point you've argued for several posts. But nobody is arguing with you. Nobody is making
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by DavidWoof 7y ago
> At how many lines of code can I call myself proficient in a language? I would say don't use adjectives to describe skill level. I put most languages I have experience with on my resume, and order them descending by how well I kn
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by DavidWoof 7y ago
I think you're wrong. I think companies are completely correct in assessing the cost of a bad hire to be much greater than the loss of a good hire, assuming you're getting enough good hires to fill the positions available. Now, t
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by DavidWoof 7y ago
Not OP, but there's a group of people who have essentially a good manager's understanding of a project. They understand the trade-offs, they can talk intelligently about technical choices and architecture, and to some degree can
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by DavidWoof 7y ago
I do a lot of consulting as well and am comfortable with it. But most people with families want more stability. I don't know why you're pretending to be surprised by this. Your personal preferences aren't really the topic a
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by DavidWoof 7y ago
Upheaval is the issue. First, most contracting firms have pretty crappy medical plans. Secondly, there's generally a wait period before full benefits kick in. Thirdly, you wind up switching your medical plan multiple times in a sho
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by DavidWoof 7y ago
It was very similar to the “given an array of stock prices, find the optimal buy and sell indices for the biggest profit" problem that somebody referenced above. But we emphasized repeatedly we weren't looking for the O(n) soluti
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by DavidWoof 7y ago
Whenever I ask coding problems during an interview, I emphasize any language at all including pseudocode. And if they still struggle, I ask if they could just walk me through it verbally and we can work out the syntax together. I realize p
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by DavidWoof 7y ago
No, a fizzbuzz test is entirely about whether somebody can do it. That's the definition of a fizzbuzz test. When you hear others talking about a fizzbuzz test, they're not talking about the specific algorithm, they're spe
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by DavidWoof 7y ago
They could in theory, but nobody wants to. I used to see probationary periods, but I haven't seen a company use that for salaried staff for a long time. HR and Legal have put an end to that kind of thing. So Jim is right, in practice
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by DavidWoof 7y ago
Slightly above market rate for the area, all in the low-to-mid six figures.
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by DavidWoof 7y ago
#1 is great, but impossible for a lot of people due to NDAs. The 3-month probationary period is indeed the only way to really evaluate devs, but I'm not so sure it's a good way to hire them. After 3 months, the mediocre devs ha
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by DavidWoof 7y ago
I realize everybody's going to jump in and rant about algorithms in interviews, but I wish you'd all add something constructive as well. I just had to conduct a round of interviews in a non-SF large US city, and it was a hellish c
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by DavidWoof 7y ago
The reason people doubt it is that developers tend to group at skill levels. It's rare to have a 10x difference in a single shop or on a single team. But it's very common for the top dev at a top company to be 10x the worst dev
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by DavidWoof 7y ago
I assume the author is the Betty Friedan. This would be about 5 years before she wrote The Feminine Mystique , easily one of the most influential books in modern history. It's kind of fascinating to see her here at 37, working in o
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by DavidWoof 7y ago
In the spirit of this thread... If a child lives in X, he/they will Y. If a child lived in X, he/they would Y.
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by DavidWoof 8y ago
This comment makes me feel really old. MacOs wasn't always layered on unix, and the unix-haters' handbook predates the switch to the unix-based MacOs X.
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by DavidWoof 8y ago
"Going away" might be an overstatement, but I don't see much evidence of it being in use. When I search for help on topics, I don't see much beyond the primary docs. There doesn't seem to be much of a community fo
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by DavidWoof 8y ago
I've had small-ish docker swarms in production for a couple of years as well, and I really don't understand why it doesn't seem to be popular at all. I feel like I need to move to K8S just because swarm seems to be going awa
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by DavidWoof 8y ago
> Hiring highly competent people to build software does not scale as well as hiring (many) more less competent people. I can't imagine an aphorism I disagree more with. I constantly come across companies with similar-sized platfo
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by DavidWoof 8y ago
As a customer, the late 90s were the absolutely most frustrating time to deal with computer customer support. In virtually every case, it was obvious that the customer support person was simply reading from a support database that the comp
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by DavidWoof 8y ago
The focus of this article is on right-wing extreme content, but I think the tendency is true on both sides. The fact is that partisans are more likely to seek out news content, and partisans are happier with content that matches their prior
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by DavidWoof 8y ago
The missing variable here is whether the market share represented by Billboard #1 songs has increased or decreased in this time span. Is everyone listening to more homogeneous music, or is the market for #1 songs shrinking to a smaller and
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by DavidWoof 8y ago
I'm a programmer in my late 50s. While age discrimination is real, and I certainly have my share of "not a culture fit" and "overqualified" rejections over the past 10 years, if you're getting rejected over 9
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by DavidWoof 9y ago
This reminds me of the discussion of "quality" in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance , where the class finds that while nobody can exactly define quality, when confronted with high and low quality writing everybody could r

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