DavidWoof

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by DavidWoof 9y ago
I'm pretty ignorant of your field, so it's hard to say. As an example of my ignorance, I'm honestly surprised you could even find 40 places in a small city to apply for an uncertified Stem Lab Coach job. In terms of resumes
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by DavidWoof 9y ago
I did some A/B testing over the past couple of years with dropping the 90s from my resume, and I couldn't distinguish any difference in responses. Among those who got the shortened resume, nobody seemed to notice, although it&#x2
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by DavidWoof 9y ago
Out of curiosity, what is your experience in?
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by DavidWoof 9y ago
"Ban the box" laws have a pretty horrible track record. In practice, they unsurprisingly generally result in higher levels of discrimination against demographics with higher crime rates, especially low-skilled Blacks and Hispanic
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by DavidWoof 9y ago
> And if it is a black-box rewrite, then all that tacit knowledge will be lost, This is a thought experiment on how to avoid that tacit knowledge, not how to deal with it. Consider approaching every edit in the same way you'd appro
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by DavidWoof 9y ago
That's sort of the point of the suggestion, I think. If you always rewrite from scratch rather than edit, this sort of tacit knowledge won't get embedded undocumented and untested into the middle of a function. This is sort of
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by DavidWoof 9y ago
It's a trade-off. One thing that's definitely going to get you more and better interviews is a section on your resume that lists major open-source projects you've contributed to. But yes, once you hit the interview you stil
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by DavidWoof 9y ago
Chocolatey is scriptable, it handles the downloads, checks the checksums, it's easily searchable, etc. For various reasons I don't use it much anymore, but it's really convenient to go to a new machine after a rebuild and jus
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by DavidWoof 9y ago
Thanks for the response. I was really just curious, I didn't mean to set off a mini-storm. It's just interesting who reads this site, since the topics are pretty highly directed towards startup and developer culture. IT support
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by DavidWoof 9y ago
I'm always kind of fascinated by posts like this on this site. Could I ask what field you're in that pays 35k/yr, apparently in the US, is in the field of your degree, and yet is somewhat related to Hacker News? Or are you
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by DavidWoof 9y ago
Alice is so vaguely portrayed here that I think it's impossible to draw conclusions, let alone call her a brilliant jerk. As you mention, pointing out when things are wrong isn't being a jerk, it's doing your damn job. &quot
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by DavidWoof 9y ago
A lot of this depends on context, and obviously we're not getting any of that in a quick anecdote (not OP's fault, just the nature of things). In a larger company, where you're always hiring and there's specific time a
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by DavidWoof 9y ago
I'm curious,how do you evaluate candidates? Or are you just never in that position?
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by DavidWoof 9y ago
1. Honestly, if I were giving a simple coding exercise and the candidate submitted work using their own custom framework (which is implied here), I might reject them also, or at least put them at the bottom of the interview list. It&#x27
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by DavidWoof 9y ago
I've probably had more problems trying to work with bosses who were couldn't make decisions at all and avoided all confrontation and let the project slip to the level of the lower common denominator. By any reasonable definition,
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by DavidWoof 9y ago
Not really. Testing components is still really a pain: there's lots of boilerplate and the tests are extremely slow. In a medium-size project, they're far too slow to treat as unit tests: I break out all the TestBed stuff into a
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by DavidWoof 9y ago
All of those reasons sound reasonable, and if I were trying to come up with reasons in the abstract I'd probably come up with a list like that. But as a programmer in his 50s, when I have personally encountered age discrimination, it
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by DavidWoof 9y ago
If Visual Studio is your example, then you're making the same argument as the author: there's a sweet spot. From the python world, c# may look statically typed, but from the Haskell/Idris point of view, the java/c# typ
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by DavidWoof 9y ago
I don't see anything in the article about older workers working themselves to death. It seems to be mostly about older workers getting laid off. As a dev in his 50s, I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, age discriminati
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by DavidWoof 9y ago
AFAIK, Windows has never had a built-in way to remap keys. Sure, you can download third-party tools to do it, but that's often a dicey move in a corporate environment where you aren't allowed to install third-party software. I&#x
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by DavidWoof 9y ago
I think most of this is, or should be, uncontroversial. While it's incredibly important to avoid bad developers, once you hit a certain high level of technical ability other traits become more important. Besides, this isn't a fi
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by DavidWoof 9y ago
I honestly couldn't care less what she majored in a quarter century ago. Do you honestly believe a CS bachelors degree from a couple of decades ago would have any relevance to information security today?
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by DavidWoof 9y ago
> In fairness, I'm selective with the candidates I decide to interview, from usually large pools. I agree with your thoughts on interviewing, but the "real-time coding" session in my mind isn't part of the interview,
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by DavidWoof 9y ago
OK, that's a good one. Is this ActionScript that's doing the weird xml tag interpolation? I stand corrected, this is definitely possible. Still, I bet this person's real problems stem from explicit coding.
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by DavidWoof 9y ago
I've been programming for over a quarter century, and I feel pretty confident that I've never written anything that could confuse 'null' with NULL. I can't even think of a language that would let you easily do thi
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by DavidWoof 9y ago
This is basically one individual's musing on the topic of naming things in a UI. I don't know the author at all, so he might have tons of insight or he might just be making stuff up, I have no idea. But at this point in time, why
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by DavidWoof 9y ago
I'd note that all of the above also applied to travel agents and other middleman jobs. The job was time-consuming, companies couldn't afford to have their employees spend a lot of time on it, the majority of cases wound up with n
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by DavidWoof 9y ago
Honestly, what is the point of tech recruiters? The tiny filtering they do for employers could be automated or done by a minimum wage worker. I don't see they have any value for candidates. Most of them just cruise the job boards d
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by DavidWoof 9y ago
> He shouldn't blame a community of volunteers for not fixing his personal problems for free. It seems to me that you're just repeating the author's point, but with a different tone. Issues of "blame" aside (wha
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by DavidWoof 9y ago
His examples are kind of strange. First, I don't really consider const vs let to be the same kind of stylistic rule as single quotes vs. double quotes. Single quotes vs double quotes really don't matter too much. Const vs. let t

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