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by RogerL 13y ago
We all know why they are asking candidates to do this. The question is whether this is a reasonable way to go about getting this information.
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by RogerL 13y ago
Let's put it this way. Just about any programming question I google leads me to SO. Just about every one of those links are "closed as not helpful by the moderators" (paraphrased). Google thinks it is a useful question. I thi
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by RogerL 13y ago
Why are you assuming that we can not tell the difference between smiles? There's a huge gradation of social behavior w.r.t smiles and other social cues that we use in the west. For us, raised in the culture, it is trivially easy to tel
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by RogerL 13y ago
That is not what a bubble is. We have bubbles in the stock market all the time, and they are bid on things of significant "underlying value" (companies). A bubble is (roughly) when the bids are disconnected from that value, and mo
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by RogerL 13y ago
"It's really not for me, and I'd while I'm happy that you want my participation I'd appreciate it if you would stop continue inviting me because I hate having to say no to you"
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by RogerL 13y ago
Skeet practice. IOW, pretty easy to defend against with a shot gun, netting around your position, and so on. An air strike, on the other hand, not so much.
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by RogerL 13y ago
Ya, if my mission was to weaponize one of these (full disclosure: I've done sw for military UAVs and theater of war information sharing) I'd have it hover/dart above the theater to generate intel and coordinates for conventio
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by RogerL 13y ago
Yes, but the world is now reading ;) I found this very simplistic, but then I didn't realize it was a checklist for yourself. A few notes, if I may: first, it is generally recognized that it takes 3 or so tries to get an API/frame
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by RogerL 13y ago
This is conceptually nice. But consider. You want to fork a third party library. On check in you reformat the entire code base? Or, if you don't do it on initial commit, and then somebody needs to modify one line? Recognize that "
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by RogerL 13y ago
length of name vs completeness capturing scope vs ignoring it (foo.foo_thing vs foo.thing) capturing type vs ignoring it (studentList vs students) and so on. I often struggle with competing desires in naming. Code Complete dedicates an en
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by RogerL 13y ago
In the world outside of stack ranking, you aren't winning/losing against your peers, you are being paid what you are worth. Backstabbing somebody else does not change your worth, it just makes them less valuable than you. So your
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by RogerL 13y ago
Can you explain why you think they are the same? SW as spec is problematic because whatever the sw does is interpreted as being what it is supposed to do. So how do you identify bugs? At least with TDD the tests serve as some kind of docume
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by RogerL 13y ago
You will find this sort of thing in big and small companies, and find really good practices in both big and small companies. You will find tiny companies (< 20 engineers) with no code review, no unit tests, long lists of unfixed bugs, a
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by RogerL 13y ago
I do not know anything about India, but I spent some time one day looking at the geographic distribution of various Google queries. India dominated for anything algorithmic related. I know you cannot draw much from that as it is absolute nu
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by RogerL 13y ago
"core physical team" What is that, in the context of remote work? I worked remotely for 3 years at my last job. The lead lived half way across the country from HQ, as did I, and as did the lead QA. More importantly, we regularly t
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by RogerL 13y ago
It's trivial to have multiple job offers, and it is trivial to interview when you already have a job. You have to give the person being interviewed a reason to come work for you other than 'I sign the checks, bucko'. So, yes,
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by RogerL 13y ago
To be fair, the person made no assertions, they said "I highly doubt", and couched other limits in terms of thermodynamics. I'm pretty comfortable saying that thermodynamics is not going to change in a year; at least as comfo
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by RogerL 13y ago
If it is the front end to a banking app, or otherwise involved with account security, then yes. If it is an "Angry Elves" game with no login, then probably not. As always, these memes are useful to guide/test our thinking, bu
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by RogerL 13y ago
This is called the "file drawer effect".
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by RogerL 13y ago
I am not sure if you are disagreeing with my comment, or expanding on it, so let me clarify. That was the point of my 'continuum' comment. If you don't know what the customer want, sure, one way to answer that is to prototype
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by RogerL 13y ago
This has nothing to do with tech, IMO. Wander over to Wall Street, go into some white collar office with a bunch of people doing data entry, go to some fulfillment center warehouse, and then go to a construction site and you'll see the
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by RogerL 13y ago
Sure. Friday on LinkedIn I got one of those "recommended jobs" thingies in my story line. It was full of "you should value execution over planning". It pretty much sounded like a 20hr/day sweatshop of fighting endle
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by RogerL 13y ago
One wonders if they are using ML to harvest/choose the spam list.
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by RogerL 13y ago
Here, here. I rejoiced when they pushed the switching times to nov/march. For several years I refused to change my clocks from DST, and just kept living on that time. It was easy enough to do that at work at the time. Well, here comes
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by RogerL 13y ago
Okay, so today the bank opens at 8:30. Tomorrow it opens at 8:31. The day after that, 8:32. (or whatever, I'm sure my numbers don't match the progression of day/night cycles exactly). That's why. Ya, sure, I'm being
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by RogerL 13y ago
I don't listen often; when I do it is usually jazz or classical. For jazz usually cool jazz as opposed to hard bop or free jazz (great to listen to, impossible to concentrate). For classical pretty much baroque or chamber music (especi
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by RogerL 13y ago
College is not votech. This is your last chance to learn, soak things in like a sponge. Write a compiler, write an assembler, build a robot. Learn physics, take biology, master linear algebra. Go to a professor that intrigues you and offer
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by RogerL 13y ago
The Glass has non GPS functionality. I have no opinion on it's use as a nav system, having not used it. No, there really isn't an assumption of innocence for some things. If I am driving with an open container (booze), I'm ge
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by RogerL 13y ago
In the US (I know, this is a global community) we are largely 'at will' employment (a quick google suggests that only Montana is an exception). Such a contract is not enforceable. To lock people in we use things like vesting - you
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by RogerL 13y ago
She was speeding.

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