TheMog

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by TheMog 10y ago
A lot of the licensing systems I've encountered cause problems if you're selling to big corporations because they don't work well in locked down environments. Whatever you use needs to have an alternative way. The other quest
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by TheMog 10y ago
So in other words, he's dangling a carrot that's about two months away? BTW, if you're dealing with "contracts" (implying a consultant/independent contractor relationship), then he's not your boss, he&#x27
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Ask HN: Good used $300-$500 Linux laptop for road warrior?
5 points by TheMog 10y ago|3 comments
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by TheMog 10y ago
Depends if you're a world class bullshitter or not :). You've pretty much hit the nail on the head about the filters - they have some arbitrariness to them, and most people outside (and, if my experience is anything to go by, insi
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by TheMog 10y ago
Data, as in carefully curated and collected? No, I don't. I admire your approach but I've never taken it this far. What I have is interviewing lots and lots of people over a couple of decades, first contributing to hiring decision
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by TheMog 10y ago
I never completed my CS bachelor's degree and despite 25+ years experience as a professional developer and development manager, I still run into (usually large) companies that will immediately filter out my resume due to the lack of a
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by TheMog 10y ago
I'm not sure it's confirmation bias, but if it is multiple people have had the same experience. For the last two jobs I got by actually actively seeking out an opening rather than being contacted by a recruiter, I only send out 2-
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by TheMog 10y ago
Well, it works both ways. You might send out 20 resumes. As a hiring manager - especially when using a "no filter" approach like posting on here (keep in mind that IME people posting jobs on Hacker News are more likely doing &quot
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by TheMog 10y ago
A post from "the other side of the table" :). The previous company I worked at, I hired two people through who's hiring posts. We pretty much tried it out for about six months as we didn't have much luck through the more
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by TheMog 10y ago
I've interviewed there a couple of times over the years and I was less than impressed by the process. Doesn't stop people from applying and they seem to end up with the candidates they want, so it's probably working for them.
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by TheMog 10y ago
Unless that's changed very recently, they seem to be convinced that the perceived prestige of working for Google is worth a lot and thus they can get away with paying average or below average. At least that's been my experience.
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by TheMog 10y ago
Good point, although that's a different rant after I found out that my ISP has an IPV6 enabled backbone but won't allegedly roll out IPV6 to their clients until late this year.
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by TheMog 10y ago
Being able to use a previously unused IP address is usually a good thing, pity that there are so few of those left. ISPs definitely seem to have an impact as well, but some spamfilters at least used to automatically assign a negative score
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by TheMog 10y ago
That's a very good suggestion. I pretty much do that every time I make setup changes.
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by TheMog 10y ago
I've been running my own MTA for about 15 years now, so it's definitely possible without spending the majority of one's waking hours to do so. Even when I switched mail server IPs twice over the last few years I didn't r
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by TheMog 10y ago
I would definitely ask them to elaborate on the communcations issues. I would also ask how they're currently handling three teams on three continents - if you as a manager are supposed to deal with all three teams and at least one of t
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by TheMog 10y ago
If you're dealing with Unixy systems, resort to the command line and also use something like tmux or screen to preserve the session when (not if) you're getting disconnected.
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by TheMog 10y ago
As a lot of people have already said, even getting to an on-site with either of these companies is an accomplishment in itself. I've had on-sites at both and like you, I've been turned down. Doesn't stop Amazon from coming ba
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by TheMog 11y ago
I'm considerably older than you (47, still a software developer because I like it) and I think you're being too harsh on yourself. You also need do do something about that burn out - that's a different point Let's look a
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by TheMog 11y ago
I've been coding since we considered 8 bits a luxury and I'm still at it (I'm 47 now). I do it because I enjoy it and because I'm pretty good at it, plus it affords a decent lifestyle. There are a couple of important poi
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by TheMog 11y ago
It raises a bunch of red flags to hiring managers myself. In every job there are parts that are somewhere between mind-numbing and straight out boring, but that doesn't mean they don't need to get done. If you're leaving jobs