VonGallifrey

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by VonGallifrey 4y ago
I believe it. Even with the take home assignment people lie and cheat. We had one person who literally hired a team in India to do it for him. Presumably planning to give his work to them later if he was hired.
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by VonGallifrey 4y ago
Yeah, that is what I mean when I say that either way has problems with them. I had someone try to implement a whole relational database when the interview task was just to read from a CSV file and provide a REST API to the contents of said
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by VonGallifrey 4y ago
We would like to know who is competent before we hire them. The point is that we do these types of tests so that we don't hire them in the first place. We can't hire everybody. I can't hire 20 people (then fire 19 of them) fo
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by VonGallifrey 4y ago
The fact of the matter is that without the skill test there are way too many people that are incompetent and you have to have some way to filter those out. I do not know how it works with CEO positions, but I am not hiring CEOs. I do hire s
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by VonGallifrey 4y ago
I work on the matching engine of a stock exchange. So it kind of is fairly sensitive, but I get what you mean. > interactive session, you get instant feedback (either verbally or via emotional cues) into what they are expecting. For some
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by VonGallifrey 4y ago
> Or even just when would you use a binary tree? That seems to be the wrong question though. It seems to be jeopardy style "question". You are not asking which data structure is appropriate for a problem. Here is the answer, bu
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by VonGallifrey 4y ago
> Because we just clack on our keyboards all day and do nothing? No, it is because some people have worked at very impressive jobs and probably just clack on keyboards all day and actually did nothing while there, so when you hire them y
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by VonGallifrey 4y ago
I don't know why this meme is being repeated so much. I see it everywhere. Twitter Verification is only verifying that the account is "authentic, notable, and active". Nothing about the Verification Process changed. At least
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by VonGallifrey 4y ago
> using Copilot for public-facing code Why this restriction on public-facing code? Are you OK with Copilot being used for "private"/closed source code? I get that it would be less likely to be noticed if the code is not pu
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by VonGallifrey 4y ago
Serbia? Apparently they bann these countries due to the cost of legal review (?): China Indonesia Philippines Thailand Turkey Serbia India Wowhead is owned by the same company and this is their reasoning: https://eu.forums.blizza
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by VonGallifrey 4y ago
> Re: contact page. Is this actually true? This page for example still says contact when viewing Germany version of page. That is a Swedish site and as a foreign organisation, they are exempt from the Imprint requirement in Germany. Impr
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by VonGallifrey 5y ago
No, we didn't have any of that. There was a reason why I left this place. IT was not seen as anything that deserves more respect than the dirt on their shoes. Even if I had introduced a standup meeting or status meeting, I don't t
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by VonGallifrey 5y ago
I think there are plenty of jobs that would be overlooked or mistrusted (by bad managers) if people can't see you physically sitting there 40 hours every week and some might even be questioned then. When I was doing IT Support for empl
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by VonGallifrey 5y ago
> straight piece of non high temp wire that had melted I am not sure if that is what you mean, but to me it sounds like they might have purposefully put there so that it works like a thermal fuse.
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by VonGallifrey 5y ago
Just host the font yourself. What is the problem?
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by VonGallifrey 5y ago
> language or symbols that are known to be offensive. Known? It seems like many people are disagreeing with you. Who knows that it is offensive? Who decided? Can you tell me or did you just write it in this way to avoid saying directly t
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by VonGallifrey 5y ago
> If they decide to sacrifice quality for speed that's their problem/decision. [...] Then watch it blow up, or maybe it will actually be good enough. You apparently have never been sued for your managers decisions. Here is how
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by VonGallifrey 5y ago
I have heard that as well, but the selfie in those cases was them with whatever they said. So it is more a short form of "took a photo of me with..." which I think is OK.
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by VonGallifrey 5y ago
In my mind the fact that checks are used in any situation is definitely "extensive" use. I have never in my live used a check or seen one outside of movies.
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by VonGallifrey 5y ago
I can't remember the last time I went to a restaurant or bar that didn't have Card payment and NFC options here in Germany. Food stalls I agree are more hit or miss.
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by VonGallifrey 5y ago
When people say "grind leetcode" they don't mean it as a tool to get better at these kinds of problem solving. What they basically mean is that if you "grind leetcode" you have a better chance of being asked a quest
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by VonGallifrey 5y ago
> A typical team of 6-8 replaces two persons per year. How is this fact not seen as a complete failure of hiring practices or company/team leadership?
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by VonGallifrey 5y ago
Where do you get the assumption from that Carmack knows people that fulfil these minimum requirements? I would bet he doesn't or at least thinks the minimum requirements are overkill, otherwise why would he make a remark like he did? T
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by VonGallifrey 5y ago
> Carmack does not have a Master’s Degree, as listed in the minimum requirements. Other than that, he seems to greatly exceed every other requirement. In other words: Industry legend ALMOST makes minimum requirements. I know what you are
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by VonGallifrey 5y ago
I assume that he meant "Half as Interesting". Which is Wendover Productions second channel with a different focus.
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by VonGallifrey 5y ago
The solution to the problem of not storing crypto on unregulated exchanges is not a regulated exchange. The solution is your own wallet/private key.
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by VonGallifrey 5y ago
The escorting aircraft would not need to fly side by side with the passenger aircraft. They could just fly behind, above or bellow the aircraft quite easily and not be seen by anyone on the aircraft. Not to mention that Air to Air missiles
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by VonGallifrey 5y ago
I apply to maybe 5 companies at maximum, but I always track them in a spreadsheet with a similar functionality to this kiter app. I just forget what the status of each application was or is. When did I apply, when was the last communication
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by VonGallifrey 5y ago
Germany is a Federal Republic and so is the USA. Germany has states as well. I grant you that they are different forms of federal republic, but the point that California is not a country stays the same. I don't care what kind of power
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by VonGallifrey 5y ago
> please consider that the US is not analogous to Germany. California is analogous to Germany. That statement is not true at all. I give you that California has about half of Germanys population, but it is not a country. California is a

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