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by _joe 11y ago
Candidates naturally feel uneasy when interviewing. In the end, one hour of chatter will either get you a job you kind of desire, or not. I think it's our responsibility, as interviewers, to make people as comfortable as possible so th
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by _joe 11y ago
Interviewing is hard. Both for the candidate and the interviewer, if he/she knows the value of hiring - as assessing the overall qualities of a candidate in a one-hour chat is mostly impossible. Also, you're interviewing someone w
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by _joe 11y ago
I have personally been discarded from a startup without even a phone interview, because of "not being a cultural fit to the company". What makes it more absurd (if possible, how do you determine "cultural fit" from a CV?
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by _joe 12y ago
Exactly. An accurate title would've been "Datastax kills Titan, author asks for the community to step up". Titan was (design-wise) by far the most promising FLOSS graph database around, it's really sad to see it going aw
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by _joe 12y ago
... just because I have that saved to use on IRC or anywhere else (like twitter) where a very long url would be inconvenient. (I should've put a disclaimer there: I am one of the WMF engineers involved in the project).
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by _joe 12y ago
The win is _also_ about scale. The server CPU usage went down significantly - see http://bit.ly/1vqp1ki So, more request can be served with a smaller number of servers.
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by _joe 14y ago
As noblogs.org is completely no-profit, and anonymous as much as possible, and does not contain ads, linkbait is not an option :) Of course, this isn't anything new for some audience , but I think that is an indipendent media blog, so the
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by _joe 14y ago
The only workaround I see I declaring you have moved to the US. I work for a US corporation and with the company VPN I'm allowed to see the 2.99 $ price, but when I log in I'm told I can only buy titles from amazon.it. So, no luck, we're st
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by _joe 14y ago
Same problem here. I am supposedly on vacation in Barcelona and was summoned to help :/ Gotta love your java.