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by a-saleh 10y ago
I think you might be able to solve this with certain level of laziness, at a cost that you would sometimes need to generate more than just a single chunk. I.e. once you encounter a river, you will then generate the whole river, from source,
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by a-saleh 10y ago
Depends on what do you want to achieve? We utilize Cordova heavily in product I am working on, but more on a meta-layer, meaning, that user is able to create his simple application with drag-drop ui, see a preview in browser and then packag
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by a-saleh 10y ago
A.f.a.i.k. few people tried some rudimentary experiments and there were two main problems: a) you can work in VR for more than an hour because of nausea b) smaller text is not legible But if you feel wealthy and adventurous enough, there is
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by a-saleh 10y ago
Thing that probably helped me and my wife to improve our sleep routine the best, is switching to ambient lights ~1 hour before sleep. Because the sun sets usually some time between 17 00 and 21 00 depending on the season, and we usually go
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by a-saleh 10y ago
As far as I have seen, the thing that in mostly gets you a job is that you already had a similiar job somewhere else. The sentence for junior positions is "completed bachelor's degree in CS/Software Engineering or at least 2
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by a-saleh 10y ago
I don't think you really are trusted by definition in EU at least when it comes to mortgage, because you need to prove you have stable income, even though they won't lend you the full price of the property you put the mortgage on.
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by a-saleh 10y ago
> What if its okay for different groups of people to retain their autonomy and their sovereignty--something people have fought and died for throughout history? Depends. I much prefer personal autonomy over national sovereignty. While I u
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by a-saleh 10y ago
Do you think it might be possible to auto-port languages that are compilable to JS with source-map support?
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by a-saleh 10y ago
Huh, this actually might be a pattern my manager used, making it a lot less ad-hoc than was my first impression of him doing an interview. Especially using the CV as the script/primary guiding line of the interview. Thanks. Not sure ab
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by a-saleh 10y ago
I actually share these concerns, and that is why I asked here, so that I can improve upon this process. Like the strategy of probing "deeply into technical details and the engineering decisions of the past" as a mitigation, thanks
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by a-saleh 10y ago
I don't think I will have time to do a pair programming session, but I am thinking about discussing a work-sample or something like that. Thanks for the STAR mention, haven't heard the term before.
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by a-saleh 10y ago
Thanks, seen the suggestions for creating a canonical script already, but like the suggestion of 1. describing the position early to not "waste time interviewing people who don't want the job." 2. ask a few trivial and easy q
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by a-saleh 10y ago
To be honest, I mostly wanted to know how to do the "We have a ad-hoc conversation for 90 mins and then hire on our gut reaction" better, without limiting the replies to the concrete problem of hiring for a "junior QE positio
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by a-saleh 10y ago
Yes, I think I can see the randomized sampling in my team almost :P That is actually what prodded my question, because out of the colleagues we hired this year, half of them are amazing and half of them left because they couldn't keep
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by a-saleh 10y ago
Like the "What if we need to build $RANDOM_PROJECT, what would you do?", thanks! With "padding your resume", do you mean when candidate has "Proficient in Javascipt" in his resume but means "Can slap a jqu
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by a-saleh 10y ago
I was actually interviewed for writing Java when I applied for my current position, then spent a year writing clojure, a year with mostly python and last two with javascript. Not sure how to divine if candidate is capable to learn writing c
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by a-saleh 10y ago
I have already been through such interview, and 1st hour was a ad-hoc technical conversation, with last 30 mins questions of the candidate about the workplace. I don't think the length should be the problem. On the other hand, I wouldn
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by a-saleh 10y ago
There will be two of us interviewing the candidate :-) I agree that the communication is a big factor. On the other hand, we had few previous candidates whose performance was really poor after we hired them. Stealing the conversation starte
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by a-saleh 10y ago
Thanks for the link. Unfortunately in my culture it is quite rare for candidates to be so open as to ask enough questions, especially because the candidate will be for a junior position. I could see this working better for a more senior pos
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by a-saleh 10y ago
To be frank, the advice of my manager actually was "Go by your gut, we have 3 month probationary period anyway." But I don't really want to spend 3 months on-boarding somebody just to have him leave because he can't keep
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by a-saleh 10y ago
Thanks, I think I will try turn the thing into a screen-share, rather than just a conversation as well as adding behavioral interviewing to my backlog of things to investigate further :)
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Ask HN: How to best interview a candidate?
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by a-saleh 10y ago
A.f.a.i.k. even if everything fails, you can still use the embossing on your card and your non-electronic signature. I have used in car-rental recently. Not sure if my grocery store would accept this sort of payment though :-/
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by a-saleh 10y ago
Lets be mainstream by Evan Czaplicky Designer of Elm language talks about principles he used to create language as approachable as JavaScript but as type-safe as haskell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYk8CKH7OhE
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by a-saleh 10y ago
It seems weird to me that some workplace would mandate physical(?) pair-programming as a default. And I actually like pair-programming, some of my best code was written with somebody sitting besides me and we have solved some really tricky
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by a-saleh 10y ago
My question would then be, how do I best teach it? I am a QE guy, mostly doing Selenium based automation, but because we are hiring generalist devs much faster than QE people, I would really like to teach them the QE mindset, because I have
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by a-saleh 10y ago
Did any of you have good experience using typescript on node.js project? I remember trying out typescript with few tutorials, but so far mostly on the browser side (i.e angular 2 is in typescript) and when I poked around I couldn't rea
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by a-saleh 10y ago
As I slowly advance in my career, I have realized I need to write a lot as well. Most of the conversations within my teams are done in text: * irc chat * slack chat * email * wiki with shared information * issues * specification documents M
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by a-saleh 10y ago
As a father of a two year old daughter, I think I will be trying to figure this out few years down the line :-) I remember fondly attending a coding course when I was around ~10. It was early 2000, so we used Visual Basic for Applications e
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by a-saleh 10y ago
As far as I know, you are probably looking for Jeffrey D. Ullman [1]? I think my lecturer at my local university basically stole [2] when he taught our course :) Just be aware that he is an academic, so I might compare him more to A.S.Tanen

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