amorphid

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by amorphid 8y ago
If you learned Elixir, it would not surprise me if you started to prefer Elixir for most backend projects.
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by amorphid 8y ago
Wendover Productions did a great video YouTube on overnight shipping that goes into the use of old planes for shipping cargo. [1] . The short version is that cargo planes spend most of their time sitting around, usually much less time than
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by amorphid 8y ago
> I've been told that management is serving the best interests of the company, and therefore anything they do is justified Maybe. I can say I want to work for a company where management feels acting in the workers' best intere
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by amorphid 8y ago
If you're going to outright lie to my face & get caught, you'd better have a proof that you had discovered a brain tumor after having told the lie, pictures of the tumor being removed, and a doctor's note explaining &quot
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by amorphid 8y ago
Here's how I go from dumb to less dumb: - on Saturday, I wanted to learn how to write a Kubernetes configuration file from scratch, so I decided I'd deploy a static web page - for the static web page, I decided it should return pi
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by amorphid 8y ago
It wasn't a great example, and I don't manage a team, or work at a Microsoft shop. I think I was trying to say it's easier to avoid making bad hiring decisions than it is to work on making good hiring decisions. It's p
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by amorphid 8y ago
I'm imagining an overly academic interview question that goes something like this... "It's been determined that our CS interviews are both random and unscientific, and we'd like to reverse that trend. To give us more co
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by amorphid 8y ago
> Where I differ is with your (admittedly contrived) example. I've interviewed dozens (hundreds?) of people over the years, and I can't say I've seen any correlation between passion and professionalism/competence&#x2F
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by amorphid 8y ago
The way I think of it is that we haven't yet figured out concrete ways to assess whether someone can or can't be an effective developer on a team. So if you want me to hire you, and I can't directly measure your skills (beca
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by amorphid 8y ago
> Instead, local publicans stepped in and extended credit to their customers; the debtors were well-known to the publicans, who were in a good position to make an assessment on their credit worthiness. I didn't know what a publican
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by amorphid 8y ago
One way these companies mitigate DDoS attacks is by being huge. If you have a small house w/ one entrance, there's no great way to manage 1000 people trying to get through the front door. If you have a huge house w/ dozens
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by amorphid 8y ago
I'm not deaf, but if you'd like, I'd be happy to do some pair programming with you over a chat client. We could come up with something appropriate for your skill level and see how it goes! I'm more of a back-end develo
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by amorphid 8y ago
I get this, too. It's pretty neat.
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by amorphid 8y ago
Unless someone of comparable skill will do the job for cheaper.
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by amorphid 8y ago
My visualization of supply & demand. Somewhere in rural America... "Will you work for 80K?" "Yes." Meanwhile in San Francisco... "Will you work for 80K?" "No." "Will you work for 120K?"
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by amorphid 8y ago
I get my money's worth out of MoviePass. I'll milk that membership until it dies or the ROI goes negative. I love you MoviePass, but you are not bright.
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by amorphid 8y ago
When I ran a business, having a tax preparer really helped with this.
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by amorphid 8y ago
One option is seeing is discussing a buy out. If the company is under-funded and on life support, seeing what one can get out of it is might be the best business decision you can make. Consider: - write up list of potentially irreconcilabl
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by amorphid 8y ago
When I want to search Google for news, I do a regular seearch, and then click over to the news link, which displays the results in a much easier to consume formant that the regular Google News UI.
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by amorphid 8y ago
Were there larger birds back then? Larger birds might use larger tools?
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by amorphid 8y ago
>> TV+Internet is cheaper than Internet alone > Not true. It can be. I had Internet-only service with Comcast for $65-ish/month. One day they called me up and offered TV+Internet for $55-ish/month, plus 12 months at a r
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by amorphid 8y ago
Anyone can sue you at anytime for any reason.
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by amorphid 8y ago
Fellow 40-something software dev here. I'd love to ask you some questions about your background & experience. If you'd be inclined, can we chat? My email is in my profile.
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by amorphid 8y ago
I'm imagining a bumper sticker saying "I'd rather wing it than Bing it!" Google is an invaluable tool for me, too.
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by amorphid 8y ago
Maybe cars actually are on the way out, but I am reminded of a quote. I can't find the original, but it went something like this... Executive: "Think about how much we'd save if we close a few factories!" CEO: (with s
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by amorphid 8y ago
My immediate thoughts are: - we shouldn't save jobs that can't be saved - we should protect everyone
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by amorphid 8y ago
Hey OP, base on my personal experience, almost every company I spoke w/ back east did a background check. It's much less common in California, at least w/ startups & smaller companies. Also, try putting your resume on Di
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by amorphid 8y ago
There's no good way and/or time to ask the question "Do you guys do background checks that would include my sex offenses?"
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by amorphid 8y ago
>> tunnels spanning hundreds of kilometers Do you mean tunnels that are hundreds of kilometers long? Sounds interesting. Can you point us to some reading on that?
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by amorphid 8y ago
>> if you think your company will outperform in the short term... I believe no one can reliable predict which way a stock is likely to go. If there is a way to predict, only a few people know, and that prediction is soon baked into t

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