bearforcenine

7 ms·

31.
by bearforcenine 9y ago
It means that you have a friend or someone you pay solve the challenge and prep you very well on the solution. This isn't about creating the universe before you bake an apple pie, it's about preventing a mediocre software engineer
32.
by bearforcenine 9y ago
I doubt this is a sign of a decline in quality of higher ed, and more a sign of the popularity of CS as a major and software engineering as a career. These kinds of courses and prep has existed in similarly popular fields for many yeas: law
33.
by bearforcenine 9y ago
Any challenge that doesn't change across applicants at a company that has a large enough applicant pool, will eventually be solved and prepared for so well, that almost any question you can ask will be prepped for. Beyond that, if you
34.
by bearforcenine 9y ago
Yes, it is silly that you have to train for an interview for months to land a SWE position at a top company. However, until someone comes up with a less gameable system or a magic wand that stack ranks applicants, then I don't see a vi
35.
by bearforcenine 9y ago
This kind of prep has been common place in other desirable fields for many years. Law, medicine, finance. They all have books, classes, etc. that you can take to prepare for interviewing, taking the bar, mcat, etc. Compared to college admis
36.
by bearforcenine 9y ago
How do you prevent cheating? Someone can very easily have a friend complete the challenge and walk them through it in a lot of detail. They could prep well enough that you hire someone who is massively under-qualified. Then if your company
37.
by bearforcenine 9y ago
It's very tempting to say this. However, trying to find an alternative that is not equally or more gameable is very challenging. Take home assignments are easy to cheat on and take a lot of time. Asking questions about someone's e
38.
by bearforcenine 9y ago
No matter what system you use to interview people, if the position is desirable enough, and the number of positions is smaller than the applicant pool, isn't gaming the system the expected outcome? If people at Google were interviewed
39.
by bearforcenine 9y ago
It's been my experience that any industry that * Is attractive enough (compensation, lifestyle, etc.) * and has a larger supply of qualified applicants than desirable positions Will result in applicants preparing for however they are i
40.
by bearforcenine 9y ago
Lucidchart uses WebGL for the canvas in our editor. The menus around the canvas are Angular, but the actual editor is all WebGL. Full disclosure: I work at Lucid.
41.
by bearforcenine 9y ago
We did this lab at the University of Utah because the Systems class is taught out of the same textbook. I also loved this lab. If I remember correctly we had a leaderboard, and it was fun competing with everyone else. Most of the labs for t
42.
5 Usage Ideas for Angular Pipes(lucidchart.com)
3 points by bearforcenine 9y ago|0 comments
43.
by bearforcenine 9y ago
Utah could be a great fit based on Amazon's preferences for a site if they build something along the I-15 corridor. It's within 30 miles of a population center, within 45 minutes to the airport, directly off a major highway, front
44.
by bearforcenine 9y ago
I am a bit concerned that between the Scala, Dotty, Typelevel, and now the Reasonable Scala Compiler, that the Scala community might become fragmented. Hopefully the rsc's claim of "making our findings available to the Scala commu
45.
by bearforcenine 9y ago
Seems like you could make the same argument about modern C++ or other kitchen sink languages - lots of features, lots of ways to write unreadable code. I've worked in Scala for the last 3 years and I've found implicits to be the b
46.
by bearforcenine 9y ago
I wasn't directly involved in this decision and I've never worked on our mobile apps, but I do work at Lucid. Almost the entire engineering team can write Scala. About 3 people can write Kotlin. That was a big part of it. The lead
47.
by bearforcenine 9y ago
I began working in a large Scala codebase and the IDE support made quickly navigating the code very easy. I still use vim or emacs whenever I need to do some serious text editing or I'm in a console.
48.
by bearforcenine 9y ago
I went through the entire game in 2014 - thoroughly enjoyed it. Taught me vim basics as well as more advanced concepts. After going through the game I used vim as my primary editor for almost a year. Despite the annoying $25/6 months o
49.
by bearforcenine 10y ago
At Lucid Software we use the Closure Compiler with advanced optimizations to build both Lucidchart and Lucidpress. You can see some work we did with it in respect to Angular here: https://www.lucidchart.com/techblog/201
50.
by bearforcenine 10y ago
Tsickle by Angular does that: https://github.com/angular/tsickle It wraps the TypeScript Compiler and outputs CC compatible type annotation comments.