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by bennyelv 5y ago
Maybe so, I wouldn’t dismiss your claim of that experience. I have encountered them in teams that I’ve inherited, and although I don’t find that it’s the majority of applicants at interview it’s a significant proportion and you get no indic
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by bennyelv 5y ago
My perception is that that's a position that most people would find weird. The politicians in the UK have just slapped the harshest restrictions on people's liberties since (I assume) the world wars, and then they completely ignor
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by bennyelv 5y ago
Shipyards will build a range of different vessels. In your mind would it be ok for them to accept a contract to build a tanker instead? If so, why does the purpose or owner of the ship matter? Is it not just a shipyard building ships?
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by bennyelv 5y ago
That's a strange lens to put on it. Bezos wants a ship built, and a range of shipyards around the world tendered for it. This one won the tender, and they knew that they'd have to dismantle the bridge to get the ship out, and wo
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by bennyelv 5y ago
Also it doesn't really have that much to do with Bezos himself, it's the business of the shipyard that's building his boat. They will have tendered for the contract to build the boat and that would have considered the need t
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by bennyelv 5y ago
As British citizen this confuses me too. If the NHS needs more money, we all need to pay more taxes to pay for it. Donating money to a government department is just weird.
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by bennyelv 5y ago
But is that because everybody knows them well enough to just be inherent in the way that they break problems down and build systems to solve them or because they've actually been abandoned as a concept? I.e. we don't need to talk
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by bennyelv 5y ago
Coffee nerds will probably want to kill me... but I find Nespresso solves all my coffee problems. I have a simple machine with a milk-frother that has lasted 5 years so far, you don't have to worry about bean storage and grinding, you
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by bennyelv 5y ago
I don’t think you can generalise like that. My experience in financial services from 2005-2013 (ish) was that in tech they were very progressive in terms of flexible working, remote first etc.
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by bennyelv 5y ago
This article is a mess. Zooming in on: Is there "no evidence" homeopathy works? No, here's a peer-reviewed study showing that it does. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30202036/ Except the study has been
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by bennyelv 5y ago
That’s probably not an answerable question, much like “tell me something you’ve forgotten”.
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by bennyelv 5y ago
I just do what I enjoy, and it happens that I found something I enjoy so much (racing small sailing boats) that I was able to become an expert in it. The “advantage” over something like woodworking or playing the piano is that you can’t jus
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by bennyelv 5y ago
I’m intrigued why companies are fighting so hard over what really should be a simple/boring commodity bit of software. There must be a good reason for it, given the huge amount of investment. What’s the game of 4-d chess that I’m not
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by bennyelv 5y ago
Not necessarily. Leetcode problems go from “just iterate over the collection collecting some data as you go” to “Knuth solved this once and thankfully he wrote it down in a book for us mortals”. Maybe part of the problem with these threads
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by bennyelv 5y ago
Sometimes they're the boss and it's a real uphill battle to persuade them how stupid they're being. I don't work in that industry, but I know enough to know when to stop and have a very hard think about some numbers. It&
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by bennyelv 5y ago
I envy you for working in an environment where you don't encounter people doing exactly this.
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by bennyelv 5y ago
This is brilliant. As someone who tries to fight the good fight in an organisation that plays fast and loose with statistics to bias decisions towards the outcomes that everyone wants to hear it’s cathartic to read about such a hilarious p
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by bennyelv 5y ago
Maybe the point of the simulation was the leaves and you're the unintentional by-product...
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by bennyelv 5y ago
You test those things with your other interview questions. No sensible interview process is exclusively an algorithmic coding assessment. I'm not aware of any company that does that, but I may be corrected...
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by bennyelv 5y ago
What about the people who don't do actual work, but have a decent CV and a good story about how they do? Have you ever experienced what it's like to try and hire decent developers or are you only offering the candidates' poin
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by bennyelv 5y ago
Unless that engineer gets them to write some code in that 15 minutes, you're fundamentally wrong. An hours long leetcode assessment is not the answer, but you need the candidate to have provide proof that they can actually code, and &q
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by bennyelv 5y ago
Apart from the fact that I can't go to a supermarket at 5pm on a Sunday, of course.
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by bennyelv 5y ago
It was before my time, so I can't say with any certainty. They were having issues with database performance as the system scaled, and the decision was taken at the same time to switch from a monolith to a microservices architecture. E
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by bennyelv 5y ago
At my company the decision to do this was taken a few years ago. It’s one we regret every day and are expending a large amount of effort digging ourselves out of it. A query engine is a very powerful and useful layer of abstraction that yo
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by bennyelv 5y ago
These two things are not in opposition. I eat whatever and whenever I want... because I also enjoy large amounts of physical activity that burn it all off.
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by bennyelv 5y ago
There doesn’t seem to be any evidence provided as to whether this is actually an effect way of detecting cancerous moles. Given that that’s probably the most important question to answer for something like this, I’m going to assume there i
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by bennyelv 5y ago
I think most people, including the managers are aware of the problem you've highlighted. What's the solution?
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by bennyelv 5y ago
Not England, the UK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom
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by bennyelv 5y ago
>Don’t do “dog and pony show” interviews. If I have to write code on a whiteboard, or even in an editor live on a call, or look at an extensive take-home test (anything more than a 15-30 minute task), I’m highly likely to pass for anythi
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by bennyelv 6y ago
...but probably not at any cost. I’d ask them rather than assert it.

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