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by bradenb 8y ago
I found this comment to be really distasteful. Nothing about your "signature" proves you're any smarter than engineers that choose not to work at Facebook. It just makes you appear to be mean-spirited.
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by bradenb 8y ago
> It's because you love your job, you have to pay for that. I don't buy that. I don't think enjoying your job and being paid well need to be mutually exclusive. I think it's in an employer's best interest that th
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by bradenb 8y ago
>> here I am reading yet another email from an Amazon recruiter asking to talk to me about a possible opportunity. Will this horror never end? > This gets the biggest eyeroll I can possibly muster. I get why you're saying that
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by bradenb 8y ago
In the courts, yes, but in an office? EDIT: I should add that I am 100% for eliminating sexual harassment from the workplace (and in life), but unfortunately there's nothing that forces a company to give employees due process. I would
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by bradenb 8y ago
Yes, seriously. How to invalidate is exactly what is being discussed.
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by bradenb 8y ago
I shouldn't give my parents too hard of a time. I had a half-tuition scholarship to the other school. It was also a religious, private school and so there's that aspect as well. They would not have disowned me or been too upset ha
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by bradenb 8y ago
Yes, that's a good point. I should probably be more flexible. I agree with many other that a very small student loan burden to close the gap between scholarships, grants, work, and going to affordable state schools is also totally reas
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by bradenb 8y ago
I honestly had never considered this. Siblings to this comment make good points both ways, but regardless I think it could be a very interesting opportunity for my children to not only obtain an education at a low cost, but to also--and jus
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by bradenb 8y ago
I was discussing student loans and value of a college education with friends the other day. We were discussing whether or not I would recommend college to someone today. My conclusion is that TODAY I would still as long as that person has t
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by bradenb 8y ago
I use an Alienware 15 R3 as my main Windows gaming machine (since I game a lot at various locations) and I don't have any of the issues you describe. Sounds like you got a lemon. Their warranty support is excellent, so you should proba
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by bradenb 8y ago
I wish your comment was closer to the top. I totally agree that if you're avoiding nulls this is the right way to do it. I wouldn't say it's right for everything, but when done correctly it makes for some really clean code.
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by bradenb 8y ago
To be fair, I said "can" use them, not necessarily that I do :) But, I have actually reached out to connections to discuss business opportunities. Since the connections live in the world where I have done business, they are more l
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by bradenb 8y ago
Sure, I guess they put you in contact with them, but why would that person talk to you? If they'll talk to random people on the internet, why not just email them or DM them on Twitter or use any other means beyond LinkedIn? If, however
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by bradenb 8y ago
Recruiters are paying for LinkedIn and can message you whenever they want, why do you need them to be a connection? I take the exact opposite approach and only exclude recruiters. I figure by doing this my network is my legitimate business
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by bradenb 8y ago
I found this really hard to read. At first I tried to read left-to-right, top-to-bottom, but then it felt like the "panels" (or lack thereof) were not lining up. Then I thought "Oh! It must be three columns top-to-bottom&quot
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by bradenb 8y ago
Thanks for the clarification. I get what you're trying saying. The point of confusion for me was how literally you used "20 years of experience" in your career. As you said, it's hard to pass that off literally, but I to
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by bradenb 8y ago
I appreciate what you're trying to say, but you can't just claim to have 20 years of industry experience after starting in that industry 10 years ago, right? Do you put 20 years of experience on your resume?
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by bradenb 8y ago
This is a really interesting read. Thanks. I have found in my own experience that developers tend to include the same people over and over again in their PRs and what ends up happening is people tend to just "trust" what the submi
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by bradenb 8y ago
Thank you for the quote pointed. I will remember that for next time! As to you’re point, I think others have covered it well, but I will add my agreement that communicating in an environment where you are comfortable and familiar with the t
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by bradenb 8y ago
Thank you for the response. I appreciated your take on the situation in the original article and I am glad to hear that you accommodate developers like me that don’t perform well for strangers on the spot. This type of thing really pushes a
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by bradenb 8y ago
VP of Engineering at Eaze, previously CTO at Getable and engineer at Yammer. No, not at all. Whiteboard interviews test one thing well: How well does a candidate code on a whiteboard. Engineers on my team never have to code on a
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by bradenb 8y ago
This is pretty common for Objective-C, I believe.
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by bradenb 8y ago
Verbose compared to what? It doesn't seem overly verbose to me. This isn't some Hello World example, this provides a fully featured real-world example (minus all the Okta fluff).
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by bradenb 8y ago
A few years ago we put my daughter into a new charter school. We were really excited because on the surface it seemed like she would get a much more tailored and personalized education with better facilities and staff. The only problem is t
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by bradenb 8y ago
The idea of a completely read-only router is really interesting. I used to buy hardware that would only work with open firmware -- I used to love to constantly update and mess with DD-WRT. But in more recent years I've just started buy
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by bradenb 8y ago
I'm particularly excited about project references. We have quite a few small web apps that use the client/server/shared structure and the default Angular webpack configuration does not like relative references (i.e. referenci
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by bradenb 8y ago
Most people that care about Typescript are JavaScript developers who desire more structure and safety. It can't do anything that JavaScript itself can't do. The article itself has a great description of the benefits in the first p
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by bradenb 8y ago
I think the stock price is finally catching up to reality and public perception. I've noticed a huge resistance to using Facebook in recent years within my social sphere. Professionally, I'm one of the few that I know that still u
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by bradenb 8y ago
Isn't part of the definition of a laptop that it should be able to be used comfortably resting on the user's lap?
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by bradenb 8y ago
You're right about their incentive, but in this case it's the right thing for the wrong reason. I don't think it makes the article invalid.

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