cerrelio

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by cerrelio 10y ago
Usually. There were a lot of lifers there. I left the company about a decade ago and I'd say about 80% of the people I worked with are still there. However, my particular skill set is very adaptable and I found better pay elsewhere.
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by cerrelio 10y ago
I would say "a social media site", because they had a few properties that weren't adult content. After I left, I contracted normal gigs for a bit to put some distance between me and the company. However, I was never asked i
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by cerrelio 10y ago
You're right. Porn sites in general are poorly designed from the UI side. But the fact is, porn users will go through hoops to find what they want. Eventually the porn companies got into analytics (I'd say in the mid- to late-
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by cerrelio 10y ago
Well, they actually did have (veiled) connections to various mafias. They had associates who just hung out all day in strip clubs and solicited girls (with the consent of the owners). Where do you think all those eastern European and Lati
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by cerrelio 10y ago
I worked for a porn company for 2 years. I can say that the engineers and ad people there are probably some of the best I've worked with in my career. The company I worked for several years ago was eventually acquired by MindGeek (fo
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by cerrelio 10y ago
For his major work "Either/Or" it can seem this way. If you understand his thesis that conscious life is a series of choices. Choice of action is what creates an individual. You choose how you live and exist. He wrote &
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by cerrelio 10y ago
Then your senior rung is probably unpromotable and will become useless; you're just paying a premium on entry level skills. Architects don't code; they care about broader, higher level things. So it's natural that seniors m
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by cerrelio 10y ago
Hiring someone with that much (or even half that much) experience shouldn't include a coding exercise. If it does, the results should contribute ~5%-10% weight to the final decision. Seniors'/leads' skills diverge from
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by cerrelio 10y ago
I don't disagree. But scope is something that's easily taught. And the term "maintainability" is subjective. Your team decides what's maintainable. So showing someone the door because they aren't aware of y
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by cerrelio 10y ago
You can. Global variables work like any other type of variable. If you don't like that style, that's a matter of opinion. Some people don't like Hemingway's terseness, and others don't like Faulkner's run-on
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by cerrelio 10y ago
The point is that using "vocabulary" tests to determine programming ability is nonsense. You can still write useful JS without knowing what the hell "var" does. And if you discovered that person doesn't know what i
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by cerrelio 10y ago
I don't know either. It's something with scope probably. However, disqualifying someone who doesn't know a concept that can be explained in 30 seconds is short-sighted. Here's an analogy for that: You can drive a car,
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by cerrelio 10y ago
I would go on an interview like this. You actually see the candidate in their role, and not just their mundane ability to vomit up a BFS implementation or some such. You see their interpersonal skills (must have) and their ability to get o
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by cerrelio 10y ago
He probably would have been a good employee. He doesn't put up with bullshit. If you've been doing development (especially at larger companies) for years, you understand that coding is the least important part. That's the
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by cerrelio 10y ago
Google contacts me every three months. I keep turning them down, because in addition to their coding tests, they require days of interviews. I'm a working professional. I don't want to take days off to go through a useless proc
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by cerrelio 10y ago
Yup. Not worth my time.
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by cerrelio 10y ago
No, for development positions. If a recruiter can't weed out posers before a manager/developer talks to them, that recruiter should be dehired. To get jobs at my current and previous company, I just talked to the lead developer f
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by cerrelio 10y ago
I'd like to know too. I'm a senior dev with 10+ years of experience. I don't do interviews that require a coding portion. It's a little insulting to me. I know what a binary search tree is. I've never written on
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by cerrelio 10y ago
None of the article's points is relevant. 1. Function keys were a convenience. You can map ESC to other physical keys. 2. 16GB RAM and processor are fine, if you're still able to fit your processing in that configuration. Otherwi
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by cerrelio 10y ago
Either/or. Just care enough to be good at anything at all. Additionally, be good at something that doesn't involve work skills. Work isn't everything.
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by cerrelio 10y ago
I find #3 to be the truest malpractice. I'm getting to the point of becoming an architect at my current company. However, I don't even want the role. Our current team manager hasn't participated in software development in
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by cerrelio 10y ago
My experience is pretty similar to the author's. The number of distractions that exist in my life have been pretty constant since I started using dial-up BBSes in the early 90s. I could chat with friends instantly, download games&#x2
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by cerrelio 10y ago
P = precision R = recall F = F-score F-score is just the harmonic mean of precision and recall. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_and_recall The paper isn't that extraordinary. Sarcasm detection is considere
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by cerrelio 10y ago
Maybe they can pair up with Elsevier to charge outrageous subscription fees for access to the data to help it become profitable.
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by cerrelio 10y ago
"Not everyone's cut out for or enjoys management or running a business." That type of thinking will do you in. If you can take technical resources and produce a functioning system, then you're cut out for management. T
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by cerrelio 10y ago
My view on this is that the people I work with are colleagues and not family. I don't consider coworkers friends. I'm friendly with them, but not friends. We're at work to mutually put money in each other's pockets, n
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by cerrelio 10y ago
I'm 38, and I now find myself being coaxed into management. I was away from the Valley for about a decade and returned 4 years ago. My career has basically continued from where I left it despite not knowing most of the hot technologi
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by cerrelio 10y ago
I understand completely. You have to find the place whose politics interest you as much as the work. That's very difficult (pretty much impossible) to gauge during an interview. You really need someone on the inside to give a comple
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by cerrelio 10y ago
This is what I deal with at my current position. There's a lead engineer who is working in a domain he has no knowledge of. The system being built, while having a somewhat sound, if not outdated, conceptual foundation, has not produc
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by cerrelio 10y ago
I dislike that passive-aggressive dynamic of converting the second type of thinking/feedback to the first. And that dynamic generally has a name: "politics". I've been on teams where I had to use rhetoric to convince a

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