codr7

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781.
by codr7 2y ago
There is this thing called culture, don't know if you heard about it.
782.
by codr7 2y ago
My main takeaway was multi-methods, they didn't really click for me before I started seriously digging into CLOS. I wish more languages supported them/played around with similar ideas.
783.
by codr7 2y ago
Not really, except having a lot of experience on board from the start. Which will also naturally attract more of the same.
784.
by codr7 2y ago
Isn't that more, like, your opinion?
785.
by codr7 2y ago
I'm pretty sure they're paying for it though.
786.
by codr7 2y ago
Reminds me of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea :)
787.
by codr7 2y ago
Where's the proof that humans of opposite sex are intrinsically attracted to each other? I can't see it.
788.
by codr7 2y ago
I don't follow, what has that got to do with Rails?
789.
by codr7 2y ago
Russia? We have always been at war with Eur(asia)/ope.
790.
by codr7 2y ago
What if the best candidates have already been filtered out by then?
791.
by codr7 2y ago
How could they? They don't have the required information. Why should they? That's pretty much our responsibility.
792.
by codr7 2y ago
Haven't written much Go the last year and a half... Mostly novel limitations that I'm not used to from C++. Instantiating generic parameter types is one thing I couldn't figure out at some point, but that's pretty much u
793.
by codr7 2y ago
Who said anything about relocation? That has to be a tiny percentage of hires.
794.
by codr7 2y ago
I personally think outsourcing hiring is the worst idea ever, and completely lose confidence in companies that do.
795.
by codr7 2y ago
My first startup did one interview per person and then a trial period, all good.
796.
by codr7 2y ago
You seem stuck on the idea that you need to verify an employee to hell and back before investing anything, that's not what I mean by committing. If they look like they might be a reasonable fit, give them a month to prove it, then you&
797.
by codr7 2y ago
I'm fully convinced the way to make better hires is to invest more, which will be more expensive. Which wouldn't be a problem unless we expected something else. It starts with quitting pretending the current process is working, or
798.
by codr7 2y ago
Yeah, you would need to change your expectations, I figured that much was obvious.
799.
by codr7 2y ago
You're comparing an LLM to a compiler, which doesn't make much sense to me. If my compiler occasionally output the recipe for vegan pancakes instead of working code I would definitely think differently of it.
800.
by codr7 2y ago
You would have to stop optimizing people to hell and back and start committing to a few at a time. Sounds like a really good idea to me.
801.
by codr7 2y ago
Are you including the time you spend fighting the model?
802.
by codr7 2y ago
You had someone check your work? That's awesome! Never happened so far in my 26 year career. It' almost as if they're hiring for something else than solving problems and writing code. Following orders, most likely.
803.
by codr7 2y ago
So instead of being creative and finding ways to avoid duplication, you look for a way to make copies faster. That's one way to solve the problem. Not the way I'm looking for when hiring.
804.
by codr7 2y ago
So, accept the overhead as the cost of hiring the right people?
805.
by codr7 2y ago
I'm not talking about being watched closely, I'm talking about regular work and then making a decision. You have to leave people space to do their thing if you want to see what they're capable of.
806.
by codr7 2y ago
Even better :) I have yet to come across an interviewer who has a clue about anything that interests me.
807.
by codr7 2y ago
Employers trying to hire for fit and culture has resulted in the most inhumane and counterproductive processes I've witnessed. If that's what you really want to do, let the person work for at least a month in the team.
808.
by codr7 2y ago
You're right, premature optimization is exactly what it is.
809.
by codr7 2y ago
Define successfully, I'm pretty sure they could have been a lot more successful by giving hiring the attention it deserves.
810.
by codr7 2y ago
The only way to test actual work is to do actual work, should be obvious but here we are.

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