d0paware

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by d0paware 5y ago
> I'm just shocked at how resistant people are to new technologies and ideas that could make things so much easier > I see how so many things we take as standard in the industry are incredibly slow, overcomplicated and inefficien
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by d0paware 5y ago
The first step is to figure out what's actually causing you to burn out, which sounds easy but is usually a lot trickier because you need to be far away enough from it to see things objectively. I recommend starting a journal and writi
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by d0paware 5y ago
1) Vert.x ( https://github.com/eclipse-vertx/vert.x ) - Reactive framework (think Node.js on steroids) built on top of Netty with awesome HTTP and JDBC support. I use this to build anything that's performance sensit
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by d0paware 5y ago
Sorry - studying for the puzzles / leetcoding to line up a ton of offers. Leaving money on the table is in reference to not studying now.
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Ask HN: Trade-offs of the best teams / places you ever worked for?
4 points by d0paware 5y ago|1 comments
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by d0paware 5y ago
Thank you - I will check this out.
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Ask HN: Bay Area ransomware reversing shop?
3 points by d0paware 5y ago|1 comments
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by d0paware 5y ago
This is a very underrated observation. I've seen teams where all code reviews pass through one or two individuals. The "core developers" become a bottleneck to all changes, even if they offer the best feedback available. The
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by d0paware 6y ago
On the contrary, I think language expertise is underrated and I want new hires to start doing things immediately with minimal support. Also, people with mastery in one language often prioritize figuring out how to do the same things in othe
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by d0paware 6y ago
1) You can anticipate complexity - the what, where, when and why of how it shows up. You are not afraid of it, but... 2) You manage your time well - yours and others'. Figure out when complexity needs to be handled. Respect other peopl
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by d0paware 6y ago
What's the recommended way to drop into blocking code? For example, if you already have a worker thread pool executing some blocking code. I am guessing it will automatically look for static occurrences of park(), wait(), etc anything
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by d0paware 6y ago
> To start out with – sometimes the people asking you questions don’t respect your time, and that sucks. I’m assuming here throughout that that’s not what happening. I'm curious, how do others handle interactions with people who do
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by d0paware 7y ago
I recommend time-boxing how much time candidates will have to spend on your process. People coming from an alternate career path still have to pay their bills through their current job and tend to the same responsibilities as anyone else. A
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by d0paware 7y ago
> The problem with being self taught, at least in my experience, is that you end up being very strong in whatever areas it is that interests you, and whatever areas of CS are relevant to the projects you're working on day-to-day. I
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by d0paware 7y ago
Yeah Peltor earmuffs are about the only thing that have worked for me. And you're right, a salary or fine is never going to work out practically - just wishful thinking on my part :)
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by d0paware 7y ago
Open office plans are wonderful for the micromanager. Everyone's screen is for all to see - and the moment someone happens not to be looking at an IDE, it's an opportunity to ding someone on their performance review. While I perso
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by d0paware 7y ago
I'm not against collaboration, and maybe open offices can be good if they are treated like public libraries. People can go and discuss things in a room somewhere where they won't bother everyone else. The problem is finding someon
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Advice for prospective and new software engineers(hxngsun.blog)
1 points by d0paware 7y ago|0 comments
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by d0paware 7y ago
In any situation that I would use "please" or "could you", I substitute in "what do you think of / about". For example: > "What do you think about changing these variable definitions so they'r
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by d0paware 9y ago
I think probably one of the most valuable things you can do with your junior developers is to set expectations around how to ask good questions. Your goal is to help juniors strike the right balance between spending time figuring something
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by d0paware 9y ago
> But is it less expensive than other methods of interviewing? I'm going to assume you are including the costs of firing people as part of "interviewing" after they have been hired and found to be a bad fit. I'll take
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by d0paware 9y ago
Interesting, have you had success with this approach? I might imagine there could be some stigma associated with this since why waste time if there's no guarantee of full time employment? In California, it is at will employment anyway
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by d0paware 9y ago
Do any of the solutions I've personally suggested or mentioned here in this thread seem reasonable to you though? I was hoping we could at least talk about trade offs or pitfalls of various things people have suggested. I feel like may
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by d0paware 9y ago
> - Not doing any coding opens you up for people who can talk, but not code. I think candidates should definitely code at least fizz buzz or something as a sanity check. It probably shouldn't take more than 10 minutes. > - Proble
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by d0paware 9y ago
Really good points here, especially #3. In the past, we've looked at all the candidates we hired who turned out to be high performers (gets stuff done in a timely manner, writes tests, pushes back against unreasonable deadlines, doesn&
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by d0paware 9y ago
I tried to paste all the content in but it exceeds 2000 characters, I thought providing my experience might help generate more discussion. Does it make more sense to paste the link into the body of the text and just ask the question?
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by d0paware 9y ago
I can move this to pastebin? Is that better?
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Ask HN: Should we change the way we do software interviews? What's stopping us?(hxngsun.wordpress.com)
51 points by d0paware 9y ago|90 comments
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by d0paware 10y ago
I used to think that this was a good way to cope with unhappiness that I experienced. I would tell myself, "At least I'm not starving to death" or, "At least I don't feel like killing myself this morning." I wo