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by dakiol 2y ago
They would be a bad fit for a few software engineering jobs. I don’t deny that those concepts are fundamental, but the vast majority of software engineering jobs out there are about: designing apis, calling apis, writing sql queries, fixing
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by dakiol 2y ago
I read the same book and got the exact same conclusion. Then I read The UNIX—Haters Handbook and thought that Unix tools (like awk) are sadly not good enough anymore.
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by dakiol 2y ago
The thing is when I’m the interviewer I’m not looking for coders. I’m looking for people who can understand the business, find a solution that is business oriented and produce (if needed) good enough code (we are not Google). So, if you can
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by dakiol 2y ago
Fair point. I don’t like resumes in which people state that they know X or Y. I prefer the ones focused on what problems were resolved using what technologies. I have used Python to solve average business problems, yet I cannot produce non
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by dakiol 2y ago
Unless you are one of the top 1% tech companies out there, what you said doesn’t really compute. All tech companies out there think they need to produce the “best bread” therefore they need the best bakers. It’s not realistic, but hey if in
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by dakiol 2y ago
I think there’s another group: people who can come up with solid code by using search tools. I code, sure, but I will never come up with a custom solution for any non trivial problem. I know where to find appropriate solutions (the best one
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by dakiol 2y ago
> Some don’t even know the syntax of the language of their choice. I still struggle with this. I don’t find it a blocker, though. The bottleneck is usually to understand and parse business requirements. If you know about good code practi
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by dakiol 2y ago
I’m divided. I can do what you ask, but not without googling it. I can produce performant and robust code, but not without double checking on google. I’m unable to deliver code that compiles in any language without checking the documentatio
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by dakiol 2y ago
Would you consider inverting a binary tree a basic question? Some may, but many developers have never inverted a binary tree in decades (because it’s something that doesn’t pop up in a normal job). Just because it’s such a classic topic in
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by dakiol 2y ago
I don’t keep up. When someone asks why some memory corruption happened, I can participate. When we are dealing with performance issues, I raise my hand. OOM? I can take a look. Slow SQL queries? I’m your guy. An issue with React hooks? I do
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by dakiol 2y ago
I work as software engineer. I usually do the following: - get a short list of representative people who work for the company i’m applying for. This usually means: a few engineers and a few managers, linkedin profiles (and if available thei
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by dakiol 2y ago
Depends. If the number points to a very well written ticket, that’s fine. We work with Jira and Github and all the bugs/features are explained in Jira tickets. I’m not staying long enough in this company to see them changing from Jira
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by dakiol 2y ago
I’ve seen so many times this 2D representation of the solar system and I felt somehow shocked when I saw a Youtube video supposedly showing how the planets actually orbit around the sun, and how the sun orbits the center of our galaxy. Basi
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by dakiol 2y ago
Aren’t we paid the big money precisely to handle Big Balls of Mud? If everything were pristine, easy to read, easy to extend, etc., then anyone could do it, for a cheap price.
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by dakiol 2y ago
Am I the only one who is always tired in the plane no matter what and cannot anything but close my eyes and wait til the flight is over? The idea of pulling out my laptop or even a book is just… tiring. There’s a lot of noise as well (airbu
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by dakiol 2y ago
> Reverse a linked list I don’t think I can do that without a browser. I can write pseudocode to do it without problem, but in general, writing code that compiles without the help of Google (documentation, manuals) is something I don’t u
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by dakiol 2y ago
It’s tricky to notice the difference sometimes. I like programming and read all the tech books out there plus I spent time on pet projects. At work I just do my work as a professional but always keeping a distance and not getting too involv
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by dakiol 2y ago
Why should one block merging code? The idea of someone spending hours working on some code changes being blocked by another individual that doesn’t allocate time for reviewing is alien to me. We are all professionals, let people merge their
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by dakiol 2y ago
The only thing I don’t like about code reviews are nitpick comments. Everyone has their own subjective way of writing code, if my code works and looks good enough, let it be.
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by dakiol 2y ago
24 working hours or normal hours? If the latter, I wouldn’t recommend doing it. Tired of companies taking advantage of free labour.
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by dakiol 2y ago
I would even go further and say: why store the pictures in the cloud at all? Keep them local always (with backups). If you want to share photos with others, send them explicitly (via email or chat). Many advantages: - access is forbidden by
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by dakiol 2y ago
Would be nice to hear how the first step looks like as well. For instance, what comes after opening a new AWS account: what’s managed via code and what via the web UI, etc.
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by dakiol 2y ago
For every Bob in your example, there hundred of thousands who work in a totally different level: for instance myself. For the rest of us, the market looks good, still improving (regardless of the layoffs) and salaries and perks are better t
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by dakiol 2y ago
That has been always the case, though. But in the context of Europe, salaries for software engineers have definitely improved. 10 years ago 6 figure salaries where unheard of, while nowadays it’s possible
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by dakiol 2y ago
There’s a difference between remote work within a country (the one everyone is in favour of) versus remote work worldwide (or at least to some range of time zones). The former doesn’t require anything extra regarding legal stuff, while the
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by dakiol 2y ago
The problem with SQL is not SQL itself, but how it integrates with modern programming languages. It’s the gap that it’s painful. My SELECT query is very elegant, but if it takes tons of custom code or even a library to transform the resulti
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by dakiol 2y ago
That’s not how it works. There are already some laws that don’t allow owners to do certain things in/with their property (for example, you cannot just convert your flat into a disco for obvious reasons).
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by dakiol 2y ago
I may be missing something (perhaps OP doesn't have windows?) but I open my windows in all the rooms a couple of times per day (in the morning and usually in the afternoon-evening). Isn't that enough?
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by dakiol 2y ago
I wish they could have explained the deployment/release part via ci/cd more in depth.
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I do sharpen my skills every day at work. Sometimes the skills I sharp are used at work, sometimes they are not (but they are still relevant to my career and so relevant to any software-related job) How else are we going to keep ourselves s

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