doktrin

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   by doktrin 11y ago

   > I keep reading horror stories about multi-day interviews with "take home tests" and other insanity 2 actual interviews that were offered to me early in my career : 1. The weekend hackathon (which actually ran from Friday unti
2. 722.▲
   by doktrin 11y ago

   You can edit it. It's a weird nitpick, but it actually detracts from the legibility.
3. 723.▲
   by doktrin 11y ago

   There are several reasons younger developers are sometimes valued over older candidates. Work life balance is part of it, but there are other factors at play. This is a pretty well trodden topic, and you can find a lot of the typical discus
4. 724.▲
   by doktrin 11y ago

   > It doesn't sound like you're describing a world in which someone with 10+ years of solid experience with techs is going to be struggling to find a job, right? Overqualification (or the perception thereof) happens. The develop
5. 725.▲
   by doktrin 11y ago

   OP : that was jarring, and I feel for you. I'm sure others in this thread have already offered much more salient and actionable advice than I can, but I do hope you find a resolution to your unpleasant situation.
6. 726.▲
   by doktrin 11y ago

   > How do you know that 40-50% of places are rejecting you because of your lack of degree? Do they say this outright in their rejection emails? How many positions have you applied for that itemized the reasons for rejection? I've had
7. 727.▲
   by doktrin 11y ago

   This is something being glossed over by most of the responses. Age discrimination (or rather, age preconception, if that's a less loaded term) is frighteningly real.
8. 728.▲
   by doktrin 11y ago

   Compelling writing. Well done, New Yorker.
9. 729.▲
   by doktrin 11y ago

   I support your decision. Disabling a vehicle in uncontrolled conditions on a freeway is reckless, plain and simple.
10. 730.▲
    by doktrin 11y ago

    > I think this is a recklessly, negligently written abuse of "Ask HN". I flagged it, and I'd ask that others join me. Thank you. Agreed. It's a thinly veiled, unsubstantiated, accusation shamelessly masked as a questi
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    by doktrin 11y ago

    > the tech community has already legitimized social shaming as a method for getting people out of jobs cf. Brendan Eich We shouldn't treat dumb shit like that as any kind of binding precedent. Just because the "tech community&q
12. 732.▲
    by doktrin 11y ago

    Are you really implying that people are refraining from commenting out of fear they're being monitored?
13. 733.▲
    by doktrin 11y ago

    Well, glad I'm not the only one.
14. 734.▲
    by doktrin 11y ago

    As if reddit actually kicks out racists.
15. 735.▲
    by doktrin 11y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_default
16. 736.▲
    by doktrin 11y ago

    I don't have any actionable advice, but I do recommend you get it sorted out if at all possible. I'm a former programmer who now works as a janitor, and I have no plans on ever returning to tech.
17. 737.▲
    by doktrin 11y ago

    This may be the most entertaining thread I've ever seen on HN.
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    by doktrin 12y ago

    oh man your screen name. the b5 is strong in this one ;)
19. 739.▲
    by doktrin 12y ago

    "I will not be there to help you when you pollute the global namespace"
20. 740.▲
    by doktrin 12y ago

    > What? No. That's not how the Vorlons worked at all. Maybe OP has only watched through season 3
21. 741.▲
    by doktrin 12y ago

    are you responding to the right poster?
22. 742.▲
    by doktrin 12y ago

    yay. another yardstick I can use to demonstrate my own ineptitude. solid level 1.5 of fail here.
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    by doktrin 12y ago

    I feel like everyone obsesses over google's hiring practices. I hesitate to be negative over this, but I am so incredibly tired of it. To my mind there's no point to any of this. Just about everyone reading these articles will nev
24. 744.▲
    by doktrin 12y ago

    lol, I was speaking in the abstract. I'm actually a huge fan of BB, and generally find the difficulty in NG to be on the easy side.
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    by doktrin 12y ago

    This deserves to be a visible comment. The arch documentation is pretty phenomenal, and may be some of the best distro-specific documentation I've ever come across. That said, I've just moved back to mint after about a year with a
26. 746.▲
    by doktrin 12y ago

    > No, he's describing how a fundamental game mechanic (namely the way the series handles saves and respawns) was misunderstood by him to require him to "pointlessly repeat large chunks of levels" to get back to the area B
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    by doktrin 12y ago

    Thanks for sharing that. It's one of the more interesting DS vids I've seen. However, and this is subjective, it still looks clunky and slow. I also don't care for the aesthetics. From what I've seen of Bloodborne play,
28. 748.▲
    by doktrin 12y ago

    He's describing a fundamental game mechanic, namely the way the series handles saves and respawns. But by all means, keep the downvotes coming. It really just proves my point.
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    by doktrin 12y ago

    I've noticed a lot of fans of these games are defensive about them to the point of being weirdly hostile to anyone who dares express criticism. Chill. You can explain the mechanics without turning everything into a weird "your fau
30. 750.▲
    by doktrin 12y ago

    > I'd love a couple of my cosmic-horror-loving friends to play it, but it is fucking hard. I'm not sure they'd make it to the first boss, to say nothing of past it and the next however many there are. > outside of Dark