dynamicdispatch

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by dynamicdispatch 10y ago
I'm probably going to be in the minority here, but I find something very cliquish about the Recurse Center and the many high profile alums. At the end of the day, they seem like a fancy placement agency who happened to get some good de
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Ask HN: What does your deploy pipeline look like?
4 points by dynamicdispatch 11y ago|0 comments
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by dynamicdispatch 11y ago
I've had to read the source of boto since there were some boto exceptions I was seeing in stack traces in the fabric deploy process - and ugh, I found the code to be not very intuitive and the documentation poor. Anyone else run into t
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by dynamicdispatch 11y ago
1)Highscalability http://highscalability.com 2)BraveNewGeek - http://bravenewgeek.com 3)Antirez(redis) - http://antirez.com/latest/0 4)Aphyr - https://aphyr.com 5)GitHub's Engin
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by dynamicdispatch 11y ago
Hear, hear. Terrible management and/or micromanagement is one of the key reasons a dev can lose motivation. It also doesn't do anyone's morale/motivation any favors to see colleagues get fired. If a manager has had to fi
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by dynamicdispatch 11y ago
It's also interesting to note that the company itself has grown from 13-55 people within that year. You'd imagine they'd have someone with a bit more experience managing the team (unless it's a team where the median age
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by dynamicdispatch 11y ago
Depends on the company you're interviewing with. But here's a description of how companies who insist on culture fit evaluate candidates. Generally an onsite interview comprises of a series (minimum 2, may go up to 4) of technical
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by dynamicdispatch 11y ago
But do companies explicitly say that, though? From my experience working at a YC startup, the company just used to send out a canned rejection email, irrespective of whether the candidate was rejected because of a bad interview or because s
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by dynamicdispatch 11y ago
I recently interviewed at a company where I did the onsite tech interview one day, was then told I passed that and had to do a culture fit interview the next week. I did that, mainly with non-technical folk, and then got a standard rejectio
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by dynamicdispatch 11y ago
Ugh, this is acceptable, I guess, provided the company is willing to pay an hourly wage. I'm currently in the process of looking for a new gig, and there's nothing worse than being sent a coding challenge that should take about &#