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by ergothus 8y ago
> We all get rejected from dozens of interviews. Which we know because of what? Sites like this let people know exactly that! > Did anybody ever think it wasn't like this? The common narrative is that if you work hard your effor
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by ergothus 8y ago
I have Google routinely deciding that I didn't mean to use ALL three words I searched for and "helpfully" dropping them. Sure, I can tell it "no, I really want those", but the experience is definitely becoming more
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by ergothus 8y ago
I heard this decades ago, and heard that practices were changing, albeit with problems where people have towns/homes up against forest. I even think I recall a big fire a few years ago that was a controlled burn that broke free. Is th
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by ergothus 8y ago
I have a large interest in the interviewing process, have conducted interviews for 6+ years, and agree with 4 of the 5 items listed. (The 5th, about rambling to fill dead time, is a valid concern but my experience is that the opposite prob
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by ergothus 8y ago
> It's not clear to me what the existence of the occasional XXY individual, etc., has to do with the idea that gender is just a social construct. It doesn't, but it does have to do (potentially) with the argument. One side say
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by ergothus 8y ago
Agreed. I use qualifiers far too often. It's good to be open to being wrong, good to not convey over-confidence, but when you are the one operating outside the social norm it dilutes whatever point you were making. I am trying to get
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by ergothus 8y ago
"What data would make me change my mind?" For routine things this is a trivial question, but more often than I care to admit I'll discover I don't have an answer. Coming up with the answer doesn't mean my thought i
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by ergothus 8y ago
> will dump their logic wherever it works with as little structure as it allows. It's a technical debt catalyser, and will make sure nobody feels at home in someone else's code. The community will pay the price in a year. I don
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by ergothus 8y ago
> + minimal styling I suspect that may be the primary reason, not JS. When you start juggling details that impact a cell, that in turn impacts all the rest of the table, so you can add up with an additive impact based on the number of c
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by ergothus 8y ago
I apparently failed to make this clear - it's not GraphQL that causes that, but the libraries to use it on the front end (e.g. Apollo). These allow for front end logic, but it does NOT read as a simple case - you appear to be swimming
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by ergothus 8y ago
> GraphQL can work with GET So I've heard, which is why I chose my wording carefully. Does anyone actually do that?
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by ergothus 8y ago
I haven't yet had much luck in finding a GraphQL review that addresses my general concerns (I'm frontend). 1) GraphQL almost always means everything is POST, removing CDN and browser caching of GET-like requests is gone (and Servi
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by ergothus 8y ago
I found their docs to be quite good, but I teach the topic and students vary in their responses, so I think it comes down to your approach and previous experience. React is best to approach the same way you approach functions: You want to
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by ergothus 8y ago
FWIW, I too am pro-union but have also seen issues at the K-12 level. Some are even well intentioned. Example: schools would cut their more senior teachers to save money (because they had the highest salaries). So the unions made contrac
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by ergothus 8y ago
> If a teacher grades a student poorly, there can be repercussions. Yes, but the above poster was talking about TEACHING poorly. It is easy enough to expect students to know things at the end of class, but harder to be of use in them le
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by ergothus 8y ago
Are there any good sources for the layperson? Coincidentally I was searching for average on-person items in different eras today and found little of any use at all (though the dumbing down of search results may be more to blame than lack o
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by ergothus 8y ago
Why not? I staunchly believe that race and gender are not indicators of value, capability, or personality...but my subconscious acts on biases it has learned over decades from everyone around me, and it will take more than rational thought
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by ergothus 8y ago
> I'm interested to hear your thoughts on that? My thoughts are definitely too complex. Currently I'm thinking of a camera that will turn on a light and take a picture (at a specified time || when door closes) and send that to
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by ergothus 8y ago
The problem is that everyone is trying to push everything to one side. That's just not stable. Yes, the maintainer SHOULD (but doesn't have to) make a hand-off explicit at a minimum. Yes, people should take responsibility for e
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by ergothus 8y ago
I'm unclear on why this is a questionable usage. My wife keeps chickens, and going out morning and night to open the doors is...certainly not hard, but inconvenient (particularly the night one, as you often remember AFTER you've
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by ergothus 8y ago
> again IMO, demonstrate that the author never really understood OOP. I find arguments like this (legitimately fascinating). Obviously an amount of investment into learning common concepts is required. At the same time, if a topic i
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by ergothus 8y ago
How do you estimate the "consumption" of clean water and air? How much of the non extraction economy relies on the extraction happening? I cant imagine how to estimate those numbers, but I do imagine they'd be significant.
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by ergothus 8y ago
I see a lot of people talking about how the site sells stuff well, but nothing about how well it gets you what you want. Ignore for the moment the counterfeit issues, because those are not a "site" problem. I still routinely fail
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by ergothus 8y ago
> I'm not sure why companies over-list. My theory falls apart outside of the tech industry, but I'll list it here anyway: Manager: We want to hire a good programmer HR: Sure - What decides that Manager: uh.... HR: Do they need
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I'll trust your memories over mine, particularly as you've studied this and I had dinner-table conversations.
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by ergothus 8y ago
Liability law is at least consistent, even if I end up disagreeing with the result. When my (now ex-) wife was in law school, one if the sample cards they studied was an arsonist where the fire had met up with an unrelated one. The arsoni
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by ergothus 8y ago
More that people will form the wrong conclusion - vegetables are naturally prone to e. coli - because they didn't point out that thus had to come from an outside source. No need to speculate if we've not nailed which source, but w
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by ergothus 8y ago
That doesnt match the training, approach, nor skillset of the lawyers I know. They advise on legal matters, the client decides based on the sum total. Lawyers would explicitly avoid confusing legal opinions and business ones. Then again,
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by ergothus 8y ago
While I think your points are valid, in my experience many people are more comfortable communicating face-to-face. They've had decades of practice at it. They will talk about "body language" and fail to recognize how often s
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by ergothus 8y ago
And yet, googles previous public comments on the topic are somewhat the reverse - all their interview question except for questions on previous work/experiences were not correlated with "success". Scare quotes used because kn

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