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by fsk 12y ago
It also only works if you can get a lot of employers to go along with it. There isn't much point spending a lot of time on something if it's only going to get you an interview or two (if even that). And if I'm looking for a
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by fsk 12y ago
They can't use binary because some poorly written legacy software will get stuck on the zeroes (nulls), EOF characters, and 128-255 characters.
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by fsk 12y ago
I contributed to StackOverflow a little when it first got started, got frustrated by the heavy-handed censorship (too aggressive about closing question), and then gave up and left. It seems any moderation-based community eventually has that
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by fsk 12y ago
If you have a Bloomberg terminal, you can get more pricing. Also, if you have a source of split-and-dividend-adjusted prices, you don't have to do a daily simulation, you can just simulate on the days when there is a buy or a sell. Als
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by fsk 12y ago
What link? The method you mention is correct. It wasn't clear reading the article that was what she did. I'm looking for the raw list of female CEOs, Tickers, and hire/fire dates. I'm also wondering if the results are
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by fsk 12y ago
The problem with quitting before getting a new job is: There's no guarantee you can find a new job right away, no matter how hot your skills are or how brilliant you are. Also, you have less negotiating leverage when you're unempl
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by fsk 12y ago
My concern is that he didn't calculate internal rate of return (IRR) correctly, and adjust for market conditions when the female CEO was hired/fired. It's hard to tell without verifying the details. For example, suppose a co
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by fsk 12y ago
Get a new job first. Then quit. Downside: You're in a sucky environment for 1-6 months longer. Upside: You have a LOT more negotiating leverage for your next job.
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by fsk 12y ago
But on the flip side, as a programmer, your career can be mostly over at age 35-45. Do doctors have the problem that the stuff they worked on 5-10 years ago is considered obsolete now?
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by fsk 12y ago
I've soured on work-sample tests. I noticed that I don't get an interview, even after I do them (and I used to take them seriously). Not everyone can get an R&D job. Sometimes you have to get a job maintaining CRUD software,
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by fsk 12y ago
Pixa! Available on Android or iOS. I also liked Doug Dug by the same author. Indenture was also nice.
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by fsk 12y ago
But they are the gatekeepers for getting interviews and jobs. What does it say for the industry when most of the people who are evaluating candidates are computer illiterate? That leads to stupid stuff like when someone is hiring for MS SQ
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by fsk 12y ago
When I see one clueless hiring manager or recruiter, I can easily shrug it off and move on. When I see everyone making the exact same bad decision (your experience is worth zero/negative unless it's exactly the tools we need), th
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by fsk 12y ago
I'm writing it as a single-user (for myself only) project. Is there enough interest out there for me to put it up as a project? (That's only a little extra work; I'd just need to add logins and user accounts.) I really miss
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by fsk 12y ago
If you're doing it for fun, why not do a personal side project rather than being paid to work on someone else's idea? I didn't like any of the other RSS readers out there, so I wrote my own, and now I'm using it and liki
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by fsk 12y ago
That is a valid point. If you're so awesome, then why not start your own business and clobber all those people who do stupid stuff like Agile and Scrum? I am slowly working towards this on my own, trying to get a personal side project
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by fsk 12y ago
The problem is that there's 100 new things, and it's hard to tell what's going to last and what's just a fad. Also, once you have a job using X, there isn't much opportunity to get work experience in Y. I've al
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by fsk 12y ago
I've had several recruiters say they'd rather hire a recent college grad than me, even for the same salary, because I didn't have experience in their specific technologies and it'd be easier for the recent grad to learn.
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by fsk 12y ago
I've seen frameworks degenerate into a mess both for outsourcing firm projects, and projects developed internally. You might say "They were using the framework incorrectly!", but if it's too easy to use a framework incor
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by fsk 12y ago
>Students who believe to be 1000x SE because they can stick two APIs together and use bootstrap end-up to be very condescending older engineers. Yeah, I've noticed that younger programmers started talking down to me like my experien
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by fsk 12y ago
The way they were using zend was that they had a bunch of classes derived from the zend classes that implemented the actual application logic. On that project, the outsourcing company had some custom framework they wrote that lived on top o
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by fsk 12y ago
With custom code, there usually is just enough code to solve the specific problem. With a framework, there's also the code that comes with the framework that this project doesn't use. The framework is a super-generalized solutio
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by fsk 12y ago
I haven't seen a single MVC-style framework that I liked. I don't understand how such an awful idea can be so popular. It sucks to be in an industry that chases fads over substance. MVC frameworks I have tried at work: Java&#x2F
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by fsk 12y ago
>It is your duty to read the source code when all else fails. Wait? I have to read the source to use a framework? Which is it? Frameworks are awesome because they are well-documented? Frameworks are awesome because you can read the s
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by fsk 12y ago
Yeah, I was googling carefully. It wasn't just a zend form, they had derived from the zend Form class and added their own custom logic. After a couple days, I couldn't figure it out, either by looking at their code or the zend d
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by fsk 12y ago
Why? If a group of average programmers use a tool incorrectly, is it the worker's fault or the tool's fault? If a group of average people can't use angular correctly, then maybe angular isn't so great.
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by fsk 12y ago
I looked at the zend documentation, and it was basically an auto-generated list of function names. I looked through the specific Form class they were using, and it was useless, just a list of function names with no description of what the
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by fsk 12y ago
My experience with frameworks has been that, once you go outside the stuff that comes with the framework, they start to hold you back more than they help you. It's also a nightmare to go into someone else's poorly written framewor
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by fsk 12y ago
Frameworks seem to be most useful for churning out a lot of mediocre websites quickly. If you're doing something really original, a framework is less useful. Another downside of frameworks is maintenance. A company hires an outsourci
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by fsk 12y ago
The worst part of importing workers via H1-b is the indentured servant aspect. That makes the H1-b employee more attractive than a comparably-qualified American earning the same salary.

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