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by geebee 10y ago
Agreed! There's merit to the perspective here, but it speaks mainly to developers who are 1) very good at picking up a new framework and getting it to work, and 2) largely in a position to make their own technology choices. I've
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by geebee 10y ago
This is interesting. I do think there can be a problem around the concept of "competent" vs "average". For instance, consider a poll like this: On a scale of 1-10, where 1 is inexperienced, 2 is competent, 3 is above av
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by geebee 10y ago
I've discussed this with a lot of people. Why do you feel the "shortage" isn't a rational response to wages and working conditions? Do you think none of the US citizens who became nurse anesthetists, physicians, or lawy
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by geebee 10y ago
What do you mean by "high" wages? Would you post your region, along with the BLS salary for a software developer, a physician, lawyer, nurse practitioner, and dentist? For dallas, here are the numbers: http://www.bls.g
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by geebee 10y ago
That's interesting. I'm in California, so not sure if this is an option. I agree that this might burn bridges, so obviously that's something I'd need to reconsider. It also speaks volumes about the problems around tech
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by geebee 10y ago
I interviewed with google, once. I enjoyed the process more than most here, though in some ways, that really just shows how badly I've been treated in other interviews. It's not really an interview. This is the hardest thing for
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by geebee 10y ago
The Sony thing was a bit jarring. I suppose I wouldn't expect people who hang out on a site called "hacker news" to agree that Sony, Target, and Yahoo set the gold standard for software development ;) I do think the underlyi
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No, Lawyers Should Not Learn to Code(lawyerist.com)
14 points by geebee 10y ago|4 comments
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by geebee 10y ago
We're discussing this a lot on HN these days, and I feel like a bit of a broken record... so I'll summarize quickly: who decides who gets to be a software engineer and who doesn't? I personally consider software to be far fro
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by geebee 10y ago
This is interesting. One possibility, though, is that there are fewer career choices if you don't currently hold US or EU citizenship. India's domestic market and opportunities are growing, but the monetary value of an education
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by geebee 10y ago
I'm pretty scared about how this would happen. My ideal would be something like the actuarial exams. You start with exams on math, calculus, linear algebra, DEs, probability theory, numerical analysis, and so forth. Eventually it move
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by geebee 10y ago
Child care in SF, if you really need the full time kind that allows you to work full time (but not overtime) is going to run you about $2,500 a month. Two kids, you are looking at like $60k a year in childcare. If you have a family on an
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by geebee 10y ago
Very interesting, I read a bit about it. Up to now, I was mainly watching systems like volt. A bit too cutting edge for me right now, but I love what they're doing. I'm hesitant to make tech predictions, since what usually happ
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by geebee 10y ago
Great write up. It sounds like an interesting but probably relatively common situation these - relatively experienced developers, but inexperienced where it comes to the front end, who are accustomed to working in a non-javascript language.
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by geebee 10y ago
"This is why Software Engineering as a profession should be regulated and licensed just like other engineering fields" I may agree, reluctantly, with the first half of this sentence, but I don't agree with the second half. Wh
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by geebee 10y ago
Id agree, but add my own plea: please dont write an spa if you dont need one. Yes I left that a bit ambiguous, but it is harder to manage and work witha rails and ember app than a reg'lear ol rails app. Thats cool if are genuinely gett
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by geebee 10y ago
This is a big question on everyone's mind right now. "What stack should I use" is always a big question, but sometimes web development goes through a particularly notable state of uncertainty. Although there are a lot of dif
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by geebee 10y ago
I'm not sure I agree. The United States takes well over a million immigrants a year into the country as free participants in the labor market, with the right to choose a career path not dictated to them by the terms of their visa or a
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by geebee 10y ago
I hear a lot of solutions, but they're all downstream of a core problem. Any "immigration" visa that denies immigrants the right to choose where they live, what profession or trade they enter, and what employers (if any) the
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by geebee 10y ago
Thanks for your reply. Your instincts are good here - one cited problem was indeed the departure from standard conventions. I had my reasons, not saying they were good ones, but I didn't get a chance to explain them either. I'd l
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by geebee 10y ago
I'm coming late to this. I've been through two take-home projects. Both of them resulted in a no-hire, and each has refined what I'm willing to do and what I'm not willing to do. The first one was a pretty egregious ex
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by geebee 10y ago
I did see some data on US News Best Jobs on salaries for various positions. It's a roundup of BLS data, and provides data based on location. I find the data a whisker suspicious, but this is BLS data. Supposedly, the media salary for
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by geebee 10y ago
Are you a software developer? Or some other kind of professional in the bay area? Salaries are pretty high here. If you're a developer, it wouldn't take much for you and your wife to clear 200k. I'm only barely above that
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by geebee 10y ago
Agreed - my point is that I would be rejected from a job in the morning for an inability to write code that I'd be able to write by that afternoon. They aren't testing whether you can look it up and do it, they're testing whe
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by geebee 10y ago
"I could too just have requested citation from the parent comment and be done" Been done with what? Yes, I know, sometimes people say "citation please" as a way of refuting without reasoning, but other times, people are
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by geebee 10y ago
Well, here's the thing - I've been on a lot of interviews, and the majority of them wouldn't be satisfied with the answers you'd be satisfied with. If interviewers were the way you've described, I don't think
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by geebee 10y ago
These are fair points about the general lack of male birth control availability. Keep in mind, only 20 of 320 dropped out of this study. That means almost 94% of the participants complete it. The percentage who dropped out due to mood sw
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by geebee 10y ago
The problem is, the headline may itself be part of the story. "Male Birth Control Study Killed After Men Complain About Side Effects". I expected better from NPR. At least Cosmo (which also editorialized the headline), made an ef
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by geebee 10y ago
I had to write my own tree traversal once. If I didn't know about trees, I wouldn't have had the basic context to do this. But I did have to spend a few hours looking up and refreshing my knowledge of tree traversal. If I'd
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by geebee 10y ago
Interesting, but your case may really get at what may go wrong with the algorithm exam approach to interviewing. I would expect a developer with a good understanding of fundamentals to see the difference in using a hash vs an array, and I

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