irvingprime

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by irvingprime 4y ago
I've found that the more rounds of interviews there are or the more people involved, the greater the chances of one person causing the whole deal to go south. I have been in similar situations. Six straight interviewers said to hire me
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by irvingprime 4y ago
Too narcissistic.
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by irvingprime 4y ago
+100
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by irvingprime 4y ago
Our experiences are different. Once, on a job where I was full-time, not an intern, I proposed something new and my boss said, "That's a great idea. Please don't tell anyone. They'll want us to do it." This was not
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by irvingprime 4y ago
1) I never found school to encourage creativity at all. Very much the opposite. YMMV. 2) My job, software engineering, is inherently creative. 3) Outside my immediate role, I have seen creativity discouraged or even punished (though the bos
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by irvingprime 4y ago
Global? In "Rubyland?" No. That's just not true. Not at all.
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by irvingprime 4y ago
Funny. I got my first full time programming job because they really wanted to do a project in Rails but there wasn't anybody else in town who knew anything about it!
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by irvingprime 4y ago
Your comment about "funky syntax" is meaningful. I have found that people from the world of Java and similar c-style syntaxes, and especially strongly typed languages, have a sort of allergic reaction to Ruby. The reverse is also
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by irvingprime 4y ago
Rails does not have to be written as a monolith. Typically, junior programmers who are trying to move very fast do that. Most of the places where I have talked to people who have a monolith are looking for ways to split it into services. If
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by irvingprime 4y ago
Content moderation doesn't need to be hard. Nor does Musk have to solve it all by himself. Twitter has a lot of engineers to work on the problem.
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by irvingprime 4y ago
It was a choice. After talking to Musk, the board decided to take the money and not trigger the poison pill. That's all.
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by irvingprime 4y ago
Actually, he sounds to me like he has an entirely reasonable understanding of twitter. Can you provide specific areas where you think his understanding is deficient?
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by irvingprime 4y ago
Agree with most of what you say except the bizarre point of government being more effective than most companies. That one simply makes no sense. The U.S. government is one of the most ineffective organizations on the planet!
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by irvingprime 4y ago
Thanks for the satire. It's very good. Sounds almost as if you believe it!
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by irvingprime 5y ago
Not everyone is as expert at job hunting as you are.
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by irvingprime 5y ago
Number 4 is an interesting point. Personally, as a hiring manager who works exclusively remote (though my company does have offices) if I thought someone was borderline or even under the line at handling remote work, I would not make them a
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by irvingprime 5y ago
It would be too huge.
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by irvingprime 5y ago
I've also noticed that most Java devs dislike Ruby just as much as I (a ruby dev) dislike Java. But the guy who made this decision had never done development in Ruby, Java, or anything else. He was a former db administrator who went in
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by irvingprime 5y ago
By working from home so I don't have to be around others. It turns out I'm not really that shy. I just don't like spending more than about 3 minutes at a time around most people.
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by irvingprime 5y ago
old = ruby (rails). New = Java.
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by irvingprime 5y ago
Well, it didn't end the company but only because the company was bought and bought again - then killed. The new head of engineering had no experience in software. He developed a dislike for the language the product had originally been
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by irvingprime 5y ago
I used to work support desk. I hate to have to tell you this but it's not just old people who can't handle tech. Stupidity is an epidemic!
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by irvingprime 5y ago
Yes. We should push companies to have better customer service, including the ability to have a human look into things when needed. But don't think of it as a "right." So many humans are stupid, uncaring or incompetent that it
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by irvingprime 5y ago
You have a point. As a hiring manager I pay NO attention to where someone graduated from. I'm more interested in the way they think and I have found no correlation between quality of thought and alleged quality of school.
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by irvingprime 5y ago
You have the option of a "full ride" and you're wondering if it's good enough to take? TAKE THE MONEY. Take the tangible up front benefit over hypothetical benefits that might, or might not, come later. Do not discount t
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by irvingprime 5y ago
No, never. By the way, what three letter agency (which, obviously, I have nothing but respect for) do you work for?
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by irvingprime 5y ago
"Should I give up and get a job?" Yes.
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by irvingprime 5y ago
Yes it's okay to reject a job if you don't like the software they use. It's your life, your decision what you're willing to put up with. End of discussion.
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by irvingprime 5y ago
You want contrarian views? I'll just give you one. I see LOTs of job listings for "full stack developers." I believe this is another way of saying, "We're too cheap to hire a good team. We just want one person who c
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by irvingprime 5y ago
This is not legal advice, which you should have been seeking long before coming to this forum. That aside, were I in your shows, I would not sign. EVER!!!!!!

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