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by jboy55 8y ago
Completely scary, what a massive security breach just casually thought of as a digital challenge.
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by jboy55 8y ago
I wonder if twenty years from now, someone will be archiving one of the big email providers. "In the early 21st century, there existed large cloud 'email' organizations. Here I found a trove of 'hard disks' images f
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by jboy55 8y ago
All sounds great when you interview for 1 position at a time, but how does this scale if I interview for 4-5 companies in my job search? Considering every take home probably also has a full day interview afterwards, that's a lot of tim
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by jboy55 8y ago
I'd say in the list of companies, probably 2% of the 'take home projects' describe that. A one hour question is most of the time the phone screen or the replacement of it with an automated online exam.
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by jboy55 8y ago
>And whiteboard interviews are discriminatory towards people with anxiety who have trouble thinking clearly when they are in the spotlight with all eyes on them, no? Where does the microaggressions game start and end? So Gender/Age&
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by jboy55 8y ago
If 'Work Hours' require someone to be oncall 24/7, you can ask that as part of your interview, but you can't infer that from other factors. Yes: "Our job requires you to be on-call 24/7, one week a month, can y
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by jboy55 8y ago
A take home test rarely means there is no in person interview. You will still get 'soft' questions from managers, product managers etc for half a day.
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by jboy55 8y ago
I've used similar online coding challenges, even proctored ones. I've had very mixed results, and the challengers are typically nearly identical to ones put on whiteboards. They are often used instead of phone screens.
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by jboy55 8y ago
You would of course, you can do the exact same questions on a whiteboard with a shared computer. In my experience of doing either, some people are better at one or the other, but the challenge is essentially the same.
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by jboy55 8y ago
The whole bent against white board questions is that they are unrealistic as to actual working conditions and thus are artificial. So if you are a successful engineer, using your work time efficiently, and yet, you have family obligations t
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by jboy55 8y ago
When I do whiteboard questions, its never to see someone regurgitate a common question. Its just nice to see someone solve a problem and what their thought patterns are. CS is pretty much an art, would you hire a violinist without hearing t
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by jboy55 8y ago
Its interesting how many of these companies have 'take home' challenges or projects. Even though the companies may say, "This should only take an hour", 99% of the time, it occupies my entire night/weekend, if not i
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by jboy55 8y ago
Not to just jump in with a +1. I think the 'starting point' of the double slit experiment in explaining quantum physics to be a bit of a problem for me. It is grounded in real-world analogies and it seems more an example only used
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by jboy55 8y ago
>If a snobbish, but highly talented employee builds toolkits/engines double or triple the production of the average employee That person is not 'toxic' because the qualifier is that they have trained their coworkers on the
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by jboy55 8y ago
Most of these tools like Archie and Veronica seemed like magical services when I started cruzing the internet. I recently learned that Archie when it started was nothing more than a collection of `ls -lR`s of various ftp servers that would
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by jboy55 8y ago
I did a hackday project where I wrote a script that converted our intranet at work into a gopher site. Before I started, I was really enthused about it, but once I started, it just became evident how much a kludge these early protocols were
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by jboy55 8y ago
You don't need 20% monthly growth for 9 straight years, but for your first year and maybe the second after your Series A you do. Although I'd say 10-20% is more the range. The reason this is true is that your investors are giving
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by jboy55 8y ago
The $25 million revenue limit would be a pretty good guide from 'small'. Typically there are a lot of changes around that mark, one of which should be to stop using Customer data insecurely.
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by jboy55 8y ago
Oversaw a CTO 'harden' a linux box that was used as a firewall and exploited with; chmod -R 600 / I wouldn't recommend doing that.
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by jboy55 8y ago
Not surprising they're watching this thread, it would be a pretty massive deal inside a small company.
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by jboy55 8y ago
Well, for one, it keeps Antitrust somewhat at bay. But, its beyond search, if you want to monetize your site with ads, its pretty much impossible to avoid using Google.
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by jboy55 8y ago
Costco loves the concept of price anchoring. That's why the diamond rings and tvs are right near the front, and their liquor isle has $1,000 bottles. The concept is that when you decide against buying the $1,000 thing, the $50 thing se
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by jboy55 8y ago
I have always wondered what the value of common shares really is in a founder controlled voting corporation. For example, SNAP, which is fairly pure, what does that share of common SNAP give me? It seems very much a baseball card. It gives
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by jboy55 8y ago
A success in that it has transformed the public image of the worlds largest and effectively "only" internet ad platform into one of a benevolent tech company working on problems that will help the world. Google for most of the las
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by jboy55 8y ago
When I switched to Python, the one thing I predicted I'd hate is the forced indentation. The reality is that after a week or so I forgot completely about it. There are other things for sure that became an issue (took awhile to fully gr
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by jboy55 8y ago
Just really difficult (time consuming) to convert a pack of dog bones, a cheap bike light and a random tshirt (last 3 things i've ordered) into $. I think most of those items would just get tossed if they aren't of immediate use.
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by jboy55 8y ago
Well, if someone goes and grabs 10 packages, and they have 15 random things, 14 of those won't be worth selling for $. If I think about the last 10 things I've ordered, and my thinking of my last garage sale. Nothing was really th
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by jboy55 8y ago
My 'sue them' should have almost had a /s on it. It would be pointless suing someone with little or no assets. Its the only thing you can do, by yourself, within the courts as a private citizen.
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by jboy55 8y ago
My attitude has no effect on crime. I'm describing the reality of the world we all live in. Even if its not their first time, they'll be out in a day or two, maybe not even that. Its just packages, most of them under $100, no one
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by jboy55 8y ago
Welcome to the reality. Typically, the criminals are caught with lots of items, and there's theft and possession of stolen property. Or if they are stopped, they are also carrying drugs and they'll get charged with that. Edit: Als

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