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by jcrites 5y ago
> Literally setting up a paid one week period for a senior level candidate would cost, optimistically, a few hundred dollars for evaluating a single candidate. It’s unworkable for anyone who is already employed. What am I going to do: us
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by jcrites 5y ago
Why not ask the candidate to solve a problem of the type that they are likely to encounter while actually working at your company: the kind of task that you would ask them to perform on day one. Inverting a binary tree is not the kind of ta
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by jcrites 5y ago
This actually seems like a pretty simple problem, to be honest, where the obvious solution is the best one. Inverting a binary tree means reversing the order of the sequence of elements that it represents. Thus inverting a binary tree is si
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by jcrites 5y ago
One employer that I respect gave me what I thought was one of the best technical interview questions that I have seen at any recent company where I have interviewed: Design a binary tree containing integers. Design a function to serialize t
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by jcrites 5y ago
This is a US-centric point of view. For most of the world, WhatsApp was the key communication app that broke the SMS monopoly. Furthermore, it's not part of a walled garden, being available on all platforms - unlike iMessage which Appl
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by jcrites 5y ago
iMessage didn't break the SMS monopoly alone; I'd argue that WhatsApp played a more important role. WhatsApp launched in Jan 2009, almost 2 years before iMessage launched in Oct 2011. Instead of being locked to one smartphone ecos
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by jcrites 5y ago
Yeah, and does he wear a full, regular skydiving rig (not an emergency backup rig) while flying airplanes in his other videos? I have not watched them, but commenters in the original article have said that he does not wear skydiving rigs wh
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by jcrites 5y ago
If you have a pilot's license, which this man did, then you have been extensively trained on these things. Getting a pilot's license is not easy. As someone who has also been training for his own pilot's license, and has prac
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by jcrites 5y ago
It's not revolutionary – no offense intended. There have been a ton of companies that built products like they did that are far more sophisticated with comparably simple getting started experiences. For example, Cloud9 IDE (c9.io) had
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by jcrites 5y ago
https://github.com/features/codespaces
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by jcrites 5y ago
The North America Numbering Plan does not allow any (normal) phone numbers that begin with the area codes 000-199. So there can be no valid numbers that are of the form +1 (1nn) nnn-nnnn. (There are special dialing codes like dialing 011 fo
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by jcrites 5y ago
Not exactly; it's simply that under California law, non-compete clauses are unenforceable in employment contracts. The California Business and Professions Code section 16600 states that “every contract by which anyone is restrained fro
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by jcrites 5y ago
I’ve never had an employer request academic records after working at multiple FAANG companies — except perhaps right out of college, but I’m not sure even then. Unless you’re applying for a job that’s high-profile (like VP or C-suite), or i
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by jcrites 5y ago
P.S. In my state in the US, and I believe this is true for most of the country, “commercial drivers licenses“ are required for driving very large and heavy vehicles over a certain weight; they are not required for driving paying passengers
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by jcrites 5y ago
Uber was not generally illegal [0]. So called “Black car” (or private car for hire) services (so called because these cars used to be limousine like vehicles but now can be anything, e.g. UberX) where a driver arranges pickup with a passeng
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by jcrites 5y ago
I’ve had loosely similar ideas before. The basic idea is to make the compiler tool chain aware of diffs, and help scrutinize and implement them. Refactoring suggestions could be included with the diff. For example, say you’re dependending o
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by jcrites 5y ago
My company has unlimited PTO for being sick. If sick for more than 3 days (consecutively or probably within some time) you are required to provide documentation to HR of the sickness. A (young, vaccinated) colleague caught COVID and was out
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by jcrites 5y ago
That is not entirely true. Amazon was founded on a mission of serving its customers , and the belief that serving customers well is the best way to maximize long-term shareholder value (among other values). https://venturebeat.c
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by jcrites 5y ago
Software engineers are engineers in the sense that we employ the same scientific methodology to design systems to a target level of reliability. However, because the majority of software does not affect the safety of human lives (the except
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by jcrites 5y ago
Can you give an example? I’ve never heard of such a case. You might be thinking of scenarios where people are arrested and prosecuted for resisting arrest, making threats against police officer, or crimes of that nature. There will be limit
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by jcrites 5y ago
They exist but primarily protect private people. If the court determines that you are a “public figure” (I forget the legal term; IANAL) — such as CEOs of publicly traded companies, or politicians, etc. — then the bar for winning a case for
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by jcrites 5y ago
Not necessarily. It's possible that their statement is true that they don't keep IP logs, but the Swiss police showed up with a court order for the equivalent of a US wiretap or pen register, requiring them to begin logging the IP
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by jcrites 5y ago
If they're offering remote work from anywhere in the country, including areas with low cost of living, for recent college graduates, maybe this makes sense. For anyone who has been in the industry 5-10 years at successful corporations
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by jcrites 5y ago
Until the government is willing to pay technologists market wage salaries, they're better outsourcing technology work. For some reason, they're willing to pay massive prices for contracts to firms, but not hire employees at compen
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by jcrites 5y ago
Facebook's slogan was never "move fast and break things", by the way. It was shortened to that by the public. The actual slogan was "Move fast and don't be afraid to break things".
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by jcrites 5y ago
Fortunately most PC games have moved away from paying for anything that gives you an in-game advantage, and instead have moved for paying for "skins" or cosmetic items for game characters. It turns out that people care enough abou
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by jcrites 5y ago
This is something of a nitpick but: Apple did not lose a legal ruling. Some companies initiated a lawsuit against them, and Apple and those parties mutually agreed to resolve their dispute, presumably with concessions from both sides. The a
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by jcrites 5y ago
> (hopefully there's at least sudo so you don't log in directly as root Correct, at both FAANG I logged in as myself and had passwordless sudo. (Passwordless sudo being preferable to minimize the number of machines that have us
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by jcrites 5y ago
Yes, I am aware of these capabilities. However, you as the developer still need to be able to write software that runs as root on the box, both to (likely) install new software version and to drop the capability either shortly before execut
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by jcrites 5y ago
I've worked for two of the FAANG companies together about 15 years, and I've always had local administrator access and root access to (1) my personal client machines (laptop, desktop on all platforms) (2) my personal development m

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