jghn

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by jghn 8mo ago
I can't imagine applying to a job where I didn't already have some sort of personal connection. That was already true, and that's even more true now. Likewise, these days as a hiring manager I'd be unlikely to hire someo
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by jghn 8mo ago
I agree that what you're describing is the required skillset now. But two things I've been unsure of are what that looks like in terms of hiring to test for it, and for how long this remains a moat at all. So much of tech hiring c
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by jghn 8mo ago
Only Congress has the authority to change the name. Given they *haven't* authorized it, the name remains DoD. It doesn't work the other way around.
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by jghn 8mo ago
> there was a kernel of good advice, but the book wanted you to take it to such an extreme that it would result in shitty code I see you're familiar with Uncle Bob's handiwork
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by jghn 8mo ago
It's both. The *concept* of patterns makes sense. A shared language that developers can use when building things. The *reality* of patterns has been much less useful. The original ones were indeed a reaction to warts in the popular lan
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by jghn 8mo ago
It is the DoD u tip congress says otherwise
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by jghn 8mo ago
Could they please start using the correct name? Department of Defense?
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by jghn 8mo ago
Of course, but the point is you don't fail a candidate for this. Some people do, including some of the examples to which I was replying
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by jghn 8mo ago
It's both. As a hiring manager I've had situations like this arise because there was a gap in my plan and I didn't realize it. When those come up, we thank them for their cleverness, apologize to the candidate, reframe the si
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by jghn 8mo ago
I have one from the original rollout. I keep thinking about upgrading, but then I realize I'm just doing that because I want to buy something new, not because I need anything more powerful.
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by jghn 8mo ago
I still use my M1 Air with 8gb as well. I don't do my daily dayjob work on it, but it's more than fine for everything else I do.
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by jghn 8mo ago
Anyone know how this would compare to an original M1 Air? Both in terms of performance and also capability. My primary use case for my air is web browsing and similar. But I do use other things at times. I know they're both arm process
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by jghn 8mo ago
> What else would they be able to use? I tell them what my range is. If they don't want to meet my range, then I tell them to GTFO. Isn't that what everyone does?
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by jghn 8mo ago
Granted it doesn't always pay attention to Claude.md but one thing I've done is in my block of rules it must always follow is to never leave something unimplemented w/ placeholders unless explicitly told to do so. It's m
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by jghn 8mo ago
I also will rewrite both text and code created by Gen AI. I've found the best workflow for me is not to refine what I've written, but instead to use it to help me get over humps and/or crank through some of the drudgery. And
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by jghn 8mo ago
They're somewhat standardized in Big Tech in that people have worked out how to map titles across these companies. But that accounts for a very small fraction of the total industry.
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by jghn 8mo ago
They may, but the amount of information they're getting is low. As a hiring manager I'll look at progression of titles *within a company*. This shows a track record of upward mobility. But if they go from "senior" in one
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by jghn 8mo ago
They matter within a company for the reasons you cite. They mostly don't matter between companies however.
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by jghn 8mo ago
Outside of the FAANG style companies where how their levels map to each other are well known, titles are only useful to compare within the same company. You can't compare a specific title between two companies as they may not even have
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by jghn 8mo ago
This brings back memories of the candidate who demanded coming in as a high level engineer. Their argument was they were currently a CTO. Of their 2 person company. While they were still in college. And they were only borderline hireable fo
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by jghn 8mo ago
> The "usable screen" is where my thumb can reach, not whatever idea people have in their heads about the total size of the phone or anything, truthfully. In the early days of the phablets I had an observation that has mostly h
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by jghn 8mo ago
> Realities of age and eyesight forbid Am old. Am experiencing presbyopia. Am still very much tied to my mini on the default font size. When I can't read something I just pinch/zoom. Meanwhile it's easy to hold & use
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by jghn 8mo ago
Unless you're doing math with them for some reason, they're strings.
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by jghn 8mo ago
At this scale, don't companies lock in their prices well in advance instead of paying spot prices?
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by jghn 8mo ago
Maybe 30-40 years ago. For as long as I've been around the basic ability to write good code was secondary to a long list of other skills. That's different than saying a lot of people *believed* writing code was the hardest/mo
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by jghn 8mo ago
> It's no longer just about writing code It never was
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by jghn 8mo ago
> it took away the easy parts This is the key. I haven't found that things have become harder. The hard parts are still hard, and those have been the most important and prominent parts of my job once I reached a certain level.
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by jghn 8mo ago
Dietary cholesterol has very little causation with blood cholesterol
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by jghn 8mo ago
> to rename the DoD to "department of war" The very fact that they referred to it as the Department of War instead of Defense tells me that they're still bootlickers, and just trying to put a good spin on things.
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by jghn 8mo ago
As always, it's a careful balance. And specific to every bus route/stop combination, not to mention it can change over time. Routes should always be evaluated based on ridership data, where people are getting on & off, how lon

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