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by jghn 4mo ago
> a problem that the average developer can not solve, but a expert can solve? Yes these exist. The rate at which they exist is grossly exaggerated. Every company likes to think that their problems are special snowflakes. Nothing could be
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by jghn 4mo ago
Regressive consumer tax due to going to war with a country for no real reason
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by jghn 4mo ago
> I think that the situations are really different Keep in mind that people said this before both of those crashes.That's the problem with bubbles. It's impossible to say if this time really IS different.
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by jghn 4mo ago
When Google showed up on the scene I found I no longer needed to memorize basic syntax and other such things. If I couldn't remember on the fly, i'd just do a quick google search and move on. This freed space in my mind to instead
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by jghn 4mo ago
You too? That was one long ass day!
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by jghn 4mo ago
This is true for most sub-fields. The average person in them is either a failed dev or more of a pencil pushing box checker. The quality employees are devs with extra specialized expsrtise Security, qa, devops, data emgonerkng, the list goe
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by jghn 4mo ago
What if they don’t want to spend their time making small talk with their boss or manufactured chit chat at a happy hour? I get that a lot of people need this. I don’t need my work to provide a social life, I’d rather get my shit done and le
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by jghn 4mo ago
Phone screens are a low grade filter to remove pure riff riff. Not some impenetrable fortress. This isn't what I'm talking about at all.
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by jghn 4mo ago
This is such a tired canard. Do these people exist? Yes. Assuming you can hold an in depth, detailed technical conversation with them I'd contend the percentage of these people is astonishingly low. We spend way too much mental energy
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by jghn 4mo ago
This is still my preferred method. The one counterargument that I accept as valid is that this method struggles with equity and bias. It's impossible to have a conversational interview style and ensure everyone is getting equal treatme
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by jghn 4mo ago
This style of panel is great. The one thing interviewers need to stay aware of though is that they will have immense insight into the problem whereas the candidate likely has never thought through the problem space before. And this can lead
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by jghn 4mo ago
I know this is an outlier, unpopular opinion by my experience has been that the percentage of people who can really talk in depth through technical details but can't write decent code is quite small. But the percentage of people who ca
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by jghn 4mo ago
Two things can be true at the same time. It can be true that this is here to stay. It can also be true that companies are grossly overvalued right now and that the market is irrationally exuberant. This would mean we could both have a crash
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by jghn 4mo ago
I’ve seen those shows and still don’t know what you mean. Since you didn’t mean the other stuff you’ll need to be more explicit
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by jghn 4mo ago
TC? Or base pay?
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by jghn 5mo ago
I stated that because most of this thread is on that topic and specifically didn't want it involved for this. I'm sorry if you're too biased on the topic to take that into account.
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by jghn 5mo ago
Ignoring the moral questions, the issue is that the old waiting period had a purpose. The market *isn't* getting an opportunity to decide here. There's a concern that these are a glorified pump & dump where initial investors e
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by jghn 5mo ago
> I'm not sure the outcomes were that noticeably better. It's not just you. At the end of the day interviewing has been demonstrated to be close to a crapshoot in the best of circumstances, and very few interview schemes are th
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by jghn 5mo ago
The poster to whom I was replying was complaining about how the front page is dominated by a single topic. I don't see why this point is relevant to that.
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by jghn 5mo ago
5 years ago it was web3. 5 years before that it was Haskell and monads. It’s how things work
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by jghn 5mo ago
Yes and no. The developer doesn't *need* to develop anything. They could have just not bought the property looking to make a quick buck, and instead let someone else buy the cottage and keep it that way.
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by jghn 5mo ago
The SVP who put this in place, his last name was Goodhart.
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by jghn 5mo ago
> Lake Winnipesaukee This is exactly what I was picturing when I said McMansion. We took the family on a trip there a few years back and rented a boat. Riding around the lake was eye opening. Especially when you'd see one of the sma
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by jghn 5mo ago
There's another effect beyond cheaper flights. We moved to the area in a very middle class neighborhood when I was young, around the same time as the author of TFA. Like you said, what I saw was a lot of families had family summer home
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by jghn 5mo ago
Yes, I use last.fm. My mistake, thought I said that. Instead I just launched into my anti-streaming bit :)
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by jghn 5mo ago
One problem for me with Spotify and similar is that I don't use them. I want to be able to track what I've listened to but I only use my own, personal library via iTunes, not Apple Music. Perhaps I'm wrong and some of these o
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by jghn 5mo ago
I've been a professional developer for going on 30 years now. I have never once seen anyone measured by lines of code. That died out before my time. I've seen a host of other imperfect measuring sticks, including the "tickets
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by jghn 5mo ago
You're indexed on, and promoted based on how much value you provide. LOC is not the same as value. If I can close 100 tickets with less code than someone else, I've still closed 100 tickets.
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by jghn 5mo ago
Because it might not have done what I wanted it to do. Also, just as with normal code review, I’m not just looking at the code but the final product. Maybe I realize after that I asked it to do something that was wrong?
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by jghn 5mo ago
The main issue with those tests is they have a relatively high false positive rate. If you pop on that one you need to follow up with a colonoscopy to confirm. The big issue has been that in the US, the followup colonoscopy was often no lon

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