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by joeax 8y ago
Maybe I read the OP wrong but I've never heard of building out and/or holding data center real estate assets. I worked for a large data center and even they leased their buildings. Their customers included government, big banks, l
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by joeax 8y ago
Neither does this famous guy [1]. All these interviews do is waste a lot of time and generate a lot of false negatives. You can practice all you want to get better, but no one in the corporate world is saying "I need you to code bubble
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by joeax 8y ago
I used to be a lead software engineer and conducted dozens of interviews and phone screens. I would simply look at existing problems I had solved recently and ask the candidate how they would solve them. If they came up with something on pa
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by joeax 8y ago
They eat large sprawling problems for breakfast, but they balk at 45-min algorithm challenges. If a candidate can solve large, complex problems but bombs your interview, the problem is your interview. TripleByte should focus on this probl
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by joeax 8y ago
I was actually placed at two different companies by the same recruiter, almost 10 years apart. Between the first and second time, she went from in-house recruiter to running her own successfuly staffing company. Personal relationships do ma
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by joeax 8y ago
The real problem is the signal-to-noise ratio in legitimate, well-focused recruiter emails to the typical recruiter spam one receives on a daily basis. I sometimes miss the legitimate emails, and although I am not usually looking, I like to
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by joeax 8y ago
I'm no pollyanna but I doubt we'll ever see another tech bubble collapse in the likes of the post-2000 one ever again, unless society itself collapses. And believe me, 2002-03 were the most painful years of my working life. Sure w
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by joeax 8y ago
I have scaled back my usage of Facebook after I discovered they are advertising my like activity to my audience i.e. "friends". I've had relatives accost me at family gatherings or have been unfriended over a Facebook page I
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by joeax 8y ago
My personal experience. I've worked in an out of Seattle, working for some big-name companies. Shortly after turning 40 and got laid off. No big deal, I thought, because my resume, open source contributions, customer skills, and deep e
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by joeax 8y ago
The story was a bit anti-climatic. I was waiting for that "oh crap" key moment where he uncovered something profound and it would punch me in the gut as a reader. The title could have been something as plain as "What I learne
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by joeax 8y ago
I have 4 kids and they're all video game nerds. As the paternal geek myself I stood out in the rain last night so they can buy Smash Bros. Ultimate. That being said, I have a simple approach that seems to work. They need to do somethin
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by joeax 8y ago
LOL me too
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by joeax 8y ago
It's inferior to GCP's UX as well. I love many of their products but Microsoft is overdue for a vast revamp of their UI.
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by joeax 8y ago
If someone squatted Nike they could have sued and won the rights to the domain pretty easily, as it's trademarked. I remember reading about Volkswagen fighting for vw.com back in the 90's, and the company that owned it wasn't
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by joeax 8y ago
With all the new generic top-level domains out there like .biz .blog .pro even .ooo (a personal favorite lol), and a whole bunch more coming out next year, I'm surprised there's still a mad gold rush for .com domains. I was just t
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by joeax 8y ago
I don't disagree, as I've been to both places in the past year scoping it out. But what has me intrigued about Tulsa is how far they are going to improve the area. Let's assume this experiment works, and they draw 200 high-wa
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by joeax 8y ago
I've been working remote for 7 years, more recently as a software developer consultant. I showed this to my wife about two hours ago and she got really excited. Neither of us like where we are living now, and have been eyeing a relocat
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by joeax 8y ago
> most containing the same duplicated (but subtly changed) blocks I had a similar experience with an offshore company. This was during the early-mid 2000s, at the height of the offshoring era when $10/hour programmers in India were
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by joeax 8y ago
Thanks! This is what I had in mind.
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by joeax 8y ago
Ha! I've tried that. Write an article and post to HN, then watch it fall off the New page in 20 minutes without a single vote. I'm sure one day I'll crack the code, but for me, engagement is hard. For all its faults, Medium p
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by joeax 8y ago
This is an on-point rant, but what alternatives are there that combine clean, useful publishing tools with the ability to reach a wide audience? Sure I can host my own blog, but what good is it if I have no reader engagement. If there is a
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by joeax 8y ago
This all seems like the fault of the marketing company forcing the OP to go through Upwork in the first place. But Upwork should be up-front about this from day 1.
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by joeax 8y ago
Many of these people interviewing wouldn't pass their own interviews if the roles were reversed. The bar should be high, but not so high that you leave feeling demoralized.
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by joeax 8y ago
Linux even dominates on Azure. This has more to do with per hour billing. Over the long term no company wants to pay 2x for the same compute resources that they don't need to maintain. For the on-premise enterprise you will continue
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by joeax 8y ago
Skype for Business is going away too. As soon as we moved to Teams I stopped opening my SfB client completely.
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by joeax 8y ago
What if they are not rejecting you? What if they like you as a candidate but decided to move forward with someone else (and it was a tough decision), and want to wait to see if that person will work out. It sucks, but it happens.
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by joeax 8y ago
I'm going to go against the grain and say that interview feedback is overrated (at least for senior people). If you got offered the job, then there's your feedback. If not, the interviewing company isn't going to tell you any
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by joeax 8y ago
> Not to mention the idiotic idea of a single provider solution. I'm surprised this isn't being discussed more. With a huge $10bil cloud I would think you would want to select a secondary vendor to distribute redundant workload
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by joeax 8y ago
It works both ways I suppose. Regardless it's a bit unprofessional from either side.
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by joeax 8y ago
A recruiter who I worked with in the past called me. This is why I tell recruiters who will listen to maintain relationships and not approach each match-hire as a one-and-done proposition. I can't count the times that a recruiter ghost

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