jrjarrett

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by jrjarrett 4y ago
When do/did you have time to study LeetCode? After a day’s work at my actual job, I’m done. My brain is fried. Writing more code is the last thing I want to do.
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by jrjarrett 4y ago
On an interview you have maybe 45 minutes to get something working. In real life, it’s going to take you longer to understand the problem enough to even attempt the naïve solution. So in the context of an interview, get ANYTHING working.
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by jrjarrett 5y ago
I have an automated feeder for my 2 cats. One has a better time sense than the other and would camp out and devour both bowls when it dispensed. We got a timer and set it to chime when the feeder went off, which helped. The feeder has an ap
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by jrjarrett 5y ago
I worked at KAD for the first 7 years of my 16 years at Kodak; I was in IT, thought.
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by jrjarrett 5y ago
From reading the title I expected it to be a study along the lines of “if your cat decides to sleep on your face, then your sleep will be of lesser quality than if it decides to sleep at the foot of the bed.”
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by jrjarrett 5y ago
Yes, exactly-this is what I wanted to get across in my comment down post.
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by jrjarrett 5y ago
Except that skews the candidates that pass younger. If you’re fresh out of school, you remember binary trees or sorting algorithms. After doing software development for 20+ years, you’ve been using those structures as a small part of the la
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by jrjarrett 5y ago
I count myself very lucky. I have friends from childhood and college that are still very close. We don’t get to see each other as often as we’d like but we do keep in touch and I know they are as there for me as I am for them. Our friendshi
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by jrjarrett 5y ago
Holy crap, the Comer XINU book is still around. I used that in my undergrad Systems course in the mid ‘80s…
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by jrjarrett 5y ago
I had an Alltrack, only in white. It was totaled in an accident last November, with only 11,000 miles on it. The first thing I thought after we knew we weren’t injured was, “oh NO I am going to have to buy a new car!” Used Alltracks with mo
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by jrjarrett 5y ago
That’s not always true. I’ve recommended 3 engineers from my previous company to apply at my current company. All of them I deeply respected for their skills and thought they were smarter than I was. None of them got offers. One didn’t even
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by jrjarrett 5y ago
Did you let them Google while doing your test? Did you ask questions about their CV projects that dove into the implementation of the project?
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by jrjarrett 5y ago
> I don't get why everyone seems so hung up on the interview. Because if you need a job, the wild asymmetry between you and the interviewers. You have to be ON for that short time and ready to deal with questions like what you got a
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by jrjarrett 5y ago
There’s a whole separate rating for learning exactly how to do that. I got my instrument rating last summer. One very important skill you’re taught is to ignore what you feel-your inner ear will lie to you and try to kill you. Pay attention
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by jrjarrett 5y ago
This is a particular hot button for me, since when I started working, I got separate banks of vacation and sick time. It took me years to build up to a decent amount of vacation time; I rarely took sick time, but that was time when I truly
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by jrjarrett 5y ago
In the mid 70s I contracted measles. I was only 9 or 10 but I think I remember it was because there was a batch of vaccines that didn’t work, or maybe it was doctors learned we actually needed two doses. Whatever; I’d had the vaccination pr
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by jrjarrett 5y ago
I’m sorry. Why on earth would any reasonable person think you could turn in 7 million points for a jet? It was a clever piece of advertising ruined because some self important snot could not see the humor.
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by jrjarrett 5y ago
How do you find recruiters like this? How do you make that contact?
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by jrjarrett 6y ago
I work in the US for a “startup” company. They’ve gotten a big round of funding and are hiring like crazy. There’s constantly this exhortation to “work hard” and “overcome the obstacles”. People work ALL THE TIME. There’s an underlying pres
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by jrjarrett 6y ago
But what if you DIDN’T have a good amount of savings, or you get no severance?
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by jrjarrett 6y ago
The 20 hrs/ 40 hrs for PPL is not a hard limit. If you are not ready, a decent instructor will not sign you off to take the check ride. Even if you have 20/40/100 hours—the instructor will not let you take it until they feel
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by jrjarrett 7y ago
I start a new position Monday. I expected my search to be exactly like this, so I started early. Within a week of setting the "would hear from recruiters" flag on my admittedly-thin LinkedIn profile, I had 3 solid leads from 3 com
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by jrjarrett 7y ago
I've used this metric but intelligently - I've used tools to SEE what is covered or uncovered. Simple constructors or accessors that end up not getting coverage are fine, I believe you can see that you have little risk in not writ
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by jrjarrett 7y ago
Out of curiosity, I wonder what the closest star to Sol system is that is large enough to supernova?
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by jrjarrett 7y ago
Not entirely. What about the employees of WeWork? They lose their jobs because "a bunch of rich people paid for a guy to live like a king." They lose their homes, access to health insurance, the ability to retire someday. There&#x
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by jrjarrett 7y ago
This is my worst nightmare. -Just as I was finishing college, my father, who only had a high school education, worked for GTE Sylvania for 25+ years. The company was sold, then closed the small plant he worked at. The best he could find aft
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by jrjarrett 7y ago
I'm wondering how Costco has managed to hold out against the stockholders demanding more. Bravo to them for doing it!
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by jrjarrett 7y ago
I think you can divide this into four legs: "Phone-as-camera" - people have always traveled with cameras since it became practical. They took crappy pictures of fireworks, or whatever, on film. Perhaps a bit more mindfully because
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by jrjarrett 7y ago
Assuming you CAN take unpaid time off, and not have that penalize you.
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by jrjarrett 7y ago
if you don't think you're interviewing the company too, you're doing yourself a big disservice and selling yourself short. Absolutely. But outside of places like SV or NYC, there may not be a lot of jobs available. For some

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