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by jspiral 8y ago
Interestingly, I thought that too. So when I became a manager, I put all of my corporate political clout into defending devs against ever having a hard schedule or pressure to estimate without enough info. Amazingly, it took more than a yea
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by jspiral 8y ago
Here's a lens I use to think about my job that might make sense to someone with an engineering background: - I'm in charge of architecting and building the team. the team is a system, of people and processes - the team has various
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by jspiral 8y ago
Yes, when hiring developers I see that as a positive: often people with this kind of background can tackle larger projects well due to good self-organization. As a bonus, they tend to have more empathy for what i have to deal with, so when
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by jspiral 8y ago
As a hiring manager, my experience has been that the average unsolicited resume belongs to someone who can't implement fizzbuzz. (this has a lot to do with the population that spams resumes though i believe) My experience has also been
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by jspiral 8y ago
I like the spirit of this. However, what the airline is really willing to price is "best effort to provide transit to location either beginning the time stated or as soon as convenient for them after". Fortunately, their operation
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by jspiral 8y ago
Story amazed me: - forgets method of payment within seconds - thinks it makes sense to get coinless change returned in a cup - doesn't think to tip himself - confronted by employee but can't understand the issue and doesn't
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by jspiral 10y ago
yep exactly - I have CS degree, rusty on my symbols but knowing them its obvious
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by jspiral 10y ago
At higher levels poker is about game theory, for example, the player bluffs at an optimal frequency in a certain situation so as to be indifferent to whether the opponent calls or folds. Exploitative strategies, based on understanding oppon
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by jspiral 10y ago
I'm trying to think which gender i'd guess if I read: CONGRESSWOMAN CAUGHT WITH PROSTITUTE. I honestly think i'd guess male prostitute.
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by jspiral 11y ago
Yes, I thought this was going to be a repurposing of something in the LMS
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by jspiral 11y ago
Is what you are talking about mentioned in any way here? http://www.snpedia.com/index.php/Rs1800497 I'm not seeing it. Curious to find a reference with more info. When you say hetero, I would guess you mean (C;T)
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by jspiral 11y ago
Welocalize | Onsite in Portland, OR | Tech lead We handle thousands of tasks a day (translation, testing, lightweight market research) for the largest tech companies and some of the world's buggest brands. We are building a new system
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by jspiral 11y ago
Java servlets
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by jspiral 11y ago
There are financial effects of overvalued art: charitable donation valuation for one
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by jspiral 11y ago
can anyone comment on the level of affluence that would have been needed in victorian times to meet the standard of living depicted?
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by jspiral 11y ago
Welocalize | Los Angeles CA (Santa Monica) Full Stack Developers, Product Owner Our goal is to build a great engineering culture in our Santa Monica office: - pair programming - support for refactoring, throwing away prototypes - experime
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by jspiral 12y ago
hiring manager here. Someone who is successful as a freelancer for several years with demonstrable accomplishments always catches my attention. the details of what projects you took, and why matters a lot though. For example, don't be
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by jspiral 12y ago
you guys rejected me as a customer even though my team is building data science stuff on open source technologies, because my employer does translation which is "a competing staffing service".
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by jspiral 12y ago
Welocalize | Los Angeles, CA (Santa Monica) | Lead Developer We help Google, Harley Davidson, PayPal, Expedia, John Deere, Blackboard, Marriott, Cisco, and many more demanding brands get to market around the world by providing a global loca
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by jspiral 12y ago
I understand what you mean about ridiculous SV interview practices. And your point that all we should really be measuring is on the job performance is an important one. All I'm really going for is to ask someone to write some code live
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by jspiral 12y ago
Yes, someone who can code the solution you describe on demand would be a flying colors pass for me. I agree with you that there are probably better questions. As you say, I'm looking for a medium difficulty fizzbuzz. I also agree with
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by jspiral 12y ago
In practice, what happens is that we both acknowledge that if this was a real work problem, step 1 is to google it. I then tell the candidate that i'm not going to judge them on the algorithm they use, just their ability to work throug
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by jspiral 12y ago
>So am I less of an engineer because I didn't immediately go >for recursion? No, not at all. a stack is a stack, whether it's the call stack or one you maintain in code. Its not the recursion that's important to me, it&
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by jspiral 12y ago
The reason I ask the question is that I want to see if the person can handle thinking about recursion, and how their debugging process works, and how they built toward a solution. I always stipulate that they can use whatever brute force ap
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by jspiral 12y ago
Can I ask for your thoughts on the cycle in a linked list question? I asked someone that today, and it didn't go very well. I gave him the hint to start with writing code to print out all of the children of a node, then when that stack
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by jspiral 12y ago
one thing i've always liked to have in my rolodex is someone who can figure out really difficult ops problems, like odd server behavior or database performance issues and take whatever steps are needed. I used to work with a contractor
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by jspiral 12y ago
Companies often create blanket policies on spending approval that might even make sense for parts of the organization but don't leave room for common sense. They might need to categorize all expenses as capex vs opex, etc.
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by jspiral 12y ago
I used to be a smoker. I was at about a pack and a half a day, inhaling deeply. Smoke first thing after waking up in the morning, agony on international flights, that sort of thing. Very addicted, a couple failed quit attempts. I switched m
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by jspiral 12y ago
Unnamed new venture | Los Angeles (Santa Monica) | Designer, Full Stack Developers We're looking to form a new team inside of a medium sized business (180M revenue last year). I have a history of doing work with these guys and will be
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by jspiral 12y ago
I haven't touched Perl in quite a long time. For the type of automation stuff you are doing, i'd likely use python or ruby, depending on the nature of the problem. Would you say people like me should be looking hard at Perl 6? I&#

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