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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Hence the "well-behaved, well-groomed" constraint. If you're in an office where dogs are peeing and barking (and no one knows what to do about it) - then clearly you have a people problem, not a dog problem.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Pet-friendly offices: I’m sure having a pet visit the office once would be a treat, but every day quickly can become a burden on the team. Disagree, given the observation that pets (provided they're well-behaved, are well-groomed etc
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
The one "perk" I think is uncommon but should be standard is nap rooms. Or just respect for sleep (and other forms of tuning out), on- or offsite, period. Including such forms as "I came in at 11 today, because there were
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
I wonder what navigation system North Korea is using/planning to use for its ballistic missiles. For the shipping containers (not ballistic missiles) they'll most likely smuggling these in on, for the next few years, any COTS sy
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Coca-Cola increased production of plastic bottles by a 1B last year – Greenpeace(theguardian.com)
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
I stopped buying the Russia narrative. You don't have to buy any "narratives". It may be better to simply take stock of the chain of events of what actually happened . In this case - was there , in fact, something like a
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Did Russia fake black activism on Facebook to sow division in the US?(theguardian.com)
87 points by kafkaesq 9y ago|79 comments
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Given how far off from the city centers many of those place names were -- look where they put Саннивейл, Маунтин-Вью, and good lord, Сан-Хосе, for example - it's good to know that when the Red Dawn[1]-style invasion finally came, their
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
I don't think he had more technical capability than a typical SharePoint administrator at the time of his leaks. Well again there were several journalistic pieces at the time that summarized his work both for the CIA and as a contrac
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
I was referring to his initial assistance to Poitras, actually (which apparently involved setting her up with enhanced email encryption, not setting up a VPN per se). So people can get jollies downvoting me for misremembering something I la
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
An "average sysadmin" would not be (anywhere near) capable of setting up a VPN so that non-technical journalists can access a considerably sized document stash - but which not even the most powerful and well-funded spy agency on t
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Whether it actually works for those companies (beyond a placebo-like effect) is open to question. But the bigger point is that - even assuming for the sake of argument that these questions actually do "work", on some leel - they
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
He was a SharePoint administrator. This is just silly. His skills are clearly way broader and deeper than that.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Or in so many words: "They don't even pay federal taxes. Fuck 'em." Meanwhile: The mayor of San Juan lashed out at Trump administration on Friday, decrying its relief effort in the wake of hurricanes Jose and Maria and
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Revealed: Johnson and Johnson's 'irresponsible' actions over vaginal mesh implant(theguardian.com)
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Tsunami carried a million sea creatures from Japan to US west coast(theguardian.com)
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'We stand to wipe out a whole era': how the 1970s could vanish from Vancouver(theguardian.com)
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
I have to say I don't follow the "automation" aspect of what you're saying. What makes "modern dev" more labor intensive than not "modern dev"? Well it is, objectively, way broader and deeper than b
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
"Younger developers are less jaded and cynical, and a lot of managers prefer that". Yes pretty much, but with a more positive spin - i.e. what one really needs is a healthy mix of jadedness and "believing".
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
The reasons are complex. Younger people really are faster and have more "energy". On a certain level this is just basic biophysics. Particularly the kind of "energy" most immediately associated with the modern dev grind
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Yup - the hunch factor isn't a "bug"; it's absolutely intrinsic to the process. Not only is fundamentally irreducible - you wouldn't want to completely remove it from the process, even if you could. So I guess the
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Exactly - and not just whether they've played with Legos, but whether you've played with (or at least been curious about) the new modern (and incredibly expensive) robotic kind (or robot kits generally). Which inevitably leads to
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Don't make questions harder than they are. There's no need to make it any "harder" - the point is that just wasn't well-articulated to begin with. (Noting again that "well-articulated" is very differe
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
You are looking for coders: No I'm not - I'm very much looking for engineers in the mindset you describe. I just don't think your Lego robot question is a good tool for sniffing out that mindset. (For the simple reason th
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Tut most engineering orgs are terrified of letting a bad hire through so they blindly do whatever the “top” companies do. Yup, that seems to be it. As if there's some "secret sauce" to interviewing that all the other shops
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Why am I writing my own database system instead of using an existing one? Not only is this a perfectly reasonable question to ask - one is almost tempted to fault someone for not coming back with this as the very first question to ask i
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
I didn't pass that one. Sounds like they're the ones who messed that one up - not you.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Yeah that's the thing - the vibe I get from these questions is, "Uh, I actually have no idea what to ask these candidates. I just know I better not fuck this up. So how about that question everyone was talking about on HN the ot
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
You should absolutely understand every step of that process if you're working on web applications. "Every step?" Not at all true, in my experience. What you need is a reasonable sense for the breadth and depth of the top
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
To use a db efficiently you need to have a bit of an idea of what it does inside. You need to have a bit of an idea, sure. But in order to give any kind of a meaningful answer to the question, you need to have not just a "bit of&

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