malvosenior

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by malvosenior 7y ago
> You could say that it was “already there” when reality tv started in the 90s. And those reality tv stars were aping the behavior of the pop stars that came before them. The whole 20th century was focused on moving towards individual
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by malvosenior 7y ago
I know but those are also the second series (90s based). The original 80s series seems to be lost to time which is incredibly sad considering its impact and popularity.
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by malvosenior 7y ago
Sadly those are from the 90s Reading Rainbow, not the original 80s series.
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by malvosenior 7y ago
> We could focus, as journalists tend to do, on the depredations of the connected life. As Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube have devoured the online world, they have undermined traditional media, empowered propagandists, and widened Ameri
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by malvosenior 7y ago
To be fair though Uber did sort of save the day. Transportation is nothing like it was 15 years ago. Drinking and driving is down, I can actually get a ride with a GPS enabled app, I don't have to fight taxi drivers to pay with a card
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by malvosenior 7y ago
It's pretty much always been that way though. Death March was written 20 years ago: https://www.amazon.com/Death-March-Developers-Surviving-Impo... I'd say the demand for programmers is higher than ever and pay is
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by malvosenior 7y ago
I just want the original Reading Rainbow. I can't find it anywhere, if anyone knows how to attain a digital copy, I'd love to hear it.
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by malvosenior 7y ago
You can read her own words to see it wasn't in good faith: https://medium.com/@ksspiers/google-fires-another-worker-for... > Recently Google was forced to post a list of rights that we have in the workplace. S
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by malvosenior 7y ago
We should study everything. That studying gender has political implications means it’s more important to learn the truth, not less.
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by malvosenior 7y ago
While I agree with your later point about having larger families leading to a healthier mix of time spent, I cant agree with your first point. Yes, most parents talk a lot about their kids and that can be annoying if you don't have kid
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by malvosenior 7y ago
I find it refreshing that he's coming out and saying this. I 100% don't ever want to hear my co-worker's opinions on politics (even if I agree with them). I work to make a living and survive. Activism can happen outside tha
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by malvosenior 7y ago
I would view any Lisp project as a major bonus in favor of a candidate. It's really encouraging when you see people who have an interest in different programming languages. When I look at people's open source, being a polyglot is
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by malvosenior 7y ago
If you add making a bunch of money on top of that you have the ultimate combination of toxicity. Arrogance, ignorance, hubris, echo chambers, thinking you're an expert on matters outside of your field, random and inappropriate activism
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by malvosenior 7y ago
Being able to produce a solution to a problem where one didn't exist before is "shipping". I've never regretted hiring someone who has multiple projects they've created from scratch.
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by malvosenior 7y ago
Shipping is different than deploying server-side code. Going from concept to execution is shipping, and it's what I look for in a candidate. Again, this has worked out very well for me. An added bonus is if you hire OSS contributors,
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by malvosenior 7y ago
That's the beauty of it being published on Github. I can look at the project and see if it was just a `git push` of something meaningless or if it's actually well thought out and demonstrates ability.
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by malvosenior 7y ago
Sure it does. Are they solving a problem they were able to define? What does the shipping history for their project look like? Did they make interesting design choices and tradeoffs. Shipping any software is an accomplishment and does a lot
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by malvosenior 7y ago
I don't think that's a fair depiction of why people code on their own time. Some people just love making things, it makes them happy. I'm not young but still find the time to build projects in my spare time because I want t
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by malvosenior 7y ago
I've hired tons of developers with 15+ years of experience! A lot of them have amazing OSS contributions. Some don't but all can talk in depth about projects they've delivered. Hiring based on open source contribution isn&#x2
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by malvosenior 7y ago
You're right there are a bunch of software development jobs out there! Certainly enough that any skilled developer can find one. That being said, for me as a manager, I like to hire people who demonstrate the ability to repeatedly ship
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by malvosenior 7y ago
A fair amount, I'm also not young and find time to make it happen. I love building things and I couldn't really imagine not working on my own projects.
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by malvosenior 7y ago
It's not about denying you employment. It's about hiring someone who can ship software. If someone has publicly shipped software and you can see that, they make for a good candidate. It seems reasonable to me that people who reall
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by malvosenior 7y ago
I've never asked my employees to work long hours. That's basic management. I also let them continue working on personal projects whenever possible (getting the rest of the company to agree...).
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by malvosenior 7y ago
As someone who uses Github and OSS contribution as a strong hiring signal, I'd like to offer an alternative perspective. People who do a lot of personal projects tend to be very good developers, especially when you can see a demonstrat
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by malvosenior 7y ago
Twitter has repeatedly demonstrated that they are not a developer friendly company and that you should never build anything on their APIs. Since day one, they've done nothing but crack down on 3rd party development and peel away access
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by malvosenior 7y ago
This is definitely not the case in 2019. Almost everyone has a degree and a lot of people demonstrate almost no ability to think for themselves.
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by malvosenior 7y ago
For a slightly more humorous (but very real) take on the management ladder, I highly recommend The Gervais Principle: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/the-gervais-principle/ In my experience it's been dead on accurate.
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by malvosenior 7y ago
Homeschool kids don't have to be isolated though, and as you say the nerdy kids at regular school are the ones that exhibit this type of behavior (which isn't bad btw, people mature at different rates). I think it's not as di
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by malvosenior 7y ago
The same can be said about any education (even self taught). My point is 120k is a lot of debt. As a hiring manager I don’t even care if you have a degree, I just want to see you can ship. There are a lot of viable alternatives to that 12
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by malvosenior 7y ago
I don’t think a good CS degree is “easily” worth $120k.

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