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811.
by nobleach 7y ago
The biggest tactic I've seen is their inability to be consistent. In 2 years, I spoke to 3 Oracle reps and received vastly different quotes for the same hardware, features, processors/cores, etc.
812.
by nobleach 7y ago
I recall that QNX/Photon floppy disk in the late 90s. The entire OS and a GUI on a single floppy!!! (And it didn't look like GeOS or Windows 1)
813.
by nobleach 7y ago
I think the poster might be referring to: https://danluu.com/input-lag/
814.
by nobleach 7y ago
Unfortunately, at that point in my life, Vim/Emacs were completely unknown to me. When I hit my 20's and got stuck in Vim, everything changed.
815.
by nobleach 7y ago
As much as I love Linux (I'm typing this from my IBM Thinkpad running Arch with a KDE desktop) There are far too many warts to call it "ready". Every morning, I plug into my widescreen monitor, and watch as application window
816.
by nobleach 7y ago
This is exactly what I did. That stark blue TP7 editor is a thing of beauty.
817.
by nobleach 7y ago
In the late 90's I was doing a lot of IT work as a college student. One of my clients was an accounting firm that was still on a Novell Netware network. All of their apps were ancient terminal-based programs. Lotus 123 was one of the m
818.
by nobleach 7y ago
If you work in a music studio, and you call yourself a sound engineer, no one is going to ask to see your credentials because it's assumed that you engineer sound. The same holds through with software engineering. No one expects you to
819.
by nobleach 7y ago
Seeing how many 2013 Altimas are just blowing up transmissions, Nissan/Renault appear to be estimating the lifespan of one of their automobiles as 5 years. I'm glad they've got their eye on long-lasting batteries, but, maybe
820.
by nobleach 7y ago
During the 2016-2017 New Year I did an intense look into Purescript. I bought the LeanPub book and did all kinds of stuff with it. More recently I did a look into ReasonML. I bought the Pragprog book and worked through that. For me, it came
821.
by nobleach 7y ago
The bootloader is the part I dread EVERY time I set up a new Arch install (basically every couple of years) I have to relearn it every stinking time! I'm using rEFInd these days so that either helps or hurts the cause.
822.
by nobleach 7y ago
Sadly we have several cities chomping at the bit to BECOME the next Silicon Valley. There's little regard to exactly what that means.
823.
by nobleach 7y ago
I should probably specify the level of "tongue-in-cheek" in which my dismissive comment was made. I'm well aware of the function of medical (as well as other) insurance. Having a family, I'd be a fool to "go it alon
824.
by nobleach 8y ago
When I look at what my insurance company actually covers for all of my doctor bills, I'd probably be better off just paying the penalty. At least I'd have a few hundred more every pay check to cover that 11 extra dollars that my i
825.
by nobleach 8y ago
`:inoremap jk <esc>` first thing I usually do
826.
by nobleach 8y ago
In my case (the GP here) no I don't care WHAT framework/language the candidate users. But they DO have to know how to use a webclient of some sort. And any person with experience in any common stack should be able to perform a dat
827.
by nobleach 8y ago
Sure they are. This is the OPENING to a larger conversation. This is not, "get this right, and you're hired". I've yet to see anyone attempt it and NOT get it to work... the few that have put some quick logging and error
828.
by nobleach 8y ago
Why is it wrong to hire a developer that's had experience in the exact field in what I'd want them to work? Isn't that a great deal of ALL hiring? It's a bit like having a home builder job interview: "Have you had e
829.
by nobleach 8y ago
For your average node.js developer, no, that's not at all optimistic. Installing Express, and some sort of data-fetching library and setting up the routes. I'll admit, when I did the challenge in Java/Kotlin, it did take cons
830.
by nobleach 8y ago
Sadly this is the current market. We're grasping at finding the best way to judge whether to bring someone onsite. Video coding challenge? Simple phone conversation? We've done all of these and they often go the same way, hours ta
831.
by nobleach 8y ago
Correct, I wrote it in Java, which was the most annoying implementation, but still about an hour's worth of work.
832.
by nobleach 8y ago
That's only if I would refuse to talk to someone who DIDN'T do those things. I've yet to reject talking to a candidate that achieved the goal, yet left out those "nice to haves".
833.
by nobleach 8y ago
Our recruiters discourage us from sending out "take-home" tests, but I have to admit, I'd rather see a comprehensive "can you build an endpoint that fetches data from other places - some in parallel, some in serial - and
834.
by nobleach 8y ago
That whole module system change really took me for a ride a few months back. After a "routine" rustup, none of my code worked. I have to be honest here that I still don't think I have a good grasp on how files/packages a
835.
by nobleach 8y ago
VS Code does not come with magit... and that in and of itself is a great reason to use Emacs. (This is coming from a daily Vim user) There really is nothing like Magit even as a plugin for VSC. VSC's scm mode is what I'd consider
836.
by nobleach 8y ago
Atom's Vim-Mode-Plus is amazing. VSC's vim plugin still has a way to go. (It's buggy, sometimes things just don't work) VSC is just not as extensible. If I want to change that bottom bar color, I have to set it in a conf
837.
by nobleach 8y ago
I did Play v2 with Scala... I can agree, it was not pleasant. (I had just gotten off a year-long Ruby on Rails/ JRuby on JVM stint though - so "pleasant" is a relative term)
838.
by nobleach 8y ago
Java EE? Yeah, I did not enjoy that at all. The current blend of Spring Boot, Micronaut, Vert.x, or especially Quarkus.io? I love it!
839.
by nobleach 8y ago
I find it so fascinating though! During the New Years 2016 - 2017 I found myself sucked down the Youtube "Watch Next" Rabbit Hole™. I spent hours watching video after video by these folks. At first I was convinced that it was a ma
840.
by nobleach 8y ago
I see this "I'd never use node" sentiment quite a bit in the Java community. I'm always curious for the reason. Is it the JavaScript? or is Node unable to perform? After reading so many success stories from Netflix and W

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