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by nsfyn55 11y ago
same deal. If your history can't be reasonably stacked on what exists it'll stop you and give you a warning. Only by `git push -f ` can you force it to happen. With that said I work with a lot of folks that only have a passing und
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by nsfyn55 11y ago
What was predictable about it? The author didn't do anything illegal or unethical. So he violated the ToS. I violate ToS's probably daily and I think most people would agree they have become a cultural joke. If anything I'd t
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by nsfyn55 11y ago
How exactly have I treated this as a binary answer? >Why are you ignoring everything else that has come up about amazon's culture? I've read the articles, but its important to remember that if you've had a bad experience y
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by nsfyn55 11y ago
Don't bother. At first you look at your inbox and think "Amazon? me really?" I responded only to find out this was a mass spam campaign. They found me via LinkedIn, said "Our senior management as indicated your experienc
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by nsfyn55 11y ago
What if merit isn't defined by "technical competence" but the "ability to deliver results in a defined context" and by "results" we are talking about "what the company(e.g. managers) defines as result
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by nsfyn55 11y ago
Polymath? Pshhhaw. And I thought referring to oneself as a "genius" was the pinnacle of self-aggrandizement. Sorry friend you are not a genius, you are not a polymath, and given amazon's volume a 6 or 7 figure savings is like
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by nsfyn55 11y ago
Ummmm from Philly friends... I'm sorry we let this happen :(
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by nsfyn55 11y ago
I think you are missing the point. If you are ok with a "Cheated" response then you are really hiring a candidate based on their network of experts. An equally or more qualified candidate could submit a less stellar answer only be
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by nsfyn55 11y ago
zing! you got me. I only skimmed the first paragraph. Nah sounds cool. I wish you the best of luck. Let us know if it works.
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by nsfyn55 11y ago
Oh as a number of people have indicated its bad for the company because the candidate can work with someone else and produce a glowing submission. I have helped a number of people do these some that have gotten the job. its bad for the inte
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by nsfyn55 11y ago
yuck! why did you have 66 commits?
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by nsfyn55 11y ago
If its an option and they don't exhibit any bias towards candidates that prefer a traditional interview then thats fine, but they should make it clear in the article.
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by nsfyn55 11y ago
Also its more than a little disingenuous on the part of the company. It communicates "my time is more valuable than yours . Go do this thing async so if you don't work out I don't have to waste resources on you." It als
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by nsfyn55 11y ago
Take home interviews are a great indicator of a company's hubris. "Its so awesome to work here people are going to jump at the chance to do my 3 hour homework assignment". The problem with them is fundamental: "You will
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by nsfyn55 11y ago
Read down. They cite several studies. To be honest, I was little weirded out by the implication that diversity and equitable gender distribution are synonymous. In fact there is only one-half sentence mentioning non-gender diversity - &quot
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by nsfyn55 11y ago
Meh reads more like marketing fluff than anything. Its just an incoherent mess of academic articles and industry white papers(some more than a year old) and a sprinkle of survey monkey. TL;DR Devops! yeah make tommorow's profits more D
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by nsfyn55 11y ago
Sorry friend this is nonsense. One of the key pieces of negotiation is access to information. Organizations and managers respond well to rational appeals like "so and so has the same experience and does the same job but earns 10% more&
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by nsfyn55 11y ago
I am largely in agreement with you, but I can't help but feel Erica Joy is skirting some gray areas here. In one breath she states its "illegal to retaliate for sharing salary information" yet a spreadsheet she implies clearl
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by nsfyn55 11y ago
Its not exactly aesthetic. Little diffs and big diffs are not isomorphic. They could conflict with eachother. The only true diff is either diffing a squashed commit or diffing over the whole range. And if you are diffing over a range all th
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by nsfyn55 11y ago
Yeah that's why you squash your 12 commits into a single commit that represents the deliverable. This is my point I find the 12 commits to be unnecessary. I've never been burned by squashing. The only arguments I've heard aga
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by nsfyn55 11y ago
+1
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by nsfyn55 11y ago
I never said it was bullshit. I'm just looking for your "falsfiability" criteria. My point is "no-ff" is cluttery and no one can tell me in "objective terms"(e.g. newtons, projects/year) backed by cle
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by nsfyn55 11y ago
well can you provide the killer use case that none of us can live without? I mean its certainly possible that in some tiny fraction of cases I might say "man I could fix this a lot easier if I had the merge commit" its just in the
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by nsfyn55 11y ago
I have had this ideological debate about "fast forwarding" more times that I can count. I agree with the author "no-ff" is silly. I've been working on professional software teams for over a decade. When I encountere
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by nsfyn55 12y ago
I think it is you that has missed the point. Its not about who gets the money, but whether the initiative would have survived at all in a corporate environment. Sometimes the only way to jump over the heads of the paymasters is to do someth
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by nsfyn55 12y ago
> The amount of money we collectively leave on the table is staggering. Right if your goal is to make truckloads of money sure. Not all software professionals ascribe a great deal of value to this end. Many major advances in bringing hig
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by nsfyn55 12y ago
Firstly, this doesn't solve any problems. It actually adds another a fragmented history. Secondly, this is not a limitation of source control tools its a limitation of formal logic. Vertical alignment's benefits are absolutely min
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by nsfyn55 12y ago
I don't believe this will save you from the merge conflicts.
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by nsfyn55 12y ago
>Readability is a very worthy objective. Agreed, but its not the only objective. There is a balance to be struck. Speaking from the perspective of an individual that delivers software as part of a team: producing readable/understand
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by nsfyn55 12y ago
> Spreadsheets also do things like right-alignment or decimal alignment and mono-spaced integers, not because it adds any meaning beyond the grid, but because if something is off by a few orders of magnitude from the others, it will stan

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