obstacle1

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by obstacle1 6y ago
If a prerequisite to making progress on your work is getting an answer to a simple yes/no question within minutes, that's a fundamental problem with how you're planning your work, not some commentary on the nature of 'ac
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by obstacle1 7y ago
> I don't understand why so many large companies use platform abstractions. At a certain point you'd rather have your developers focusing on tackling domain complexity, not stack complexity. If I can normalize my developers&#x2
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by obstacle1 7y ago
It's not an entirely relevant analogy though. It's good practice to seek mastery of craft. But an engineer in a team/organization has to navigate a system that is literally based around comparing peers, i.e. for promotions. T
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by obstacle1 7y ago
An alternative to scattering null checks around or using exceptions for control flow could be more thoughtfully designing your data/object model. No additional language constructs required!
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by obstacle1 7y ago
A big problem IME is people tend to define "simple" as "written in a style I prefer". For example you can extract a series of 10 obviously-related methods from some 2000-line God class into their own class, but have othe
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by obstacle1 7y ago
> I guess we do live in a post-truth era. Lawyers and representatives have been making stretch arguments for the entities they represent for centuries. Did you really expect the company's legal group to not try and argue around this
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by obstacle1 7y ago
Why does it matter either way?
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by obstacle1 7y ago
> This cannot be something that is "taught or learned", as I had years of experience in the field, while they had to learn it. What? This can't be learned, but they learned it? Why isn't it possible that they learned
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by obstacle1 7y ago
99% of the value is in the exercises. I would re-think the strategy of a first read-through without the exercises and spend the time to do the exercises.
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by obstacle1 7y ago
The literal next paragraph: > Google’s engineering teams detected the issue within seconds, but diagnosis and correction took far longer than our target of a few minutes. Once alerted, engineering teams quickly identified the cause of th
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by obstacle1 7y ago
I'm not sure you mean the same thing by self-distant as what the article is talking about. It seems like you are talking about altruism, or looking at situations with an eye towards acting selflessly. Taking actions that will benefit o
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by obstacle1 7y ago
You negotiate when you have leverage. Leverage is an implied threat that you will leave the company where the cost to the company of you leaving will be significant. You have to be ready to actually leave the company in order for this to wo
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by obstacle1 8y ago
Can you think of any societies/cultures in history within which killing became highly normalized behavior? I can think of a few.
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by obstacle1 8y ago
Please don't ever give a person a copy of your passport as part of a job application. You are being scammed.
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by obstacle1 8y ago
The entire point of this thread is that even small doses of alcohol -- doses well within what we consider to be moderate drinking -- have fairly extreme negative effects on memory. This is a problem even for the 80% of drinkers who do not d
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by obstacle1 8y ago
>I don't see an issue with refusing to leave a store when you're denied a refund you're legally owed. The issue is you are literally trespassing at that point. It is illegal, you are committing a crime. You can't take
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by obstacle1 8y ago
Netflix had 5,700 employees in 2017, and only a 'couple hundred' of those were engineers?
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by obstacle1 8y ago
> Balance is important. Not for everyone.
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by obstacle1 8y ago
There's a difference between "feeling unproductive" and actually being unproductive. The person you're responding to said the former, not the latter. And in my experience it's nearly universal that when you ask exc
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by obstacle1 9y ago
>The problem is people use facebook because they have to. It's remarkable how common this opinion is given its obvious shallowness. Nobody has to use Facebook. What are the consequences of not? You can't chat with your friend
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by obstacle1 9y ago
>At what point would you need the implementation details of any of these to write code? ...literally any time you are performing a computation on a collection of items and care even the least bit about performance? It sounds like your ba
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by obstacle1 9y ago
Almost nobody is working 100 or even 80 hours a week.
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by obstacle1 9y ago
You can fully understand the -EV of gambling yet still act against your own self-interest by engaging in it. (Most) humans aren't emotionless machines, even highly intelligent people engage in self-destructive behaviour despite recogni
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by obstacle1 9y ago
>Almost all fooeds seem to have one of those Almost all prepared, packaged, or preserved foods have one of those. The solution is actually pretty simple: eat meals made from base/raw ingredients only. Beans, nuts, meats, vegetable
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by obstacle1 9y ago
That's a good idea. But I think the TV dinner itself might be worse for you than ingesting whatever the by-product of microwaving the dinner's plastic container might be.
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by obstacle1 9y ago
Because saying "X is worse than Y" is not useful unless you provide reasons as to why you believe that. Imagine being someone reading your post. What are they to think? "Oh, this person says X is worse than Y -- I'll go
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by obstacle1 9y ago
I think it's a) really bizarre how invested you are in defending this obviously exploitative process -- do real work for us and then work for free for 3 months, sure, all the Django devs line up, it's easy game; and b) ridiculou
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by obstacle1 9y ago
What does your post have to do with the OP? The company in question is asking for someone to do actual work that they will use as part of the job interview, and then to work for free for 3 months, "non-negotiable". You someh
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by obstacle1 9y ago
This seems like a deflection. It's totally legit to ask you what your definition of the 'best' candidate is, because you made a claim: that the best people come from the top schools. How are we to conclude that your argument
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by obstacle1 9y ago
It's _one hundred_ times more difficult for women? No. That's hyperbole. It's more difficult for women? Reasonable, if debatable. But not _one hundred times_ in any possible case. That's just an exaggeration aimed at der

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