oldopsguy

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by oldopsguy 9y ago
The author makes a lot of great points here but I took issue with this sentence: All jobs that currently require a degree, should instead require a knowledge test. The employer should not care how the knowledge was obtained, just that the
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by oldopsguy 10y ago
I can definitely see how preparing in such a public way would raise flags at the lower recruiter level.
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by oldopsguy 10y ago
pretty funny is that i use nytimes for exactly the same reason, wonder how many others are using it this way :)
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by oldopsguy 10y ago
Well said and as someone commented earlier about "building a table" I think there is some sense of accomplishment and utility you can get from that vs something in tech.
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by oldopsguy 10y ago
I think comparing is inevitable.. going through a lot of this now personally and sometimes i wonder how much a factor is the size of the pond you swim in.
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by oldopsguy 10y ago
Yeah I saw this as well and actually scrolled to the top of the page to check what year it was written :P
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by oldopsguy 10y ago
Im old too :) thanks for the feedback i think the emojis in the submissions are probably a bit much.
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by oldopsguy 10y ago
Yeah honestly i find the experience of going to glassdoor and entering or retrieving info actively hostile to the end user as far as ui and interface is concerned.
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by oldopsguy 10y ago
Nothing noteworthy, aws lambda and api gateway with dynamodb to handle the submissions. Cloudfront/s3 for the static content. The only tooling i used was kappa which is a very lightweight deployment wrapper for lambda.
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by oldopsguy 10y ago
Wasnt intending to use them as that but rather as reactions.
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by oldopsguy 10y ago
This is my first sideproject using a serverless architecture, would love to hear any feedback you might have. Thanks!
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by oldopsguy 10y ago
Another nice project that helps to ease lambda workflows is https://github.com/garnaat/kappa