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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I'm a fairly young programmer, but I have almost the opposite perspective. Tools should be chosen because they offer pragmatic benefit for a particular purpose (usually for servicing a desired business outcome). But in the majority of
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
To put things in perspective a little, my younger brother works as an inventory clerk for a company that makes custom industrial fasteners in the Midwest, US, and the working conditions you describe are actually better than his working co
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
That's a fair point. I mean it in the sense of "net better off for everyone, including the very employers who are forced to pay higher wages (assuming they weren't doing legally questionable things to begin with)."
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
It is a problem if all of the would-be employers look at you and say, "Well, for what you bring to the table, I would be willing to pay $3/hour, but no more. If I have to pay more than that, I will simply make do with life having
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I generally agree with this, but I think it is often overstated. There are still many domains of employment where there is room to raise the minimum wage significantly before getting anywhere near the margin at which the employer feels it&#
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Nobody's friends constitute a perfectly random sample, but extended social networks are really good approximations of a random sample for questions like this. Two interesting points: at least 3 people in the 75 had snowmobiles (the fam
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I'm not asking anyone to trust my network survey. I am saying, "Hey, I surveyed my network and it really disagrees, to a frankly unbelievable degree, from what the popular presentation is -- can someone point me to some sales, etc
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
The article mentions the Iceland info and characterizes it as a "token" revelation meant exactly to keep people obfuscated and arguing about whether the leak did or did not implicate wealthy Western elites. I agree with the articl
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
What are the sales numbers?
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I don't find this convincing in the least. Just looking through many of the 5-star reviews, several of them come from people who actively contacted Amazon to request to purchase Alexa, which gives a clear bias in favor of a positive re
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Is echo a profitable business unit for Amazon? I don't know a single person in my extended network, ranging from elderly family members to colleagues and tech professionals, to my teenage sister's cohort, who considers it anything
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I tried to apply for one of your positions, but got lasered right in the eye. Luckily, I was in need of Lasik, so no harm, no foul. But, you might want to be careful for other applicants.
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Will you also be acquiring any of the Sequoia partners' sex slaves as part of the deal?
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
But few employers will navigate to a site other than your actual GitHub profile. If a third-party scrapes that data from commit logs, the employer has to trust the third party and also do the extra work of going to their site in addition to
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Some people would not prefer that this information about them is easily publicly available like that, as I mentioned in my other comment about how this has come up in job interviews in a negative way.
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I did pass because I'm way too picky about jobs to put up with that. But even so, what if I had been desperate for a job and passing just wasn't an option? I also mentioned that this was a place that is widely regarded as a great
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
As I mentioned in another comment, I've had interviewers grill me about gaps in my contribution history before. I sometimes will link to a pedagogical Python package that I maintain to show how I work with Python/Cython, and also
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I've had interviewers ask me why I had certain gaps in my contribution graph before. Sometimes from large, successful tech companies that are widely sought after for jobs.
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I was just about to ask if Hacker News has an NSL canary, when I saw this: < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11402439 >.
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
You say > Just not seeing the connection between using an interviewing tool and being a dysfunctional company. This is problematic because you're not representing my position. It's somewhat of a straw-man. You're saying th
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I think the problem is that you continue referring to it as an interview tool just because it is a thing that can be used for interviewing. Making candidates stand on one leg and recite the alphabet backwards would also be an "intervie
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
If you make use of your university time correctly, then the primary value of virtually any degree is that it teaches you how to self-teach to an extent you could not reach if you just started self-teaching on your own. Aside from occasion
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
> You feel that any use of that tool is indicative of some unredeemable flaw in the company as a whole. This is a good summary of my position, except that it's not unredeemable. They could just stop using short, standardized, timed
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
There's no need to be insincere or intentionally hurtful. Trust me, when you need a job and you've got a lot of life and family pressures building up, but you can clearly see how dysfunctional an employer is and how bad your life
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
The part about `lambda` is certainly imprecise. You can use the ternary form of `a if b else c` and you can use comprehensions and/or functional style with `map` or `filter` or things from itertools if you want iteration in a `lambda`.
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I see the markdown more as a reflection that customers, at large, actually aren't getting value from these companies, or at least less value than previously assumed. I know it's only anecdotal, but with e.g. Dropbox, I don'
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
HackerRank-like lazy, commodity evaluation is not remotely close to "put[ting] some effort in to find the right job." It's very critical that we don't allow people to make the false comparison between actual interview ef
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Your company is not Robert De Niro either! And, to boot, you don't have to be way up at the level of a Robert De Niro to be an offer-only actor. Basically, anyone with a decent and verifiable acting record is offer only. It's ac
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
The problem is that you can't "just as easily" run the code test. The code test is unreliable -- bad developers who overfit their knowledge to trivia make it through. The code test also causes the really good developers to si
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
My point is that candidates face that exact same problem when trying to weed out bad employers. That's why good developers reject the employers who try to use commodity tests like HackerRank. We do it for the same reason that the emplo

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