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by pflenker 2y ago
Yeah. Not a great experience.
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by pflenker 2y ago
Two thoughts on this. The first is honesty - I don’t mind if candidates google the question if they tell me about it. Information retrieval is a vital part of the software engineering job. What I take issue with is dishonesty, a trait that
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by pflenker 2y ago
For now, you can easily get around this by showing the code via screen share.
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by pflenker 2y ago
Interesting! So far I have seen the opposite - that different sub groups speaking the same language assign different meanings to different emojis, leading to misunderstandings when communicating cross-group. For example, the ubiquitous laug
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by pflenker 2y ago
It’s not a black and white thing. You can increase the likelihood of finding someone suitable for the work by various means. For example, if someone who will actually work with the person closely is involved in the hiring process you increa
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by pflenker 3y ago
that’s literally what TFA is about.
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by pflenker 3y ago
I see that a lot in hiring. We can measure grades and experience, we can count diplomas or certifications, so we focus on these things and disregard soft skills like the ability to work with other people.
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by pflenker 3y ago
> If other people forward it, they should be charged It’s more complicated than that. Due to a new law in Germany, a teacher getting to know that these images are floating around and forwarding them to the respective parent could be char
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by pflenker 3y ago
I have never even heard of a company where a single person on the level of an engineer was able to spend 100k without getting approval. Just ask for example sales persons on engineer level how easy it is to get 50€ for something they think
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by pflenker 3y ago
My own stance as a lead is that it costs more than 50€ just discussing the thing, so we might as well just buy it.
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by pflenker 3y ago
Least you can do is document somewhere that you are doing it, and not silently do it. WhatsApp doesn’t keep it a secret, exactly.
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by pflenker 3y ago
Neither the sender nor the recipient made an active decision that the respective mail should be encrypted with pgp. That’s the issue here.
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by pflenker 3y ago
We could be faced with a form of Survivorship Bias here[0]. I find that thought rather chilling. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
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by pflenker 3y ago
I once was a product manager for an app which included an inbox (mostly for promotional stuff). That app also included banner ads here and there. Consistent feedback from our users was that they missed that there was a new unread item in sa
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Page Weight Matters (2012)(blog.chriszacharias.com)
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by pflenker 3y ago
Part of my argument is that not everyone has the choice to spend an additional 3 hours per interview, meaning a process including tasks like these discards these applicants.
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by pflenker 3y ago
as a rule of thumb, I think the person doing the implementation should be part of the analysis. And as a second rule of thumb, I think it should be avoided to let someone dive into a completely unknown code base alone, at least when we talk
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by pflenker 3y ago
I would not apply. Besides the fact that I don’t want to spare half a working day unpaid, I find it worrying that implementing a feature on an unknown code base without any kind of collaboration with co-workers before or during the implemen
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by pflenker 3y ago
If that’s what you’re selecting for - fine. You’d be missing out on people who need to care for kids or other relatives and on people who assume that a company that requires you to invest significant unpaid time on top of the regular interv
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by pflenker 3y ago
That is the equivalent of saying that the direct expression of a musician‘s work are the sounds they produce and therefore they should be heard in isolation. But as much as an orchestra produces symphonies as a group, development teams pro
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by pflenker 3y ago
LOC as a datapoint provide no value that a manager couldn’t get quicker and with less ambiguity via other sources. For example, identifying engineers struggling for a month on a topic, as you described, can be uncovered way earlier by repl
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by pflenker 3y ago
Couldn’t agree more. Make your notes discoverable by search would be my number one recommendation.
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How To F#€k Up An Airport (2018)(radiospaetkauf.com)
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by pflenker 3y ago
The date picker from Things and Godspeed are on a completely different level than the one from Todoist, though.
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by pflenker 3y ago
I know people really seem to love natural language task creation, but I almost always found it lacking. The date picker Things has, and Godspeed promotes, works much better for me.
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by pflenker 3y ago
What gives, I am not allowed to create a todo for Today or This Evening when it is already late in the day? That does not make a lot of sense to me.
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by pflenker 3y ago
The date picker alone makes me consider switching. This is what has always brought me back to Things.
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by pflenker 3y ago
*sense, not things.
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by pflenker 3y ago
A metaphor aims to illustrate a specific point better. It does not aim to be a full equivalent of the thing itself. This does not only apply to sports metaphors. Sports metaphors are common because the are usually easy to grasp. And I think
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by pflenker 3y ago
You can say „lau“ but it either refers to lukewarm water or to mild/agreeably warm weather outside.

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