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by philbarr 10y ago
One of the problems with coding challenges is that I suspect you miss out on a lot of potential candidates. I did a round of interviews recently and one wanted me to do an online test and then a puzzle. I did the online test, received the p
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by philbarr 10y ago
Fair enough, but they didn't have a "year" link
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by philbarr 10y ago
Being down for the equivalent of 3 days/year isn't great.
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by philbarr 10y ago
I ran out of air once, which obviously has the same effect as "double regulator failure" and I was fine. If you have failures like this you're taught to share air with your "buddy".
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by philbarr 10y ago
> A British roundabout with 6 intersections... There's one of those in Hemel Hempstead. And surprisingly it works really well... On a related note, if you have the chance to go to Hemel Hempstead, don't.
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by philbarr 10y ago
I got 21 out of 40. Although it was strange - imagining a person was really hard, but imagining a sunrise / clouds / thunderstorm seemed really easy. Even when the question was, "can you imagine their clothes" and the gu
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by philbarr 11y ago
Don't seem that bad. Try: - I was once asked to go to meet a customer with our sales manager and wasn't told why beyond, "we just need a techie there." The sales manager did his pitch and when it came to questions someon
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by philbarr 11y ago
I got laid off recently and was applying for all the jobs I could find. So I had to do a bunch of these programming projects. I don't mind them per-se, but it takes so long to do each one and you have to be ultra-clean with each one. I
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by philbarr 11y ago
"because any CA can attack you, whether you're their customer or not" Can you (or someone) explain why this is? I don't understand.
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by philbarr 11y ago
Whenever I see install instructions like this: OS X brew install cairo pkg-config go get github.com/ungerik/go-cairo Ubuntu sudo apt-get install libcairo2-dev pkg-config go get github.com/ungerik/go-cairo
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by philbarr 11y ago
> it's far easier to pop your head up and discuss a quick question Oh man I hated it when people did that. I've been working from home for 5 years now and it's pretty great, except for my hatred of people not being able to
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by philbarr 11y ago
I once headed up the As-Supported Structure team, and a friend of mine got to choose his own team name so he called it the Technical Information Team. This whilst we were working on a product called the A????????? [0] Information Delivery S
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by philbarr 11y ago
I used to work at a place where a guy used, "Hello Fuckers" as test data. Our manager got a very angry call from a customer who printed out a 300 page report with, "Hello Fuckers" at the end of every line.
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by philbarr 11y ago
hopefully without all the profanity and calling scripts about your wife, "smack-my-bitch-up.sh"
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by philbarr 11y ago
And for a laugh, they need to check out how much karma he hasn't got...
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by philbarr 11y ago
They've changed that very recently then. It used to be free but you just didn't get interface builder support.
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by philbarr 11y ago
No I haven't I'm afraid. But it's definitely something to look at from the RoboVM world. Bit overloaded with work at the moment unfortunately. And just the use of the words JavaFX and iOS in the same sentence seems weird! Mor
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by philbarr 11y ago
Let's not forget RoboVM, which is free (with paid options): https://robovm.com/ I've used this before and was amazed how well it worked, particularly with libgdx: https://libgdx.badlogicgames.com/
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by philbarr 11y ago
Walk into a store, and the salesclerks will know your name. - they already do once you scan your store card The store’s cameras and computers will have figured out your identity, - store card and looked you up in both their store database a
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by philbarr 11y ago
> WTH am I getting d/ved for? No idea, so I upvoted you. Now don't downvote me people just because I'm commenting about it. I didn't start it so it's not fair.
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by philbarr 11y ago
I write an Outlook plugin for work, so if I've trashed the code by accident I don't receive any emails because Outlook isn't working. That's the excuse I use anyway.
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by philbarr 11y ago
"My sudden surge in popularity raised no flags at Twitter headquarters as far as I could tell, even though many of the followers had egg avatars who hadn’t tweeted in years." I'm not sure that Twitter could use how often you
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by philbarr 11y ago
Wouldn't the advice then be, "never specify your day/week rate." ?
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by philbarr 11y ago
I can't really do travel. I work from home now and like it because of having a young daughter. If I wanted to I could take contract work in Manchester and earn twice what I'm on now. But I don't want the 3 hour commute. So yo
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by philbarr 11y ago
I've heard people argue agressively several times on the "per hour / per project" debate.
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by philbarr 11y ago
I appreciate everyone's comments, but this doesn't help me with what I'm supposed to do tomorrow besides: "get a decent consulting gig."
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by philbarr 11y ago
I think the problem is that I have a very limited market due to my location, though? If I demand decent pay for my work I may have no work at all. Supply and demand and all that?
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Well, first off there's my ignorance and fear. I've never consulted before and every time I try and charge a rate for work people just slam the phone down, literally. I've tried £50/hr, £40/hr, and now £20/hr.
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by philbarr 11y ago
> Equal equity among initial founders or it's a nonstarter. I'm about to have to make a decision like this and could do with some advice. A friend of mine (3D artist / graphic designer) tells me he knows two people who wan
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by philbarr 11y ago
And definitely if the team agree they don't like TDD, don't force it onto them. In this situation at least.

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