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by philjr 10y ago
But not if you're a literal lunatic who thinks that because you literally used the word return with an error code that's what it returns. And. Only. That.
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by philjr 10y ago
I've had similar phone screens previously both at Google and Facebook. The depth/specifics of some of the questions seems maybe a little deeper but it's not too far off what I remember from my screens to be honest.
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by philjr 10y ago
Without actually hearing the transcript verbatim, it's hard to give much enlightened perspective here, but there's a lot of "hur hur, dumb recruiter" responses here. What I will say, in general, is that figuring out what
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by philjr 10y ago
I realise theres a proclivity to be anal here but there's a lot of companies incorporated in the US every day and generally one of the first thing every business does is open a bank account. I'm not saying what you said isn't
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by philjr 10y ago
just over 1B (1.15b) but yup you're spot on
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by philjr 10y ago
Workday | https://www.workday.com | Pleasanton (East Bay), CA ; Beaverton (Portland), OR ; Dublin, Ireland Workday's building out a new cloud platform based on Openstack, custom deployment tooling, containers & sensu fo
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by philjr 10y ago
I've spent long enough investigating this heavily that I feel like I should dole out advice. And I say "investigating" as something light and fluffy when in reality I normally take a unnaturally healthy obsession over researc
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by philjr 10y ago
I agree with this, once you are aware (or think of) what you're doing as closer to gambling than "investing" ie. use money you're prepared to lose as opposed to the kids college fund
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by philjr 11y ago
I say this with a lot of respect, but this seems pretty noddy for a Martin Fowler article. There's not a lot of meat here and I really don't consider myself an app sec expert :-)
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by philjr 11y ago
I am curious, given the length of time she was employed at her new employer and her statement saying her editors were aware of this, whether this was just the HR compliant reason she was let go.
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by philjr 11y ago
The sentiment behind it reminds me of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GMQhOm-Dqo Problem is, it seems a little disingenuous
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I want to be a devops(brassy.net)
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by philjr 11y ago
Mind me asking what you're doing?
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by philjr 11y ago
Anyone else have custom dashboard fatigue? I'm pretty tired of seeing custom dashboards written for different pieces of software. I'd really like to see more effort going in to API's that allow you to pull data from (in this
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by philjr 11y ago
Some interesting reading here http://www.beagle-ears.com/lars/engineer/comphist/dan_hist.h...
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by philjr 11y ago
Plural of anecdote is not data, right? ;) As someone who competes against them for talent, and having seen dozens of examples from different parts of their business, Amazon is an extremely competitive employer on the tech side for experienc
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by philjr 11y ago
That's a different dynamic. Consciously managing someone out is very different than taking potentially star performers and laying them off for nothing you can attribute to them.
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by philjr 11y ago
Firstly, yes! Typically what you're seeing are smaller companies where everyone on the team needs to be able to contribute and review everyone elses work. That's not to say that's all that's out there. We have whole swat
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by philjr 11y ago
I'm just curious. In the entire lifetime of checking references, has anyone ever not hired someone based solely on a reference check of someone who was given to them by the candidate?
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by philjr 11y ago
For me personally, I've lurked here for 6 years or so. The main reason is there's a community intersection here of techies and entrepreneurs that I can't find anywhere else. And when I say techies, I mean hardcore techies who
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by philjr 11y ago
In my experience you need to do both!
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by philjr 11y ago
The quickest way to get to that money is contracting, but it is possible through more traditional employment but you're going to have to probably do 2 things, unless you're willing to wait for some good luck 1. Find yourself a nic
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by philjr 11y ago
Take the MSc option and you'll end up getting a slightly wider variety of experience along with some potentially valuable connections and colleagues. There's lots of time for work in the future. Sounds like financially you're
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by philjr 11y ago
Everyone should be a little bit of a life coach :-)
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by philjr 11y ago
Few scenarios I've seen * "uncool" work. Stuff noone internally wants to work on. * time critical - hiring takes time. * lack of domain expertise - development isn't all equal. Ideally you want people who understand the
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by philjr 11y ago
Accenture is on the much larger end. I'd probably suggest if you're interested in pursuing a career on your own that you find a smaller boutique consultancy. You'll be closer to deals and have more insight in to how business
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by philjr 11y ago
This is a really interesting read (linked from that presentation) http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000545/ch12.htm... * one tcp connection per request * Server push functionality / server initiate
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by philjr 11y ago
I've never done this and If you have never done it either maybe subcontracting for a larger consultancy firm might be a good place to start. Will get you in the right neighbourhood so to speak and get you talking to the right people an
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by philjr 11y ago
TREC has a spam corpus albeit dated at this point http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~gvcormac/treccorpus/ 92k messages, 52k of which are labelled as spam messages in the 05 corpus. Totals 300mb or so
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by philjr 11y ago
I see these types of comments a lot and I do understand the logic of them. Most of the time it's devoid of sentiment. It's us engineers going "hey, there's a problem, this is the solution". This input causes this ou

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