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by plughs 7y ago
I do get that, and I'll be more sympathetic to hiring managers who want to see open-source code than I have been in other comments. ( Active job hunting tends to make one grumpy. Take home programming assignments are a current sore sp
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by plughs 7y ago
Few managers ask their employees to work long hours. That doesn't mean they don't expect them to work long hours. "let them continue working on personal projects". How considerate of you to allow them to decide if they
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by plughs 7y ago
People who do a lot of personal projects also tend to be young with minimal outside responsibilities. It is no secret that they are appealing hires - someone who's willing to spend long hours on personal projects is probably also will
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by plughs 7y ago
One frustration I've had recently is the number of companies encouraging or requiring code in the public sphere. They want to see open-source contributions or an active and impressive personal github page. If your employer is protect
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by plughs 7y ago
`oc` sounds like a thing of great beauty but I'm sure I couldn't convince anyone to pay Red Hat licencing fees. Our project is a bit unconventional and I'm usually dealing with applications that have been minimally and reluct
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by plughs 7y ago
> poop town SF. It's frankly going to be hard for me to resist calling it that from now on. I'd have some trouble deciding between the two but I need to put on an extra layer when the temperature drops below 80F.
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by plughs 7y ago
Not as far as I can tell, and as far as I'm concerned it is the biggest pain point when debugging k8s problems. If your pods is cycling though CrashLoopBackOff and 'describe' has no useful information and the 'logs&#x27
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by plughs 7y ago
What a mean-spirited article. How dare wealthy Potrero Hill residents act upset just because their Stranger Things backpack was stolen! ( nice username tho )
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by plughs 7y ago
When I started the "IDE" was vi running on a Solaris mainframe. 'vi' has has never been accused of being user friendly but since this was pre-linux, I'm not sure any of the experienced coders had ever seen either
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by plughs 7y ago
> it's really hard for non-POC to understand the more subtle parts of what sucks about interviewing. I get it. Interviewers still think they should evaluate how a candidate will "fit into our culture" without any examina
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by plughs 7y ago
It's an interesting insight. When applying to colleges I never considered applying for CS as I (female) had no programming experience whatsoever, and seemed to be surrounded by people (male) who'd been working on computers for ye
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by plughs 7y ago
At the risk of sounding overly cynical I'm going to sound overly cynical - I don't think that statement is worth the pixels it's activating. They are going to say whatever they need to say to keep the money rolling in. It cou
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by plughs 7y ago
Though one thing we learned from the last election is that troll farms can push extreme views on both sides of an issue just to encourage division. If you believe all pro-nuclear-energy people are extremist environmental nuts, or all anti-n
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by plughs 7y ago
I mean - no one can talk outside anything outside their experiences but I completely, emphatically disagree. Nothing I've ever experienced can match the pure joy of coming home and having my kid run up to give me a giant hug. Everythi
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by plughs 7y ago
I usually stay the heck away from parenting articles but there was a genuine honesty to this one. > "The women in these groups had bent over backwards to be welcoming"." People love to believe that mom's groups are fu
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by plughs 7y ago
You might find it more informative to look at the last author, who is typically the expert and ( ideally ) is helping to drive the research.
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by plughs 7y ago
Conversely I find it interesting how quickly discussions of California quickly morph into the implication that there is little worth considering outside of the specific economy of 'silicon valley'. I can think of no one - from the
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by plughs 7y ago
> People with few publications now working in other fields I'm surprised this statement passed muster on HN where there must be some number of PhDs now working in other fields. Certainly the ones I know wouldn't take kindly to
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by plughs 7y ago
Every year I see what a insurmountable advantage my kid has by having educated, comfortably well off parents. He's in 3rd grade and last week he had a homework assignment that had to be completed on a computer. What, your kid doesn&#
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by plughs 7y ago
Then imagine that there are some people who can't afford the food they need in the grocery store and are going to die. Alternatives and transparent pricing isn't going to make brain surgery affordable to the average consumer.
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by plughs 7y ago
I've used a service like this from my insurer. I sent them a photo of my finger, they prescribed me an antibiotic, and Sunday morning I was on the mend. Beat the heck out of a 2 hour appointment during business hours.
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by plughs 7y ago
Another frequently overlooked problem with the 'trade school' mantra is that women need jobs too - and I'm willing to wager that the prejudice women are going to face in a welding shop is going to be a lot higher the frequent
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by plughs 7y ago
I feel like this article conflates 'smart device' with 'phone' in a way that can often happend My 8 year old has one of our old phones with WiFi only. It's still plenty addictive with with the thrill of games and T
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by plughs 7y ago
I hope you don't mind a couple of questions, my daughter(8) has been asking to play Roblox as a lot of her friends are on it. Being an engineer, I know full well that "filtering and pre-reviewing content" is pure marketing BS