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by probinso 10y ago
In addition to this, a bright person can mask their software development skills. Everybody gets so hung up on hiring the brightest, that they ignore whether this person actually has software development experience. A bright person who write
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by probinso 10y ago
I like the words you use
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by probinso 10y ago
I feel like a bit of an odd duck in this topic, because I enjoy and value a lot of the interview process. I've had many interviews, and all but two have been greater than or equal to 4 hours. I enjoy whiteboarding, giving presentations
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Ask HN: Hosting blogs on personal site
1 points by probinso 10y ago|0 comments
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by probinso 10y ago
"Calvin and Hobbes: there is treasure everywhere" This book was amazing.
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by probinso 10y ago
Don't pick up the slack.
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by probinso 10y ago
Thanks for pointing me to this, this is amazing.
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by probinso 10y ago
Developing software to visualize and categorize street lamp bulbs and understand different kinds of light pollution at low cost. (side project)
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by probinso 10y ago
I'm really disappointed this is not a new video game
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by probinso 10y ago
I have two (5+ month) gaps in my resume; one was so that I could party, the other was so that I could work on a personal project (that would definitely not make money). When people ask what I did during those breaks I tell them 'person
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by probinso 10y ago
not relevant
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Ask HN: How do you differently interview Bootcampers from Collegiate candidates?
1 points by probinso 10y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Dangers to making public young-project code?
15 points by probinso 10y ago|11 comments
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by probinso 10y ago
In a working environment don't take anything (including personal failures) personally. Even direct insults can be compliments if you just say 'thank you.' Also, go easy on ESL co-workers language mistakes in documentation and
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by probinso 10y ago
'Senior Developer' Is a useless title. If you want a title that reflects your expertise, use 'Subject Matter Expert : <TOPIC>' somewhere on resume. This makes very clear to future employers where your strongest ski
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by probinso 10y ago
Do you find that you are able to get sufficient information when limiting your material to the candidate's domain?
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Ask HN: Designing interview questions
2 points by probinso 10y ago|3 comments
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by probinso 10y ago
Recent acquisition means that employees often have culture changing underneath them. This often results in high attrition. Fad perks, like kegs. Open work spaces that are also quiet. Large number of new hires. The overuse of the word startu
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by probinso 10y ago
Tokens insread of strings as keys. Ruby has :tokenname instead of “tokenname“ as option for key like parameters
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by probinso 10y ago
Study programming languages in different paradigms than you're used to
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by probinso 10y ago
Ask for a change of start date. It is not their business what you do with your personal life. All you have to say is you had something personal come up and you need to move your stuff out by a month. You run the risk of them rejecting you,
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by probinso 10y ago
It helps to try to understand the recruiters business model. How is this person getting paid and what are their motivation to continue the relationship with you.
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by probinso 10y ago
Many programmers start their career by trying to optimize their income to achieve independence , rather than optimise their living expenses. this is mostly because the market allows it it is very rare for someone to intentionally decrease
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by probinso 10y ago
My favorite quirk was deprecated. Python 2.x def function(a, (b, c)): # pattern extract matches a strictly two-elements Python 3.x def function(a, b_c): # not as clean, nor as expressive
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by probinso 10y ago
Are you the interviewer or the candidate.
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by probinso 10y ago
I'm a big fan of python. SKimage is a pretty cool place to hang out
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by probinso 10y ago
You should definitely Reimplement prolog. It doesn't matter what language you using.
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by probinso 10y ago
I'm going to give you different advice. I take time off in between every job. I have never left a job for a job that I had in pocket. the neat thing about taking a break, is that you can focus on your own projects. You can develop your
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by probinso 10y ago
so I seem to be alone in this. although whiteboarding is not representative of Industry workflow, I feel that it can be used as a metric for communication. everybody knows that it's coming, and everybody knows how to practice it. if yo
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by probinso 10y ago
I have used a lot of programming languages, and Scala is stylistically interesting. What I did find though is unless you have a lot of experience with the Java ecosystem, the tooling is very distracting. You can think a lot of time in to bu

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