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by robziehl 13y ago
As mentioned already in this thread, in my initial comment on this thread in fact, I had no idea this post was even going to end up on HackerNews. I write independently without Hacker News in mind. I write for myself. Why would I have read
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by robziehl 13y ago
No worries, no offence taken at all. I welcome all constructive criticism, more so than positive feedback so thanks! I know it was a tangent from the initial impression readers got from the title but it served as an analogy that people can
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by robziehl 13y ago
Not saying Stallman is like Hitler but I honestly find his views such as "everything should be free (as in speech)" very hypocritical. At a conference I attended he also stated "artists and musicians should not expect money f
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by robziehl 13y ago
Interesting, I don't think I would ever tamper with my employment history. If I got asked why I am not at a company anymore I would be honest.
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by robziehl 13y ago
For my first developer position, I actually went into the interview with my own laptop and showed the two developers some of my projects written in DarkBasic. They could see the code if they wanted to but I haven't released that code a
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by robziehl 13y ago
I fully support this. If it's not your secret sauce then why not give it to the community? The common rebuttal I hear for this is "but we have to then maintain it". Granted, maintenance is time consuming but even if you do no
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by robziehl 13y ago
That was just an example in my post. I used to do a lot of C programming in my spare time. My commonly used tools back then included splint, valgrind, gdb and man. Like I said, developers will find similar tools when the language they are c
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by robziehl 13y ago
It seems to be a growing trend with the Valley startups but I have noticed some other companies on the East coast adopting the pattern. I can't really comment on the UK/Europe, I am based in Canada myself. Are there any sites that
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by robziehl 13y ago
Oh wow, that's pretty interesting. Was the recruiter from a small company just trying to aggressively go after candidates or were they legitimately interested in you project? Not to undermine your work at all but it's the first ti
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by robziehl 13y ago
Actual author here. Wrote this post last night to express my thoughts on hiring trends I've noticed but mostly to thank a friend of mine, went to bed, woke up to a bunch of tweets and one of my other friends said my post was on Hacker