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by romanhn 3y ago
Fantastic post-mortem that I regularly share out with others. A great cautionary tale on the importance of backup testing procedures (aka why "set and forget" with backups is not sufficient).
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by romanhn 3y ago
.NET Framework + C# fits the bill. Twenty years old, but still feels clean, modern, and reliable as it continues to evolve in a coherent manner.
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Elon Musk
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by romanhn 3y ago
This matches my experience as well. When I was making the choice for switching my team from SVN to a DVCS ten or so years ago, it was not at all obvious which option was better. Went with Mercurial because Windows support was better.
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by romanhn 3y ago
At one point I realized that Slashdot was reporting on stories that showed up on HN days earlier. It was a quick transition for me, despite daily usage of Slashdot since '99 or so.
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by romanhn 3y ago
I hadn't realized that Roland passed away almost 15 years ago...
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You're describing basically every ATS (applicant tracking system). The problem is that those are all internal-facing, so there's no incentive to make your life easier as a candidate. I'm trying to tackle this with https:&#x2
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by romanhn 3y ago
I can't imagine this could work. Anything remotely serious will have some context switching cost associated with it, and the more random 1-hour commitments you have, the more time you'll spend switching between each. And on top of
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That may be true for a small company, but any org with a standardized interview process will still likely put you through the whole interview loop. Best you'll get out of your call/coffee is a referral, and many places don't
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by romanhn 3y ago
I'm reading the just-released Musk biography by Walter Isaacson and I think this is a pretty good summary. He has basically taken "move fast and break things" to the extreme and with hardware. Musk himself is quoted as believ
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by romanhn 3y ago
FYI - I added an "opt out" option for email processing. Any incoming emails for the opted-out address will be silently ignored (same as incoming emails for non-existent addresses).
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by romanhn 3y ago
First off, you're not alone - https://charity.wtf/2017/05/11/the-engineer-manager-pendulum . I haven't made quite the same transition, but I did start coding again last year after 10 years in non-cod
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by romanhn 3y ago
Just want to say I super appreciate your balanced perspective here. I'm not a security engineer by trade, so getting this sort of feedback is quite valuable. The no@ scenario is an interesting one. The opt-out would certainly be one cl
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by romanhn 3y ago
Not yet in an automated fashion. Interesting to see this request pop up a few times now today. I would attempt to provide this manually to comply with the spirit of GDPR data portability clause for now. Note that I don't claim GDPR com
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by romanhn 3y ago
To be perfectly honest, I don't have a great answer here yet. While the US has the Consumer Review Fairness Act, Glassdoor lost an important court case that saw a US court force them to furnish reviewer info to a non-US entity ( https
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by romanhn 3y ago
I think I answered a very similar question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37797516 . Believe me, I have been thinking hard about alignment, conflicts of interest, privacy implications, etc. Alienating the candida
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by romanhn 3y ago
TBH, I just went through the official docs and that was sufficient - they are fantastic. I wrote a bit about my experience in the top comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35186812 Other tools? Have been using
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by romanhn 3y ago
Some fantastic food for thought here, thank you! Definitely will acknowledge that searching the provided data has room for improvement. Re: emails, it actually does have some rudimentary capability to detect which opportunity the email shou
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That's where I got my inspiration :)
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Yeah, this one I went back-and-forth a lot during initial implementation. It's not easy to find a balance between making it dead simple and preventing abuse. I kept it simple as far as forwarding goes - an account must exist for the se
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by romanhn 3y ago
It was a mix of what I already knew (.NET) and what I wanted to learn (React). I love C# as a language and it works just fine with whatever frontend you throw at it (it's just an API after all). I wouldn't touch a Microsoft fronte
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by romanhn 3y ago
Thanks! Not at the moment, but you're the second user asking about it today so that definitely bumps it up on the priority list.
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dang followed up on it and it turned out someone flagged it by mistake
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by romanhn 3y ago
Fun fact - dang (the HN moderator) suggested this earlier while we were figuring out why this post was stuck in flagged status (props to him for unblocking it eventually).
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by romanhn 3y ago
Thank you for the suggestion! I've considered the bootcamp/school route and I think there is opportunity there. For now trying not to spread my focus too thin though.
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by romanhn 3y ago
Thank you! Would you mind expanding on the concern around hiring manager emails getting leaked? Curious what you consider sensitive in these emails and how that data might be used inappropriately. Just want to ensure I don't have gaps
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I have not, will check them out, thank you. One at-a-glance difference is that they charge individual writers, which probably makes sense. I'm fairly allergic to charging job seekers though.
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by romanhn 3y ago
Thanks! I suppose the answer depends on what you mean by "plainly in the cloud" :) It is indeed stored in Amazon's RDS, which is a managed service. I approached this as a real product rather than a weekend project when it com
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by romanhn 3y ago
That's a fair question - and no, almost all data is optional. But... people do enter this, and companies have roles with open compensation as well. I'm talking about an aggregated view into anonymized data here. EDIT: Just realize
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Compensation is top of mind for me. An applicant [EDIT: application, not applicant] tracking system is well-positioned to have a solid, up-to-date view into the compensation landscape, unlike sites like Glassdoor and Blind which are more la

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