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by seer 7y ago
In which case framing the test as “technical interview” would be a bit dishonest. You should name it “stress environment coping test”. But anyway you are right those moments do happen, but those times it’s usually “all hands on deck” kind o
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by seer 7y ago
Sorry for the short reply, but I couldn’t resist the obligatory parenting xkcd: https://xkcd.com/674/
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by seer 7y ago
Well writing trivial code is still a skill, you could have been coding for 10 years and in your day to day work have managed to remove little annoyances and quirks, allowing you to express business logic concisely. I mean we usually don’t g
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by seer 7y ago
You are correct, you do get the "can this person actually write _any_ code" info. More than that I think you get the "is this person good at writing trivial code". I'm not sure the groups of people that "write
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by seer 7y ago
Hah I got the exact opposite realization actually. Yes if you boil it down to it’s essentials you are right the customer is the one with the money, so satisfying his needs/desires is what matters. But, and thats a big but, we as devs a
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by seer 7y ago
Thank you so much for the reference to “mostly adequate guide to FP” book. It looks incredibly easy to read. As someone who is fluent in JS and dabbled in FP this is right down my alley, and the style of text itself is actually quite funny
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by seer 7y ago
One manager I’ve worked with had the brilliant notion of “x2+1” time of what the dev says. Anecdotally this has worked out remarkably well throughout my career - from single dev to cto - even stuff that I _new_ was going to take for example
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by seer 7y ago
It’s sad to hear you had such an awful experience. I think every society that introduced allowances for the disabled has been better of as a whole for it. I was thinking with my engineering brain for a simple and obvious solution to a simpl
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by seer 7y ago
I always feel weird reading all the drama regarding waste management in US. Of all countries I would have thought they would understand market economics the most. If cleaning up waste is an externality, can’t you add in the price of that cl
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by seer 7y ago
A genuine question - can’t you buy a stack of plastic bags and just bring some of them with you? When they introduced the ban on plastic bags in my country, it was more a ban on supermarkets selling them alongside your normal purchase, but
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by seer 7y ago
I find the Kibbutz experiments by the Israelis to be fascinating in that regard. Thats where they tried to create egalitarian "all are equal" mini-societies. But they really tried to think it through and make it work. For example
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by seer 8y ago
You’ll be surprised how much those small automations and time savings pile up. And also if it keeps you in the flow it can make a quantitive difference truly qualitive. I always like to fallback on the “is it worth my time xkcd” https:&#x2
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by seer 8y ago
I can only speak about UK and Eastern Europe, but I think that holds true about most of Europe in general. Dev work is generally very lax on academic credentials. Most of the time a great work record, open source contributions or other easi
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by seer 8y ago
There has been quite a lot of new, exciting and actually useful science in recent years about how to have a healthy body, but I think most people only look at calories. Some may look at fat/carbs. And some may also look into excercise
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by seer 8y ago
I recently had a chat with a “flat earther”, well not really but a ... believer in the same conspiratorial vein. It was quite fun to suggest that chem trails flat earth etc might be a anmerican corporate conspiracy to extract woulrd dominan
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by seer 8y ago
This one is a lot easier to model though isn’t it? If you accidentally drop a paper towel, the “psychological cost” of rising it from the floor is astronomically more than just using it - it would have floor dirt all over it. So it can easi
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by seer 8y ago
It is of course rational to throw trash when you don't give a fuck. The parent question is more about why people that do give a fuck otherwise, would flick and stomp their discarded cigarette buts. The question is interesting precise
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by seer 8y ago
I’ve seen a similar thing happen in Sofia, Bulgaria’s capital, but with a twist. When there were no malls, all the high end shops were located at the center in the pedestrian friendly zone. Then they started building them like crazy, all th
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by seer 8y ago
Ovo Energy - a uk energy company, which should have been called a “a tech company that happens to be doing energy stuff” :)
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by seer 8y ago
Man it was a crazy year for me: - Clojure - Typescript - Aws Lambdas - Serverless - Terraform - Cloudformation - Docker - AWS Ecs with Fargate - Kafka All this mainly because I managed to land a job at a big company that encourages knowledg
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by seer 8y ago
If you don’t have the time for a whole book - CGP Gray does a pretty good summary in his “Rules for rulers” youtube video. Very highly recommended!
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by seer 8y ago
Man what is it woth russians and cats honestly? The love that dares not say its name. I lived so myself - in the russian “glubinka” with a family of cats as a child and loved them dearly, but still I think russians love cats disproportionat
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by seer 8y ago
Well I think the key for me was the phisical excercise - the body and especially the mind requires it to be healthy, and martial arts just gave me something that I could consider “worth it” in the long run, and has its own very deep history
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by seer 8y ago
Maybe not as pronounced as in your case but I can definitly understand where you’re comming from. What worked for me was trying to understand some martial arts / eastern spirituality, which brought a lot of peace and stability to my m
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by seer 8y ago
Its interesting that Buddist religions don’t appear to encourage strife per se, my knowledge of asian religions is very spotty, but I don’t think they have the same wars and justification for violence as the western religions do.
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by seer 8y ago
I’m sorry I don’t have much to add to the discussion but just wanted to mention that this is one of the most beautiful and insightful comments I’ve read in a while, thank you. A book I’ve read some time ago - “Reinventing organizations” gav
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by seer 8y ago
That is true, but isn’t it trivially solvable with the datomic model? You just have a datum “significant event” list and add stuff to it? You still get all the benefits of event sourcing, but then you can query the state much more easily. A
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Every service is an island(deliveroo.engineering)
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by seer 8y ago
Not that this applies to your particular situation of course but I have seen places where that duplication was actually warranted - especially in css. E.g. some code was extracted and reused when it was not meant to, just drying the code up
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by seer 8y ago
If I remember correctly, the progon m that crashed in 2013 did have at least some of those design features for the accelerometers, but the mechanics just hammered the sensors “in place” as the wouldn’t um “properly fit” turned out they were

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