sethammons

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   by sethammons 8y ago

   I'm generally in favor of it. Whether to include your manager or not is up to the team dynamic. On our team, absolutely (she used to be a dev on the team, then the team lead, then the team manager). What I've seen in our own &quot
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   by sethammons 8y ago

   Is PM'ing a feature here I don't know about? Looked at your profile and I don't see an email address. Would love to see the code. Sounds crazy useful.
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   by sethammons 8y ago

   I've been a graphic designer for a photo lab, a php code monkey, an insurance agent, a financial advisor, a construction worker, a high school math teacher, and, for the longest stretch (over 7yrs), a software developer. The php code m
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   by sethammons 8y ago

   Yes! I don't like games that grind. I have more important things to do with my time. I'll put _some_ time into some grind-y games. I like hearthstone, but don't grind. I play ~5-10 minutes a day. I like diablo, but I get mayb
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   by sethammons 8y ago

   Conversely, someone angry at 2am might ignore critical details to drive their point home. Often people are likely to blame others and take no ownership of their issues. I recall a bad review where I knew the person and the company. Somethin
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   by sethammons 8y ago

   You ain't gonna need it. The idea is that developers tend to think, "what if they need $x too? I'll just add it." Or, worse, they over gerneralize their solution. "I needed to rank 3 cart items by price, so I develo
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   by sethammons 8y ago

   All I could venture to offer to explain that feedback would be: did you use proper http codes? Post vs get vs put vs delete? Headers? Auth methods? Did you sign the requests? Maybe something else I'm forgetting.
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   by sethammons 8y ago

   Last popular one I recall was Lord of the Rings, but I admittedly do not follow this stuff even remotely. Just recall a post, prolly on here, about it.
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   by sethammons 8y ago

   Fwiw, I very much enjoyed the pictures. I enjoyed the levity.
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    by sethammons 8y ago

    I'm interested in the compliment one! If is see someone compliment-worthy, I nearly universally don't give the compliment. Ex, "that's a wonderful dress" as I pass someone on the train. Instead of potentially bright
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    by sethammons 8y ago

    I would say, just because you have 7 years of experience, one is not automatically a senior developer. It could be 1 year's worth of experience 7 times.
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    by sethammons 8y ago

    I had a candidate once. They were having trouble getting the message body on a 400 level error during the technical interview. They had chosen to solve it in Java. I'm not a Java developer (and I let the candidate know ahead of time an
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    by sethammons 8y ago

    Does that make the account no longer valid? His problem is not "lazy union members," he has folks he thinks are getting screwed over that he would fight for a promotion for.
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    by sethammons 8y ago

    > A company doesn't become adversarial with its workforce because of unions; a company is forced to treat its workforce more as an equal because of unions. I'm not convinced. My brother's work has a warehouse. The warehous
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    by sethammons 8y ago

    While those basic strategies are technically good for scaling, I think the other commenters have a very valid point: it seems a lot of folks say, "no, this strategy is not something that appears to be working because the site is slow,
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    by sethammons 8y ago

    Many things start opt-in and later become the only option
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    by sethammons 8y ago

    If I never had to restart, sure. I have to restart my laptop weekly at least. Heck, it locked up twice last week opening Diablo 3 forcing a hard power cycle. My phone gets restarted less often but still gets into odd states where a reboot i
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    by sethammons 8y ago

    I sure as heck want my tabs back. But I'd settle for "restore tabs" as I have to do that a lot in chrome on my MacBook Pro. On my Android, the tabs are just there and I really appreciate it. I have over a dozen tabs open on m
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    by sethammons 8y ago

    Remembering 10 single letter mappings vs clear variable names sounds onerous.a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, and j vs price, discount, coupon, item_description, item_id, ...
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    by sethammons 8y ago

    How is .map() not a slow loop? I'm not a js Dev, but my understanding is it loops over all elements in a list, applying a function and creating a new list. With a loop. That would be as fast as any other loop. What am I missing?
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    by sethammons 8y ago

    It is a cycle. Google drops a product due to low uptick, so users don't take on further products. There are three products that I can think of that have lasted: search, email, ads (which is search, really). [edit] oh, and maps!
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    by sethammons 8y ago

    But that would not be flaking, just being late, no? Are there cultures where completely failing to do what you said you would is acceptable?
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    by sethammons 8y ago

    > No exceptions Well, apparently Go _is_ an exception. It lacks what you point out and is, undeniably, a successful language.
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    by sethammons 8y ago

    References? It is relatively common to call a former employer of a prospective employee and verify employment and ask if they would hire the person again.
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    by sethammons 8y ago

    My first Python project I walked into was in Twisted and was a MySQL abstraction layer and written by a crazy smart pair of folks where one of them was the king of early (unneeded) abtractions. On top of that, the tech lead wanted it to be
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    by sethammons 8y ago

    As a former math teacher in a disadvantaged area, I'm going to have to stick to my original statement. It could be different in other regions of the world, but, in the US, because funding is based on test scores, and teachers are requi
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    by sethammons 8y ago

    Naw, you just get a bigger loan :)
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    by sethammons 8y ago

    Standardized testing leads to teaching to the test, and the tests need to be easily gradable, so we teach kids how to take tests that represents content in a mannor that is a mile wide but an inch deep. Multiple choice is a crap way to meas
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    by sethammons 8y ago

    One of my favorites was anonymous peer review. Some folks within your team and from outside your team (with whom you've worked) list some areas of strengths and areas for improvement. When you get these back, they are scrambled a bit.
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    by sethammons 8y ago

    We had a couple services in Twisted. Aptly named. It was a big reason I've enjoyed Go so much. One was an in-house DB abstraction/API that handled multiple DB hosts, read/write query routing, connection pooling, query queuein