shaggyfrog

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by shaggyfrog 6y ago
There are a few comments in here already decrying “politicization”. Guess what? Politics are interwoven in every aspect of our lives. You cannot choose to “avoid” them; even suggesting you can be politically neutral is a political stance
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by shaggyfrog 6y ago
If that's an "obvious" question that needs to be asked, then that's a signal to the candidate that the hiring manager doesn't know WTF they're doing. Waste of time for everyone involved.
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by shaggyfrog 6y ago
How the heck does this get onto the front page? The top question is "What methodologies have you used?" -- is this a joke? The answer will tell you nothing about the candidate's ability to do a good job. This article is a was
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by shaggyfrog 6y ago
Three Card Monte? I find this happens with computer game UIs a lot, too, especially for dynamic UI elements that float above static UI elements. Especially when there is a lag due to animations.
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by shaggyfrog 6y ago
I have to wonder about the competence of a hiring manager who thinks that sending a candidate (who just rejected their offer) a dead fish in a package, without any other context, is a good idea. But then again, we are talking about tech rec
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by shaggyfrog 6y ago
git force push, and damn the torpedoes
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by shaggyfrog 6y ago
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Everything/whatever. Last 3-4 years: Python (Django), Kotlin, Java (Spring), JavaScript. Also last 11 years: iOS/OSX (C/C++/Objective-C),
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by shaggyfrog 7y ago
Maybe if we all ask @pud nicely...
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by shaggyfrog 7y ago
SEEKING WORK | Vancouver, BC, Canada | Remote OK Willing to Relocate: No Technologies: Everything. Last 3-4 years: Python (Django), Kotlin, Java (Spring), JavaScript. Also last 11 years: iOS/OSX (C/C++/Objective-C), Bash, Per
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by shaggyfrog 7y ago
This comment is heavily biased towards a US-centric worldview. Different parts of the world are burning, or burning out, at different rates... so it’s not so much about “worrying about this right now” but “what lessons can one part of the g
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by shaggyfrog 7y ago
You don’t think it’s possible because... why?
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by shaggyfrog 7y ago
SEEKING WORK | Vancouver, BC, Canada | Remote OK Willing to Relocate: No Technologies: Everything. Last 3-4 years: Python (Django), Kotlin, Java (Spring), JavaScript. Also last 11 years: iOS/OSX (C/C++/Objective-C), Bash, Per
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by shaggyfrog 7y ago
> perl -a -MText::LevenshteinXS -e 'print distance(@F), "\n"' Step 2: draw the rest of the owl
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by shaggyfrog 7y ago
SEEKING WORK | Vancouver, BC, Canada | Remote OK Willing to Relocate: No Technologies: Everything. Last 3-4 years: Python (Django), Kotlin, Java (Spring), JavaScript. Also last 11 years: iOS/OSX (C/C++/Objective-C), Bash, Per
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by shaggyfrog 7y ago
Hearing “What’s your biggest weakness?” from an interviewer should be a strong red flag for a candidate that they don’t know what they’re doing. Not only is it a manipulative question, the response is basically meaningless if the candidate
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by shaggyfrog 7y ago
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada Remote: Yes/OK Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Everything. Last 3-4 years: Python (Django), Kotlin, Java (Spring), JavaScript. Also last 11 years: iOS/OSX (C/C++/Objective-C), Bash,
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by shaggyfrog 7y ago
I think this confuses me every time. Really one of the most prominent naming mistakes in tech I can think of.
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by shaggyfrog 7y ago
> A while after someone (which I can’t trace back) made an interesting (and equally brilliant) observation - there is a fourth option - unknown knowns - that is, things we don’t know we know. In most cases, that person pointed out, the c
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by shaggyfrog 7y ago
Alert is primarily a military base, so perhaps that quality is making the distinction here.
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by shaggyfrog 7y ago
> Listen, companies have their own cultures, and if you're not a fit to that culture, bringing you on runs the risk of ruining the culture they have been building and making their employees quit. This is the same reasoning that has
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by shaggyfrog 7y ago
(in mice)
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by shaggyfrog 7y ago
In theory. In practice, - stories are not always the same "size", - someone correlates story points to a time unit, - everyone estimates stories differently, - not everyone understands how to do the thing because they've neve
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by shaggyfrog 7y ago
I can't be sure, of course, but perhaps more teachers are trained every year than are capable of being employed (due to policy or whatever else). Perhaps Chicago is seen as a more desirous place to live and work than other places. Perh
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by shaggyfrog 7y ago
> Or it's paid propaganda by whoever I was curious about the site's owner (American Enterprise Institute) and looked them up on Wikipedia to give me context for reading the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by shaggyfrog 7y ago
Contrariwise, weak interview questions give a strong signal to the candidate about the quality of the organization.
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by shaggyfrog 7y ago
That's interesting, because last year I called up Visa to tell them I was going to Europe, and they told me they don't need to be notified of that anymore, and my card would work fine. Perhaps different CC providers have different
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by shaggyfrog 7y ago
Punch up, not down.
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by shaggyfrog 7y ago
I enjoyed reading about how they got started. I loved the fact they were supporting two mental health organizations with donations. Since friend loves this kind of diary-keeping, after I was done reading, I checked out their website with t
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by shaggyfrog 7y ago
> And lastly, as the article stated, we had a hard time finding new talent to cover the growing amount of work required to deliver our product. There just aren’t many C++/JS devs out there. Reading the article and now this, I really
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by shaggyfrog 7y ago
I don't think wxWidgets is a strong example for cross-platform success. While admittedly I haven't touched wxWidgets in years, back when I used it, I marvelled that it worked at all, as the source code was such an utter mess. For

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