shantly

24 ms·

181.
by shantly 7y ago
A look through the yarn issue tracker tells me it's not time to try it again yet, since the last time it burned me. Maybe some day.
182.
by shantly 7y ago
I'm not above going along with tech I think's misguided or bad rather than fighting it, because I know it's trending up and will look good on my résumé, but ask for me to solo-write a Javascript project and tell me delivery m
183.
by shantly 7y ago
Matrix servers are kinda a pain in the ass to get up-and-running and to manage versus, say, XMPP or IRC. Especially if you can't get away with just running someone else's pre-built docker images for it, or whatever.
184.
by shantly 7y ago
I wouldn't immediately dismiss the claim that the Elmo stuff has more explicit social-emotional teaching, as in "here's the thing we're teaching in this skit and exactly what we want you to learn!", while Big Bird
185.
by shantly 7y ago
Yeah, my curse and blessing is that I'm (apparently—I'm just going off feedback and where I've observed myself contributing strongly to projects) really good at parts of software development that don't really come throug
186.
by shantly 7y ago
> the line between real journalism and critique died somewhere around 2008. Huh. '08/'09 is also about when Google started to get both worse (apparently declared defeat in the Great Search Spam War, for one thing) and evil
187.
by shantly 7y ago
I figure if my initial contact & a work history that fits very closely with what the posting company's asking for (as it usually does when I personally apply somewhere, rather than letting recruiters bring me stuff) wasn't int
188.
by shantly 7y ago
It's where the audience is. It's working better for getting messages out & people actually reading them than any alternative, despite sucking.
189.
by shantly 7y ago
External number pads are cheap. If someone's spending enough time using programs for which a number pad would be very helpful, it's probably worth the few dollars they cost and the tiny amount of space they take up (similar to a n
190.
by shantly 7y ago
Lots of business programs of the sort where people spend much of their day in them should probably look and act more or less like "bad" old DOS keyboard-focused business programs. Instant responses to input, shortcut-driven. You
191.
by shantly 7y ago
Yeah, sure, I do evaluative work just fine, but I don't think "build [non-trivial thing] with [fairly complex software or tools you've never used] while we watch you, you have 50 minutes" resembles that very much. The cl
192.
by shantly 7y ago
> I've done a lot of these tests and interview projects, passed plenty, didn't pass a few, didn't bother finishing a few, but - weirdly - every place I've been hired didn't use them in the first place. Similar he
193.
by shantly 7y ago
Heh. I've seen that tried once, as an employee. Not sure what the motivation was, may have been investment-related. Pretty sure not a single person signed. No harm came to us. Solidarity'll do that.
194.
by shantly 7y ago
You're not alone. At this point I'm pretty sure the majority of reports that there are lots of people lying on résumés and also being able to convince people in conversation that they know how to write software but who can&#x2
195.
by shantly 7y ago
Force them to figure it out or start impounding goods? Impound their goods if you can't, for any reason, gain access to inspect any part of their declared supply chain for occasional surprise inspections to verify it is as they say it
196.
by shantly 7y ago
Efforts , but have companies been made to pay a cost for failing to source "ethically", even when they say "well gee we tried and it's just really hard"? Things tend to get more serious when money is on the line, r
197.
by shantly 7y ago
Mandating that companies stop buying cobalt from suppliers who don't document things well is absolutely a legitimate, non-pie-in-the-sky way to effect change. The idea is that demand for documented cobalt will go up, prices for it wi
198.
by shantly 7y ago
I don't think I've directly ruled out much in the way of interview questions on in my comments on this thread, I basically just think not telling people the sorts of questions to expect and in which sections of the day, and not
199.
by shantly 7y ago
It's pretty nice for "is this thing I've encountered in this (API/library/SDK/tool) with no public issue or bugtracker a bug, or am I screwing up?" sorts of questions.
200.
by shantly 7y ago
I don't think I've ever had to learn something very complex under the same short time constraints and high do-or-die pressure as an interview. Tiny things (think: new-to-me unixy commands), yeah, but nothing very complex. With as
201.
by shantly 7y ago
One of the biggest differences between school and business is that in business no one really gives a shit how you got something done, within reason. You just knew it? Cool. You had to do the whole thing with the manual open on the desk next
202.
by shantly 7y ago
An engineering mindset and systems thinking—or simple awareness of things like experimental design principals—are badly under-applied to software hiring processes, IMO. "What are we trying to select for with this section of the inter
203.
by shantly 7y ago
From my perspective, a big part of the problem is that companies don't let you know they'll be doing something like this (a simple "the 1:00 section of the interview will involve giving you a task using some tech you're
204.
by shantly 7y ago
Almost no companies come out and say "we will ask you some dumb bullshit in the interview and not tell you what we're evaluating or how we're evaluating it" and a huge percentage of the industry interviews like this, at
205.
by shantly 7y ago
If one company is bad at vetting vendors and loses lots of lawsuits, so has to raise prices, that creates an opening for competitors (existing or new) to do a better job of that, not lose a bunch of lawsuits, and crush them in the market wi
206.
by shantly 7y ago
Vendors that don't get sued can compete better in the market and survive longer, and their prices won't go up (except maybe a little as rents if they have few competitors and those have been forced to raise their prices because
207.
by shantly 7y ago
> In reality I was given only a single coding interview my whole onsite, and it was to build a JavaScript SPA, including routing/linking, without the use of any framework, just vanilla JS. > I was allowed to Google whatever but 5
208.
by shantly 7y ago
Corporations have far more resources than individuals, and a much smaller set of things to worry about, if this is limited to inputs or products the company themselves are responsible for creating or having created (not, say, office chairs
209.
by shantly 7y ago
Any results/findings for development speed or new hire on-boarding?
210.
by shantly 7y ago
If you don't feel in your bones the difference between "someone might be watching, and perhaps—unlikely, but perhaps—if they're a real weirdo or I've done something to really draw their interest, recording, but proba

More ›