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by slumpt_ 5y ago
Being able to refresh one’s memory / reference previously learned approaches is not akin to learning them from scratch. Your opener is preposterous.
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by slumpt_ 5y ago
Okay. So arbitrary preparation - when nearly any other professional interview requires little preparation beyond updating your resume - has merit because... rules of the game? Stop supporting baseless metrics for assessment just because som
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by slumpt_ 5y ago
My best coworkers is about as good of a metric as things that “stretched your mind to its limits.” The point is neither is demonstrated to bear any relationship to jack shit Interviewing is and has been broken, even with the changes we’ve m
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by slumpt_ 5y ago
It’s not. Theory can be referenced. People do not work in a vacuum. Interviewing in eng is broken, but afaict its a “worst solution save all others” kind of scenario. But let us not begin to deem these intrinsically important. Some of the m
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by slumpt_ 5y ago
Absolutely absurd and illogical
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by slumpt_ 5y ago
ok
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by slumpt_ 5y ago
This business needs some bootstraps!
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by slumpt_ 5y ago
It appears you need to offer more money. Your wages have been deemed undesirable / unlivable and are thus uncompetitive. Whether that is “sustainable” for your own cash flow was never the point.
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by slumpt_ 5y ago
Yep. That dude is a clown and undoubtedly a nightmare to work with.
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by slumpt_ 5y ago
Yep. Certainly never wanted to work for IBM but this gives me a great case to never explore it.
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by slumpt_ 6y ago
On the contrary, tons of companies don’t do this shit. FAANGs do without fail, but the world is not all FAANGs.
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by slumpt_ 6y ago
You have to pay a lot (+ a lot of perks) to get folks to tolerate the amount of bullshit you put up with at a FAANG. There is a world of other more enjoyable and educational opportunities out there they must compete with. And so the cash sh
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by slumpt_ 6y ago
Yep. Software and products at these companies are often a horrific mess. Leaving one and taking a big pay cut just so I can go work with a small team of people who give a shit about software and products again.
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by slumpt_ 6y ago
Most developers think of commits as diffs and they can for all intents and purposes be thought of as such. It’s actually best for the understanding of how to practically get things done to think of them in this way. Odd semantic argument to
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by slumpt_ 6y ago
Sales / service taxes disproportionately hit the poor. We don’t need poverty to be more expensive than it is.
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by slumpt_ 6y ago
That first paragraph resonates 200%. As long as you’re only looking at like 30 lines it’s lovely. Then you zoom out to view the beast.
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by slumpt_ 6y ago
Google has heaps of horrible code. The problem with lots of small isolated CLs and little time invested in revisiting broader architectures. Then they’ll finally rewrite the thing some day, after a massive and often unnecessary design doc f
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by slumpt_ 6y ago
Yeah, I’m sure their political system’s success / failure wasn’t impacted at all by US intervention. Oh, HackerNews. I love you.
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by slumpt_ 6y ago
fucking lol
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by slumpt_ 6y ago
Sounds like you should crack a history book open.
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by slumpt_ 6y ago
oof
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by slumpt_ 6y ago
Most interviewing is broken and assesses your skill at “programming interviews” and not “programming.” Experienced engineers can help unfuck a massive complex system. They might not nail your napsack problem right out the gate. But if you w
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by slumpt_ 6y ago
He’s suggesting their approach to hiring competent people is flawed.
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by slumpt_ 6y ago
You aren’t writing up UX requirements. You’re writing system designs. If you’ve never had to write down and get feedback on a system design that is entirely okay, but as you work on projects of increasing complexity and scope, it becomes mo
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by slumpt_ 6y ago
This is the weirdest thing to be so aggressively confrontational about...
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by slumpt_ 6y ago
You should actually spend time reading up on unions. Present and historically.
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by slumpt_ 6y ago
if you enter the fray by bringing up pinker it’s already lost happy to disagree fucking completely with you now and forever pinkers work on that is and has been a joke completely lacking nuance and is an exhausting and boring mess to liti
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by slumpt_ 6y ago
> and you have not lived in the shoes of the poor in america, so maybe when it concerns issues of poverty you should listen more than talk. or just keep talking. wealthy boomer has opinions. world keeps spinning. the point has entirely e
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by slumpt_ 6y ago
sounds like the answer is "no." see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26033031 not everything is about getting seasonal fruits year round. there is a lot more to life. and you have not lived in the shoes of th
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by slumpt_ 6y ago
you ever been on food stamps yourself?

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