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by speby 4y ago
I have a better idea. Don't do take-home assignments as a candidate and don't give them as part of your interview process as an employer. Problem solved.
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by speby 4y ago
This does not sound right at all. A lot of "automated" checks by the IRS that result in a return being corrected (such as more money being owed, for example, because of an automated check that found a mistake, such as someone forg
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by speby 4y ago
However, don't also say nothing all the time, either. And you'll be perceived as detached, unengaged, and uninvolved.
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by speby 4y ago
Standups can be everyday and be useful. We do them via Slack and they take, maybe 3 minutes? 1 minute to perhaps type up your own standup to share and another 2 minutes to read the rest of the team's. They're quick hitters to get
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by speby 4y ago
This is interesting, at least. The 1-week 'test' so far is certainly a bit premature to declare success. Let's also not forget about the need to sterilize the water further, thru boiling, or reverse osmosis, or whatever else,
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by speby 4y ago
I mostly agree. I'm a "gamer" but not a very serious/avid one. Stadia has been great for casual play and a few of the family/kids games that I play along with my little ones. They have a blast. I also enjoy the cros
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by speby 4y ago
A lot of comments in here misunderstand what it means when they think that teams at Big Tech aren't required to follow a specific process as meaning that those teams don't follow a process at all. The difference is that most senio
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by speby 4y ago
I would still suggest, anecdotally, that Google Maps is a bit more up to date and comprehensive over Apple Maps. However, that has narrowed a LOT over the last few years, to the point where I really don't worry about it much. I prefer
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by speby 4y ago
Oh, great, one more thing to soil the age discrimination problem we have throughout society. Even if this is all true or whatnot, it's still a pretty terrible thing for people the older they get.
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by speby 5y ago
I've known a couple of pretty good recruiters (and a lot of lousy ones) over the years. The biggest thing not usually discussed is that the recruiting industry resembles industries like real estate agents and sales. It's an extrem
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by speby 5y ago
Most states (maybe all?) have a common 3-day "regret" clause for many types of transactions, including car buying, mortgages, etc. So you can, in many cases, still 'take delivery' and then if you change your mind in 72 h
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by speby 5y ago
It still amazes me that some of the biggest (and many might argue innovative, progressive) companies like Apple but also Google and others, still struggle with basic tenets of 'work' and its future. Remote work is here to stay (an
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by speby 5y ago
> It's not that it has to be 'better' than the best $12 bbq joint you've ever been to, just different The high-end places are not only about 'better' food per se. It's all about the ingredients, the pre
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by speby 5y ago
Remote work was already a very long-term trend before COVID. COVID pumped steroids everywhere on that trend, thus making Zoom and others see tremendous growth. I suspect the growth will "slow" relative to the first 6 months of, sa
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by speby 5y ago
Got rid of my Twitter account a couple years ago. Have not missed it once.
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by speby 5y ago
Yes, that's true, but even cars are not the same as the model T or other cars available in 1919. Besides cars being relatively "new" to society at the time, they also lacked, well, everything on this list and then some: * No
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by speby 5y ago
I find a lot of those 'review sites' are really just lightweight b.s. marketing sites that are really designed to generate product referral fees by providing a convenient link to Amazon or wherever else rather than truly a real at
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by speby 5y ago
Selfishly, from a hiring perspective, it bums me out that the secret is now well-known. I've been working remote/hybrid-remote and recruiting remote/hybrid-remote teams for 12 years. I absolutely LOVED that all the dinosaurs
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by speby 5y ago
I haven't had a cable subscription in years. I think almost 5 or 6 years now. It's been a combination of streaming, movie rentals (streaming), and BitTorrent downloads. And yes, it definitely can be cheaper if you willing to activ
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by speby 5y ago
Yep, agree. And as an example, things shift (i.e. transfer attention from one "account" to another another "account") such as TV consumption: https://www.statista.com/statistics/186833/average-t
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by speby 5y ago
Gosh, building any tools that target developers as customers is a gargantuan task. Kudos to you for attempting something new here and giving it a whirl. We developers are some of the harshest critics around, no matter how legit or unfounded
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by speby 5y ago
What you're seeing is really the same pattern as the late 90's dotcom boom-bust. Then, too, TONS of people (and their sisters and mothers) went into the "Information Superhighway" to become "WebMasters" and dev
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by speby 5y ago
Better AND Worse? Streaming video. The convenience of on-demand and a sort of a la carte experience that we've always been clamoring to have since the days of "regular" Cable TV are here. And while that's nice and conven
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by speby 5y ago
Reminds me a little of an oldie but a goodie: expertsexchange.com
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by speby 5y ago
No "machine learning" model can successfully peer into the inside of the home, and in the walls, or in the plumbing, to get an accurate sense of the worth of the home because no machine learning model would have that information.
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by speby 5y ago
If Zillow had "figured it all out" on solving the magic pricing problem, they could have put the entire appraisal industry out of business. Well, guess what, they didn't and they didn't even come close.
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by speby 5y ago
Because of shear dollar amount. Let's say on trade, you can sell your car to a dealership for $8000. Privately, maybe you can get $10000 or 10,500. Now, of course, $2,500 is not nothing but for some people, that is a trade they're
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by speby 5y ago
No no no no. Let's go down the list, shall we. Remember, COVID or not, remote work trend accelerating or not, things have not changed as much as they seem: * People STILL want to migrate to the US and it will remain one of the top choi
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by speby 5y ago
Lust may be the wrong word here. Infatuation is more like the term I tend to associate with people's initial attraction and substance of their relationship with someone else. The simple reason has more to do with the fact people simp
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by speby 5y ago
This is itself too much of a generalization. Great developers with a lot of experience across tech stacks, even if mostly back-end focused, will have very little problem getting up to speed on a complex (e.g. Angular) front-end. Learning cu

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