stcroixx

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by stcroixx 4y ago
Yes of course. If the goal is to hire for attribute x and you decline to say whether you posses that, they will pass you over until they find what they're looking for.
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by stcroixx 4y ago
Same experience. Happened with NPR too at the same time.
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by stcroixx 4y ago
If they're hiring people who have no more than 2 years of experience they must understand that it will also take a senior like you to be an almost full time mentor to make them productive instead of you building stuff yourself. Are th
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by stcroixx 4y ago
When a pack of coyotes enters the pasture where my sheep are, a semi-auto 7.62mm is one of the best tools for the job. Can also be used when foxes go after my poultry. These are fast moving predators and despite being a practiced marksman
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by stcroixx 4y ago
Not an Onion headline?
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by stcroixx 4y ago
It is a low number, too low, and prevents citizens being paid what they're actually worth in a market without this government intrusion. Corporate welfare.
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by stcroixx 4y ago
Yes, this, and I know the problems we're solving are not as interesting as what anyone at Google is doing, so I assume they would be bored and only stay until they find something more interesting. So, pass. FAANG kind of traps you - y
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by stcroixx 4y ago
Are you sending those emails while on the job as an elected state representative chairing the house Intelligence committee? If you were, that would be an example of a government trying to censor it's citizens by abusing their power an
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by stcroixx 4y ago
Toastmasters - easy to spot who goes through that program. Similar to Dale Carnegie acolytes.
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by stcroixx 4y ago
Corporate software dev gig in the Bay Area. Was like a 10 minute commute by bike from my house. All but 2-3 of us on a team of 30 or so were H1B, all from the same village in India. Many of them appeared to have little more than some pas
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by stcroixx 4y ago
5 positions in 7-8 years would be a red flag for me. I wouldn't want to invest in someone who isn't likely to stick around for more than 1.5 years. I think it typically takes at least that long to start to understand the busines
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by stcroixx 4y ago
Feels that way. Inside metro areas in the US there is very little difference of opinion on most issues. It was not always this way. People seems mostly content to consume content and ‘raise awareness’ online, and repeat.
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by stcroixx 4y ago
That's served me well for 25 years in the industry. I don't think this approach works everywhere - the larger the organization, the more you need to play this game. Since I hate that game, I've stayed away from orgs like th
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by stcroixx 4y ago
OP misses coding and often architects do very little coding.
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by stcroixx 4y ago
My thoughts exactly. Why would the implementation language bless a piece of software as ‘relevant’? I’d also argue learning how to do for loops in bash, which would let you write them on about any server in any data center on the planet,
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by stcroixx 4y ago
There are emails from Adam Schiff directly asking for specific citizens to be censored. No surrounding narrative needed.
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by stcroixx 4y ago
25 years programming. Not sure I have ever felt psychologically unsafe. Just a job for me.
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by stcroixx 4y ago
I don’t think I’ve ever had a canned or jarred sauce that was even close in taste to even the most basic homemade version.
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by stcroixx 4y ago
Damn. Are you going to continue being an Apple customer?
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by stcroixx 4y ago
Java and Postgres. For large numbers of devs, this is a very intuitive stack they have lots of experience in and can get work done super quick. Also won’t have to rewrite later because good performance. I’d stay away from depending on a
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by stcroixx 4y ago
I think I’ve got over a hundred to go over for one of my positions right now. I take a half day a couple times a week to go over them. I just consider it a priority and make time for it. Training and then firing someone is such a massiv
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by stcroixx 4y ago
I’ve been hiring for 15 years maybe and always read resumes. The skills bubble is critical for me personally - they need to have some stuff in there that matches what tech we use. I also don’t look at LinkedIn - doesn’t add anything to me
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by stcroixx 4y ago
Yeah, it was hard to believe what I was reading there. Building something that can't stand alone as a product without a 3rd party API is always a big risk for a developer. When it blows up, should not be made the customers problem.
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by stcroixx 4y ago
Therapy is out of reach for many/most people, at least in the US. Getting an appointment can take months and often they're only offered online, which isn't quite the same for a lot of people. Also expensive. Then, if you d
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by stcroixx 4y ago
Lacking the merit, I'd consider this to be arrogance rather than confidence. One is based in reality, one is just wishful thinking. Granted, most people can't tell the difference looking at someone whose background they are not
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by stcroixx 4y ago
It's the managers job to make the big picture clear to you. If I got feedback like that from a manager, I'd ask for specifics as well ideas about how to improve. If they can't provide this, which I'm guessing they can&
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by stcroixx 4y ago
Who is asking that?
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by stcroixx 4y ago
It was very trendy in certain circles when I was in college to be vegetarian/vegan and I think it was mostly a fashion choice. If it had been about morals, there would have been other lifestyle changes.
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by stcroixx 4y ago
At the height of VB6 usage, there was no VB.net or Visual Studio. There was the VB6 windows binary that was a GUI form builder and IDE. ASP was brand new and for web development, so there was not much overlap in the dev community. I don&
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by stcroixx 4y ago
Did you use VB6? It was less a language and more of a wysiwyg windows desktop GUI application builder. If that's what you learned in school and it was your first professional job, you would have a very difficult road ahead of you lea

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