stevetrewick

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by stevetrewick 10y ago
Try going to an interview as a dentist and refusing to answer the interviewers questions without even finding out what they are and storming out in a huff. See how many dentisting jobs you get offered.
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
Exactly this. And we didn't use 'toy' problems like FizzBuzz either, it was 'connect to our DB, pull the following data, do some computation, present it in a UI' kind of stuff. We did this right in the office with t
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
Who said anything about writing code on a whiteboard? And coding tests on our (past tense) code base while sitting in with our team are absolutely testing soft skills. Are you going to ask questions when you get stuck? How are you interacti
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
It would be unprofessional to judge a candidate purely on the basis of their resumè. I wouldn't expect an adult with years of experience to find such a test even remotely problematic. And in case anyone missed it, part of the test is e
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
And during the process, you find out about each other.
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
And you were expecting what, exactly? I've had similar using live coding tests, barely minutes in and the candidate is clearly not coding what was specified. Asked why, they offer criticism of the interview process and an explanation o
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
I've been cranking out code since the 80s and I can count the number of times I've had to create a make file one my fingers. Not everyone is working in the same domain with the same tools as you are.
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
2009, but always well worth a re-read, and if it's your first time, congrats on being one of today's lucky 10,000 [0] [0] https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
Think of it like sport. Anyone can have a go and have fun, jumpers for goalposts and all that but the vast majority aren't going to end up as your Ronaldos or Andy Murrays. And that's OK.
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
Quite distressingly common. > "9 out of 10 employers rate blind and partially sighted people as either 'difficult' or 'impossible' to employ" (DWP, 2004) [0] Which is stupid beyond belief to anyone who spen
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
This drives me crazy. My local light rail system has an automated announcement system that malfunctions frequently. I write a complaint every time. I've escalated all the way up the org chart and I still can't convince them that t
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
As with most such official documents [0] a UK birth certificate bears a Crown Copyright [1] imprimatur. Therefore, the thinking goes, your actual name is owned by the state and not you. Therefore using it is a fraud, therefore you don'
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
> Does it bother anyone else that whenever someone comes up with a strange or weird, non-mainstream idea, their mental health is immediately called into question Broadly speaking, yes. Yes it does. Which is why - knowing this particular
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
Absolutely. My thought on seeing this was 'Oh hey, the internets are leaking again'. This is really fringe stuff and it's just fascinating to see it bleeding through into the mainstream. Especially by big ass meme carrying bi
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
Yes. I ran into a bunch of FoL/SC types when I used to run in libertarian circles and my impression of the ones who take it seriously was that they are vulnerable people in a shit load of trouble. By the time you are trying to turn bai
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
Indeed. This legislation is only amateurishly oppressive compared to the Interception Modernisation Program they were pushing just a few years back.[0] [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interception_Modernisation_P...
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
Full report at [0] (PDF, 351 pages). According to the WIPP Wikipedia page [1] the final report is expected around 2028. [0] http://prod.sandia.gov/techlib/access-control.cgi/1992/92138... [1] https:/&#x
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
> And is easier on people with limited vision This is an unfortunately common misconception. Sometimes yes, sometimes not. It is highly dependent on condition, in particular with what part of the field is obscured/impaired. I lack
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
Discussion also links to several previous/related items https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10160456 Great story.
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
Author states that if you contemplate the two graphs you'll have an epiphany. Quite right, it went "Wow, that is not how you analyse data and I'm sure I heard about an actual investigation with cited sources and actual math
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
I was under the impression that the RSGs were secret until 1963 when an anti nuke campaign group exposed them? But then, hey, Britain. We have a load of secrets that aren't technically secret but we'd rather you didn't know a
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
Sure. Absolutely. But if they'd been straight PSTN lines the abject process failure you've correctly described wouldn't have been able to put lives at risk because we'd have had to call the telco who most assuredly would
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
An example of why. I once worked on a team tasked with auditing the phone lines in an office building to identify potential cost savings on lines with outgoing access. We came across two on the PBX that no one could identify. Numbers not in
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
How so? If I'm 'the best' surely I can do my thang quicker and be off to some enriching theatre production while everyone else is still scratching their heads. It's those poor non best suckers who have to work hard to ke
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
> We, as an industry, are going to a dangerous place when we don't just expect, but require people to keep working after work. For what values of 'industry'? I mean, I totally agree that if this is your local view then yo
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
Nitpick : > OECD Working Papers should not be reported as representing the official views of the OECD or of its member countries. And yet they always are. Numbers wise, even if Frey and Osborne's supposedly apocalyptic numbers are
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
> but it's also not terrible It's terrible. Really. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7943365
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
If you're emailing users' passwords you've got bigger problems than a bit of trailing white space.
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
Great read. > no one challenged the status of the stored program as the defining feature of the modern digital electronic computer”, but “we struggle when required to articulate its significance in simple terms" Are we? Then it&#x2
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
I was only vaguely aware that receiver detection was a thing but had no idea how it worked. Googling around based on some of your keywords opened it up and also produced this declassified CIA gem 'Agent Hazard in the Super-het' h

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