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by tene 10y ago
My best guess has been that there's an oversupply of incompetent "developers" trying to play the numbers game, doing enormous numbers of interviews hoping they'll find a company that will hire them anyway. If incompetent
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by tene 10y ago
I don't know about Go, but there's quite a nice similar library for Haskell, https://hackage.haskell.org/package/concurrent-output
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by tene 10y ago
That's exactly correct. If your communication is in fact important enough to barge in disruptively and demand their full attention immediately, a phone call is appropriate. If your communication is not that important, then send an
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by tene 10y ago
Yes, scope is very easy to learn, which is why it's so damning when you encounter someone who claims multiple years of experience with Javascript, and doesn't understand the most-basic fundamentals of scoping.
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by tene 10y ago
Not at all. The phone screen I'm talking about is using https://coderpad.io/ which is an online shared programming environment. No white board involved, just a text editor and compiler, and whatever references, onlin
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by tene 10y ago
I'm not quite sure which part you're reply to, but my best guess is the bit about trying to hire a contractor to do hardware upgrades. In that case, we were basically looking for interns; we were bringing people in who had relati
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by tene 10y ago
That doesn't seem remotely like the same analogy to me. If we're talking about analogies, a much more accurate analogy, in my mind, would be "You can drive a car, right? What do you use this lever here on the steering wheel
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by tene 10y ago
I've been trying to hire sysadmins for my team recently, and sit next to someone trying to hire senior engineers for our infrastructure team. Candidates for my team first get screened by recruiters, then have a couple of phone calls wi
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by tene 10y ago
To make this point a little more directly, and in a similar way to what the article talks about, using "git commit" for this is using the same command for two different things, and makes it easier to make mistakes. Treating the s
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by tene 10y ago
When I was first learning Haskell, through Real World Haskell and LYAH, I was very frustrated that they never seemed to actually give definitions for anything, but instead just vaguely implied definitions by listing examples. What finally
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by tene 10y ago
ByteString isn't really a "string" type; it's a byte buffer. It's not about text. I think that it's entirely reasonable to have a dedicated "Text" type that works with decoded human text, separate f
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by tene 10y ago
I've never personally understood the exaggeration people use when talking about string types in Haskell. You say "zillions", but there's only really five. Five is the most disappointing "zillions" I've eve
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by tene 10y ago
I'm very curious about how you end up with alarms configured that you don't want to go off, especially often enough for this to be a regular problem for you.
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by tene 10y ago
It's not a coincidence; it's discussed in chapter 6 that Aaron Smith-Teller's grandfather was Edward Teller. http://unsongbook.com/chapter-6-till-we-have-built-jerusalem...
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by tene 10y ago
Yes, it's authored by Scott Alexander.
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by tene 10y ago
Everywhere I've worked, mostly very small companies for the past decade, has kept local mirrors of critical infrastructure we depend on, specifically distro repositories, CPAN, etc. It's just a sane best practice. It really does
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by tene 10y ago
IMVU | Redwood City, California | Remote http://im.vu/jobs The teams at the top of our hiring priority right now are the operations, android, ios, and web services teams. I lead the operations team, so I know the most about
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by tene 10y ago
Personally, when first learning Haskell, I found LYAH intolerable. I've known people who did get a lot of value out of it, but it's not for everyone. I really couldn't stand it. I haven't bothered to read HPFFP yet, a
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by tene 10y ago
> a strict by default variant of Haskell would be better https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/StrictPragma is coming in GHC 8.
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by tene 11y ago
The relevant content is in the essay after the comic. "That student is daring to be stupid. By calling attention to himself, he runs the risk that his fellow students will think him an idiot. But you know what? That student is the smar
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by tene 11y ago
I used to have a bit of an interest in recreational lock picking. I had a few TSA-approved locks that I liked to use as demonstrations to friends, because they were so trivially easy to open. They would pop open after just a few seconds o
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by tene 11y ago
One thing I'm curious about, if you're willing to share, is what makes hostels and shelters unsafe. There are several people on here who mention hostels or shelters not being safe for them, and I've never quite understood wh
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by tene 11y ago
When I was hired for my role as an SRE at http://imvu.com/ I had approximately zero savings. They were unable or unwilling to give me cash for my relocation bonus before my first employed day, but they were willing to pay
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by tene 11y ago
See also, the documentation added here: https://github.com/ghc/ghc/blob/master/docs/users_guide/glas...
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Strict Haskell Extension Landed(github.com)
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by tene 11y ago
The usual justification for this is that it's simpler, and reduces additional incentives to cheat the system and additional overhead. We currently have a means already in place to claim a portion of an individual's income, throug
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by tene 11y ago
I've been a sys admin for ten years. I like systemd.
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by tene 11y ago
Cryonics is pretty unlikely to succeed! I'm signed up for cryonics through Alcor, and I am not confident at all that there's much chance that I'll be revived post-vitrification. I do it because there's an infinitely gr
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by tene 11y ago
I can't say for sure that I won't ever choose to opt out of the rest of forever, but for now there are things I want to do, places I want to see, people I want to spend time with, or get to know. I'm not universally against
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by tene 11y ago
Thanks; that clears it up.

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