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9y ago
Why would you design one with them?
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> TH is a medical treatment in which an injured patient’s body temperature is lowered to 32-34°C (89-93°F) in order to slow the body’s metabolism and minimize ischemic injury. It looks like they aren't even trying to get close to fr
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9y ago
Don't the popular web frameworks handle lazy loading things?
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> One thing I would say is just talk through problems with candidates as simple as that sounds. Try to grok how they think through software problems. Nothing mind-blowing there, but what I'm saying is how someone codes fizz-buzz tel
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> It also isn't even close to "solving a real-world problem". It's not supposed to be the same thing. It's supposed to test your coding and problem solving abilities, in the limited time you have. What better a
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9y ago
> become more opinionated by promoting programming idioms we found to work well Which idioms exactly?
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9y ago
Thanks for adding nothing here. I'm glad I'll never have to work with you, too.
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It doesn't have to be 'familiar'. A fair bit of the point is to judge your problem solving skills, not your memorization skills.
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9y ago
> Has there ever been a case where you've tried to roll your own and it ended in disaster? As far as I remember, it's always the other way around. But I have enough sense to not implement my own cryptography library and use it
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9y ago
I would take all of the electives I could, if I could go back in time, even if it required staying an extra year. Graphics, networking, databases, ML, everything. I would even go for the masters, really. The undergrad degree is in a sens
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> Though it is clearly a simple problem, I've not had to reverse a list in any of the code I've written in the past 20 years. So I am not 'familiar' with the problem. I think I'd be able to solve it pretty quickl
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9y ago
A lot of that's true or might be true, but how do we improve things? > you are “leaving money on the table” when your interview process deselects great programmers because of a mistaken belief that Test A is a good proxy for develop
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> I wrote a long blog article this week about what I think the interview process should be, will be posting it soon. There are ways to fix this process. I really hope that's true. Every solution I've heard so far is unrealisti
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9y ago
You could say that for almost any job, but somehow you don't see the same hyperbolic whinging in all of those fields, do you? And your claim isn't even true. It's very similar to the kind of code discussion you might have o
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> Yes, and they're troubleshooted by people who are already intimately familiar with the systems they're troubleshooting. So you're asserting interviewees shouldn't already be familiar with simple problems like revers
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Lots of real world problems are troubleshooted in less than that time, under more pressure, and have far more variables to consider/are far more difficult, like build failures. The scenario here sounds like it's as relaxed and si
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> Take-home tests. But people are already crying over take-home tests being like working for free for the company, and then there's no way to prove they aren't cheating, which is a showstopper. That by itself is definitely not
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9y ago
Not if you can find others who are just as good. And what's your better suggestion for filtering out people who can't code and not filtering out the good ones with anxiety?
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> It sounds to me that an assumption is being made because they didnt meet the expectations within a fixed time period. Of course, you have a limited amount of time to interview people. Please let me know when you figure out how to give
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9y ago
So hire everyone who can't function during the interview?
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What's wrong with alter table? It's not like you have to manually re-enter rows. And this is during development, right?
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9y ago
$60 games or only their $8.99 games?
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> How do you remember things without tests? I study... It's not the tests that help me remember things, it's the studying and working with them.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_(computer_architecture)#T...
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"These dang kids these days just don't have a sense of responsibility!"
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It's more like having a 'Please take these unwanted items' bin and sending people to prison when they take something that you mistakenly put in the bin.
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9y ago
> show up as a different person with the same name They don't interview with people who will see them on the first day and realize it's a different person, like their manager or teammates?
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How long has it taken the pyramids to decay to their current status?
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> Curious about what other people do to maintain the energy I work on something that's actually fun.
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> How do you think the folks for whom dining represents a significant expense feel about these raised prices? I'm sure they are suffering horribly. Maybe you can start a Kickstarter or gofundme for them.
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