werbel

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by werbel 5y ago
Yes, completely agree and thank you for expanding. I mentioned the absolute minimum so there's no excuse. At the same time, even a robotic, automated reply is infinitely more than nothing.
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Tell HN: Don't leave candidates without reply
8 points by werbel 5y ago|5 comments
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by werbel 6y ago
Congratulations on having already couple of years of experience at your age. I've been on the same boat 10 years ago. As for 10, 15, 20 years of experience: As long as you make sure it's actual 10 years instead of 1 year repeated
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by werbel 6y ago
This is what I consider to be a "plan": > Problem definition > Product solution > Technical solution > Task breakdown > (optionally: > Estimation > Timeline) Of course there's always some feedback loop be
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by werbel 6y ago
Your comment sounds like it's an exceptional achievement that in Germany the value is half of the USA. When in fact it's the US that's embarrassingly low on the list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of
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by werbel 6y ago
Other people in the thread gave solid advice and things to consider about how to handle that within the company. Obviously it might not be valid choice for you but I'll expand on an idea of changing companies by describing some of my e
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by werbel 7y ago
This is exactly how it works for a Polish minute car rental service Traficar. You can even drive through the whole country to another Traficar service zone, leave the car there and get back by train.
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by werbel 7y ago
Yes, I realize not all of us have the luxury of being part of organization where direct, open, constructive feedback whether it's positive or negative is just a thing people do. (Many organizations will boast about values but not live
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by werbel 7y ago
* Performance (e.g. challenges, obstacles, short/long term goals, feedback, productivity) * Professional development & engagement (e.g. professional goals, training, engagement, coaching) * Contribution to company growth (e.g. proc
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by werbel 7y ago
I understand that and that's why I haven't said there's anything wrong with your opinion or that I disagree. Yes, we'd all love to have our tools (repository, package hosting, CIs, ...) both satisfying our needs and be f
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by werbel 7y ago
I'm not saying "open development" is not important but your message reads like its dismissive of people with different goals. I'm a developer, I might create some tool for my needs and share it with others. I've got
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by werbel 7y ago
You're right. I should've put "For the most part" before the last paragraph. When it comes to the moon landing or the ISS... Of course you can say that's because we're explorers. The moon landing was pure survi
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by werbel 7y ago
I suggest watching following video of Neil deGrasse Tyson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joARXZagTuM It opens with following conclusion: There were only 3 bottom-level motivators where it comes to achieving grand things i
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by werbel 7y ago
My guess is no one will look back and say "Huh, he was right". The only thing that probably is going to happen is "Huh, why isn't that delivered?" and then they will look everywhere but on the fact that it was, at l
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by werbel 7y ago
>Those options are presented to users who click on the words “Need help?” in one corner of the page. Hiding something under completely unrelated link is not presenting your options in any way which is remotely close to being honest.
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by werbel 7y ago
Hah exactly :) Same goes for functions, classes, React components, DB tables and everything else. Just model it as close as possible to the real world. The world doesn't really change that often. What does is how we interpret and behav
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by werbel 7y ago
I disagree that it isn't a software bug. "The new RLP code also repurposed a flag" - this is the moment when terrible software development idea was executed that resulted in all of the mess. Of course I don't know the fu
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by werbel 8y ago
Some people just want to call, text, use Google Maps and occasionally browse Instagram and simply don't need the "much more". I also simply have small hands. I can't comfortably reach left side of a keyboard with my thum
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by werbel 8y ago
I'm sorry to be that guy, but if you properly read even just the submission title you'd know it's not about people that are still using Facebook but people that are using other apps like Yelp. That might include you.
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by werbel 8y ago
Actually because of the diesel scandal VW is the best positioned "normal" car company for a success in EV market at this point. In order to recover their image they were forced to announce and actually work on full line-up of elec
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by werbel 8y ago
I remember 2005 when was running Windows with Linux in a VM, Photoshop, Firefox, my Rails application and all of the other software I needed for development, music and everything else on a 1GHz AMD Athlon and 256MB SDRAM. When it comes to s
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by werbel 8y ago
As others mentioned there’s an aspect of efficiency there but I think there’s something more important. The whole discussion revolves around losing weight while diet and nutrition is not really about that. It’s about how to eat to stay heal
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by werbel 8y ago
I started my engineering career as a front-end developer when being front-end developer meant slicing PSDs to HTML trying to figure out the best way to implement crazy glassy and shadowy designs without transparent PNG support in IE6. Start
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by werbel 8y ago
You're completely right, sir.
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by werbel 8y ago
I discovered Hummingbird when looking for alternative music notation for my tattoo (a phrase from my piano song). After reading the "docs" it was easy to read the notation but for some I struggled with transcribing it. Maybe it&#x
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by werbel 8y ago
Each phone ping, like, comment, reply, follow is a dopamine shot. You know what else gives people dopamine shot? The next piece of chocolate cake, the cigarette that's always overdue, having the drink after long day of work, finally be
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by werbel 8y ago
We do agree 100%. :)
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by werbel 8y ago
I didn't say to do that against the policy. What I meant was if your company simply doesn't have a habit of doing it just say: "Hey, can I write some feedback and provide some resources to that candidate in your rejection mes
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by werbel 8y ago
I've rejected dozens of people right after face to face coding session of a simple task (third meeting, first technical) explaining the reasons, providing them some guidance on what to tackle next, if I saw hope invite them to try agai
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by werbel 8y ago
If someone told me that in my country (or maybe just outside US) I would simply not believe them at first. It might just be the choice of companies I've worked with though. It is sad indeed.

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