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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
Sure, it's a semi-facetious example. But I'm suspicious of job ads that mention things like foosball tables or climbing walls and other such frivolities - it suggests either a juvenile working environment or that the company has t
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
No, but it's when they are used as substitutes. "Hey, we have a dysfunctional CEO, a runway shorter than the one at Hong Kong airport, and a legacy codebase that reduces the most experienced developer to a gibbering wreck. But loo
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
Personally, a decent salary & benefits, interesting projects, learning opportunities and sane management would keep me in your company for life. But, given these things are so difficult to deliver on, let's just throw them kids&#x2
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
Agreed: 1) Playtime is for after hours, with friends and family. Ping pong's a fun game but it's noisy and disruptive when you're trying to get work done. 2) Don't care about your free food, I have a strict diet and don&
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
That's your choice. But as a professional, you should do the best for your employer or customer while they are paying your salary, and that means adopting the right tools for the job, not your resume.
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
Sure, but not everyone can get into Facebook or Google. They take the best of the best (we can argue whether that's true or not, but that's the perception). Do startups really need Google-level developers, or just competent journe
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
To an extent, but at a pinch I can work on the sofa with a laptop. Peace and quiet are really the most important things - I find it difficult to do "deep" work in a crowded cafe, although I can do some trivial stuff like tidying u
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
"Rewriting something to reduce technical debt" is the kind of nuclear option you would use if you had money - or developer hours - to burn. Technical debt is better managed through gradual refactoring as part of the normal develop
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
There's lots of talk in there about office space and perks like ping pong tables and beer on tap and the like. I wonder however if "frugality" might extend to software development practices - for example, we're not going
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
> After two months of being stonewalled by the Theranos P.R. team, Carreyrou told me an entourage of lawyers arrived at the Journal’s Midtown Manhattan offices at one P.M. on June 23. Interesting how Theranos tried to threaten the Wall S
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
It seems bizarre a Californian senator would want to introduce a bill that hurts one of the most important industries in her state. It would be like a West Virginian senator introducing an anti-coal mining bill.
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
If only the Emperor Claudius' dictionary survived. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudius#Scholarly_works_and_t...
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
> "lifetime cost of software" means what? 99% of the software we write is obsolete within 2 years More like, developers change jobs that often. So it's no longer your problem.
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
> Card games could only be played with people, whereas Angry birds can be played solo, on a train Solitaire?
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
Sorry, didn't want to come off too harsh. I've gone down the bootstrapping route before and it's very, very hit and miss. Actually mostly miss. The skills required to build a product or service people will pay you a livable w
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
Right, they're probably a bit more organized given their scale. Smaller companies could just email applicants their hiring process detailing what they expect at each stage. Tiny amount of work that will save a ton of lost time & hu
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
Why don't companies who ask these kinds of CS questions in interviews just put in the job ad something along the lines of "if you pass the initial filter we'll invite you for an interview. We'll grill you on some data st
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
Tell that to someone who has rent and loans to pay, medical needs or family to feed. Bootstrapping takes savings/investment and a LOT of time before you see a penny of profit.
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
> I'd say I had a 10% offer rate. The most common "why didn't you select me?" follow up answer I got was "we need someone who is an expert in XYZ language." I would think this is something that should have b
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by zeemonkee3 11y ago
Regardless of personal opinions about Marks, the war of drugs has created an insanely profitable black market that is ideal for funding terrorism and other unsavoury activity.
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by zeemonkee3 11y ago
The problem is to get started we need more scientists. And academia and education right now right now is so horribly broken with perverse anti-incentives that no young person in their right mind will want to pursue a career in research - th
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by zeemonkee3 11y ago
I meant specifically Dan Lyons' articles. Poking fun is good and healthy.
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by zeemonkee3 11y ago
It's good to poke fun at childishness and pretentiousness in the startup world (and there is plenty of it without the need to embellish), but yeah, this is wearing a bit thin.
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by zeemonkee3 11y ago
"We need to shake things up". Cue angry clients, schedules gone to shit, quitting developers, missing documentation...
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by zeemonkee3 11y ago
I always have at least one side project going, but I have zero ability at discovering profitable business ideas so they're always just for fun. Therefore learning/technology is the most important thing - so for example even if the
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by zeemonkee3 11y ago
That's very true, I think there's a window of opportunity when a new device/technology becomes mainstream before it becomes commoditized/cornered by a few big players : thinking of the web, then mobile, now the app store
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by zeemonkee3 11y ago
> Did the candidate spend several days working on a small change? Open source is usually a free time pursuit, so quite possibly they did spend several days on a small change because they had better things to do. Or the small change was t
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by zeemonkee3 11y ago
Sounds like the best bet for a British developer (if possible) is move to the US or work remotely for a US company.
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by zeemonkee3 11y ago
> It's just programming in general in UK, isn't that highly paid. Why is that? Lack of demand/anaemic tech industry, lack of respect for developers, or too many developers?
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by zeemonkee3 11y ago
It shows a fundamental disrespect for you and your time. No doubt Facebook gets away with this because it has an endless line of applicants, but if they disrespect you so much before you even work for them, what are they going to be like

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