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by zeemonkee3 11y ago
I suspect a lot of the current griping over hiring practices is due to this. Small companies cargo-cult hiring practices from Google/Amazon/Apple/Facebook, but they forget that these companies have huge numbers of good applic
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by zeemonkee3 11y ago
How much of this is down to VCs/incubators insisting startups move to the Bay Area?
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by zeemonkee3 11y ago
So your argument is that IQ tests are only good in lieu of experience/proven ability?
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by zeemonkee3 11y ago
Hypothetical situation. Let's say you're an experienced developer. You have an impressive work record, open source contributions, and ace the technical interviews. Then your potential employer asks you to take an IQ test. Legality
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by zeemonkee3 11y ago
- take home tests/projects longer than a couple hours' worth. Especially before they ask some basic questions such as expected salary or at least a preliminary phone interview.
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by zeemonkee3 11y ago
WTF has his age to do with it? He made valid criticisms of video as a medium. Everyone from little kids to grandmas watch a lot of video, but it has its drawbacks.
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by zeemonkee3 11y ago
For certain kinds of site this look could be a positive - thinking of Pirate Bay, 4chan etc. Not the sort of things that get VC funding granted, but where a non-corporate, amateurish design gains you street cred.
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by zeemonkee3 11y ago
> You can literally try to clone any YC company after demo day. Not quite true. A growing number are hardware/robotics or biotech or some other field that require significant capital investment and highly specialist Phd-level expert
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by zeemonkee3 11y ago
Craiglist is already an established player, and its minimalism is part of a well-known brand. Suppose you were to pitch a new startup today, at YCombinator or Product Hunt or a VC meeting, and your web app copies the Craigslist aesthetic. W
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by zeemonkee3 11y ago
I use it for web side projects. It's not too bad with a theme and some customization, for my simple needs - I'm not a designer, I just want a responsive design out of the box with familiar elements so that a new user can find thei
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by zeemonkee3 11y ago
These sound extremely mild compared to some other jobs. Try being a high school teacher, waiter or call center worker for a day.
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by zeemonkee3 11y ago
Personally I prefer two specific things: 1) echo is more middleware compatible - it's a PITA to use a lot of "standard" Go middleware (e.g. nosurf) with Gin, but echo has no problems with these. 2) the function signature for
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by zeemonkee3 11y ago
> We're all well educated people with high earning potential I agree we shouldn't be encouraging piracy, but that statement is a huge generalization.
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by zeemonkee3 11y ago
Isn't the problem that VCs insist on companies locating near Sand Hill Road?
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by zeemonkee3 11y ago
Doctors, nurses and lawyers often have to think quickly, on the spot, in life or death (or at least life-altering) situations. A developer (in a non-pathological work environment) has time to discuss and research a solution. FWIW I don&#x27
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by zeemonkee3 11y ago
Intelligent, well-educated people are capable of appalling stupidity and herd-mentality. Or as Agent K said in Men in Black , "A person is smart. People are stupid."
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by zeemonkee3 11y ago
Is this the same human society that's perfectly OK with Valium and Adderall and Oxycontin? Democracy fails when irrational prejudice trumps common sense and tolerance. Prohibition was a mass democratic movement that pulled together Chr
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by zeemonkee3 11y ago
Well, your original comment was essentially "I built something for a small number of users which takes 10 seconds to load, the customer isn't happy and expects me to fix it for free". It's another thing entirely from &qu
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by zeemonkee3 11y ago
Hold on... you built a system for a customer that takes 10 seconds to load for 6 users, and want to charge them more for fixing it? I can see their point.
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by zeemonkee3 11y ago
> I agree with most of what you said about the bureaucracy, but the Pax Americana was achieved the old fashioned way, the same way as the preceding Pax Brittanica and the Pax Romana, to put it crudely, "Peace through superior firepo
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by zeemonkee3 11y ago
Fair enough. Here's some code I wrote for a side project a couple of years ago - it was a side project, not meant for real world production, and it's a couple Django versions behind, so no guarantees as to quality, but should gi
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by zeemonkee3 11y ago
> most places asking for only five years' Ruby experience would kill for somebody with the same experience in a similar language I've yet to see any evidence that is the case (not necessarily Ruby, but in general)
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by zeemonkee3 11y ago
The problem is unless you have some offband connections or doing your own startup it's very difficult to switch languages as a professional. For example, if I wanted to switch to Rails development I'd have no chance getting a job
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by zeemonkee3 11y ago
So does meteor support SQL backends yet (not talking unsupported plugins or whatever MDG is promising to do Real Soon Now). If it's still tightly coupled to MongoDB then there is zero chance I can see it being used for anything more se
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by zeemonkee3 11y ago
That's not been an issue for several years (since Django 1.5(?) introduced custom user models). Drop in a custom admin form and you're done.
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by zeemonkee3 11y ago
And so we use React in our project (even if it makes no sense to) because then we can put it in our resume. And thereby contribute to the problem.
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by zeemonkee3 11y ago
I'd like to see an example of that vs. using celery.
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by zeemonkee3 11y ago
If "product owners go off the rails" you have a management and process problem, not a Django problem. That's not to say there are projects where another framework/language would have been better but no solution is going
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by zeemonkee3 11y ago
So "bad news" is that they added a feature to a framework you don't use?
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by zeemonkee3 11y ago
Same as with Single Page Apps - websockets have their place but shouldn't be abused. I can imagine a large Django app that uses mostly plain request/response but needs, say, a small customer service bot or occasional real time not

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