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Yes. I've interviewed "developers" who failed FizzBuzz, and one who took 20 minutes to come up with a solution. I've never even specified a required language for it, and generally …

Not to mention that discrimination in hiring decreases opportunities for minorities. Which in turn increases recidivism.

If you want a job at a bank (perhaps because they work on hard problems or because they pay a shit-ton), maybe not the best idea unless you intend never to roll up your sleeves or …

But I did learn the principle, back in school. I've just never needed to use it.

I always refrigerate milk, just wanted to be clear about it to explain that it wasn't going sour because I was doing something dumb like leaving it open on the counter.

The problem is that if just two or three people like the lively, chatty open office, it ruins it for everyone else whose productivity suffers by an order of magnitude in a noisy en…

I see these challenges as a great way for excellent experienced developers to weed out incompetent companies. I'm a kick-ass get-things-done full-stack web engineer. I've never had…

I've had a similar experience. I think the organics companies just clean their equipment/tanks better or something. Regular milk with an expiration date 3 weeks in the future often…

Honestly, that sounds awful. I already guard my phone number more closely than my email because a) spam calls are more disruptive than spam email, and b) it's easy to make a throwa…

It's mature. The community is mature (in multiple senses of the word). The ecosystem is mature. The package management is solid. There are drivers or SDKs for basically every tool …

If you're building life support software or manned lunar probes, maybe you want him on your team. If you're a startup trying to find product-market fit before you run out of fundin…

How do you structure your reference checks? And what do you do for new hires who are very early in their careers and don't have real work references? Also, I'll note that three of …

I've never had a hire go wrong for technical reasons. I have hired, participated in hiring, or inherited several developers who had to be let go for reasons related to attitude or …

I don't get the drive to eliminate bezels. I mean, big bezels are a waste of space. On a laptop they may serve an engineering purpose, but no user purpose. But for handheld devices…

I think the difference is that in wood frame you can sometimes hear things through the walls. Whereas with concrete, any sort of impact (chairs moving, doors slamming, people walki…

Definitely depends on the construction type. I will say that floor-to-floor noise transmission in a 19thC brownstone is a tiny fraction of what it is in a mid-20th-C apartment bloc…

What an awesome idea!

Plaster and timber flooring isn't so bad. Brick is also better than concrete. More rigid materials tend to transmit sound better.

As someone who grew up in an apartment building with concrete floors, I assure you that concrete is useless for internal noise dampening.

I wouldn't necessarily use the term "exploited" (I would save that for a different sort of situation), but you've certainly been put in an untenable position. It sounds to me as if…

Why would we necessarily be what wiped them out? Intelligent dinosaurs may have been wiped out by an asteroid/volcanic activity/climate disruption (or whatever the most current the…

Earbuds with a good seal. Daily meditation. Convincing the guy in charge of seating plans to give me a desk without a high traffic corridor behind it. Going for a walk outside when…

Try TotalSpaces. Fixes a few of these problems.

I'll throw Atlassian's products into the mix. I've personally only used their SaaS versions, but believe they charge on a recurring basis in several tiers by number of seats in bot…