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endur

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    Comment #37890986

    Not sure about intern, but I've onboarded a lot of new people and I love it. I just take 1-3 hours a day and have them share their screen and work on their task. Once they're comfo…

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    Comment #35660735

    The timing slide caught my attention as well. 3 months for anything is fast...

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    Comment #35394634

    This is more like going to people's homes and collecting their ballots than anything you've posted. You've eliminated all nuance in your replies. If you think you see a fire in a c…

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    Comment #12776160

    I was taken out to dinner and drinks, referred to as a new hire, and then ghosted. I had been interviewing for a while so it was fairly painful.

  5. story
    Is there a good place to casually discuss programming-related questions?

    StackOverflow is about solving people's problems. Is there a place with less strict rules? Where do you go to ask more open-ended questions?

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    Comment #11926654

    After reading, I wouldn't necessarily say he's 'gaming' the interview. It sounds like this guy really expanded his programming knowledge, wrote a ton of code, and learned to solve …

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    Comment #9200619

    I'm getting tired of these pseudo-cool programming job titles. Guru, hacker, wizard, ninja. I haven't met many well-functioning, self-described ninjas.

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    Comment #9199503

    Until you want to undo something! Nano is definitely more user-friendly though. Some of the engineers I work with still don't know basic vim shortcuts, like 'w' and 'b'

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    Comment #9199487

    After googling this three separate times I finally just aliased it to an 'untar' command. I'll remember this for when I'm ssh'ed somewhere!

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    Comment #9199480

    It just takes a while to be faster in the terminal than with the gui, and most people won't switch from the thing they're used to until they see significant advantages. I remember …

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    Comment #9199424

    Bash scripts are great if they're yours. My current project has ~20 large bash scripts that do all sorts of different things. They were all written by people who haven't worked on …

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    Comment #9199271

    I really like '!$' and '!:1' in bash. '!$' holds the last argument of the last command and '!:n' holds the nth argument. $ cd /big/long/path/to/this.txt Oops $ vim !$