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Comment #13862783
I'm sorry but why do you think you know more about this guys' experience than him? This is like when I'd get calls from a delivery driver telling me I didn't know my own address...…
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Comment #13836388
> Software engineers have a NEGATIVE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE. > land a job within a year of actively seeking A year lead time is what a negative rate looks like?
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Comment #13836328
Not everyone believes that romantic relationships are "one of the best things about being a human." Just because you believe it, doesn't mean everyone else does, or that you should…
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Comment #13807773
The second the interviewer changed the parameters people would start complaining that they were "Setup to fail." These threads commonly illuminate that interviewers simply cannot w…
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Comment #13807751
Personally, I don't bother. I went the route of requesting candidates go through a work sample project that I spent a considerable amount of time trying to standardize across all t…
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Comment #13806052
Okay, give us a generalized example? everyone who (appears) to care about being empathetic while at the same testing for these skills is continually asking for better options. If y…
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Comment #13804989
The point is that solving problems, either by inventing new computer science, or more likely formulating a hybrid of known algorithms requires some semblance of problem solving. A …
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Comment #13804727
What happens when you're asked to solve a problem that hasn't been solved before? By definition something you CANNOT google for That's what I was looking for as a hiring manager.
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Comment #13794823
> What is the employer putting up? Generally nothing. Unless you've been in the shoes of a hiring manager, I'm unsure as to where this idea is coming from? Having been a hiring man…
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Comment #13794802
Unless they have a gun to your head, they aren't making you do anything. Applying/Interviewing is your choice .
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Comment #13204690
I'm confused as to why anyone would think facebook's security is good? Their entire profit model is based entirely on sharing information that most people would consider private (a…
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Comment #12917945
Many people who are actually on the autism spectrum (such as myself, though technically I was diagnosed with Aspergers a long time ago) don't want your help. I'm continually annoye…
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Comment #12917532
Having been on the hiring side of this, I'll note that it does require a bit of start-up cost (i.e. work) on the employer's part, if you want to standardize the process (i.e. to ma…
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Comment #12917470
Do you not use frameworks or anything? CoC (Convention Over Configuration) solves most of the problem for you, since it's basically CRUD, and that is boilerplate stuff in pretty mu…
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Comment #12876775
Again, citation? What monitors are you comparing? I honestly hope you're not truly complaining that a 1080p monitor looks less sharp than a 4k or 5k display. Also, where's your cit…
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Comment #12875984
What? Citations for any of these? I have 'make' installed on my mbp without XCode (along with clang, etc), and I use my mbp with 2 24" monitors all the time (in clamshell mode), an…
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Comment #12535464
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=secure+enclave
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Comment #12279383
\D is a subset of \S, so the \S accomplishes nothing (said another way, there is no character that matches \D that doesn't also match \S). Secondly, there are very few intersecting…
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Comment #12095238
I completely disagree, there is a lot of semantically valid information in the talk, like "make file paths configurable". Is that really only applicable to iOS? I think not.
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Comment #12077180
Interesting, exercise has been the biggest factor for me, and it's actually kind of two fold. 1: it burns calories, 2: because I dislike working out, it makes me not want to waste …
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Comment #12075524
Why are you advising him to run before he can crawl? All of those paradigms are built on top of the 70's era threading-model as used by the JVM (as well as every other language, be…
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Comment #11867955
> So does Qt. No, they don't. Not in any meaningful sense. They're offering to let you evaluate a bed, so long as your evaluation doesn't include sleeping on it. > expect to dictat…
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Comment #11867586
Why do many enterprise software companies offer free (or low cost) trials then? Does the company that you work for (or yours if you're a founder) take the same "take it or leave it…
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Comment #11615416
Thanks for the correction. I will point out that the article does indicate that there is some type of difference, so I would still think that such a loss would have some sort of im…
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Comment #11615305
From his picture from the biggest loser, he looks a lot different at 191lbs and 5'11" than I do at 195lbs and 5'11". With as much cardio as they did, with as little as they ate, I …