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Re: Whiteboard sticker for your laptop

#91

Post by devoply »

nakovet wrote: post #87
devoply wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes and that's when I walk out of your interview. Some time ago I did an interview with elementary coding questions, like 2nd year of university stuff. Was a developer with 15 years of experience. Rage quit. They're like oh, you got 100% percent on the stuff you attempted, here is a new link to finish it. And I am like no thanks, have contract work, please send it my way. Not interested at a job at a place that inter…

I've met several 10+ years developers that couldn't code basic stuff, why instead of rage quitting you did not say "I don't want sound cocky but this stuff is really easy for me, do you have anything else?" by rage quitting I wouldn't trust you contract work, what would prevent you from rage quitting in a different scenario!?

I didn't expect to get any contract work out of that. I wanted to simply send them a message. Maybe they got it, maybe they did not. But I don't want to work for people like that. And this was the guy I would be working under testing, so if he thinks that this is a good test, then I don't think that this is a good job.

Developers complain all the time about these stupid tests. But they do nothing about it. Do something about it, maybe something will change. And they will stop testing stupidly.

Re: Whiteboard sticker for your laptop

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Post by tedmiston »

sumitgt wrote: post #34
sixdimensional wrote: post #15

Actually, this just gave me a crazy idea... what if laptop manufacturers included something low powered like a boogie board device on the outside of the screen, which could write / save directly to some small internal storage of the laptop, and then the resulting notes could be accessible via the laptop when turned on? Kind of like.. a poor man's tablet on the outside of a laptop? I wonder the cost of that vs. touch…

But, in that case, how would it be different from just drawing on my Surface with my surface pen? It's kinda exactly what you need.

One upside of the Boogie Board approach is trivial battery usage.

Re: Whiteboard sticker for your laptop

#93

Post by tedmiston »

henriqueleng wrote: post #76
fluxem wrote: post #58

I think it's a terrible idea. First, marker ink would be smudge all over backpack. Second, it's on the other side of the laptop! You wrote an algorithm on sketchcase and want to implement it. Well, now you have turn your laptop around every time too see it.

A good solution would be just carry a little whiteboard separated. You can even put that sticker on some table and use it.

There's a product called The Noteboard [1] that's relevant here. It's basically a 7x5 grid of index cards laminated to be a whiteboard that you can toss in your backpack.

I didn't end up using it regularly because the surface doesn't erase as well as a whiteboard, but still a cool product.

[1]: http://thenoteboard.com

Re: Whiteboard sticker for your laptop

#94

Post by mrmondo »

I used to have a similar whiteboard stick on my old MacBook back in 2011 - it was really useful as long as I remembered to bring a whiteboard marker with me to meetings. It'd be nice to have an eink boogieboad like wrap instead but the problem with those it's it's erase all or nothing so, I'm sticking with ordering a new whiteboard wrap from here as they're so cheap.

Re: Whiteboard sticker for your laptop

#95

Post by mrmondo »

fluxem wrote: post #58

I think it's a terrible idea. First, marker ink would be smudge all over backpack. Second, it's on the other side of the laptop! You wrote an algorithm on sketchcase and want to implement it. Well, now you have turn your laptop around every time too see it.

I don't use a backpack and after using this in the past I just wipe it clean after a meeting, nothing more annoying than when people leave writing on a whiteboard after a meeting!

Re: Whiteboard sticker for your laptop

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Post by Waterluvian »

tedmiston wrote: post #92
sumitgt wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But, in that case, how would it be different from just drawing on my Surface with my surface pen? It's kinda exactly what you need.

One upside of the Boogie Board approach is trivial battery usage.

It's also instant access. It's just there, always running, always immediately ready.

Re: Whiteboard sticker for your laptop

#97

Post by prodigal_erik »

devoply wrote: post #91
nakovet wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've met several 10+ years developers that couldn't code basic stuff, why instead of rage quitting you did not say "I don't want sound cocky but this stuff is really easy for me, do you have anything else?" by rage quitting I wouldn't trust you contract work, what would prevent you from rage quitting in a different scenario!?

I didn't expect to get any contract work out of that. I wanted to simply send them a message. Maybe they got it, maybe they did not. But I don't want to work for people like that. And this was the guy I would be working under testing, so if he thinks that this is a good test, then I don't think that this is a good job. Developers complain all the time about these stupid tests. But they do nothing about it. Do somethi…

Half of developers complain about these stupid tests. The rest complain about working with people who can't pass them. The industry is full of people who don't belong, and your record isn't meaningful unless your references are people I personally know and trust.

Re: Whiteboard sticker for your laptop

#98

Post by devoply »

prodigal_erik wrote: post #97
devoply wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I didn't expect to get any contract work out of that. I wanted to simply send them a message. Maybe they got it, maybe they did not. But I don't want to work for people like that. And this was the guy I would be working under testing, so if he thinks that this is a good test, then I don't think that this is a good job. Developers complain all the time about these stupid tests. But they do nothing about it. Do somethi…

Half of developers complain about these stupid tests. The rest complain about working with people who can't pass them. The industry is full of people who don't belong, and your record isn't meaningful unless your references are people I personally know and trust.

Whatever, businesses hire other businesses routinely based on a conversation and a handshake. I expect the same sort of respect from businesses I work for as an employee. They can find some other peon to work for them, I have standards just like they have theirs. Not trying to sound arrogant, but my best customers have been those that hired me on the basis above, as another business owner. People who think you are an employee treat you quite a bit differently.

Re: Whiteboard sticker for your laptop

#99

Post by shade23 »

sixdimensional wrote: post #15

Actually, this just gave me a crazy idea... what if laptop manufacturers included something low powered like a boogie board device on the outside of the screen, which could write / save directly to some small internal storage of the laptop, and then the resulting notes could be accessible via the laptop when turned on? Kind of like.. a poor man's tablet on the outside of a laptop? I wonder the cost of that vs. touch…

You seem to be referring to something like the yota phone. https://yotaphone.com/

Re: Whiteboard sticker for your laptop

#100

Post by prodigal_erik »

devoply wrote: post #98
prodigal_erik wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Half of developers complain about these stupid tests. The rest complain about working with people who can't pass them. The industry is full of people who don't belong, and your record isn't meaningful unless your references are people I personally know and trust.

Whatever, businesses hire other businesses routinely based on a conversation and a handshake. I expect the same sort of respect from businesses I work for as an employee. They can find some other peon to work for them, I have standards just like they have theirs. Not trying to sound arrogant, but my best customers have been those that hired me on the basis above, as another business owner. People who think you are an…

And businesses routinely get ripped off for that kind of recklessness. I've had to deliver the bad news to management about a body shop who obviously hadn't learned C++ yet because their deliverables were full of syntax errors they were asking us how to fix.
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