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A lot of fond memories from the 90s bubble. I love me some coldfusion and ftp and occasionally think how easier it was in some ways.
I also like to say theres not a unicorn today I couldn't have founded if I'd had the idea or insight at the time - plus motivation, money etc. Hindsight and all that.
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I wish interviews were like this. Show them something you built and you get hired instead of the nonsense of leetcode.
FWIW, that's how I structure my interviews typically, so they still exist in some places. For anyone reading along I highly encourage that; there's way more signal to noise hearing about some project they worked on and why they were proud enough to put it on their resume than 'did they remember the algorithmic call/response'. You can't beat an almost post mortem discussion where you let the interviewee lead on what t…
Other stuff I did was frames, because I didn't know how to do stuff on a server. So one frame for the menu and one for the header, things that should be equal on all pages. Using lots of b-tags to create rounded borders. Or lots of images. Faux columns to make it seem like different parts of the layout had the same size. The golden layout or what it was called. Maybe a bit later than the 90s, when tables weren't as h…
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I wish interviews were like this. Show them something you built and you get hired instead of the nonsense of leetcode.
FWIW, that's how I structure my interviews typically, so they still exist in some places. For anyone reading along I highly encourage that; there's way more signal to noise hearing about some project they worked on and why they were proud enough to put it on their resume than 'did they remember the algorithmic call/response'. You can't beat an almost post mortem discussion where you let the interviewee lead on what t…
DHTML, which stands for “distributed HTML”, was the final feather in our cap of web development tools.
Nice that in 2021 we are thinking so much about decentralized systems though :)
“Dynamic” btw
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FWIW, that's how I structure my interviews typically, so they still exist in some places. For anyone reading along I highly encourage that; there's way more signal to noise hearing about some project they worked on and why they were proud enough to put it on their resume than 'did they remember the algorithmic call/response'. You can't beat an almost post mortem discussion where you let the interviewee lead on what t…
Do you find it works even if they can't actually show you any code , because it's proprietary belong to other employers?
For newbies, it’s harder.
Drop shadows, rounded corners, the holy grail layout, optimized for 800x600, 960.css, print stylesheets, flash files, the advent of promises... We didn't start the fire, it was always burning while the beachball was turning.
That's the first time I've heard DHTML to mean "distributed HTML" — I always knew it to mean "dynamic HTML".
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FWIW, that's how I structure my interviews typically, so they still exist in some places. For anyone reading along I highly encourage that; there's way more signal to noise hearing about some project they worked on and why they were proud enough to put it on their resume than 'did they remember the algorithmic call/response'. You can't beat an almost post mortem discussion where you let the interviewee lead on what t…
Shockingly low percentage of people have built something they are proud to talk about. All them were good hires tho, as long as the explanations are detailed enough that it was work they actually did or adopted well enough.