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null | Drisku11 | null | I can get that it would be weird for someone to claim to have written entire programs in binary (since you can almost certainly just use assembly), but I already gave you a use case for occasionally possibly needing to write in binary; you move to a new architecture within the same processor family. The processor has n... | null | 0 | 1492447102 | False | 0 | dgdq3ic | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgdo93i | null | 1494143394 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | TheIncorrigible1 | null | But right-to-hire after 6 months! If you get a connection, that is | null | 0 | 1492447105 | False | 0 | dgdq3mg | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdjuru | null | 1494143395 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | whisperedzen | null | haha, like you don't know it is not that simple FFS | null | 0 | 1492447109 | False | 0 | dgdq3qo | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdpwd8 | null | 1494143397 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | TheIncorrigible1 | null | In the public sector? They'll just replace you with someone at step 0. Going for a raise is "board approved" which means no because taxpayers. Forget the onboarding costs | null | 0 | 1492447270 | False | 0 | dgdq8x6 | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdnr07 | null | 1494143466 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | DonaldPShimoda | null | But this option is not apparent to the recruiter. They can only take people at face value; you can't just "know" whether somebody is actually competent. Of course, this is why we have the in-depth interview system we do.
From the point of view of the recruiter, this choice exists, and this is the only point of view th... | null | 0 | 1492447273 | False | 0 | dgdq909 | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdq1t0 | null | 1494143467 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | sirhcreffot | null | That indeed sounds bad. I've been using MacBook Pros as primary machines since 2009 and never had any of them fail ever. | null | 0 | 1492447311 | False | 0 | dgdqa9f | t3_65vnxm | null | null | t1_dgdo201 | null | 1494143483 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | watchme3 | null | it is, and if it s not, put in your resignation letter and never look back. | null | 0 | 1492447448 | False | 0 | dgdqeqk | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdq3qo | null | 1494143543 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Stupid_and_confused | null | Sort of misleading. Really, it's just hiding the user's cursor and rendering a custom one. | null | 0 | 1492447498 | False | 0 | dgdqgc2 | t3_65uday | null | null | t3_65uday | null | 1494143565 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1492447511 | False | 0 | dgdqgt1 | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdq8x6 | null | 1494143571 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | pakoito | null | Racket is fun, specially with Dr. Racket | null | 0 | 1492447524 | 1492454064 | 0 | dgdqh83 | t3_65pbcb | null | null | t1_dgdevly | null | 1494143578 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | sirhcreffot | null | Why don't you like Macs? | null | 0 | 1492447533 | False | 0 | dgdqhiw | t3_65vnxm | null | null | t1_dgdk6j1 | null | 1494143581 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | mike10010100 | null | Yep!
"Blame Steve."
....god dangit, Steve. | null | 0 | 1492447567 | False | 0 | dgdqiot | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgdfmpy | null | 1494143597 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | TinynDP | null | > If the users don't have access to the source code, then nobody outside the company does.
> Then the company folds and the code is gone.
So what? Shit happens. | null | 0 | 1492447567 | False | 0 | dgdqiou | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dgbu2l8 | null | 1494143597 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | IamTheFreshmaker | null | Yeah so I know what I am my other colleagues look for in code *and* personality. When I submit something that I am sure is stylistically appropriate and has test cases etc. and then to hear back that it wasn't good enough, the 'why?' there becomes crucial. Even the answer it's not a stylistic fit is an answer but an eq... | null | 0 | 1492447577 | False | 0 | dgdqj14 | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdpezw | null | 1494143601 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1492447611 | False | 0 | dgdqk6p | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdpzip | null | 1494143617 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | GunnerMcGrath | null | The average engineer may be socially awkward, but that does not mean they have crippling social anxiety. Most tech geeks I know are perfectly capable of having a fun and interesting conversation with other geeks.
Second, sometimes you ask questions you don't necessarily require a great answer to, specifically because... | null | 0 | 1492447696 | False | 0 | dgdqn1p | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdknsw | null | 1494143655 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | jephthai | null | I guess I'm pretty screwed up, then, because I care. I wouldn't work at a place that I didn't care about. As soon as I stop caring, I start floating the resume, because I can't give my best. | null | 0 | 1492447726 | False | 0 | dgdqo0p | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdp1n2 | null | 1494143669 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | metamatic | null | If the documentation is bad, the code is bad. | null | 0 | 1492447832 | False | 0 | dgdqre3 | t3_65n5df | null | null | t3_65n5df | null | 1494143713 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | beleaguered_penguin | null | > H1B.
... you couldn't hook me up with some H1B could you? | null | 0 | 1492447833 | False | 0 | dgdqrfv | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdozea | null | 1494143714 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1492447859 | False | 0 | dgdqsa3 | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdprz8 | null | 1494143725 | -10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | whisperedzen | null | hahaha yeah, go ahead and lecture me.
Next time you have to get up at 2 AM because you have to migrate on downtime remember your "Smart work is preferable in our industry".
I'll tell you a secret: smart is preferable over hard, but both are required. | null | 0 | 1492447902 | False | 0 | dgdqtme | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdqk6p | null | 1494143743 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1492447932 | False | 0 | dgdquky | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdpr9y | null | 1494143756 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | sirhcreffot | null | I think u/glacialthinker is talking about those developers (probably the majority of all developers actually) who are only able to code with autocomplete. They never learned how not to. They don't remember names of functions, arguments and so on. They rely on the IDE to show them examples and they choose the candidate ... | null | 0 | 1492447975 | False | 0 | dgdqvzj | t3_65vnxm | null | null | t1_dgdptlb | null | 1494143776 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | SilasX | null | Ugh! That's the worst! The point of a phone call or meeting is to have a *dialogue* so we can direct each others' attention to the things we *most* want to know about. If you want a monologue, there's no need to interrupt my workday or set up a call on a flaky connection: just ask me in an email, or read my resume or ... | null | 0 | 1492448029 | False | 0 | dgdqxrz | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdma3x | null | 1494143800 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | danweber | null | But after being asked 5 or 6 times "do you have any questions?" I'm kind of wiped out. | null | 0 | 1492448045 | False | 0 | dgdqyad | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdmps1 | null | 1494143807 | 18 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | IamTheFreshmaker | null | You keep showing it. Maybe it's time to put it away and go play with the kids outside? | null | 0 | 1492448070 | False | 0 | dgdqz3d | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdquky | null | 1494143817 | -6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | wealthy_harpsichord | null | https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix | null | 0 | 1492448081 | False | 0 | dgdqzha | t3_65uday | null | null | t1_dgdg6d1 | null | 1494143822 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | itshotinjuly | null | > But this option is not apparent to the recruiter.
Is that why I have 15 linkedin messages this morning from recruiters?
I'm pretty sure competent recruiters are fully aware of the developer market today. It's not 2005.
>From the point of view of the recruiter, this choice exists, and this is the only point o... | null | 0 | 1492448102 | False | 0 | dgdr06p | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdq909 | null | 1494143832 | -4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1492448122 | False | 0 | dgdr0sk | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdqtme | null | 1494143840 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | SilasX | null | Things that C is ideal for:
- Operating systems
- Stuff where you need assembly-level control over the hardware (somewhat redundant with previous)
Stuff C isn't ideal for:
- Every fucking thing else | null | 0 | 1492448180 | False | 0 | dgdr2mm | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgd80yo | null | 1494143865 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | smdaegan | null | It's possible that they just didn't like *you*, and unfortunately that's something that no amount of feedback will fix. Maybe someone didn't have warm fuzzies about you after the interview, and it came down to that being the deciding factor.
It's also possible your solution wasn't as good as you thought. Or they were ... | null | 0 | 1492448214 | False | 0 | dgdr3or | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdqj14 | null | 1494143879 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | TheIncorrigible1 | null | I was just giving my experience from a different perspective | null | 0 | 1492448262 | False | 0 | dgdr5ay | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdqgt1 | null | 1494143901 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | wealthy_harpsichord | null | > I don't get how people can move from Vim, unless they never really learned it
Or unless they move to spacemacs. | null | 0 | 1492448273 | False | 0 | dgdr5nd | t3_65vnxm | null | null | t1_dgdm3k4 | null | 1494143905 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | AmalgamDragon | null | > Your existing job is a great place to practice new skills because it provides plenty of time to do so, and you'll also get real-world practice.
Not really. The organization expects you to be getting things done not screwing around learning things that are not required to get done what they need. You may also en... | null | 0 | 1492448293 | False | 0 | dgdr6bi | t3_65wn5r | null | null | t3_65wn5r | null | 1494143914 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | i_do_floss | null | When you're using vi, are you personally using these in one shape or another?
Static code analysis
Multiple cursor editing
Tabs-to-spaces (you may not need this one)
Multiple files open at once | null | 0 | 1492448448 | False | 0 | dgdrbbd | t3_65vnxm | null | null | t1_dgdm3k4 | null | 1494143981 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | zephraph | null | I did mention both product and brand in the comment he responded to. I just wasn't very clear in my communication, though I suspect that wouldn't change much. I edited the comment to provide further clarity on my position. | null | 0 | 1492448482 | False | 0 | dgdrceq | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdpgjb | null | 1494143996 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | rancor1223 | null | I have a strong feeling of American and corporate work culture in this thread. I mean no disrespect, but my experience with work culture is basically day and night to the opinions I'm reading here. | null | 0 | 1492448503 | False | 0 | dgdrd3j | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdj208 | null | 1494144005 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | depricatedzero | null | And that's where our opinions diverge. I understand the coupling of complacency and avarice, don't get me wrong - but $5,000 a year isn't going to change my life significantly enough that I go to the highest bidder. I have more integrity than that. I insist on being in a non-toxic environment, and that the company I wo... | null | 0 | 1492448631 | False | 0 | dgdrh9q | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdqsa3 | null | 1494144060 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | DonaldPShimoda | null | Dude, why are you so combative?
I've gotten plenty of messages from recruiters via LinkedIn for position that they really shouldn't have been messaging me for, to be honest. While I was still in college working part-time in IT I was getting messages for full-stack full-time development positions that I really wasn't q... | null | 0 | 1492448649 | False | 0 | dgdrhvd | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdr06p | null | 1494144069 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | IamTheFreshmaker | null | > very specific algorithm
See this is what roughs up my nibblies. It may be good that a JS candidate knows that there is a .filter method but if they write a for and then .push, I am going to think- this person knows .filter is (was, haven't actually checked in a few months) is slower and uses more memory than a fo... | null | 0 | 1492448668 | False | 0 | dgdrig5 | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdr3or | null | 1494144076 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | bythenumbers10 | null | And it's the "pay clost attention or get a segfault" that causes the problem. Some languages are legitimately easier to write because they don't offload tasks that have since been automated (i.e. memory management) onto the programmer. And as programmer time becomes more expensive compared to processor time, you're bet... | null | 0 | 1492448693 | False | 0 | dgdrj8s | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgda9ov | null | 1494144086 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | uw_NB | null | lol the place im working at fail 90% if not all of these questions... what a reality check this is. | null | 0 | 1492448713 | False | 0 | dgdrjvw | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t3_65vch4 | null | 1494144096 | 17 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | VWVVWVVV | null | I'm in a similar boat to you. I'm rewriting some Fortran code because the underlying physics of the existing code needs to be updated.
I prefer writing in a prototyping language (in my case, Julia) so I could rapidly develop algorithms, batch-process the output and plot my analyses more easily.
Are you automating the... | null | 0 | 1492448715 | False | 0 | dgdrjy2 | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgd3tp9 | null | 1494144096 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | archiminos | null | If I did what the recruiters wanted I'd be hopping jobs every two weeks. | null | 0 | 1492448715 | False | 0 | dgdrjyl | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdnz2d | null | 1494144098 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Grue | null | Emacs is both open-source and pretty fast. | null | 0 | 1492448718 | False | 0 | dgdrk1e | t3_65vnxm | null | null | t1_dgdic56 | null | 1494144099 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | zephraph | null | Where you're at in the process matters a lot about what's important. If you're into your second or third interview general questions aren't as important. It's still always good to be engaged more than just responding to questions. I like your response though, it gives the interviewer added context which is always nice.... | null | 0 | 1492448721 | False | 0 | dgdrk60 | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdl4g1 | null | 1494144100 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | thelehmanlip | null | Other reason- staying at a job will net 2-5% increase in pay year to year (generally). The 2 times I've changed jobs over my 5 years of dev has gotten me more than double what I was making when I started. But that might just be because I just joined the job market 5 years ago | null | 0 | 1492448769 | False | 0 | dgdrln4 | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdjg8p | null | 1494144119 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | YourGamerMom | null | Wondering why a cast from `T` to `T?` would be a warning? The cast is always correct, and will never fail. | null | 0 | 1492448804 | False | 0 | dgdrms8 | t3_65wpwt | null | null | t3_65wpwt | null | 1494144135 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | jimmpony | null | I said the IDE uses the AST. The same one used for compiling. That enables it to do a lot of things faster and error-free. IDEs can't do this so much for languages like python because too much is unknown until runtime. | null | 0 | 1492448826 | False | 0 | dgdrnht | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgddhs7 | null | 1494144144 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | dgreenmachine | null | Good questions... but I doubt the interviewer would answer those questions truthfully to someone they just met. | null | 0 | 1492448840 | False | 0 | dgdrnyk | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdnddq | null | 1494144150 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | TROPAFLIGHT2 | null | Neovim has a builtin and fully functional terminal emulator (:term) that might interest you. | null | 0 | 1492448937 | False | 0 | dgdrr2n | t3_65vnxm | null | null | t1_dgdq1gg | null | 1494144192 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | itshotinjuly | null | Umm I'm not being combative at all. If someone having a civilized conversation with you is being combative in your eyes, then I don't know what to tell you. I'm giving facts and you don't want to accept them. Cool.
And recruiters have stepped up their game quite a bit. Just because you got random messages in college d... | null | 0 | 1492448950 | 1492449375 | 0 | dgdrrhg | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdrhvd | null | 1494144198 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Mumbleton | null | >Given the enormous amount of resources online about what code reviewers are looking for in solutions to these tests, why do people turn in shitty code samples and then demand an explanation for why it's shitty?
Because you're paying me 0 dollars to do this and I have 8 other companies that want to talk to me that ... | null | 1 | 1492448982 | False | 0 | dgdrsgd | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdpezw | null | 1494144211 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | AmalgamDragon | null | This true, but such positions are fairly rare in the tech industry. | null | 0 | 1492449016 | False | 0 | dgdrtjy | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdnz2d | null | 1494144225 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | smdaegan | null | Then don't do the interview? | null | 0 | 1492449028 | False | 0 | dgdrtxe | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdrsgd | null | 1494144231 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Kryomaani | null | > Software on PC have master password.
So it's not any different from using a password manager like keepass or lastpass since you need a software and a master password. Except with this you also need an extra device with you. | null | 0 | 1492449138 | False | 0 | dgdrxgw | t3_65vy0w | null | null | t1_dgdo5to | null | 1494144279 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | wealthy_harpsichord | null | For the best learning experience, one should start from learning Racket and then go on to implement every major language in it, a'la [Hackett](https://github.com/lexi-lambda/hackett). | null | 0 | 1492449207 | False | 0 | dgdrzom | t3_65pbcb | null | null | t1_dgdqh83 | null | 1494144308 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ethelward | null | (Assuming vim instead of vi)
> Static code analysis
Depends on what you call by this name.
> Multiple cursor editing
It makes no more sense to ask if you use multi-cursors in vim than asking if you use modal editing in Sublime. They're two different editing paradigms.
> Tabs-to-spaces (you may not need th... | null | 0 | 1492449257 | 1492505493 | 0 | dgds1bx | t3_65vnxm | null | null | t1_dgdrbbd | null | 1494144330 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | sirhcreffot | null | It sucks compared to a normal terminal is my experience :) it might have been improved since I tried it around 2 months ago. I also like the window handling in tmux better than neovims. | null | 0 | 1492449287 | False | 0 | dgds2bi | t3_65vnxm | null | null | t1_dgdrr2n | null | 1494144344 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | flyinglotus1983 | null | > Are you automating the Fortran-to-python translation using something like ANTLR?
No, I was not, but I googled ANTLR, and holy crap, I'm not sure if I should be scared or anxious to try it. I had always figured a few specific tools existed for porting a fixed language to a fixed language, but had no idea that the... | null | 0 | 1492449369 | False | 0 | dgds508 | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgdrjy2 | null | 1494144378 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | itamarst | null | It's a trade-off, it's true, but e.g.... both the talks I link to are techniques you can apply on a very small scale within a project without anyone complaining or necessarily even noticing. | null | 0 | 1492449383 | False | 0 | dgds5fj | t3_65wn5r | null | null | t1_dgdr6bi | null | 1494144385 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | irqlnotdispatchlevel | null | The sad thing is that genuinely good idea and products can get lost in this field of buzzwords. The bad marketting of a good product as being something else can mean it's death, even if it is a solid usefull thing. | null | 0 | 1492449483 | False | 0 | dgds8qr | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgdnec5 | null | 1494144429 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | AmalgamDragon | null | The reason I've heard is given is something like "we don't want to set a precedent".
Really what it is about is a common failing in organizations, where the people making the decisions aren't looking at the whole picture or the long term and are focused on just one or few details in the short term. In this case that ... | null | 0 | 1492449516 | False | 0 | dgds9sn | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdovsr | null | 1494144443 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | TROPAFLIGHT2 | null | In what ways does it suck?
I've never used tmux so I don't know how window handling is different than that of neovim's. | null | 0 | 1492449548 | False | 0 | dgdsatz | t3_65vnxm | null | null | t1_dgds2bi | null | 1494144457 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | DavidM01 | null | However in effect gives Facebook a right to your patent portfolio, because you cannot sue them for infringement.
I would think companies would steer clear of such issues. | null | 0 | 1492449552 | False | 0 | dgdsaxr | t3_65s3ze | null | null | t1_dgd70gr | null | 1494144458 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | sirhcreffot | null | I can't tell you really. It's two months since I tested it, but it just felt worse, is what I remember thinking. It might just come down to it being different than tmux + Vim which I have used for at least the last 7 years. | null | 0 | 1492449713 | False | 0 | dgdsg4l | t3_65vnxm | null | null | t1_dgdsatz | null | 1494144529 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Fouroh | null | I've been working as a dev for a few years and came from different industries where this was a very pervasive idea. So far, tech has been the a exact opposite. People know what they are worth and put up with very little bullshit. If they feel like they're being misled, or are given more responsibility without being com... | null | 0 | 1492449772 | False | 0 | dgdsi28 | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdnz2d | null | 1494144555 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | FireReadyAim | null | That's nonsense.
People who don't write unit tests are not a protected class. Nobody has ever been sued because they told a candidate that they would have liked to see tests for his code, or better variable names.
There are two simple reasons.
1. They ask these questions a lot. The more feedback they give, the mor... | null | 0 | 1492449800 | False | 0 | dgdsiya | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdnoy2 | null | 1494144567 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Euphoricus | null | I want it!
And I want it now! | null | 0 | 1492449854 | False | 0 | dgdsknv | t3_65wpwt | null | null | t3_65wpwt | null | 1494144589 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | pingveno | null | It's a little more complex than that. There is a [tiered support model](https://forge.rust-lang.org/platform-support.html), with only x86 in tier 1. Several other architectures are in tier 2 and 3 for various reasons. There's definitely demand for some ARM targets especially to eventually reach tier 1. | null | 0 | 1492449902 | False | 0 | dgdsm7t | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgd45ou | null | 1494144610 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | CODESIGN2 | null | > I can get that it would be weird for someone to claim to have written entire programs in binary (since you can almost certainly just use assembly), but I already gave you a use case for occasionally possibly needing to write in binary; you move to a new architecture within the same processor family. The processor ... | null | 0 | 1492449919 | 1492450168 | 0 | dgdsmsg | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgdq3ic | null | 1494144618 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | time-lord | null | Try working at a place with no process, no testing, and an excel document for a ticketing system ;) | null | 0 | 1492449924 | False | 0 | dgdsmy3 | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdo9wu | null | 1494144620 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | CookieOfFortune | null | The lower case a in Gentium Book Basic looks pretty weird at certain sizes, anyone else notice this? | null | 0 | 1492449962 | False | 0 | dgdso8b | t3_65pbcb | null | null | t3_65pbcb | null | 1494144637 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | TryUsingScience | null | May I ask what kind of product you work on?
I ask because the majority of companies that hire devs aren't solving the kind of problems that inspire anyone. Most companies I've worked for or interviewed at solve what I'd call meta first world problems - problems you only have because of your solution to some other fir... | null | 0 | 1492449968 | False | 0 | dgdsof1 | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdo9wu | null | 1494144639 | 21 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Fouroh | null | Great points, I feel like people totally skip this aspect as a "soft skill" -- couldn't be further from the truth. Ive worked with toxic people who were technically gifted, and they eat away at teams from the inside. | null | 0 | 1492449972 | False | 0 | dgdsojd | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdj7kg | null | 1494144641 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | DreadedDreadnought | null | >Luckily my company basically ask for something incredibly trivial (using OOP) and I've yet to see a candidate do much more than wrap a few methods in a class so I just reject them all ;)
What's wrong with that? Are you expecting object/responsibility decomposition? Can you share some simple example? | null | 0 | 1492449982 | False | 0 | dgdsovd | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdovin | null | 1494144645 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Fouroh | null | Great points, I feel like people totally skip this aspect as a "soft skill" -- couldn't be further from the truth. Ive worked with toxic people who were technically gifted, and they eat away at teams from the inside. | null | 0 | 1492450009 | False | 0 | dgdspp6 | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdj7kg | null | 1494144657 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | VWVVWVVV | null | The following ANTLR parser may work for F90:
https://github.com/OpenFortranProject/open-fortran-parser
http://rosecompiler.org/
The ROSE source-to-source compiler sounds interesting. | null | 0 | 1492450018 | False | 0 | dgdsq06 | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgds508 | null | 1494144661 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | itshotinjuly | null | A few rounds of layoffs will change your tune real fast... and no, never work somewhere you think is "boring" or "uninteresting", but just because you don't care about the company, doesn't mean you don't care about what you do. | null | 0 | 1492450033 | False | 0 | dgdsqgc | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdqo0p | null | 1494144666 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | zem | null | in my last project at work, i got a commendation for "taking on a large refactoring and code cleanup that needed to be done but no one wanted to do". if only they knew it was the most fun i'd had all year :) | null | 0 | 1492450071 | False | 0 | dgdsrnk | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgddzvw | null | 1494144683 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | TryUsingScience | null | You'd be surprised. Employees tend to have a low level of loyalty to dysfunctional workplaces. | null | 0 | 1492450173 | False | 0 | dgdsux4 | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdrnyk | null | 1494144727 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | NeuroXc | null | If I turn down the scaling in OS X while I have external monitors plugged in, then I unplug the external monitors (e.g. take my laptop home) and turn down the scaling while the monitors are unplugged, then when I plug the external monitors back in, **all** of my display settings, including screen scaling and positionin... | null | 0 | 1492450198 | False | 0 | dgdsvqk | t3_65vnxm | null | null | t1_dgdnroo | null | 1494144738 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | TROPAFLIGHT2 | null | And if you really want multiple cursors, there's a [plugin](https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors) for that. Then again, there's the problem of vim slowing down if you have too many plugins. | null | 0 | 1492450216 | False | 0 | dgdswcp | t3_65vnxm | null | null | t1_dgds1bx | null | 1494144746 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | rasputine | null | It's really all there is to say about it though. It's a completely imaginary situation, and a nonexistent danger. The idea that you could be sued for feedback on a code review is completely horseshit. | null | 1 | 1492450241 | False | 0 | dgdsx65 | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdpkv4 | null | 1494144757 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | itshotinjuly | null | Finding out who cares about the company and who doesn't is an easy indicator of who has actually had a job during an economic recession.
And no, most engineering teems will take what they can get because there aren't enough qualified candidates to go around, unless you are talking about Google. Apple. or Msft here. | null | 0 | 1492450270 | False | 0 | dgdsy31 | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdp2p0 | null | 1494144769 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | weberc2 | null | > the one benefit code would still have is consistency. It would be more likely to produce the same output across browsers.
I think this is untrue. Consistency is hard because of ambiguities in the API specification, and ambiguities arise out of complexity. A more complex concept is more likely to be ambiguously sp... | null | 0 | 1492450302 | 1492451012 | 0 | dgdsz5c | t3_65k067 | null | null | t1_dgdpd80 | null | 1494144783 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | BANNED_FIVE_TIMES | null | Frankly, this is terrible advice. If you don't have any questions that you actually care about, don't ask anything. The author gives no reasons why any given answer is good or bad. I think this post is idiotic.
The only reason this got upvoted is because there is a mass inferiority complex among programmers, who have ... | null | 0 | 1492450312 | 1492456242 | 0 | dgdszg9 | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t3_65vch4 | null | 1494144788 | -7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | kyrsjo | null | Replace or provide yet another tool. It's not like we can't use Julia if we're also using Fortran, or Python, or C(++)... | null | 0 | 1492450453 | False | 0 | dgdt40q | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgdfk7p | null | 1494144848 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Sean1708 | null | Why? | null | 0 | 1492450478 | False | 0 | dgdt4ub | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdnoy2 | null | 1494144859 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Ajedi32 | null | Here's the patch: https://codereview.chromium.org/2683793010
From what I can tell, it seems like they basically they just blacklisted all Cyrillic characters that resemble Latin characters. | null | 0 | 1492450479 | False | 0 | dgdt4vc | t3_65cf1u | null | null | t1_dg9l6tr | null | 1494144859 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | kemitche | null | I'm still amazed that we need to ask "what do you use for revision control" in 2017. Maybe I'm spoiled by the companies I've worked at; are there really that many companies where they're going to answer this "wrong"? | null | 0 | 1492450496 | False | 0 | dgdt5g7 | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t3_65vch4 | null | 1494144868 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | peakzorro | null | One word to blow your mind: Plastic. | null | 0 | 1492450535 | False | 0 | dgdt6re | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgdj225 | null | 1494144885 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | lared930 | null | If two friends submit similar solutions and only one of them is hired they can also claim discrimination. There's no winning here. | null | 0 | 1492450625 | False | 0 | dgdt9pp | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdp5n5 | null | 1494144924 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | bdtddt | null | No infinite tape -> not Turing complete.
If memory is bounded then it is a finite state machine.
Edit: Considering this seems to be so controversial, with most of my comments being downvoted, I will concede defeat to anyone who can tell me how this program, given in pseudocode but easily translatable to a language... | null | 1 | 1492450671 | 1492463952 | 0 | dgdtb80 | t3_65x029 | null | null | t3_65x029 | null | 1494144945 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | BLAHFUK | null | Yes I'm talking about the top companies as referenced in the parent comment | null | 0 | 1492450693 | False | 0 | dgdtbxf | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdsy31 | null | 1494144955 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | SnakeJG | null | Agreed. Not every company is agile or working on sprint maximization of work. His questions are great if his goal is to be developing a webapp in a CI world.
But you know what, some of my most fulfilling jobs were supporting legacy applications. I wasn't trying to throw in new features as fast as they could be, and... | null | 0 | 1492450699 | False | 0 | dgdtc5z | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdo9wu | null | 1494144957 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | IamTheFreshmaker | null | I get that but there should be a way around. And discrimination is exceedingly hard to prove. | null | 0 | 1492450772 | False | 0 | dgdtekv | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdt9pp | null | 1494144989 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | koreth | null | In addition to the lawsuit thing, which I think is real but probably overblown, if I tell you why I didn't like your answer, I am inviting you to argue with me about it. I say this from experience; years ago I worked at a small company that didn't have a policy against corresponding with candidates after interviews, an... | null | 0 | 1492450844 | False | 0 | dgdtgyq | t3_65vch4 | null | null | t1_dgdkwkt | null | 1494145021 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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