@digiyemi
@Madisonkanna
Take-home assignments are a big ask on candidates. People have obligations (children/family, jobs, community responsibilities, etc) that prevent them from being able to spend 4+ hours on take home work.
@dabit3
This is garbage. Meetup has done zero work on the platform in the past 5 years other than a rebrand. They're going to kill the app. Can they not survive on ads + premium?
@eugeneyan
@dabit3
Don't push for a rewrite immediately. Land and expand! Look for a small new project that doesn't have to use the old tech stack. Prove it out. Get some wins and build up internal support and things will snowball.
@cseckenrode
@digiyemi
@Madisonkanna
Yup. I also think leetcode is a poor way to interview. You end up testing how long someone studied rather than measuring their skill level. My current BE technical interviews feature 1) 1h coding exercise 2) system design problem and 3) deep dive on experience
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@innovate
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@washingtonpost
@thebutterknife
Wasn't it supposed to collapse in November? We're now 5 months into it running with a skeleton crew and its a little slower but still keeping 3 nines.
@avdi
Thanks so much for sharing your job hunt publicly. It's important for less experienced devs to know that finding a job and going through the interview grind is difficult for everyone, even wizards like Avdi!
@davefarley77
It's amazing for refactoring, but provides little value for new features. Why? It's hard to know exactly what you need for the feature until you experiment with it and get a prototype going. When i've tried TDD for new stuff, i end up rewriting my tests 3 or 4 times.
@GantLaborde
@tdnaugle
@jsconfit
Gant, you nailed it on the lunchtime talk. I've given talks on ML before and they end up being an hour of math class. In 15 mins, you introduced everyone to what is possible in the browser and why we should care.
@KevinWGlass
It is absurd to say that the UK is to the right of the Democrats. There's was a neoliberal consensus with the dems from 1992-2016. Labour lost support over a decade because of Iraq and they have socialized healthcare with the NHS.
I spent the last year as a "cautious on COVID" type. I researched and followed my best guesses on how not to get sick. By a mix of prudence and luck, I never did.
It's been a ride, fellow COVID-hawks. I have few regrets. But this is where I respectfully disembark.
My university just announced that it’s dumping Blackboard, and there was much rejoicing. Why is Blackboard universally reviled? There’s a standard story of why "enterprise software" sucks. If you’ll bear with me, I think this is best appreciated by talking about… baby clothes!
@KenScambler
So true! I've spent most of this week testing and cleaning up bad data in a legacy app written years ago. This is all to do a minor backend update next week that allows us to integrate with a new partner. And my fellow execs wonder why it takes a long time to ship features 🙄
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@hnshah
talks about his missed opportunity with
@Kissmetrics
. Speed and focus are your biggest strengths as a
#startup
, so don't create distractions.
@pesterhazy
@daveaglick
@dabit3
The rich text editor was worse than the old PHP bulletin board editor and that's saying alot. They couldn't even find an intern to add { padding: 1 rem; } to it. But yeah, i miss it.
@dabit3
1. Communications
2. UX / Design Skills
3. Architecture / Data Modeling
4. SPAs
5. APIs
Understanding the problem and solving it for humans matters for every engineer.
@ThugDebugger
All you really need is a phone screen and a final round interview. Final round should include a fit interview (different person than phone screen), some real coding, and a few minutes to discuss the code w engineers. If you can't tell at that point, don't make the hire.