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cinci zoo sniper posted:i have a pair programming “challenge” next friday, for an american software company. it’s 40 minutes long, and in python. i will appreciate any pointers for interview preparation materials, like list of hottest leet code challenges or algorithms people would expect you to implement in something like this, or anything else that comes to your mind what kind of figgies are they paying?
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champagne posting posted:what kind of figgies are they paying? american, otherwise i’d yolo it like every other interview in my life
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Sep 9, 2021 13:30
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if it doesn't pan out come join me in freelance consultancy mecca, Denmark
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champagne posting posted:if it doesn't pan out come join me in freelance consultancy mecca, Denmark ive been doing that out of latvia yeah, its like less marketed estonia that is actually even easier to get business poo poo going. i did get vat registered llc with a bank account open for 804 euro in basically a business day, where my expenses were 1 euro for founding capital, 3 euro for state newspaper announcement of company registration, and 800 euro to a law firm because i didn’t want to do anything myself. that number also includes legal review and partial rewrite of 20 page contract the first client sent me
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cinci zoo sniper posted:ive been doing that out of latvia yeah, its like less marketed estonia that is actually even easier to get business poo poo going. i did get vat registered llc with a bank account open for 804 euro in basically a business day, where my expenses were 1 euro for founding capital, 3 euro for state newspaper announcement of company registration, and 800 euro to a law firm because i didn’t want to do anything myself. that number also includes legal review and partial rewrite of 20 page contract the first client sent me what's making you stop? Also what is the rate for software consultants in ... actually where were your clients?
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champagne posting posted:what's making you stop? Also what is the rate for software consultants in ... actually where were your clients? nothing is stopping me, this is another remote gig im looking to line up - it’s a staff position, rather than a single tech project engagement. the latter im not a fan of. i position myself as “data consultant”, and aim at benelux/germany/english countries - with respective rates, of course
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champagne posting posted:if it doesn't pan out come join me in freelance consultancy mecca, Denmark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-mOy8VUEBk
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Sep 9, 2021 16:03
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this is the hell that microservices architects want e: "this man says you tricked him into writing 1000 different rest endpoints, is that true?". "yeah? So what. I have three cats to feed"
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Sep 9, 2021 17:27
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A coworker just came to me and demanded I "roast [his] pom". Do I need to get HR involved?
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Sep 9, 2021 18:35
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MrQueasy posted:A coworker just came to me and demanded I "roast [his] pom".
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Microsoft was at NYSE this week for some interview that is lost to Google. Rare instance of showing Nasdaq companies at NYSE. And I get the call that poo poo isn’t working, managed to “fix” the issue 30s before the cameras came on. Junior developers reinventing things badly was the cause. Time seems to be slowing for my colleagues, coming up to three weeks for one person to upgrade a VM from Ubuntu 18.04.3 to Ubuntu 18.04.5.
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I used to work on a project for the Navy, and there were several times when we were still hacking on the code mere moments before a captain or admiral was due to walk in for a demo. There was also the time during a demo where it crashed, and so what was projected up on the big screen was the terminal the program was started from, and the last line in the window was "gently caress".
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Presto posted:I used to work on a project for the Navy, and there were several times when we were still hacking on the code mere moments before a captain or admiral was due to walk in for a demo. I did air force contracting early in my career and had something like this, except it was some weird political thing where the USAF head honchos running the project just didn't like our company/team and wanted the contract to go somewhere else when our company won it. I don't really know the details other than it sounded like they wanted to tank the project, which was a relatively small contract. I was like a year out of college at the time. Anyways, one way they tried to make us look like fools was to just drop in on my office one day with like 4-5 people from their department, and request a demo with no advance knowledge, and ask if they could sit at my desk to interact with the software I was writing. It obviously was mid-development and worked like poo poo. (In hindsight that was one of the shittiest, pettiest, and most unprofessional moves I've seen in my career.)
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Sep 10, 2021 21:29
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"our company [a leading apparel retailer] does not use any third party libraries at all for hipaa compliance reasons" oooookay, have a life
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Gazpacho posted:"our company [a leading apparel retailer] does not use any third party libraries at all for hipaa compliance reasons" oooookay, have a life Probably the same section of the Venn diagram that includes those moving everything to random language: Swift, and Erlang spring to mind. One must have no deadlines and a big team to attempt any of that, it doesn’t seem conducive to bring developers that can actually achieve that though?
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I think the bigger question is just why an apparel retailer can't use third party libraries because of HIPAA?
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It does seem more of an excuse for NIH than a real driver. Most apparel companies are super cheap, how the CEO and CFO lets that fly.
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my reading is that person heard they use vendoring and don't allow 3rd party updates directly and mistook it for not using 3rd party libs. i highly doubt they wrote their own bootstrap.
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Sep 11, 2021 12:22
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it’s not really bootstrapping if you just take something that’s handed to you
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inventing my own bootstrap to avoid owning the libs
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:inventing my own bootstrap to avoid owning the libs 
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MrMoo posted:Probably the same section of the Venn diagram that includes those moving everything to random language: Swift, and Erlang spring to mind.
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MrMoo posted:Probably the same section of the Venn diagram that includes those moving everything to random language: Swift, and Erlang spring to mind. Swift isn’t really a random language unless you are expecting to have a good time using it for non-Apple related uses (or you mean that other Swift language). (We did have one person who wanted to write a new project entirely in Swift 1.0 when it first came out. They were so adamant about it they left the company over it after politely being told it was a terrible idea).
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it would be pretty hard to even build a swift 1.0 app right now, wouldn't it? maybe there's One Cool Trick I don't know of but IME the "Swift" is for how fast they break compatibility.
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Pulcinella posted:(We did have one person who wanted to write a new project entirely in Swift 1.0 when it first came out. They were so adamant about it they left the company over it after politely being told it was a terrible idea). what the gently caress, how did they come to that conclusion square bracket hatred? cool av posted:it would be pretty hard to even build a swift 1.0 app right now, wouldn't it? maybe there's One Cool Trick I don't know of but IME the "Swift" is for how fast they break compatibility. it's been good for a few years now, but 1.0-3.0 was rough iirc
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you literally can't compile swift 1.0 without a machine running a significantly out of date version of macos. the last version of xcode which supported it doesn't work on big sur. swift's been good about iterating on the language without breaking everything ever since 4.0, but it was painful up to that point.
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pokeyman posted:what the gently caress, how did they come to that conclusion He came from web dev and was incredibly comfortable with jumping between LatestFad.js
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now I feel silly for not guessing that I wasn't that bad, but I started banging the drum for swift at work by swift 3.0. I expected to meet resistance so I figured I'd start a little early, then I encountered no resistance and completely played myself
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pokeyman posted:now I feel silly for not guessing that the migration tools in xcode worked surprisingly well for me, but i don't have any projects with a very large codebase
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Pulcinella posted:Swift isn’t really a random language unless you are expecting to have a good time using it for non-Apple related uses (or you mean that other Swift language). IBM came out of the gate with support on zOS or something, implying it could be used as a generic language for things™
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code: I'm pretty sure this was me because this thing was a really shoddy wcf service based spa that was literally the first piece of "real" code I touched. and here I am years later getting trolled by my own code.
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A good one I saw today wascode:A declarative name innit.
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:inventing my own bootstrap to avoid owning the libs
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26 files changed, 4637 insertions(+), 3970 deletions(-)
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DoomTrainPhD posted:26 files changed, 4637 insertions(+), 3970 deletions(-) Approved
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1 nit, otherwise lgtm
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It would have been over 1000 more deletions than insertions, but code formatting stopped that from happening. 
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DoomTrainPhD posted:It would have been over 1000 more deletions than insertions, but code formatting stopped that from happening. we can’t really stop you from doing a separate merge request for code formatting
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Forgot formatting sorry, can I get those two approves again?...
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cinci zoo sniper posted:we can’t really stop you from doing a separate merge request for code formatting but we can ignore that merge request
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