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for the first time ever, i got to review a couple of demo programs by job applicants they had both clearly just followed some guestbook tutorial. one of them threw an exception when you tried to access the actual guestbook tab and the tab that i think was supposed to show all entered (or rather, hardcoded) comments was empty. it had some kind of user account system and logging in worked at least. the other had a dependency for a database, but i was able to get it working. you could do basic crud operations on comments. both had lovely ui's and a useless readme at best they demonstrated that the applicant is able to mostly follow a tutorial they found by googling. in other words i think we got applications from the top 1% of potential applicants, right?
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pointsofdata posted:that sounds like quite an involved bit of work for a job application. What level of experience are you requiring? How long is this exercise meant to take? i have no loving clue about the details of the application process, my manager just mailed me the github urls and told me to rate them. sure, i'll do it, anything for an excuse to be unproductive for half a day.
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JewKiller 3000 posted:google says: how the gently caress do you think they're supposed to make money if they just give it away like that 
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if we're having figgie chat again, i want to link to these posts i made in the itt you post your cj/tech/whateversalary thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3755601&pagenumber=3&perpage=40#post453792787 and https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3755601&pagenumber=6&perpage=40#post453872419
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Mar 3, 2016 16:07
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what language is this and what does it do? 3==D ~o
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Captain Foo posted:the xml parsing lib in a plang of your choice* *)you don't have to use a plang, you can also use real language
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Mar 9, 2016 16:13
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 someone mentioned monads  ABANDON THREAD
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Mar 11, 2016 21:11
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piratepilates posted:it's been providing more value to the company for 3 years than complaining about it will. also the answer is a week Or the first code review, which ever is shorter
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Mar 12, 2016 20:05
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piratepilates posted:How could a code review be longer than a week if you have no code review, then it's one week
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Mar 12, 2016 22:31
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pointsofdata posted:we don't have code reviews software gets written without code reviews, unit tests, separate development/production servers, specifications, IDEs or version control. software written using proper tools and procedures has a higher chance of being not-poo poo, but none of it required
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Mar 13, 2016 13:29
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Awia posted:we have a global coding standard thats like "put braces on new lines", "use tabs", "dont be a knob" ah, code:
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netcat posted:That looks a lot like my glitchy software renderer that looks like a perfectly normal sequin teapot 
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Mar 14, 2016 13:22
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Bloody posted:you would think there's only big- and little-endian but i remember rolling my own guid decoder a billion years ago and some of the groups separated by hyphens have different endiannes for some microsoft reason
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fritz posted:we're getting to the point in things where we start to need structured logging / data storage beyond 'hey, just dump it all to console' and ive always known i dont really know the first thing about database design, turns out i really dont know the first thing about database design use mongodb, it's webscale
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Mar 15, 2016 07:44
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When you dump a log, don't forget to flush
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Mar 15, 2016 14:33
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MeruFM posted:use tumblr
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Mar 16, 2016 07:40
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That reminds me: whatever blogging platform you choose, disable comments
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Mar 16, 2016 10:42
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if you have to have comments on your site, use this https://github.com/tessalt/echo-chamber-js
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turds, toilets, butts, boners. i love programming chat on yospos
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hackbunny posted:I really have to learn to read documentation rather than hammer at the code until it behaves, but it bores me so much epic this
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Mar 19, 2016 13:27
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hackbunny posted:pretty much yeah. a lot of my code consists of transplanting existing code elsewhere, changing it as little as possible you could replace 85% of what i do with a bot that copies the top answer from the first stackoverflow answer after googling the problem. the other 15% is renaming variables so the code compiles.
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Mar 19, 2016 17:27
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Progressive JPEG posted:you check that code compiles before submitting it? lol holy poo poo, with productivity tips like these i'll soon be making deece five figgies
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Mar 19, 2016 19:03
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Bloody posted:lol if you plan your sprints rather than just starting them and changing the scope a dozen times over their duration look, it's every "scrum" project i have ever worked in.
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Mar 19, 2016 19:05
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Wheany posted:look, it's every "scrum" project i have ever worked in. except now we're doing SAFe you know what's the difference between scrum and safe in my experience? at team level: nothing at management level: nothing
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Mar 19, 2016 19:07
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i attended some agile method course at the university when i was getting my master's and when they talked about getting extra people to remove bottlenecks in kanban, i thought that's adorable
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the only thing about scrum that is idiot proof and "just works" are the daily standups, in my experience.
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sometimes they go on for too long, and people tell jokes and talk about irrelevant stuff, but the main point of "what i did yesterday, what i'm doing today, are there any problems" works in my experience. but every other kind of meeting and planning is just mindblowingly boring and useless.
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Mar 19, 2016 20:35
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MrMoo posted:Greg Wilson covered a lot of it in this talk: https://vimeo.com/9270320 goddamn
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Mar 20, 2016 19:38
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has there been any studies if people like "whoops, something went wrong, lol" -type errors more than "database error, error code 0xdeadbeef, please contact your system administrator" -type errors? because the former aggravate the gently caress out of me. but then i'm a programmer, maybe actual people like that
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Mar 20, 2016 20:50
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i meant more the tone of "aww, snap" type 'cute' errors compared to dry "notepad.exe has encountered an error and needs to close" type errors.
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Mar 21, 2016 13:05
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i can't get tomcat, or rather our project, to output debug-level logging. it's stuck on info-level. i just don't get which of the numerous .properties files i should edit. i mean i guess i can just use info level logging where i want to use debug level and then delete or lower the level before committing the changes, but holy poo poo i have wasted the whole day on a problem that should have not taken more than a few of hours, because i got sidetracked by this thing
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Mar 21, 2016 18:47
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Awia posted:what is a monad? 
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Bloody posted:i parsed a csv file 
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Mar 22, 2016 14:18
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Finster Dexter posted:e: I love that feeling though, of closing down like 20 browser tabs of google searches and stackoverflow questions. Feel like my day can finally begin my favorite feeling is spending 2 days on a problem trying all kinds of poo poo, and then i make a 5-line commit that fixes the issue.
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crazysim posted:is that a depth of one or exhaustive? i remember something something maximum flow minimum cut graph theory thing. find the package that would break the most poo poo. make a copyright claim on it. except it's probably jquery or something where it wouldn't work.
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Mar 23, 2016 07:35
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Wheany posted:i remember something something maximum flow minimum cut graph theory thing. except that doesn't really apply now does it. well, i guess that's the reason i'm posting itt
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Gul Banana posted:i advocate and practice it. what now no items, fox only, final destination
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Mar 23, 2016 12:43
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i like » NaN === NaN false » var a = NaN; a === a false
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qntm posted:that's just a perfectly normal feature of IEEE 754 i know, but it sure as hell isn't intuitive
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i love Infinity. initializing variables like var smallestDistance = Infinity; just feels... right.
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