My main job for the last 6 months or so has been developing an "agent" that gets deployed onto user's machine (osx/linux/windows). It's the ****ing worst. It's been so long since I've been in this position and I forgot about how infuriating it is.

Once you get enough customers the law of large numbers comes into effect and you start finding users who's machines are ****ed up in very rare and subtle ways - 1 in a million occurrences. Does google help? **** no! You're on your own.

Yeah that customer is me pretty much every time. It's fun.

Thanks!

I see just a general chat, which looks interesting, but not much job chatter.

maybe ask in there if there is a good slack channel for LA dev that has job listings. in Florida, we have one for each region and lots of jobs get posted.

Annnnnnd we just got acquired by AT&T. I thought an acquisition was coming in the near future but I was still a little surprised.

Enjoy!

Rusty, is that good, bad, or indifferent news to you?

Are time zones harder than quantum mechanics for anyone other than me? I've already screwed up or potentially screwed up several job/recruiter appointments because I keep thinking PDT is 2 hours later than CDT. I mean the sun does go down later on the west coast. Of course it should be later right? How can it be earlier? That's just silly.

I literally just changed an appointment away from 2pm PDT because I forgot I have lunch with my Dad at noon CDT. Now I have to be a ****ing super moron and tell them to change it back.

I also struggle with east/west, left/right and arrivals/departures at the airport (my brain always wants to say "well, I'm arriving at the airport to drop off my Mom". There's something about simple binary choices (add/subtract 2 hours) that my brain just seems to suck at. For some reason I never struggle with north/south though.

I may just be stupid.

Another one I somehow put that I'd be available after 10PM PDT Monday. The dude replied he'd call me at "10PM PDT Monday" and I replied fine w/o noticing the AM/PM screwup. So he calls at midnight last night and I didn't really feel like trying to put my interview hat on so I let it go to VM. In my tired state I was kind of thinking he should have clarified "Did you really mean 10PM?" I also didn't recognize the website or company name so I figured it was one of the ones I was barely interested in.

In the morning I noticed he sent an email, called 3x with caller ID blocked, then once without caller ID blocked.

Anyway turns out to be an electric car company, near me which seems legit and the job description and pay are good. ARGH! I sent an email and left a VM apologizing and talking about how I'm back in KC and things are hectic with family and all and my bad for screwing up the AM/PM. He hasn't replied yet.

I mean I guess(?) I feel like this shouldn't be a deal-breaker screw up and if it is then maybe that company isn't a good fit? Grrr.

Interesting thread about the current state of the technical interview. And another good sub-thread it spawned:



It just seems madness to me that github (IE - stuff you actually coded when given proper time under something like real job conditions) counts for nothing but rigidly timed whiteboard magic and "technical bar trivia" counts for everything.

I've been working through some practice stuff and actually like doing it. So I'm trying to keep a good attitude about the whole process. But I feel like in a couple years there might be a pullback from this craziness. Or maybe double down who knows.

The whole certification thing is something I've thought a lot about and I think it's viable.

I'm not sure what I'm missing I that it isn't more common.

Imagine a 2 week training with 9 days of ES6/React/Vue/Angular type training, and the 10th day is an SAT-like multiple component test, and you get a score at the end. The training is optional.

I feel like scaling things like that are really really hard but possible.

I don't know yet.

* I'll get a pretty decent sized cash payout, but not one that will make much of a difference to my life

* I have never liked working for a huge company the few times I've tried it. It is not clear whether my job will stay the same, just owned by AT&T, or if they'll take over or impose themselves on us. When UnderArmour bought Mapmyfitness, I did not like it and left soon after.

* We'll get instant exposure to a huge market, which may be good or it may break us. Can we handled 1000x as many customers? I guess we'll find out.

* We'll also get access to some resources that would have been difficult or unlikely without a bigger parent company (like govcloud)

* Even more so than normal, my job or company may cease to exist with little notice

ETA: actually our job might get a lot easier. A big part of our product relies on a "sensor" that lives on premises in your network(s). It can be a dedicated box or it can run on an existing server, whatever. Most people who begin a trial abandon the trial process when they get to the part where they have to download/install the sensor software. If your customer's connection is to AT&T then "on premises" includes one side of the routers at AT&T, meaning, we could essentially have soft-configured sensors that don't require installation per customer, just assignment. That could both really increase the number of people using our systems, and it could also really really reduce support issues (issues installing or maintaining sensor)

FWIW I think this is the "Yegge blog" referenced in the tweets above: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008...at-google.html

rofl come on, just tell me that it's important for an interview and move on, this is laying it on a bit thick

But database indexes! Yeah... that was an eye roll worthy line.

klanskys cousin probably.

I've built a few expandable content directory trees in Javascript.

LA JS slack recommended a new site: https://www.builtinla.com/ - it seems ok.

I also tried dice.com just to round it out. Holy cow that site is bad. You can only pick one area at a time. If you're in LA, but you don't want all of LA - this is a pain.

But worst is once you click through to apply for something - you have to click back like 5 times to get back to your original search panel. It doesn't open in a new window or panel. Terrible.

Zip recruiter tells you when and how many times your application has been viewed for each job. I think it’s the best job site imho

In ZF set theory, each set is built up from the empty set. There can be infinite branches, but the empty set is allways reached with a finite number of steps.

This means all sets are trees. So mathematically, trees are important, as the capture set theory.

I feel asleep and skipped class halfway through that post.

FWIW what you quoted is very good advice including the advice on Computer Science. Regarding trees, at the kernel level in Linux and Windows, tree type data structures are utilized. Google and Microsoft (as well as other oufits) actually work with code at the kernel level.

Yes but at an e-commerce startup with an AWS-mongo-node-react stack - it's rarely gonna come up. It's not bashing google's interviews, but eager startups for emulating them.

It's funny how I'm already biased. I see MEAN stack and I think "these guys are out of it" lol.

More fun. Found a job that almost perfectly matched my resume on ZipRecuiter. Applied and got this:

3 minutes later this comes in:

Auto-reply? Only hiring ex-FAANG and similar devs?

But this one looks promising, really nailed my skillset and desired location, and seems like they spent a lot of time customizing the message just for me:

I'm pretty sure almost every listing from cybercoders is bogus and they're just collecting resumes.

"Brandon" contacted me about this job from there. https://www.cybercoders.com/senior-b...gn=new-jobs1CS

Otherwise the response above is the only other one I've gotten.