I didn't interview him, but he was a legitimately smart guy who probably interviewed quite well. He had a PhD which I think our Director over valued. He would have been a great for a starting developer role, but once you're hired for a role its really hard to go backwards.


In this guys case it was a ****ty situation because I don't think he knew that he wasn't qualified. Without ever having done anything real he didn't realize how different it was from the real world.

I think there's always a chance something won't work out. Being honest about your skills and doing your best to figure out if its going to be a good match will certainly help you avoid a bad situation, but interviews still give a very limited amount of information (both ways) so its not something you can 100% avoid.

best answer:

'mastery' will only come if you truly enjoy what you're doing. so think with an end in mind. build something.

The ultimate goal would be a custom tracker or a special HUD that uses PT4/HM

Does python allow me to build that?

My default Java answer to FizzBuzz certainly allows you to change the strings and numbers. Modular design can't ever hurt and doesn't fall under YAGNI imo. I also TDD it ldo, it's a kata I do maybe once a month.

In an interview setting it's probably a way better strategy to "play dumb" for a bit and then improve on your code depending on how nervous you are (because that takes time but is a fruit full exchange from the typical HR-POV...and since they tend to use set time limits it might help you avoid another test which you might struggle with).
If you do a generatorless Python version first then open it up to improvement questions and change to generator that's probably best. You could also start with a non-modular version then explain that you went with it because of YAGNI then suggest the improvements.

Now that's only for "dumb HR" kind of interviews. I think if your assessment of the situation is that there's reasonably smart programmers present it's best to ust write whatever you deem best and explain why you did it that way.

Anyone have recommendations for a printer that works under Linux (debian based)?

Seems like a lot of printers are not compatible. I'm trying to snipe something in the the $30-40 range just to casually print documents.

I released a new store I've been working on for ages:
https://www.scirra.com/store

If anyone has any feedback would be most appreciated, took way longer to write than I expected but def one of the things I'm most proud about! Especially pleased with the audio preview images:



Was fun to write that sort of thing Although it works well for sound effects, not so well for songs:



Need to modify that but it's not easy, the wave representation is accurate. (Anyone know why this is and how to make it look better with deeper troughs?)

^ visually stunning

you're in luck, there is already a free tracker built in python:

FPDB
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/16...2013-a-273001/

ask in that thread where to get the latest source code, and start hacking away. hell, become a contributor to that project and help them work on what they need to! this is the perfect learning experience. you won't understand the code from the start, thats normal. if you drop any developer into a project, they are going to take a while to understand how the code works. its far more than just the syntax of the language. you need to understand how each line of code is interacting with others. this will be an ambitious first project to learn on, maybe even too much, especially when you don't yet know the language. but hop onto a python message board (or come here, there are some python guys) and ask for help. try to reduce the problem down as small as you can

I didn't know that FPDB is in python, as you said, I'm lucky.
I'll take a look into it, again ty very much

I don't know what I'm talking about at all and this is probably going to make me look like a total moron. /Disclaimer

It looks like you're graphing the total volume of the sound - so with songs you almost always have *something* making noise. Is there a way you can isolate a specific frequency (or subset of frequencies) and then just graph that?

Gullanian: Randomly browsed your page, not feedback to the store but...
https://www.scirra.com/store/constru...nal-license-31
[same text on the business license page]

There's a word/words missing.

@clowntable thanks! Fixed

I don't think so, if you just go for a specific freq/range of freqs the graph will not be representive of the track.

I think the issue is that a 3 min track is being squashed into a small area possibly, for sound effects that last a few seconds its not so squashed, music track is.

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came across some interesting php today

Hey Gull,

Congrats on releasing! There is a ton of functionality in here, so I understand how it took a long time.

My main comment for improvement would be that my first impression, visually, was "wow, that's a lot of stuff." if possible, i'd have a designer take a look and see if you could simplify some things. my eye is pulled in a lot of directions at once. also, the various fonts for the headers, body text, sub-headers etc don't seem to play well together.

The chrome webstore, which this seems to take inspiration from, is less overwhelming because the titles of each square of content don't have colored background bars and are just plain, relatively small black text. Also all the info is in a little white sub-square under the pic in plain text, whereas as you have the price overlayed at the top of the pic in the same bright blue bg as the title. On a similar note, I think a more "boring" list or even-grid based display might also be less overwhelming than than mondrian style you've chosen. although if you fix the title bar/ price / font issues you might be able to get away with keeping it.

finally the chrome store fixed width is 1200px vs your 980px, and with the sheer amount of content + the left nav, i think that helps to make things feel a little less cramped.

EDIT: should clarify i was looking at this page https://www.scirra.com/store/royalty-free-sound-effects while writing the comments, though most of them should apply to the home page as well

Ah, that makes sense.

I'd probably just use the first X seconds of the song then. No point being thorough if its unreadable.

Or you could gif it and have it show an X second window that progresses through the song. But that seems un-usefully cool.

Thanks! Feels like a bit of a startup in a startup, was a good 3 months solid work and is always a huge relief when you launch with relatively few problems Being picked up well which is always a thrill as well!

Thanks for your comments, it's nice to get feedback. Agree visually could probably do with a bit of cleaning up, our designer has come up with an alternative design which I may look at implementing at some point soon after I just finish up a couple more important features.

Am thinking of putting in a 'list view' which is default with an alternative grid view (current one). The important consideration is the images we've now gotten sellers to upload are all fixed size, it's now unchangable really unless they were scaled down versions of current ones.

Unfortunately this wont work well for some cases, looking for a one solution for all sort of thing. A longer scrolling one might be better, it should be pretty easy to just rerender them all in a different size might experiment.

Thanks for feedback Value everyones opinion ITT

Turns out productivity time intervals had been solved just a couple of days before I made that post:

http://www.fastcompany.com/3035605/h...work-every-day

+1

Taking three classes while still working full time might have been a mistake. I am completely exhausted everyday after work. I don't mind having any social life during the semester, however I feel that I might be at risk of falling behind in class.

I am going to quit for sure in January next year, but a part of me wants to quit my job and just do this full time now. On the other hand, I would like to have some income...

I need to choose a framework to give a presentation on and write some code with for my Object Oriented Design and Development course. Any good ideas for which framework to choose?

How far along are you? Try to find a paid internship.

Play?

I'm not sure what kind of "framework" is intended

Basically any "true" framework that uses inversion of control. It is supposed to be something we haven't used yet otherwise I would do Swing or AWT.

I've used Java EE CDI for that sort of thing in my brief foray into Java at my last job, but it wasn't in the context of a larger framework. If you were using some kind of constructor dependency injection in Swing or AWT (I'm not really very familiar with Java) then it might count as something different, and it would be fairly easy to build something simple with, I think

Obviously Zope...cause Object Database yo