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02-10-2015 , 06:23 AM

#16551

daveT

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daveT, I don't know what you are doing but I looks amazing

I hope it will be...

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02-10-2015 , 07:52 AM

#16552

Anais

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Be careful what you joke for

I would never joke about wanting more mspaints in the world. The world is a better place with more mspaints.

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02-10-2015 , 10:46 PM

#16553

jjshabado

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I know most people here are more interested in the web side of things, but this is a really good introduction to some large scale data integration concepts.

http://engineering.linkedin.com/dist...datas-unifying

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02-10-2015 , 11:22 PM

#16554

fluorescenthippo

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thoughts on meteor.js?

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02-11-2015 , 12:40 PM

#16555

Grue

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Never saw the point of "isomorphic javascript" unless you're doing a ridiculous amount of validation. You can share templates between server and client without something like Meteor. I also try to avoid frameworks that make awesome decisions like naming one of their methods "call".

Anyone switch from sublime or another light weight editor to Webstorm? Thoughts? New place is invested in and yeah not sure if its worth it. Debugging tools seem nice I guess but pretty tired of 2gb programs that take 2 minutes to load.

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02-11-2015 , 04:26 PM

#16556

tercet

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I've gotten some help in this forum in the past from people critiquing my resume(Front End Web Dev) and it appears that I need some more personal help for what my best plan of action going forward is(In a job hunt).

But basically now I am just looking for someone to chat with on skype for maybe an hour a week to help out.(Ill pay, pm me if u can help)

Thanks

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02-11-2015 , 09:06 PM

#16557

RogerKwok

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Originally Posted by tercet

I went to a bootcamp and have been doing full stack (django/angular) for almost a year. Can give some tips, but I think it's just a numbers game, applied to ~150 places, got ~20 interviews and 2 offers.

Pretty much gave up a cushy 6 figure place to switch to web dev, was definitely hectic for a while

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02-11-2015 , 10:13 PM

#16558

Grue

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Originally Posted by tercet

What percent of these can you answer decently?

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02-11-2015 , 10:55 PM

#16559

catsec

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Originally Posted by suzzer99

I have a feeling after that article he'll be fine. I just sent him 100 € and it says he's at 99,987 € now.

suzzer99,

Good on you mate, seriously!

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02-12-2015 , 01:32 AM

#16560

daveT

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Originally Posted by Grue

What percent of these can you answer decently?

What did you learn yesterday/this week?
Yesterday I learned that drinking to black out isn't as scary as it was 10 years ago. These days we have text to serve as documentation that you didn't do anything you regret. Technology is great.

What excites or interests you about coding?
Emacs. I just love how it feels to code in Emacs.

What is a recent technical challenge you experienced and how did you solve it?
I used the Uber app for the first time the other day. I found a 20-something to help me out with it because the UI is just awful.

Talk about your preferred development environment.
Emacs and the command line.

Which version control systems are you familiar with?
Is this a list question or a question of what I actually use? I use git + Emacs

Can you describe your workflow when you create a web page?
I open up Emacs and start with <!DOCTYPE html> then I press F5 a lot. I mean, a whole lot.

If you have 5 different stylesheets, how would you best integrate them into the site?
Don't all the cool kids use Sass?

Can you describe the difference between progressive enhancement and graceful degradation?
yes.

How would you optimize a website's assets/resources?
Remove excess code.

How many resources will a browser download from a given domain at a time?
One. They aren't multi-threaded yet, right?

What are the exceptions?
Value, Type... I don't know. I need documentation for this stuff.

Name 3 ways to decrease page load (perceived or actual load time).
Install NoScript.

If you jumped on a project and they used tabs and you used spaces, what would you do?
Kick myself for not asking first.

Write a simple slideshow page
i don't know what that is, sry.

If you could master one technology this year, what would it be?
Whatever I need for this job.

Explain the importance of standards and standards bodies.
For one, they tell you to use spaces and not tabs.

What is FOUC? How do you avoid FOUC?
I don't say that word.

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02-12-2015 , 01:35 AM

#16561

suzzer99

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Best question to ask at the end of a job interview "What is the biggest reason you wouldn't hire me?" Gives you a chance to address their biggest concern. I saw this on a cheesy TV show called Hacking the System, but I like it.

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02-12-2015 , 02:00 AM

#16562

jjshabado

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I'd be interested to hear what other people think but I'd hate being asked that question by a candidate.

I'm almost certainly not going to give a true answer in most situations and its just going to make me feel a bit awkward as I try to come up with a generic answer that won't offed you or tie my hands.

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02-12-2015 , 06:41 AM

#16563

maxtower

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It's interesting to me that interviewing comes up so much in this thread when software is the easiest field to land a job in.

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02-12-2015 , 06:47 AM

#16564

plexiq

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@jjshabado
Interesting. Why wouldn't you give a true answer to this?

If you actually consider hiring, letting the candidates know what areas they may need to brush up seems like a win/win. And for easy no-hires you'll never meet them again anyway, in that case why bother making something up when you could help them out by telling the truth?

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02-12-2015 , 06:51 AM

#16565

ChrisV

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Originally Posted by maxtower

It's interesting to me that interviewing comes up so much in this thread when software is the easiest field to land a job in.

The limited amount of interviewing I have helped out with has confirmed to me that I will never be without a job. The stories ITT of candidates unable to write a solution to fizzbuzz hasn't hurt either.

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02-12-2015 , 06:53 AM

#16566

ChrisV

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Originally Posted by jjshabado

I think it's not something you want to ask after every interview. I think certain interviewers would like it and certain would not. You'd need to assess during the interview whether the interviewer was comfortable with conflict, as it's a fairly combative question to ask.

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02-12-2015 , 06:56 AM

#16567

ChrisV

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While I'm here, does anyone else contribute answers to questions on StackOverflow? I've started doing it recently and it's oddly addictive.

If you had a job candidate who opened up their stackoverflow account to you, assign percentage weight to these reactions:

a) What a weird dude, who spends their time doing this
b) Looks like a capable person, knows what they're doing and explains themselves well.
c) How did they get time to do this? Was this in work hours?

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02-12-2015 , 06:58 AM

#16568

kazana

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Originally Posted by plexiq

If you actually consider hiring, letting the candidates know what areas they may need to brush up seems like a win/win. And for easy no-hires you'll never meet them again anyway, in that case why bother making something up when you could help them out by telling the truth?

I actually use a line like this: "If I was hired, which areas would you want me to brush up on in advance, given what you know of me so far?"

I have long ago given up on getting a truthful answer about not getting a project/being hired. I assume companies are just too scared of lawsuits. They cannot gain anything offering the truth, only the interviewee.

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02-12-2015 , 07:38 AM

#16569

jjshabado

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Originally Posted by maxtower

It's interesting to me that interviewing comes up so much in this thread when software is the easiest field to land a job in.

The goal is to do better than just getting a job. It's getting the jobs you want.

I think a bunch of is also do interviewing and so it's useful to talk about from that perspective too.

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02-12-2015 , 07:41 AM

#16570

jjshabado

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Originally Posted by ChrisV

If the answers are good, definitely b. We all waste time doing stupid stuff (2+2 for example). Someone that does helpful 'waste of time' stuff and is good at it is a definite plus.

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02-12-2015 , 07:51 AM

#16571

jjshabado

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Originally Posted by plexiq

@jjshabado

Interesting. Why wouldn't you give a true answer to this?

If you actually consider hiring, letting the candidates know what areas they may need to brush up seems like a win/win. And for easy no-hires you'll never meet them again anyway, in that case why bother making something up when you could help them out by telling the truth?

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Originally Posted by kazana

I have long ago given up on getting a truthful answer about not getting a project/being hired. I assume companies are just too scared of lawsuits. They cannot gain anything offering the truth, only the interviewee.

It is partly that there's no benefit to me and to some degree anything I say may be 'used against me'. Things like personality issues or just a complete lack of skills aren't things that the candidate will be able to convince me to change my mind on in the remaining part of the interview and may offend them.

On a deeper level I very rarely make a hire decision in the interview. I need a bit of time to review my notes and how the interview went. Sometimes I'll come out feeling one way and when I go over everything switch the way I'm feeling.

If we end up hiring someone there are lots of opportunities to have a conversation about their skills or what they should brush up on before starting so doing it in the interview isn't that meaningful of a benefit.

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02-12-2015 , 08:42 AM

#16572

adios

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Originally Posted by maxtower

It's interesting to me that interviewing comes up so much in this thread when software is the easiest field to land a job in.

I don't think it comes up that much. Lots of jobs and opportunities out there to do very interesting work and make a lot of money. In order to land a job that you highly desire you have to interview well. Also as JJ mentioned, there are people on this forum that are interviewing candidates. Nobody wants to hire a dud. Not surpring to me at all that the subject comes up.

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02-12-2015 , 08:54 AM

#16573

adios

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Originally Posted by kazana

This is basically it. In my view, the hiring process is often dysfunctional anyway so I really wouldn't expect an insightful answer and I actually wouldn't benefit that much from a truthful answer.

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02-12-2015 , 11:18 AM

#16574

Anais

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Originally Posted by jjshabado

If the answers are good, definitely b. We all waste time doing stupid stuff (2+2 for example). Someone that does helpful 'waste of time' stuff and is good at it is a definite plus.

Sample size and all, but I tried this gambit once for a tech support job, didn't quite work.

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02-12-2015 , 12:14 PM

#16575

jjshabado

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I highly doubt it was your helpful stack overflow posts that cost you the job.

Meaning if you didn't tell them about your stackoverflow posting I'm pretty certain you still wouldn't have gotten the job.