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> There is no way to show people how much time you invested in your self study. It is not about what you know, it is about other people getting to know so they can hire you. Your point still holds …

The main difference is that more resources are now publicly available to everyone to look up on the internet which was a different story 40 years ago. This is why companies at the time hired grads tha…

No mention of Android, Fuchsia or Minix :(

I just tried Ripcord with an old Slack account and it seemed to be working fine. I've not encountered any issues on my end so far.

So Ripcord is created by one person in his spare time and it performs blazingly-fast and supports Slack whilst Slack's own client is maintained by tens if not hundreds of engineers and it still p…

It doesn't really mean anything actually, but you verses the 'competition' depends on your public profile as a software engineer and how you market yourself. There are devs who joined F…

Even worse if libraries / packages are only hosted on Github. Then the main ecosystem of a language dependent on those packages can grind to a full stop from there. I'm looking at all of you…

Always go beyond the curriculum. The free courses out there are so similar, that it is not enough to differentiate yourself against others who have done the same course. You also need to do more than …

The second I read this, I immediately signed up to Keybase today and deleted my Slack account and switched to the Keybase chat system instead which I am setting up right now. I am confident to say tha…

Someone else had the same email as you: https://californiaglobe.com/media/airbnb-threatens-journalis... But this is the list of legitimate Airbnb domains: https://www.…

This is no different to Codility or Hackerrank which both do the same automated assessments that this also provides. I'm afraid that this is yet another useless screening tool that unrealisticall…

Exactly, no-one cares. This industry is creating a culture of celebrity programmers and worshipping and glorifying the code they write. It does not even remotely matter. What matters is who is going t…

> F-Droid is taking a political stance here. Very bad decision here. > "F-Droid won’t tolerate oppression or harassment against marginalized groups. Because of this, it won’t package nor di…

I like seeing posts like this showing that there is still interest in operating with mainframes and bare-metal servers these days. My biggest fear is that you are in the minority of developers that ca…

Perhaps they did their own research on Libra and prepared those questions before and then asked Facebook basic questions about the design & implementation of Libra.

I don't believe in finding a 'best way' to improving your tech writing skills. But what I can recommend is that researching and writing several technical blog-posts on certain interests…

I agree with the points outlined here as both a former candidate and as an interviewer. They are not really technical but the questions I ask to candidates are relevant to the job and I always look fo…

I couldn't stop laughing at the title and this very creative scam letter which has actually been out there for more than 14 years and reported on The Register. [0] [0] https://www.ther…

Well after looking at yet another attempt at solving the 'broken hiring process', it seems like this one is going to end up like the same situation as this relevant xkcd comic: https:/…

This is absolutely true. I thought I was crazy when I cancelled my TV license here in the UK a year ago. But after several months, I wasn't missing out on anything. I never felt more productive i…

Indeed, the fan shim is insanely cool and I just bought one of these the moment that it was back in stock together with my Raspberry Pi 4. It also works on the Pi 3 and 2. Here's the link if anyo…

> "So despite companies investing 7 to 9 hours per person on interviewing, they miss out on great, capable talent by testing for memorization instead of practical application of skills." …

For the sake of maintaining an equal hiring playing-field (Which is by law in most countries in the western world), It also makes sense to put up pages about devs that are males and other minoritity o…

I agree with some of the author's concerns in his blogpost. But the real context of his post is here: https://twitter.com/airmailer/status/1150562754534748161 To me, th…

Well to begin with emojis were already neutral from the start until they included gender properties, skin colour, etc. Rather than push this empty incentive on the diversity and inclusivity myth which…

Or some candidates go through the easy route and privately fork an existing solution from GitHub which they heavily modify it to submit that as their own to go to the onsite interviews. "Take hom…

I am going to have to agree with this, the other notes look professionally engraved and what we have here looks like it is rushed and a airbrushed photoshop crop for us to see.

> Now we need to create a new operating system for an optimal user experience. No we do not. TLDR: Choose Pop!_OS or ElementaryOS as they both match the 'It just works' requirement for al…

Agreed, those two are famous programmers standing on the shoulders of giants with their software being used by all companies in the tech industry. If people keep believing this legend, then Newton, Ba…