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Gjghhhhhhglobglobgloburghhjj. Pick that up. Throw it in the trashcan.4 -
From watching the movie Amadeus (1984) (Mozart) I realized how backward the job market is and how it never changed:
Mozart's dad: "I cannot possibly hire this girl without references!"
It's even more stupid nowadays. Now they made it illegal to hire based on feeling. lol. I mean, that's good, yeah.
Why do you need references for hiring someone anyway? Bad economy? Lack of trust in humans in general?9 -
Man... oldschool gaming is hardcore. I have been playing SNES games and they use a password system where you only get the password if you get enough points, which are one-shot only and if you miss your chance, no password for you. lol. And then you have to play another 4 levels to get your next password... upon which the difficulty to get it is progressively more difficult.
As you may know, SNES cartridges used a button cell for saving state between sessions. Now I also understand why I had spent entire afternoons on a game in my childhood... because you couldn't save. LOL. It was just passwords.6 -
What is this preemptive "You're not a good fit for our team" bullshit replies from employers upon simply applying to a job on a webform?
You haven't even met me, not spoken to me, just saw my CV. Tf is this weird shit.13 -
Another coding test that takes 2 hours.
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.12 -
Fun Java test:
Without looking up anything, answer the following question:
Which of the following variable identifiers is legal in Java and why?
1) float $50.00;
2) float $50_00;
3) float 50;
4) float else;8 -
Telling HR in an interview that you have ReactJS experience and that this is easily transferable with AngularJS work is like a human yelling at a fish that chatgpt 7 is out.5
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First it was Amazon region-wide service issues. Now it's Cloudflare having issues.
https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
Fuck sake man.16 -
Have you ever done a programming language/stack switch in your career? And how do you defend that if you don't have experience in it? Let's say you worked 4 years in Java and now you want to move to C# .NET. I know this has been answered before. lol
Employers are always whining that I don't have experience in it, so it's not a match. This is what happens when you have an HR dumbo as your first interviewer.
- they are both OOP
- they are both compiled + interpreted (JVM and Bytecode vs .NET runtime vs MSIL)
- very similar syntax, data type ecosystem, etc
Clients refusing you because recruiter says "oh it's not a match 'cause he doesn't have the 4 years .NET you asked for".
Sigh.22 -
Companies these days have this weird fetish where they take all the best nerds with the best grades from colleges and then only accept those.
It's now the opposite of what it used to be. No humility, no 'average Joe'. That stuff belongs to the 90's, it seems. Now we have a bunch of pink unicorn overachievers and the rest of the people just can't catch a break. lol15 -
Gooood morning, wood chuck chuckers! It's cooooding tiiime!
It's coooold out there! It's cold out there every day! What is this, Miami beach?
Nice job boys, you're playing yesterday's tape.3 -
When you heard so much about A.I. that you think 'code assist' in Eclipse means A.I., when it really just means local docs contextual pop-up. lol11
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The Orwellian irony is that A.I. agents can probably help me better at finding a job than most recruiters can. lol5
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This November shall be... Noirvember, i.e. watching Film Noir. Nyah, see? H'what are you saying, see?6
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If only all job-hunting web UIs had proper filtering options, e.g.:
- by location, job type, contract type, etc etc.
A number of them just dump all the applications in one place.. without filters.. sigh lol.6 -
I wonder if at your company, budget for research is met with immediate "nahhh, we're not gonna do that" rather than "let's discuss it in a meeting" (where this depends on your developer rank and cronyism because yeah).
Too many companies have arrogant (ignorant) managers who immediately shut down or approve initiatives based on cronyism. It's things like this that slow down a company and make for missed opportunities.6 -
Painful but true quote:
"Technology never exists in a vacuum—we’re constrained by our tools
and the social, economic, and historical factors that produced them."5 -
Job market's gotten way worse. No joke: now, every job I interviewed for requires this:
1) Interview with HR
2) Interview with Hiring Manager
3) Personality test
4) Technical test
5) Interview with CEO
Only if all steps passed and vetted, then ok. It's like we're on a zero-trust policy now. Now even mom&pop shops want technical tests. Tf.14 -
https://medium.com/@realbrickroad1/...
I don't think I would have found Wally unless someone had given a tip in the comments. I stared myself crazy for minutes on end. lmao. Definitely the most difficult Wally puzzle I found.9 -
Whenever your manager comes to you with a new request, I think you should reply with Ocean 13's Roman's line:
"“Oh, with 18 months, nothing else on my plate, no other jobs, no distractions… maybe.”3 -
Freaking, some devs should learn how to make websites well. lol. I was hovering over a text, then I let it lose focus and focused my cursor floating halfway between left and right element and it caused an intense strobe effect.
I just can't. lol10 -
https://lightningchart.com/net-char...
Generate one trillion datapoints. Interesting. lol. I need 128 GB RAM for that, though...11