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Re:Ask HN: Ridiculous job interview. What do I do? on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @02:53PM (#29258075)
As a middle manager I can confirm, I have a certain set of standard interview processes I apply but if the candidate is warranted to ask for an alternative approach to assess their skills in condensed time I can accommodate those situations too. Simply asking directly is most likely the best approach, suggesting a route is likely fastest to get an answer e.g. instead of 4x1hr can we do 1x1.5-2hr and reference your code for them to measure your skills overall.
Hadley works for RStudio, RStudio now have their own MRAN type mirror: https://packagemanager.rstudio.com/client/#/
Re:Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp Outage on Thursday December 10, 2020 @06:57AM (#25372717)
In your country/social group. Messanger has a bigger footprint than WhatsApp in some of my social groups in Europe.
Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux: The lost potential on Friday November 20, 2020 @10:39AM (#25161450)
Check the other comments on the link? Solution c) is already there?
Re:USB 4.0 [pdf] on Saturday February 01, 2020 @09:14AM (#22210585)
We've been using these on our Macbooks at home: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07GHZC8FN
Re:ETL Tools for R Language – Comparison on Friday May 31, 2019 @07:50AM (#20059999)
I thought about stopping but decided to keep reading. I'm not sure these guys know what ETL Tooling means, some of the entries were just bespoke R script only packages that just extract data into R.
Re:Grafana v6.2 on Friday May 24, 2019 @07:01PM (#20006036)
+1 RedHat 7 and 8.
Might be location specific but out of 300+ candidates for 15 positions mid to senior level over 8 years in London recruited using this technique I've only ever had one person turn it down. We ask for fairly simpler requirements and for people to limit themselves to 4-6 hours over the course of a week with a focus on comments and recording their thoughts in a readme to suggest how they'd scale things if it was a real project. We don't really bother with many technical questions outside of the project anymore. It really is the single most important thing to get a glimpse into a persons ability to deliver, let them code at their own time in a setting they are comfortable with and then do a peer review with them on location and discuss the implementation and potential enhancements. The rest after that is generally just team fit and culture alignment checks.
Re:NPM and the future of JavaScript on Friday October 12, 2018 @04:00PM (#18204284)
I'm a bit of a outsider looking in being a manager that doesn't code much anymore but why the dislike of Typescript? I really don't see the downside. Transpiling doesn't make it 1:1 anymore but all devs seem to praise it.
Re:MIT mathematicians solve age-old spaghetti mystery on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @01:07PM (#17759734)
I find breaking in two as a bunch convenient since it makes it slightly easier to manage lengths. I do smaller for my daughter (2yo) since she struggles with scooping up the long ones on her own but is fine with smaller bits.
Re:Ask HN: How do you talk to your GitHub community? on Monday April 09, 2018 @09:43AM (#16792872)
Would team discussions be an option? https://help.github.com/articles/about-team-discussions/

Might mean having to bring people into the project as outside collaborators though if I read that correctly.

Doesn't support anchor links it seems:

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Re:Visual Studio 2017 Launch [video] on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @04:52PM (#13815351)
The lack of an ISO is a bit anti-enterprise I feel. Working in a bank with firewalls that flag a lot of stuff as false positive blocked items using the builder is problematic. The 2015 ISOs solved a lot of issues for us in terms of building a deployment via SCCM. I'm getting a headache just thinking about trying to get pulling hundreds of packaged executables through the firewall signed off by IT Security.

I feel an ISO including only standard packages from Microsoft itself would solve a lot of issues.

Layout is really crappy around blocked files or corporate firewalls. It feels untested in anything other than a completely open environment because some of the package downloads can fail silently with a fuzzy enterprise proxy. Creating layouts for patches seems dependant on what direction the wind is blowing, I think 2015 Update 3 took about 4 tries to download everything correctly and only way to verify was reading through the logs. Also that one needed a random Windows KB update on Windows 7 which was extra fun.

Better handling for layout around error handling and validation of downloads would be a boon. It would be great if there was a way of verifying an already created layout. Is there any way?

Re:Id Software Programming Principles on Saturday February 25, 2017 @05:16PM (#13734182)
> "No prototypes. Just make the game. Polish as you go. Don’t depend on polish happening later. Always maintain constantly shippable code."

I disagree with this so much, prototypes and proof of concepts teach you so much but usually they are crap you will always write it better a second time. Throw away the prototype and re-write it as a much better implementation.

Re:Amazon Polly – Text to Speech in 47 Voices and 24 Languages on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @05:36PM (#13075349)
Surprised that Icelandic is being offered. As a native Icelandic speaker; to me it sounds about as good as can be expected with such a service. Isochrony (had to search the dictionary for that one) is a bit off but expected based on the context of phrases / words used to create the samples.
Re:Introducing the free Microsoft R Client on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @03:36PM (#12081733)
I am no closed to understanding what this is. Everything listed here is already part of Microsoft R Open and the client is just standard RGui: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-r/install-r-clien...
Re:Learn the ways of Linux-fu, for free on Thursday June 02, 2016 @05:45PM (#11826329)
I've been using https://www.google.com/bookmarks/ for years.
Re:New Bloomberg Terminal Keyboard on Thursday May 19, 2016 @04:21PM (#11733464)
Bloomberg developer accounts do not give you a BBG keyboard you just get the fingerprint thingy on it's own and use your own keyboard.
Re:Icelandic Prime Minister Resigns After Panama Data Leak on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @06:40PM (#11435166)
As an Icelandic person living abroad I can only say fuck this fucking shit: "Prime Minister has not resigned - sends press release to international media" http://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/politics_and_society/2016/...
Re:An 18 Year Old Buys a Mainframe [video] on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @07:21PM (#11385771)
But it makes it viable to audio only listeners (be it watching in background or blind).
Re:The Single Piece of JavaScript on HN on Thursday March 17, 2016 @06:57PM (#11308328)
I use this plugin, I don't think I'd visit as often if I didn't have it: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...

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