MagicAndi

Thanks for the links, I missed these discussions!

I've been following this series of posts on this job search (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30003106), and this post really resonated with me. I've experienced interviewing companies making unreasonable demands before, and generally, these are the companies to avoid. In my experience, they're also the companies that are most resistant to making any allowances to the interviewee's personal circumstances. As always, the interview is a two-way process, and it gives you a view of what working at a company could be like. When a company treats you badly as a candidadte, they don't suddenly improve when you become a full-time employee.

The United Kingdom's very own version of the ICANN debacle.

Terence, I love how you are throwing it back on others to protect their social media account names from being snatched by people like you.

[Edit] Corrected typo in Terence's name.

Agreed. As someone who follows Terence's blog, I was surprised and disappointed to read about this nonsense. It certainly screams entitlement.

Interesting article, has similar concerns to those raised by Cathy O'Neil in her book 'Weapons of Math Destruction', and also by Tim Wu in The Attention Merchants. Those of us working in software rarely stop to think about the biases we're hardcoding in our programs, and how it can impact users. We really need to wake up to how we are affecting people's lives.

I like the fact that this is a simple, easily measurable metric that can give you a very good idea of the quality of your application. In fact, I'm now trying to think of what simple metrics I can use to track the quality for the application I'm currently working on (a web application).

Isn't this more the effect of Google employed engineers downvoting criticism of their beloved Google, and upvoting the Plex approved propaganda?

These are the sites that I have came across:

1. China Tech Insights: https://www.chinatechinsights.com/

2. All Tech Asia: https://medium.com/act-news

3. China Tech News: https://www.chinatechnews.com/

4. China Digital Times (Sci-Tech): http://chinadigitaltimes.net/china-news/main/sci-tech/

5. technode: http://technode.com/

This article is actually argung that instead of a team leader, we need both a mediator, and a healthy and productive software team. The later aren't that common in my experience, and I've found that those that do exist are typically formed around a strong senior developer, i.e. the team leader that this article argues against. Productive teams may not need a team leader forever, but I suspect they do need one in order to come about.

An interesting article that shows the vitriol that some feel obliged to throw at others who are successful. The takewaway from the article is that life is too short to try and reason with a troll, so ignore them and move on.