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They’re still using tables for layouts so
Posted by
bazil376 on Friday June 14, 2024 @08:56AM
from the ask-hn dept.
I have never worked at a startup and am interviewing with one. I’d like to ask some questions to suss out whether it’ll go belly up in the near future. Also, it’d be nice to determine if it’s absolutely nuts there. What questions do you generally ask?
I have a fantasy of writing a technical book but not sure I could really put in the required effort
This does not sound like it happened recently
Posted by
bazil376 on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @04:38PM
from the ask-hn dept.
As an interviewee, regardless of whether you got the job or not.
Honestly I just found it irksome that the recruiter was trying to tell me how to prioritize my needs in the job search when it was obvious he was just trying to make a placement.
Outsourcing any part of the interview process for a small company is definitely one for me. Any hire is going to be absolutely critical and you’re going to let someone else make this decision?
And even if it wasn’t a good idea, the fact that the person couldn’t be respectful when they’re trying to impress you the most is a very bad sign.
I had a recruiter trying to convince me to take an offer lower than my current salary, telling me it’s not all about the money. I told him I’d do it if he made up the difference by giving me some of his salary. He told me he’s not giving me his salary to which I replied “it’s not all about the money”
Posted by
bazil376 on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @02:09PM
from the ask-hn dept.
The sort of stuff where if an employee interviewer says it you think to yourself “nope, this isn’t the place for me.”
On the first point - I’m not sure there’s a difference to internet users between 1 billion junk articles on a topic and 1 trillion junk articles.
On the second point - this is precisely what I’m talking about when I say if reputable sources start churning out junk, they will lose their reputation. This is a negative publicity event for google. If it keeps happening, people will no longer trust the information coming from google.
There’s going to be a lot of garbage content out there—but isn’t there already? People have been writing junk to try to get search engine placement for 20+ years.
I’m not necessarily seeing the slop problem. People should always have been skeptical of content on untrusted websites.
Now, if reputable sources start trying to pump out content with AI, that’d be a problem. I suspect for those who try, they’ll quickly lose their reputation.
Posted by
bazil376 on Monday June 10, 2024 @08:23PM
from the ask-hn dept.
Ideally “success” defined as extra income, but I’d also love to hear about projects that you have that are successful in other ways
I’ve just been doing rss for a while but some readers prefer email. I wouldn’t opt people into it somehow, they’d have to subscribe themselves
Posted by
bazil376 on Sunday June 09, 2024 @08:05PM
from the ask-hn dept.
Trying to find a low friction, low cost way to send my blog posts out as emails to subscribers. Thanks!
Yeh doing something that’s not scalable is uniquely something you can offer
Who’d have figured a bunch of people who didn’t read the docs would go on to become software developers
Posted by
bazil376 on Friday May 31, 2024 @08:06AM
from the ask-hn dept.
At least from my experience looking for jobs in the US, I rarely see Laravel come up in an enterprise tech stack. Why is this?
Posted by
bazil376 on Thursday May 30, 2024 @02:00PM
from the nextgov.com dept.
I like it. The distinction between Authn and Authz isn’t nearly as obviously as login and permission. Sometimes I feel like we enjoy fancy terms more than we enjoy unambiguous terms.
Yeah it’s pretty much identical to what ChatGPT spits out. Looks like the comment is removed now.
Was this response generated by an LLM?
Posted by
bazil376 on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @08:30AM
from the ask-hn dept.
Posted by
bazil376 on Monday May 20, 2024 @09:24PM
from the pcloadletter.dev dept.
Were they ever not, at least in recent memory? All those govt and banking mainframes out there were the entire pool of COBOL devs retiring
I do miss it a bit. Something about the scarcity made it more special. Also, the ceremony of going to the video store, browsing the shelves, and bringing it home. Same applies to music for me, but maybe even more so. I know I’m wearing rose-colored glasses in a lot of ways, but im okay with it.
The person on Reddit referenced how things were at their previous job, so probably not entry level