lleolin · HackerTrans

hace 6 añosdiscuss

I guess I don't understand why more people aren't asking for a solution that allows them to sustain themselves and their families and also doesn't elevate the risk of spreading COVID-19. I don't get how "end the lockdown and let a bunch of people get sick" or "possibly starve homeless in the streets" became the only two possible options, and I don't get how anyone becomes a staunch advocate for either.

lleolin

hace 6 añosdiscuss

You're saying that even with a Senate majority, Obama couldn't get his own party to consider public option, while also arguing that through candidates that are "far to the left" of Obama (except Bernie Sanders apparently), we can achieve the kind of structural economic change that people who support Bernie Sanders want. Seems a bit contradictory to me.

lleolin

hace 6 añosdiscuss

In that case, I would love to be handling 90% of the tax burden right now.

lleolin

hace 6 añosdiscuss

That's simply not true. He clearly says "and then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute, and is there a way we can do something like that with injection inside or almost a cleaning because you see it [presumably the virus] gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number."

lleolin

hace 6 añosdiscuss

>It's spam

Semantically accurate

>Sensationalized because it's connected to someone special

It can be spam and it can be spam from 70 pro-Bloomberg accounts at the same time. I don't understand what's sensationalized about that.

lleolin

hace 6 añosdiscuss

Location: Northeast Ohio

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Redis, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Redux

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14gZqNiu5EbKWt0jOfS2a88bz...

Email: [email protected]

I have been developing web applications in Ruby on Rails since 2006 as both a hobbyist and a professional, in addition to other Ruby frameworks such as Padrino or Hanami. I am seeking challenging problems that engage my creativity and desire to build neatly architected, functional, and well-tested apps. Very open to opportunities to do more front-end development (particularly in React), or move into other languages and frameworks such as Elixir or Phoenix.

lleolin

hace 6 añosdiscuss

I'm enamored by the aesthetics of it but it really leaves me quite curious as to the practical considerations of doing it or what might prevent it from being done more often.

lleolin

hace 7 añosdiscuss

When I look at his example I still sense a compelling sense to create some kind of abstraction. It's just that the example abstraction he chose to make is somewhat esoteric and arguably over-solves the problem. The author isn't suggesting a different, perhaps simpler abstraction, but forgoes abstractions entirely.

lleolin

hace 7 añosdiscuss

Location: Northeast Ohio

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Redis, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Redux

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14gZqNiu5EbKWt0jOfS2a88bz...

Email: [email protected]

I have been developing web applications in Ruby on Rails since 2006 as both a hobbyist and a professional, in addition to other Ruby frameworks such as Padrino or Hanami. I am seeking challenging problems that engage my creativity and desire to build neatly architected, functional, and well-tested apps. Very open to opportunities to do more front-end development (particularly in React), or move into other languages and frameworks such as Elixir or Phoenix.

lleolin

hace 7 añosdiscuss

I've wanted a left-side number pad for a long time. I've contended that (for right-handed people) having a number pad on the right is poor ergonomics. If I centered such a keyboard in front of me, then the number pad would be in the way of my mouse. So I end up offsetting the keyboard several inches to the left, which causes me to have to position my arms awkwardly in order to reach the letters. I ended up using keyboards with no number pads at all (in my case a Leopold FC660C).

lleolin

hace 7 añosdiscuss

Location: Northeast Ohio

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Redis, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Redux

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14gZqNiu5EbKWt0jOfS2a88bz...

Email: [email protected]

I have been developing web applications in Ruby on Rails since 2006 as both a hobbyist and a professional, in addition to other Ruby frameworks such as Padrino or Hanami. I am seeking challenging problems that engage my creativity and desire to build neatly architected, functional, and well-tested apps. Very open to opportunities to do more front-end development (particularly in React), or move into other languages and frameworks such as Elixir or Phoenix.

lleolin

hace 7 añosdiscuss

>See, I’d be extremely reluctant to assume >Given this one bit of information, all I know

This seems like a really flawed way of approaching most things. Why assume anything? And if you're going to assume anything, why only factor in that one bit of information, and not any other context. How about the fact that he's been coding for 30 years and works at Google. Is that also relevant?

>I’m assuming the interviewer was a bit surprised

There was no interviewer in this situation. His tweet was not in regards to any interview. Did you read the article?

>If the answer to every question was “I don’t know, I have to look it up”, you’d pass on him, too.

But if I were to do so, at least in such a case I would be basing my suppositions on more than just one thing.

lleolin

hace 7 añosdiscuss

>that’s kind of like saying “I know how to drive a car, but I always have to look up which one is the gas pedal and which one is the brake”

OK, I agree, it's kind of like saying that.

But it's also kind of not like saying that.

Incompetence in driving and incompetence in software development are measured in completely different ways for completely different reasons. In driving, notions of what you definitely should know in order to qualify as "competent" extend from the intrinsic risk to other people's well-being. You can't simply transpose those notions onto the low-stakes sandbox environment that is software development. In software development, process is only important as far as it hinders or helps to deliver good code; competence should be dictated purely by results. All of the actual competence of driving comes during the actual process part; successfully reaching your destination is actually considered to be less important than simply not fucking anything up on the way there.

Sometimes I pick up a video game that I haven't played in weeks, and perform actions incorrectly because the button layout has been overwritten by the button layout of a similar and more recent game. It would foolish to say I'm wholly incompetent at either game; I still have a strong concept of what I should be doing and what I intend to do, it's just that I'm fumbling a bit at the specifics of executing my intent. Am I incompetent for looking up the button layout? Am I incompetent, but only for the 1 hour that it takes me to get back in the groove of things?

Declaring someone is incompetent is a bold assertion to make from such limited information. At the end of the day you either deliver good code in good time or you don't. I would be extremely reluctant to determine this guy can't deliver good code because he had to look something up. Figures no one will hire me.

lleolin

hace 7 añosdiscuss

Location: Northeast Ohio

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Redis, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Redux

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14gZqNiu5EbKWt0jOfS2a88bz...

Email: [email protected]

I have been developing web applications in Ruby on Rails since 2006 as both a hobbyist and a professional, in addition to other Ruby frameworks such as Padrino or Hanami. I am seeking challenging problems that engage my creativity and desire to build neatly architected, functional, and well-tested apps. Very open to opportunities to do more front-end development (particularly in React), or move into other languages and frameworks such as Elixir or Phoenix.

lleolin

hace 7 añosdiscuss

I have to wonder, did you really read the post? Your characterization of it as a "screed about the injustice" of standups seems wholly contradictory to the tone of the post. It literally opens with "your standups are killing your velocity." Correct or incorrect, it's an appeal to efficiency. I would hope that streamlining processes would be welcome in all industries including food service and construction.

I guess I fundamentally don't understand the nature of your argument; your reasoning essentially prohibits anyone daring to voice concerns about prevailing practices, because it could always be worse?

lleolin

hace 7 añosdiscuss

>Again, think women and shoes. Why do women have many pairs? For precisely the same reason people have many guns.

I understand the point you are making, but I think you could make a much better and less sexist analogy.

lleolin

hace 7 añosdiscuss

>Google prioritizes certain websites/results when I enter queries too, it doesn't mean I'm required to click on them.

I would like to call this "an appeal to free will". It's true that individuals can choose what they click, but there is also going to be a statistical reality of what people "choose" to click more/most often.

Because of this, imo the big deal is absolutely gargantuan. Google for example handles several billions of searches per day. To your point of continuing to hunt for the right results, just adding a few seconds per search increases the amount of aggregate time spent searching on a scale of centuries per day. I would argue it's a similar case with Amazon; the service is so large that a minute changes can have tremendous impacts.

lleolin

hace 7 añosdiscuss

>I've had experiences in Sears of spending 15 minutes just looking for an employee Reminds me of an anecdote someone told me more than 15 years ago of him searching for a Sears employee and finding one literally hiding/crouching behind/underneath his register to avoid having to do his job. I would have thought it were an isolated thing.

lleolin

hace 7 añosdiscuss

I just like having a physical copy of my favorite music. It is similar to how there's a greater appeal to rows of hardbound books on shelves compared to a Kindle loaded with epubs, even if the latter is more practical/portable/etc. I'm just going to stream the album anyway. If I'm going to go as far as to directly support the artist by purchasing it, for me it feels more substantial to buy the vinyl.

lleolin

hace 7 añosdiscuss

Location: Northeast Ohio

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Redis, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Redux

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14gZqNiu5EbKWt0jOfS2a88bz...

Email: [email protected]

I have been developing web applications in Ruby on Rails since 2006 as both a hobbyist and a professional, in addition to other Ruby frameworks such as Padrino or Hanami. I am seeking challenging problems that engage my creativity and desire to build neatly architected, functional, and well-tested apps. Very open to opportunities to do more front-end development (particularly in React), or move into other languages and frameworks such as Elixir or Phoenix.

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