I used to believe this but after my most recent position I no longer do.
A lot of the developers there didn't code outside of work hours, or if they did it was just using the same technologies as the day to day.
When asked what tools we could use to filter for higher quality candidates in open roles I responded:
> Ask them to show you a personal project they're proud of, that will tell if they have any passion for the job.
Maybe it was just the company not being very attractive to talented coders, but after some time of candidates having nothing to show the company gave up and outsourced.
There are simply a lot of uninspired developers who are just in it for the money now.
Maybe some kind of confirmation bias / no true scotsman argument, but if I got that question during an interview my response would be something like
Reading this thread made me realise I developed this as a defence mechanism and have honed it over many years, but as you say it's a great social skill as well.
It's amazing how many conversations you can have about interesting subjects (and thereby dodge smalltalk) by simply rewording them into something everybody at the table can understand.
> There is of course the most obvious horrifically misguided recently-popular "decentralized" system, whose name shall not be spoken in this essay. Instead let's back up to something older and better understood: markets.
My reading was the author was referring here to cryptocurrencies and you read the article, claim it's profound, and then spruik an ERC-20 token.
Really exciting, I wish you would display what keys you are pressing in the demo video though, as it was hard to track down how to find bindings such as the file-picker (I come from sublime where it is bound to ctrl+p)
I used to believe this but after my most recent position I no longer do. A lot of the developers there didn't code outside of work hours, or if they did it was just using the same technologies as the day to day.
When asked what tools we could use to filter for higher quality candidates in open roles I responded:
> Ask them to show you a personal project they're proud of, that will tell if they have any passion for the job.
Maybe it was just the company not being very attractive to talented coders, but after some time of candidates having nothing to show the company gave up and outsourced. There are simply a lot of uninspired developers who are just in it for the money now.
Maybe some kind of confirmation bias / no true scotsman argument, but if I got that question during an interview my response would be something like
> Which one would you like to hear about first?