I'm not the best developer but I never had any issues during interview except when I didn't want the job. Damn I'm even stammering but still looks like it goes well most of the time.
Big note, I'm from the EU, interviewed in France and UK (London), none of them had big technical steps like in the US (from what I read here), nor a billion steps.
Why? I think (I didn't analyze anything) that is because I'm just being myself. I talk to the interviewer like it's a friend. If I think of a joke I just say it. Thoughts like "will be it ok if", "should I say this or that", etc NEVER cross my mind. I'm having a conversation, not a test.
Same for technical stuff, if I don't know something I just say I don't know. Hopefully I still have an idea, so I would say something like "I don't know this / never used that, but my first guess would be X", then usually it ends up being a discussion that at the very last would teach me something, even if I don't get the job.
That being said, I understand it's hard to do stuff like that if this is not your default mindset and you are being close to desperate.
I'll never understand comparing code to art. Not the first time I'm seeing it but for me it couldn't be further apart.
There is no best way to make a drawing.
There is no best way to make a movie.
There is no best way to tell a story.
There is no best way to make a painting.
There is no best way to create a song.
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There is (almost?) always a best way to do a piece of code. Code has nothing to do with emotions. I'm not trolling I truly don't get it, like at all.
You make me think about that commercial you couldn't skip on DVD. "YOU WOULDN'T STEAL A CAR" Bitch if I could copy a car on street for free I would do it.
Not to mention the only people seeing that fucking clip were the ones that bought the DVD. Way to ensure returning customers, well done.
When I saw people saying stuff like "hacking a salad" I considered this term lost forever. Putting food together is not hacking a salad people, it's literally making one.
The movie looks really bad but as someone who saw the movie, it's actually pretty good and funny. The quatuor works perfectly, there is no feminism message at all, it's just a good comedy.
Maybe it won't be your type of humor, but this is not a bad movie in any way. People are just rating the movie without seeing it, which is pretty stupid in the first place. Because of that I expect the score to be much higher, hopefully a lot of people won't listen to the haters and see for themselves.
I never understood people's issue with news.
I don't read any newspapers, I don't read any news-sites, I literally read titles of /r/worldsnews (knowing that most of them are clickbaits, but still) and that's it.
I don't think I'm missing anything, the relevant news come to you one way or another. Yes you'll have it like a day later but who cares? In the meantime you are free to do stuff.
Letting children play freely is hardly a new idea lol.
I won't comment the cuisine and racism thing, daily reminder that the US police is murdering black people on the street (and on camera for added entertainment).
Still I agree with you that France is becoming more and more like the US and that worries me because I definitely think it is NOT the way to go at all.
Try to figure out how they do it, and feed them with porn and anti chinese propaganda. If they do it manually then pray for them because they have a shitty life.
One of the story in the comments is awesome (from jakob). Dude got unleashed to a client without the necessary knowledge, client got angry and asked for a replacement, a senior came and actually teach the junior. I expected the story to end poorly and it actually was a great happy ending. Would read again.
There is no way anybody loses his jobs because of this. How hard is it to link one of the million articles about this to whoever you sent that email too? It's not ideal but pretending that it'll have drastic consequences is ridiculous and completely destroy whatever point these people want to make.
Your kids and yourself see ads all the time, just not on TV. There is no way to avoid ads, all ads are not evil either. Even if we talk only on TV, there are probably plenty in the shows / movies you watch.
Attributing modern life to Apple, nice one OP.
No Apple won't change "mankind", are you kidding me mate? Mankind, why not the whole universe?
Maybe they'll discover God or create a new one. In 2000 years people will eat an apple every Sunday in memory of Apple our Lord and Savior. You could be in the book too, you are already talking like an archangel.
I wouldn't consider programming creative at all, it's the opposite for me. Each problem has a unique solution and do only one thing. None of what you code can be interpreted in differents ways depending of the person looking at it or using it.
The TV analogy is more about people are not using internet but only Facebook and Google. I think it's more that way than the consuming / creating angle.
So many people praising this brainwashing I can't even believe it. I'm ready for the downvote but please comment to why it is not the case. That's a pretty story but if their parents went on teaching him something else than physics everybody would go on their horses and scream for child abuse.
What choice did the kid have? None. Dude didn't go out and was full MIT mode from the age of 5.
I think surveillance is completely retarded. Not completely but pushing for more and more, I see people asking to give away their privacy because terrorist succeeded an operation?
All of the french terrorist (yes, they are also french, born in France and turned in France), including the ones from january, were already known from the police. We knew they traveled to Syria. Some official said back in january that they just couldn't afford to follow them 24/7, just not enough manpower.
So what more surveillance will do? We already know who they are, we can't arrest them before they do anything, and from interviews on french TV (I am french), our services already stopped a lot of them before they act already. Like earlier this august, apparently some dudes was planning on hitting a music concert, probably during one of the numerous summer festivals.
I realize that this could be an argument for more surveillance since it is working for most cases, but I still strongly believe that more surveillance means:
- Working on consequences instead of causes (causes would be french people getting radicalised)
- Completely prepare the field for abuse if futures gouvernements feel like it, which I believe they will (they already do basically, to some extent). Let's remind everyone Hitler was elected, majority of people voted for him. I'm not saying I'm scared that a new devil will rise in France, or even western countries, but none of our liberties and rights are secured by any means.