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The current issue is that most of the effort is done by humans right at the beginning of the process: CV screening & first calls.

If you're a recruiter, by the time you actually get to talk to a candidate, you're tired of screening and most of the time you do a half-assed call.

Plus it boggles my mind how very very few companies train the recruiters in understanding the technologies they have in their stack.

There are a lot of factors that add an incredible amount of friction and make it a very asymmetric process (as other have said above):

• plain human error • job specifications with boilerplate text not being clear on what the role actually does • often times the people doing the first screening don’t have a technical background • resumes come in all shapes and formats, so it’s difficult to efficiently read them

And because of that asymmetry and supply-demand ratio, it’s actually quite hard to hire software developers that are suited to a company, tech environment & business needs.

(disclaimer, I work at WorksHub)

The way we're trying to solve the issue at WorksHub is by trying to get companies to open-source same part of their code-base so that a developer could submit a few PRs during the interviewing process.

This solves the issue of irrelevant technical interviews, gives an idea of how your coding environment will be right off the bat.

Basically the thing is to do as much of the process as possible using only tech and then leave the last part for the actual human interaction.

I've almost completely switched to decaf coffee (which still has 15-30% the amount of caffeine normally found in regular coffee) after reading "Why Do We Sleep" by Matthew Walker.

And half of the office here is either reading it now or wants to start reading it

> Ugh why did he have to ruin it with the block chain. He probably has enough solar and battery capacity to power all his nearby neighbors every day 24-hours a day

Technically, it's mining cryptocurrencies. Probably at peak crypto mining profitability (around Dec-Jan) it was making significantly over what he could sell to the neighbors; also implying his neighbors would just switch to his infrastructure, that would be a bit of hassle.

Maybe if he hooked up all those GPUs to a render farm, it would be an alternative.

brilliant comment. I literally just hit the reply button to tell you that

> Apple's attempts to block data tracking as you travel around the web could have a real impact on companies that rely on your personal information to make their billions.

asking the people that working in adtech, cross-device usage prediction and the likes: do you actually think it will disrupt your business or there are always workarounds and are relatively chill about it?

the logo is pretty forgettable, but on the bright side - at page 24 of the PDF they announced that Go 2.0 will have generics

while it's true that usually, you need to understand the basics of CS to write good functional code, we've often found that that doesn't need to be 100% correct.

we've placed a good amount of functional engineers from a Math, Physics, Logic sometimes even Biology background that had a strong affinity for functions and found OOP generally painful.

I think it's that functional programming is more of a niche with an even more disparity between demand/supply regarding the salaries.

Oh, and usually HR people have a pretty bad filter when it comes to functional engineers, so they only filter by keywords

these quotes go back as far as 2006. I'm curious whether the people above have changed their mind meanwhile?

congrats on passing your PhD qualifying exams as well!

calling bs on the "blue light glasses work" as well. No direct scientific evidence.

- Bridges, how much BTC did we confiscate from Silk Road? > - 1,600 > - 1,000 you say? > - Yes, sir - exactly 800 bitcoins

top notch journalism, I couldn't stop until I read the entire article, not skipping any paragraph.

the whole thing is just an interview/dialogue, but it's incredibly captivating

also, you could make three separate movies on existentialism just with ideas from the article.

lastly - the interviewee, he must have such strong philosophical dilemmas

I know marketing and website traffic is important, but: > title: "bus crashes"

> literally first sentence of the article: "getting into a minor collision"

Clickbait aside, here's the concerning part: "It's designed to stop.. and yield to the moving object..."

So basically it wasn't designed to avoid or back up, it was just designed to give way, which confused it when the trailer continued backing it up

haha maybe we did get a bit over zealous with the explanation

indeed the links to the sections don't work for now and we're looking into it.

regarding the JS stuff, the site is built as an SPA and the blog is only one feature, the others are job postings and a personal dashboard where a signed-in user can pin their favorite jobs to keep them for further reference

It's also built using ClojureScript, Reframe, Clojure & GraphQL plus a revamped version launch is planned for mid-December, so I'm afraid the JS is still going to be there :)

We’ll look into it, but can’t promise much as we’re launching a new version mid December which should be friendlier across more platforms.

Hey, thanks for pointing it out - the first one we’re currently looking into as we’re using github style markdown, but the second one is fairly new.

We’ll launch a new version of the site mid December which will address the current issues. Iterating...

we're currently looking into it to fix it(we're using Github style markdown). meanwhile, we'll edit it to serve as a table of contents with no links.

yeah, we reached out directly to Hemanth and got a written consent to re-publish as long as the attributions were visible enough - he is credited as the author, plus there is a link for the original source at the bottom.

As with all articles on our blog that are not written by us, the authors can reach out to us at any time if they want to make any changes to the article and we'll be happy to comply. As well, they can make the changes by themselves at any point.

Regarding the MIT license, we didn't think of mentioning it on the blog - but thank you for head's up, we'll look into it.

Wait, there's an undersea cable from NZ to Singapore to the Suez Canal? How many of these are in the world? The only ones I knew where UK to US.

> Mason, the Harvard student, attends an event on campus with Facebook engineers teaching him how to pass the technical interview.

> Emily’s school has an informal, undergraduate computer science club in which they are collectively reading technical interviewing guides and trying to figure out what tech companies want from them. She has a couple interviews lined up, but all of which are for jobs she’s desperate to get. They trade tips after interviews but ultimately have a shaky understanding of they did right and wrong in the absence of post-interview feedback from companies.

This pains me every.single.time.

Being part of a specialized recruiting agency, I want to double down on how much preparation and insight before the actual interview matters.

Devs spend most of their time developing, not sitting in interviews, so every recruiter should spend at least a few minutes with every candidate giving them some heads-up.

Not like "for question 1, the answer is b", but like how to carry themselves through the interviews and generally what to expect.

Love the irony on that! Which makes me wonder how much valuable content and research in locked away on technologically ancient servers in Cambridge and Oxford.

Concorde pulled off supersonic travel with plane designed on physical pieces of papers, with pencils and rectangles.

SpaceX has like 9 or so failed landings until they pulled it off. If Boom keep iterating fast enough, I think they have a good chance of being successful.

Actually, they're just forcing businesses that have pages to pay for ads. Like if you have a well known page that has grown through shares and likes, you'll be needing to pay money to reach the people that have liked your page.

This reads more like an internal memo to the senior management of CFTC that don't even use a smartphone.

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to offer any new information. Half of it reads like a typical"what is a cryptocurrency? pros and cons" article from LinkedIn.

> The main, 24-foot parachute was just flapping in the breeze and was tangled in its own shroud lines. It hadn’t opened! I could see the white folds neatly arranged, fluttering feebly in the air. “This is very serious,” I thought.

How can someone be so calm in that situation?

Nerves of steel, bravo!

> On weather-battered offshore platforms in Britain’s North Sea, for instance, technicians still walk around with “big pieces of paper in the rain, wind,” said Claire Day, a BP operations engineer. “It is not an ideal way to work.”

Wait, actual pieces of paper? wouldn't it make more sense to have at least some kind of screen?

Such an interesting contrast between using Shazam-like technology to discover oil/sand and using paper on the rigs.

the article is so long and poetic that I drank an entire bottle of wine while reading it. also "Kingpin" is a bit of an exagerration

yes, this is like the biggest oversight for me - it's well known that 0.38g will affect people differently than 1g.

Imagine people that have been born and spent most of their life on Mars and at some point will meet people who were born on Earth - what a strange encounter that will be.

Excellent read, thanks for highlighting it. It provided quite an interesting backdrop for a good part of Western European art of the early 19th century.