verelo

3 dagen geledendiscuss

I wouldnt say it is, but there are circumstances when speed is helpful. I wouldn't argue that coding is one of them.

3 dagen geledendiscuss

This is the feeling i get too. Cant produce quality, but can produce something that is super fast...so take the wins where they are.

verelo

4 dagen geledendiscuss

pretty nice, the click targets are a bit awkward but otherwise really fun!

verelo

10 dagen geledendiscuss

Maybe in the US, in Canada i find their online services are pretty average. A lot of the time i search for something and i get a US link, much to my disapointment.

verelo

10 dagen geledendiscuss

Yeah, home depot is a tricky case. They have a huge array of products, and in my experience when you cant find something you need to search beyond the store you're in....so the database you need access to isn't exactly small. Makes a practical offline experience tricky.

Home depots website sucks anyway, slow, clunky, terrible touch space, and the search is awful.

Aside, they should ad cell repeaters inside to fix all this.

verelo

10 dagen geledendiscuss

I used to run a company (2010-2018) where our customers were almost always using our product inside of grocery stores, which are almost always metal sheds with some finishings on the walls. Not so great for cell service, it became essential for us to support offline mode if we wanted to keep those customers happy and engaged.

I spent many late nights trying to debug reachability bugs. It's frankly a nightmare trying to build a reliable app when the user has /some/ cell service, but not enough to operate the app reliably.

verelo

10 dagen geledendiscuss

So i've done similar things in the past - and my justification for 'app' over website has been offline.

Does the PWA state of things resolve that in the modern days? If it did, yeah I'd agree, no need for an app at all. In my case the app was being used in rural Ontario. I cant even make a phone call here without wifi.

verelo

11 dagen geledendiscuss

That checks out.

verelo

11 dagen geledendiscuss

As an Australian, Apples voice models have always sucked. I've tried using stt (again) more recently and its improved, but i'm so tired of having to Americanize my voice to get it to figure out what the hell i'm saying.

verelo

15 dagen geledendiscuss

That success rate aligns with mine. I was also shocked, at first.

verelo

15 dagen geledendiscuss

For sure. I mean, i think naturally you'll end up there if all goes well. Have some tricky questions prepared of course, but starting simple gives you so much so quickly and often tells you where their strengths and weaknesses will end up being.

I'm not sure if its best to focus on strengths of weaknesses, but i did prefer to focus on strengths. I found convincing myself why I do want to work with someone was a better experience than trying to find reasons not to. Also it just tended to get better buy in from the other team member that way, and i'd know how to assign work once they joined.

verelo

15 dagen geledendiscuss

ha, i'd have loved that. I'm out of the world where I hire people these days, solo founder life. Maybe i'll go back there, but it's a real mission objective to just be a one man show right now.

verelo

15 dagen geledendiscuss

So for about 10 years my main interview question was:

"Write me a function in any language of your choosing, that takes an array of integers and returns the sum."

I loved it. Here is why:

1. I'd get to see them write code, in a low pressure way, but they'd have to write something

2. A shocking number of people would struggle to write the code. That was my signal to end the interview early.

3. I'd get to ask "So tell me how it works" and they'd sometimes look at me like I'm a moron, but others would be respectful and kind, and that would tell me how they'd answer other people who ask questions they felt had obvious answers.

4. I'd ask "what could go wrong at runtime?" - this would be where most people got surprised by their own responses, but it was a fun conversation to have about a seemingly simple function.

5. I'd ask how they would fix any potential runtime exceptions or potential undesirable behaviours

6. I'd try break it, and ask how they would handle that (if i could, i often could)

7. If we got this far, then we could move onto other questions and they're warmed up and generally feeling safe about how the conversation would go. I'd like to switch from coding into data structure related questions normally.

I hate high pressure coding interviews, also, who the hell doesn't just sit there and Google / LLM the answer anyway. The real question I want to know is "How curious are you? Do you want to learn? What kind of person are you? Will I enjoy working with you when things get hard". That's hard to figure out, but you're not going to do that if you just try stump someone in an interview. I think it's on the interviewer to find a way to ask questions that are revealing and accessible in an interview environment...and frankly, I think you get more out of it if you make the effort to keep it simple.

verelo

25 dagen geledendiscuss

That's what Google told me, but i still don't see how it links to this?

verelo

25 dagen geledendiscuss

I'm glad you're asking because I've seen it too and don't get it either. I assumed initially it was alpha as a typo, then I Googled it and got even more confused.

verelo

27 dagen geledendiscuss

Land of the free, clearly.

verelo

27 dagen geledendiscuss

None of those things are knowledge. I think theres something specific around limiting access to knowledge and capabilities that makes this feel insidious.

verelo

vorige maanddiscuss

Some do. Sr-22 for example.

However, often if you’re handling things well, loosing an engine isn’t the end of the world.

A lot of accidents happen very close to the ground, at height wear a parachute wouldn’t necessarily be helpful anyway.

A parachute, a great solution for some scenarios, but for many, it’s not going to change the outcome. Such examples would be mid collisions, low altitude spiral dives, fires, or anything related to a shortage of oxygen. You also need to consider that during a lot of accidents, other factors, such as weather might be impacting the decision matrix of the pilot, and that might prevent them from using a parachute until it’s too late.

The parachutes are also another maintenance item in increasing the cost of running the plane, and generally, the airframe won’t survive the accident, so people are hesitant to deploy them.

verelo

vorige maanddiscuss

Given the trajectory of the world’s on, it seems pretty obvious to me that diversifying from oil and gas is required for a long-term sustainable economy. I think the more interested in short term benefits than long-term success.

verelo

vorige maanddiscuss

The irony that they figured out how to eliminate rats, but can’t diversify from oil and gas is pretty special.

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