This is brilliant: Software engineer got tired of getting rejected by automated screeners and tested a theory.
Real resume: 0% success
Obviously fake resume stuffed with buzzwords: 90% success rate
Calls from from Notion, AirBnB, Reddit, Dropbox, Robinhood, etc
the first thing our new hire did was fix a bug that's been bugging him forever as a user prior to joining.
he then breathed a sigh of relief and submitted his two weeks' notice. wtf??
Update your previous assumptions for Delta. Even things we think were low risk such as hanging outdoors w fully vax groups are now high risk. Risk calculation was updated for delta and it is super helpful. https://t.co/c6XaSrr1pr
TIL about the void operator. It’s a unary operator that evaluates an expression and returns undefined
Or it can make an <a> tag render correctly without adding an actual link
Now I finally know what “javascript:void(0)” means
#askADHD When requesting accommodations before taking coding assessments for Software Engineering positions, how much extra time can you request?
Is there some metric per hour? I‘m sure it varies by company
I have no idea if a 110m assessment + an extra 30m is asking too much!
TIL about the Node REPL - which stands for Read Evaluate Print Loop
It’s funny that I’ve built entire APIs but didn’t know the basic fundamentals 👀
that’s why I’ve been filling in the gaps where I can
OH MY GOD. I've been procrastinating on setting up bash aliases for like a year now and I just found out that oh-my-zsh already had that built in! 🤦♀️🤦♀️ ugh
TIL !$ retrieves the last argument of the last run cmd in history whereas $_ can do so on the same line
Example:
$ mkdir folder && cd $_
OR
$ mkdir folder
$ cd !$
Tech has to exclude people. Tech has the power to change the world, for better and worse.
Allowing racists and other supports of state violence into the tech community is what gives us discriminatory AI, surveillance, and shit like Github's ICE contract.
Silence is violence.