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Kent Sharkey wrote: Medium[^]:
There's the problem. Voodoo doesn't work.
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I have personally seen some of my friends w/ great programming skills getting eliminated in first round only. That's kind of sad but that's how it works.
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The perfect way to always hire the best candidates doesn't exist. Deciding on who to hire is a fuzzy, complex process done by people who can only spend a small percentage of their time and energy conducting interviews.
You'll eventually make a hiring decision you regret no matter what your process is. If you blame your bad judgment and resolve to always make perfect decisions in the future, you're fooling yourself. Hiring is always a gamble.
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A new global survey of developers (PDF) reinforces what anyone in the tech industry has known all along: That those who build software for a living are concerned about keeping their skills up-to-date, consider themselves autodidacts when it comes to learning new things, and really like using open-source software. Or you can stay current by ignoring new stuff
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Kent Sharkey wrote: concerned about keeping their skills up-to-date
That's only drones who only care about their resume and how to get the next job once their current employer realizes they can't actually put anything into practice.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote:
That's only drones who only care about their resume and how to get the next job once their current employer realizes they can't actually put anything into practice.
I agree: better to be really good at one thing than just okay at five things whilst learning the sixth.
Unless its just all variants of VB. 
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: Unless its just all variants of VB.
"We've got Y10K coming up and we see you know VB..." 
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Unfortunately, developers seem to be caught in the death march spiral of thinking they have to keep up to date with all the new stuff when in reality, learning how to actually be an engineer/designer/architect, heck, programmer, would be a lot more effective.
Marc
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When you know the basics nothing's new anymore 
That said I do enjoy spending some time with new, hot, hip and trendy languages, libraries and frameworks
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I think there's a difference between staying current and improving your knowledge. For example, I read Eric Evans's excellent book on Domain-Driven-Design recently, and it made me look at software development in a whole new light. That was improving my knowledge. I have also recently been learning Node.js, so that was staying current.
Good software developers need to do both.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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This new format allows us to get 20–26% higher compression ratios over Zopfli. "One pill makes you smaller"
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you're showing your age Kent
go ask alice
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I'm always showing my age.
/creak
TTFN - Kent
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As long as he's not showing anything else 
Sarcasm - it's not just a verbal skill - it's a lifestyle!
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Before it degenerates... don't forget the KS-Rule 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Which age is that? There's been a fairly constant drip of cover versions[^] (Wikipedia).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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All of them I am stardust, I am golden, and I am timeless. (I vaguely recall a better monologue in a movie, but I'm too lazy to go searching now).
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: a new compression algorithm for the internet
Simples; just remove the cat pictures and videos. Done.
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Comparison of Brotli, Deflate, Zopfli, LZMA, LZHAM and Bzip2 Compression Algorithms
And don't forget the diddly doddly maffah whoogly, shing shong shagga lagga! 
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Small bread, half baked, what is difference? 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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GitLab is targeting the enterprise, but will its open source allure be enough to win developers away from GitHub? For the gits inside the firewall
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Kent Sharkey wrote: will its open source allure be enough to win developers away from GitHub
yup - I worked in a very closed shop/secure environment - I had the issues of 'getting people to use a repository' and then 'convincing them it was secure' - this would have eliminated both of those concerns (although probably not when we were collaborating with an outsource Co)
still, 'different strokes....'
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This marks a milestone in delivering new value for Office 365 subscribers with a focus on collaboration, apps that work for you, a perfect pairing with Windows 10, and security features businesses will love. "Meet the new boss..."
Incentivize the collaborative paradigm!
I've been using it for a while, and I've seen all of one feature that wasn't in the previous version.
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Does it have menues?
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Only if you count the dropdowns on the ribbons 
TTFN - Kent
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