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Readit Newslukey_q commented on Ask HN: What minor UI/UX issues annoy you on frequent basis? · Posted by u/cainxinth
lukey_q commented on Ask HN: I want to quit my job. I have no results for my efforts. Advice? · Posted by u/bracket
Go talk to your manager and say most of what you said above, except the "I quit" part. Your manager is there to help you succeed. They want you to succeed since they picked you over others. Ask for them to provide feedback on a PR and what it needs to get over the finish line. PR's having problems is a good sign that people care and are doing code reviews instead of rubber stamping everything.
I agree with all of this advice, and would just add that if you find yourself turning in PRs that then need some changes before they can be merged, a strategy that worked for me early in my career was reviewing my own code as if I was reviewing another person's pull request. If you have turned in a few PRs that needed work then you already have a few examples of the kind of thing that your colleagues are looking for, and you can look at your own code with those things in mind. If you can, I would try to put a little time between writing the code and reviewing it so your mind can reset a bit. For me that meant wrapping up the code in the evening and then reviewing it first thing in the morning.
I like making digital art and little tools to help with creating digital art... happy to see this thread, here are a few things I'm proud of from over the years
An app for pen plotters focused on drawing and creating art manually more than the generative side of things [1]
A Ruby script that takes still images and recreates them entirely out of emojis [2]. Someone used it to make a music video [3]
And finally a Twitter bot that combines Marmaduke comics and Erowid trip reports at random [4]
[1] https://github.com/lilkraftwerk/lineboi3000 [2] http://lilkraftwerk.github.io/Emojisaic/ [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq3eR4xHjLs [4] https://twitter.com/pharmaduke3000
I don't think there are stupid questions or even poorly worded questions. Even "bad" questions like "It's not working, help!" are a learning and a teaching opportunity, which I think is mostly up to how the more senior developer responds and works with the more junior one. It's true that "it's not working, help" is not all that actionable by itself, but I assume we all had moments like that when we were learning to write code. I certainly did. (and still do sometimes lol).
I think the tweet thread's thesis is "allow messing up," which I'd couple with the senior developer's responsibility to be nice and friendly and supportive. Anyone's first dev job is going to be a formative experience and if they ask "stupid" questions and are met with kindness it's going to echo through their entire career, the same way being met with rudeness would also have a lasting effect. I don't really have any hard or fast rules about how juniors should ask questions, I don't think they're really necessary as long as you make them feel supported and comfortable in a general sense.
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lukey_q commented on It’s Not Just You: Garfield Is Not Meant to Be Funny (2013) smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/pingou
My question in the original comment is not meant to mock or poke fun at those who enjoyed it. I, myself, found it somewhat entertaining to read as a kid.
Rather, my question is more in reference to what seem to be incongruous facts: the article points out that the comic was not written with the intention to be funny, so then what explains its popularity as a comic strip?
I don't doubt that there are some (many!) who thought it funny. What I'm trying to understand is the discrepancy between its immense fame AND its apparent lack of humorous intention.
It'd be a little bit like if there was a famous band that was incredibly popular, yet in multiple interviews they reveal that they don't put a great deal of effort behind making appealing music. As such, I would be curious to understand what instead may be the other driving sources of their appeal (ex. good looks, marketing etc.).
For example, here are some other possible candidate reasons the Garfield comics may have been popular. I don't know if any of these are true, rather I would consider them hypotheses that I would be curious to hear others confirm/debunk:
* it was marketed very well and gave people the perception that it was _supposed_ to be funny, and if you didn't find it funny that was perhaps a result of _you_ not getting something. * there was a more limited selection of sources of comic strips, so the standards for what passed as an entertaining comic strip were lower than in our Internet age. * most people knew it wasn't funny, nor that it was meant to be funny. Rather they read it because it was the cultural meme of the day to do so.
As someone who also remembers Garfield being funny as a kid, I don't read the OP as saying it was never funny, but that being funny was a secondary concern to Davis after being marketable. I just looked up a random Garfield strip from 1988 [1] and I have to say, it's kind of a funny visual gag. Nothing groundbreaking but for a daily strip in a newspaper, it's not bad, and I'm an adult now, as a kid I probably would have found it hilarious. Combine decent humor like that with recognizable and cute characters appearing in the newspaper daily and it's not surprising that the strip became so popular.
How do you feel about paying candidates for the time they spend on the assignment?
I created a similar task at my company as the parent commenter, building a small frontend to an existing API that can be completed in a couple of hours. There's no time limit for turning it in (we suggest two weeks but don't enforce it) and we specifically tell people that a good, concise solution to the problem at hand is perfectly fine, and even might be better than a sloppier solution that tries to add bells and whistles.
When I set it up the goal was to avoid a lot of the issues I've personally had or heard about with coding challenges: they take way too long, they're too abstract, or you feel like the company might just be using you to get a couple of days of free work on their actual codebase. For this reason I feel fine about not paying people, as it's just a small part of the application process and not free work for us.
I think it's worked pretty well so far. It happens after the initial phone screen and before the first technical interview. We send people the challenge, they return it whenever they want, and if we like it we set up a technical interview. Since the challenge uses our tech stack and is similar to the work we actually do, a large part of the first technical interview is discussing their solution. Why they chose certain patterns, why they added a certain library, how they'd consider testing it, why a certain function might be slow with 10k entities, and so on.
Totally unacceptable ask in my opinion, for reasons many people have touched on. I would also add that even from the company's point of view, it's a bad deal to ask you to work. The peace of mind you get from taking an unplugged vacation, and also from knowing that your company wants you to fully enjoy that vacation, is going to make you happier and more productive when you return to work. It's going to make you trust your company and think that they have your back as a human being. In the end this is going to be worth infinitely more than the two or three emails you would be expected to answer that week.
Best example of this is probably the first Pharrell interview. This was before Nardwuar was famous at all, outside of Canada anyway, so Pharrell wouldn't have heard of him, and Pharrell spends the first part of the interview obviously a little weirded out at the goofy-looking guy in front of him and probably wondering why his manager booked this for him in the first place. About five minutes later Pharrell says "This is one of the most impressive interviews I've ever been a part of" and as mentioned in the OP article immediately calls Jay-Z and says hey you gotta talk to this Nardwuar guy.