WingNews logo WingNews GitHub [2]

camelCaseOfBeer's comments

camelCaseOfBeer | 7 years ago | on: I know why rejection emails suck – I write them

That's nice and helpful, especially since tech interviews can be taxing. Sounds like they actually liked you and probably would've hired you under different circumstances.

I had terribly frustrating experiences interviewing. Mostly just taking a bunch of tests and interviewing two, three times, and not hearing back for months. What sticks out was a post-interview for a large company that aggressively recruited from my uni. When I asked how I could have improved the answer was, "You ask too many specific questions about the company and software platform. Be more focused on the interviews." "For example?" "It isn't appropriate to discuss how wages are adjusted according to location or salaried overtime policies or the tech stack... in an interview..." I took that one as the, "not gonna drink the Kool Aid." box being checked. Dodged a bullet there, though, seeing as her answers did not exactly inspire faith.

camelCaseOfBeer | 7 years ago | on: Learning Web Development? Skills to Make You Stand Out

No kidding. I was blown away by the notion there are working web devs who don't understand HTTP or basic networking. I feel like this advice could be summed up in one sentence, "Create at least two good full stack web applications for your portfolio, put them in your git, use different languages for each and a minimal IDE." The best advice to stand out has already been said here, soft skills that complement fundamental technical competence. Once you're in an interview understanding basic human empathy and having a strong and apparent capacity to work with a team has way more persuasion than bullet points on your resume.

camelCaseOfBeer | 7 years ago | on: YouTube Stars Being Paid to Sell Academic Cheating

It isn't just students that are cheating, it goes all the way up to the top of academia. I know a professor that reviews for a major journal who says he can't even keep up with the submissions from Chinese researchers because most of the time the entire paper is plagerised, the submission is canned without a second glance. Fucking sucks for the legitimate Chinese students and researchers but I guess when, "if you can cheat, then cheat." becomes one of the most well known idioms in your culture, you can't be too surprised. Just have to try extra hard to break the mold, I guess.

camelCaseOfBeer | 8 years ago | on: CRPG Book Released

As a long time fan of CRPGs I look forward to reading your book. I don't mean to belittle the accomplishment but calling it, "The CRPG Book Project" is kind of like naming a pet, "The Dog Ownership Project". I mean, for all intents and purposes it seems like you've outright accomplished writing a book at this point and it deserves a sassier title than, "Book Project". Just sayin'.

camelCaseOfBeer | 8 years ago | on: Why I left Google (HN search results)

I would imagine a company like Google would have the foresight to include clauses in their NDA that forbid former employees from including the kind of specific and substantive reasoning for their departure that the public might actually find interesting. Not to mention a severance package goes a long way as far as taming that salty post-employment flavor. Oh, and there's the small matter of fact that they tend to pay well. I can only assume these factor into a lot into the standard reason being, "it's kinda personal but I felt like I'd be happier doing something different." Wow, what a revelation...

camelCaseOfBeer | 8 years ago | on: Sketch Design System 1.0

Am I missing something? I'd be interested in trying this out but I'm not going to make the plunge for a $39 Ux tool if I can't try it out. Is this just a demonstration of idea or a real product?

camelCaseOfBeer | 8 years ago | on: Leave A.I. Alone

The takeaway I got was that the author more or less wants the conversation about regulation of AI to be less of a top-down approach to a broad reaching and loosely defined topic. The scenario of a, "grey goo" apocalypse verses, say, a bank hiding otherwise discriminatory lending practices behind a neural network black-box, are radically different in terms of plausibility and likelihood. Given the esoteric nature of the topic it's all too easy to see where this is headed when it comes to representative governance. Knee-jerk legislative umbrellas based on the comments of eccentric megalomaniacs made to the news media is a fool's errand, and there's a hell of a lot of foolish people out there.

camelCaseOfBeer | 8 years ago | on: A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Performance

Personally I ditched my iPhone because the updates were forced and diligently increased the workload put upon the device. To what end? I don't know, the change logs were cryptic, God forbid allowing the end user selection of what aspects they want updated. Ultimately every update left you with a less functional device. They can say they didn't plan this obsolescence intentionally until the cows come home, but it doesn't matter, what matters is Apple was fucking up old devices and in turn pushed consumers into buying new devices. Intentional or no - fuck it, fuck the tax dodging, fuck the app store, fuck the developer-hostile platform, fuck the double-blended mocafrappachino cult following, fuck Apple. It's over priced tech-fashion and the masses are catching on.

camelCaseOfBeer | 8 years ago | on: Could Rome have had an industrial revolution?

So what I gather is it would appear academics are arguing over semantics to describe an otherwise unerring narrative of historical events they otherwise agree upon again. Did Rome have an industrial revolution? Well it depends on how you define industrial revolution, but we all agree... Stuff happened.

camelCaseOfBeer | 8 years ago | on: We Only Have Hours Left to Stop the NSA Expansion Bill

The greatest ruse ever perpetrated on the American people was that we stand divided from one another and our own self interests based on ideological lines; articulated by ego-driven flesh puppets, vote for your favorite color like a 4 year old posed with the same inquiry. "What's your favorite color?" Bleh, we need real representation, real discussion of building the real utilitarian future. I think a good start would be choice between real representatives acting on behalf of more than one side of the same bloody coin. In short, liberal lovey-dovey pussies like me and knuckle-dragging conservatards agree, this mother fucker needs to burn.

camelCaseOfBeer | 8 years ago | on: Microsoft Intern’s Rape Claim Highlights Struggle to Combat Sex Discrimination

Honestly though, I understand not immediately firing people over an ongoing legal investigation that happened outside of work. But why the flying fuck would Microsoft hesitate to ensure the victim had absolutely no chance of encountering a dude accused of raping her in her place of work. Isn't being safe at work like the single most important facet of an employer's responsibility to their employee? Their campus is huge, both of them were interns that could have easily been placed on different projects, scheduled different hours, etc. And in the face of all these cultural accusations, an undeniably dangerous circumstances arises and, what was the quote, "taken practical steps"? As in, some middling HR manager practically deeply nodded their head, wrote an email, and forgot about it? Honestly tech seems to grow so fast that basic sensibilities like common sensible risk assessment flies out the window where ever some executive hasn't explicitly defined what to do.
page 1