https://mobile.twitter.com/mrgracemugabe/status/1566302667814899712
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loooooooool yea lets find this unicorn engineer that has 7+ years swe experience as well as 5 years devops experience, hahahahhaha
I don’t know what to think of the fact that building a full stack web app is virtually impossible without days/weeks of trying things. Like the new hotness for front end bundling/transpiling is “vite.js”. And yet none of the starter templates are actually full stack, actually hit a back end like express/flask and work seemlessly. I’ve tried like 5+ different approaches and just can’t make it go. Back to webpack.
The mern stack one doesn’t even work.
What’s the blue and yellow thing?
python
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Poor R, nether good nor bad
I interviewed a guy today (college senior) who claims to have written 100k LOC in Stata
That seems highly doubtful
What’s normal?
The code that I used for my dissertation was probably a few thousand lines at best. I would expect most undergrads who are doing some type of economics research project to have done less than that. Even if they were a very busy research assistant, it’s hard for me to understand how or why they could crank out 100k lines.
He’s probably a better hire if he’s lying than if he’s telling the truth…
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I used to go to a Girls Who Code event semi-regularly (Python meet-up). It was explicitly open and iirc more than half men.
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lol my resume got somehow spread everywhere and what used to be my main inbox is completely unreadable due to millions of similar messages like this
Yeah I’ve had a few of these. One time a few years ago I went to a… presentation meeting? with a couple of our internal recruiters, 30ish people. Our company is pretty highly desired to work at for our area I would think. I asked what their response rate was on messages they send. They said 1% if that. So yeah I’d be desperate too if I was cursed one of those jobs.
hey, when you guys are job searching, how many interview processes do you usually start simultaneously? I have three different interview processes going at the same time and I have a lot of trouble keeping everything together in my head that I’m supposed to know and what the companies do, who the people are, etc.
You’ll get worn out fast if you do too many at once and are also working full time.
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nah, I got tired of it and quit, I think I’m gonna start ditching recruiters because they’re really annoying and always pester me which is the worst way to get me to do stuff. like yea, I’ll respond to that email when I get to it, they only sent it 4 hours ago, jesus christ, what is this?
anyway hashiconf just went live on youtube HashiConf Global 2022: From Zero Trust to No Code https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ0aI6sEDRo
idk if you guys ever use hashicorp tools but I’m becoming a specialist in several of them and I really love just about every product they have, it’s just sooooooo good. I’ve created so many hashicorp disciples in the last few years.
We use a couple of them at my company. I and one evangelist think they’re great. But I think the way they’ve been set up and used for us is garbage and all the devops folks we hire can’t kill them off fast enough.
But I friggin love Consul. Even with the sloppy way it got integrated, it’s pretty great.
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I think I now understand better why this is - hashicorp, in my opinion anyway, is a very ideologically “pure” company that just wants to make good software and let you run away with the possibilities. it doesn’t try to tell you really or give you much guidance on when/how it’s expected to be used, so implementations are pretty naive I think. I’ve only seen most often very bad implementations and ideas around terraform, which I’d say is what I’m the best with right now currently, other than Vault.
like, a good example is with vault. I told their sales engineers several years ago now that everyone’s going to want this in kubernetes. They only reluctantly and finally provided a helm chart for it, but chastised people for not using EC2 instances instead, because they viewed them as “more secure.”
now I’m not gonna challenge their expertise there but their arguments against hosting vault in kubernetes were not particularly compelling to me, particularly stuff like “etcd is insecure and access to that could compromise vault’s security” (yea no shit, but if someone malicious has full r/w to etcd you have waaaaaaaaaay bigger issues to worry about), and some real concerns about containerization they had too.
but like, you’re not gonna convince a bunch of hardened devops engineers to maintain what is almost certainly gonna be this weird lonely super uber critical EC2 instance when they can just throw it into a helm chart and call it a day, and lo and behold i got a job alert the other day for a product manager at hashicorp looking to expand vault for kubernetes, lol.
tldr i think they just have some very outdated and puritanical ideas about software and thats why you find these weird/bad implementations of their stuff. consul is great, I tried to sell it for a while to replace this utter disaster of the existing service mesh, but couldnt gain any traction. you can actually use it for a ton of things other than that, which is super duper interesting to me, but I never got to play with it in a real use case.