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    Walked out of a final interview for the first time in my career: lessons learned web developers

    October 13, 2018

    Walked out of a final interview for the first time in my career: lessons learned web developers

    Walked out of a final interview for the first time in my career: lessons learned

    Posted: 12 Oct 2018 08:03 PM PDT

    This was for a full stack web dev position. I had had about 3 phone interviews with this company, each time they were pretty disorganised, but they seemed nice enough. We had decided on a salary and it seemed like we were about to seal the deal, but we both felt one final in-person interview would be best. I'm currently employed, so I took a day of leave and flew out there, then bussed over to the other side of town.

    I arrived and he talked about the piece of software the company had done for what felt like hours. It was a pretty vanilla ASP.NET crud app, and as he talked, various things appeared to break. Oddly he found time in this presentation to complain to me about a minority ethnic group in our country. Bringing up race and politics in an interview is incredibly unprofessional, so I steered the subject back to technology.

    Then the 'technical questions' came, and it was clear he had some kind of agenda. Whenever he talked about something I didn't know, he'd be smug and condescending. Whenever I talked about something he didn't know (this isn't my first rodeo, I can tell when someones bluffing), he'd be dismissive and change the subject. And whenever he talked about something we both knew - I could tell he was full of it. He never asked any general questions, about computer science, or software engineering, or even questions about C#. They were all questions about the minutiae of different libraries, trying to catch me out for not knowing the exact same tech stack as he did.

    I was also asked to show him stuff I had done for my current employer - this was had not been mentioned previously at all. When I said all the things I'd done them were internal, he asked me to log into their system and show me!

    (A fun tidbit: the guy claimed that database normalisation was stupid. He also proudly showed me a hairy stored procedure that called 5 other hairy stored procedures that generated a model for a very basic MVC page. And complained that many of his queries took a long time. I think these things may be related.)

    As petty as it sounds, it all unravelled when we tried to talk about structs and classes in C#. First he said that no one uses structs anymore because value types are slow. Then he literally said 'no one uses constructors anymore'. That combination of self-assuredness and wrongness was it for me. Mid sentence, I shot up out of my chair, said 'thanks for your time!' and shook his hand. When he asked me why I was leaving, I was about to give him a piece of my mind... but I just thanked him again and got the hell out of there.

    My key takeaways from this:

    • If an organisation shows signs they're disorganised/unprofessional in the early stages of the interview process, I'll cut it short.
    • If I am going to fly out for an interview, I am going to make sure it's just a meet a greet and there's no tech questions at that point. The hard stuff should be already out of the way
    • Get a demo of one of their products early on. I really don't mind that much if it's a buggy piece of shit, but if you're arrogant about your abilities despite producing a buggy piece of shit - that's a huge issue.
    • While I am less than pleased with the time/money I wasted attending this interview, I am proud of myself for getting the hell out of there rath than engaging in unprofessional behaviour on my own end.
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    CSS Layout cookbook

    Posted: 13 Oct 2018 08:45 AM PDT

    Faith In Humanity Score

    Posted: 13 Oct 2018 08:40 AM PDT

    Very simple game built with plain JS, HTML and CSS

    Posted: 13 Oct 2018 10:23 AM PDT

    https://word-maker.herokuapp.com/ I have built this game while learning JS. Please have a look. Might be a very good exercise for people learning Web dev (hence posting this)

    Thanks for your time.

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    Postman vs. Insomnia: Comparing the API Testing Tools

    Posted: 13 Oct 2018 03:39 PM PDT

    [Showoff Saturday] Dan's Budgeting App

    Posted: 13 Oct 2018 12:58 PM PDT

    How are you?

    I built an app with PHP (sue me, *****) that's supposed to replace the spreadsheets you use for keeping tabs on your finances.

    I put a lot of effort into building it, and now I'm asking you to tear it down. I'd appreciate it if you could give 5 minutes of your time to testing my app and giving me your 2 cts.

    Thank you!

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    What tools are out there that does front-end performance monitoring?

    Posted: 13 Oct 2018 10:26 AM PDT

    Looking for something that will notify me if the performance of my application drops... So far I've seen https://speedcurve.com/ and https://calibreapp.com/ . Anything else anyone can recommend?

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    How do you introduce web development to high school students?

    Posted: 13 Oct 2018 08:40 AM PDT

    I'm trying to do my brother a favor. If I had known about web development (even just HTML and CSS), I feel like I could be light years ahead of where I am today. I know my brother has the potential to think like a developer. What is the best way to not necessarily get him involved, but rather, motivated to learn something web dev. on the side? He currently isn't involved in any extracurricular and I see this as a great way to get him into something. He's an excellent artist, so I would imagine he'd be interested in the front-and capabilities.

    Maybe he's better served UI/UX? I worry that UI/UX is a little in the weeds for a 9th grader, though.

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    Dwitter: see what you can create with 140 characters of JS & a canvas

    Posted: 13 Oct 2018 03:58 PM PDT

    Any Reliable, free weather API's?

    Posted: 13 Oct 2018 05:23 AM PDT

    I'm in need of an API that will provide current weather conditions (static location- UK). I had my heart set on Weather Underground but that's not going to be possible for much longer.

    I'm still in the process of looking for myself but thought I'd ask, for my recommendations too.

    submitted by /u/f1fthsun
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    Web based email suit to replace Roundcube that handles multiple email accounts?

    Posted: 13 Oct 2018 03:29 PM PDT

    Looking for a web based program to handle all my email accounts on my web server.

    Currently using Roundcube but it is only designed for a single email.

    I need something that lets me log in once and have access to multiple accounts.

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    Prefer something I can install on my webserver vs on my PC or phone as I just want one place to go to and it all be there.

    ​

    Thanks

    Jack

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    Kanban Style To-Do App

    Posted: 13 Oct 2018 02:34 PM PDT

    Best method for adding payment/donation buttons to multiple pages without having to customize each one on the back end.

    Posted: 13 Oct 2018 01:32 PM PDT

    I have multiple basic html pages that are each associated with one "campaign" where people can donate an amount they choose.

    My current method is using the paypal button create page to create a new button for each new product and then pasting that code onto my website. What I want to do is be able to have the same code snippet on each one of my pages that will display a button that is associated with that page.

    Necessary feature:

    • Must allow customer to specify the price they are paying (I'm more accepting donations for certain campaigns).

    • Payment button code snippet must not require manual creation

    Ideal features:

    • Be able to easily display or return the total value of donations (I want to be able to show the progress of donations in real time)

    I know that this is possible by using the Paypal API, but I don't have any experience using it, and I suspect that there are already created services for this. If the Paypal API is indeed the best way to do this, I would really appreciate it if someone has a good tutorial that they could point me towards. Thanks!

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    Wordpress- small images and videos load too long on mobile. How to fix this? I’m not using a plugin

    Posted: 13 Oct 2018 01:20 PM PDT

    If you know of any helpful documentation on this please send it my way. Thanks!

    Edit: only issue on mobile

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    oat++ Video Http-Live-Streaming example server built with Async-Api

    Posted: 13 Oct 2018 01:19 PM PDT

    So, last week, I posted my portfolio on this sub. Since then, I completely redesigned it and rebuilt it from scratch. Would love to hear your feedback again! :)

    Posted: 13 Oct 2018 12:36 AM PDT

    Registrar artificially jacking up domain prices to premium pricing?

    Posted: 13 Oct 2018 01:06 PM PDT

    I wanted to register my domain to .com. I already had a .ca domain.The domain I wanted had an owner that I managed to contact through their store on Etsy. They assured me that they don't want the domain anymore and not going to renew, but she didn't know how to do a domain ownership transfer (older person) I waited for the domain expiry and grace period to pass. When domain became available for sale it was and still is priced at over $2700US

    The name doesn't bear any markings of a premium domain, it's rather long and doesn't contain super popular phrases.

    Out of curiosity, does it ever happen that when they see a successful business with a different top level already registered they jack up the prices to squeeze out more $$$? Or is it the old owner not telling me something, and trying to sell domain?

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    [Showoff Saturday] My First Create React App - Mental Model Dictionary

    Posted: 13 Oct 2018 12:38 PM PDT

    Hi all,

    I'm am requesting feedback on ways to grow my react and Javascript knowledge from a side project I recently put together.

    Last weekend I decided to redo one of my Polymer projects into React, in honor of Create React App V2 being released. It's been one week later, and although it isn't all the way complete, it would be nice to get feedback early on the code.

    The project documents mental models and has a metaphor for a dictionary, currently users can't add their own mental models, but will be able to in the future.

    • Tech Stack:
    • Create React App
    • react-md library for material design
    • Firebase auth, hosting, storage, and datastore

    My ask is to constructively give me feedback on my react project! Thank you so much for helping me get better! Here are some places to start feedback:

    • Does the component structure make sense?
    • Is global sass / extending per component the right way to go?
    • Are there better ways to set up components for performance?
    • See any algorithms or things I'm doing that look weird?
    • Are there places where more code comments would be helpful?
    • Does code structure make sense?

    Here's the repo:

    https://github.com/avatar-kaleb/react-mental-model-dictionary

    Here's the site:

    https://react-mental-model-dictionary.firebaseapp.com/

    ​

    PS: some of the todos are in App.js for things to improve I found on my own.

    Thank you!!

    ​

    ​

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    Understanding Functions and 'this' In The World of ES2017

    Posted: 13 Oct 2018 12:34 PM PDT

    Switching to Parcel from Webpack

    Posted: 13 Oct 2018 02:37 AM PDT

    Using Bazel to build Svelte Components

    Posted: 13 Oct 2018 12:13 PM PDT

    Feedback for my React project please!

    Posted: 13 Oct 2018 06:14 AM PDT

    Hi guys I created a React app which finds recipes. This is my first proper app. Before I used to create and give up in the middle. This time I made it finally :D

    Link to app ----> https://recipe-finder-007.firebaseapp.com/

    Link to github repo ----> https://github.com/AdiBev/Recipe-Finder

    I would want to know if app is breaking down and is it fast enough (I am using proxy to handle cors)?

    and most important my code is it good enough for a self taught developer?

    Thank you for your time :)

    ​

    submitted by /u/PizzaGladiator
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    [Tutorial] Dat Protocol Crash Course + How to Publish on the Distributed Web

    Posted: 13 Oct 2018 12:10 PM PDT

    Famous people API/data set?

    Posted: 13 Oct 2018 12:05 PM PDT

    I am trying to implement a feature that allows a user to associate an item with a famous person. Instead of allowing this form to be free form I was hoping to have it autocomplete from an API to reduce errors and to also fill in metadata.

    I was originally trying to use Wikidata as they have all of the information I would want (mainly a well-licensed photo) but their API was very complicated and after about three hours ended up finding out that their API doesn't really allow free form text search (at least form what I could tell). If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know!

    submitted by /u/GRAPH_ME_DADDY
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