I've done hiring for coding positions in the past. Are you attaching code examples to your resume because you have no experience? Because if you have experience I'd recommend not doing that.

Yeah it can be challenging to get in with no experience and no degree. I'd suggest focusing on smaller places, and if you're willing to, try applying within. Get a shit job like in the call center and then try to demonstrate your stuff.

You could also try contributing to open source projects. If you have a robust github account and you can brag about that (and the people looking at it can go peek at your account and see what push requests you've done) then that'd be a huge.

Like, I'd hire somebody who puts that kind of effort in before I'd hire a graduate.

I say this, but I don't have a big github presence myself :p

I'm a nothing right now.

Unemployed and lazy.

Devops.

Used to lead a team of about five people.

Ehhhh I'd rather not get into it.

LOL

Not going to entertain guesses either!

If you don't keep the result it won't matter at all.

Nothing to optimize.

Or rather, the compiler will know not to bother with the result, but the order in which in does the operation and keeps the result won't matter because it will be discarding the result.

Yes, but also, don't do that.

Like, know the distinction, but to make your code readable, it's generally best to increment values and then on a totally separate line examine the variable.

I suppose in some situations it might be nice.

But if somebody was being all like "x+=++i" just for shits and giggles I'd be annoyed.

Yeah employment tests are trash. I would never give out tests that were theory heavy or tried to trick people.

I'd mostly just present a problem and have them talk through solving it.

The sad thing is that lots of really top notch experts will fail those kinds of tests because sometimes they ask things like, "What's the second argument to X?" and the experts are probably just looking things up or letting their IDE complete it for them, and simply won't know.

I really hate working with the kind of person who would pass a test like that.

They're generally useless.

If they spend all day memorizing the function names and arguments, they're probably not spending any time figuring out the broad-brush concepts.

Yeah that's true if it's something you're bound to be using every day then checking if you know it is important.

Even so, asking that stuff is still bad. If you just sit them down and ask them to work it out or demonstrate, and you see them actually looking that up... but they were able to figure out what to look up, and they were able to solve the problem, and they demonstrate an understanding of the broader concepts, and they were concerned about how readable and clean everything is... then that guy's hired. I don't care if he doesn't know a really basic function name, after seeing that.

My number one advice is to just start coding and don't stop. Make projects, and contribute to other people's projects. Skills will come if you do that.

*whip crack*

Which one do you wank with then?

LOL

So I guess the coding hand, indirectly.

> Why do they make new monitors too smart for their own good
Because Apple taught the world the best way to make money is to assume that "even one button is too much for people to handle."

Buying equipment with DP is better for the industry. It's royalty free.

In datacenters use VGA.

Well yeah. Fuck royalties.

No Catboi.

Just go look up the back sides of some servers.

Power Edge, some HP or whatever.

I'll wait.

Mmm dat VGA port.

Anyway the reason is the runs are longer.

LOL you're back from seeing all the servers have VGA, huh? :p

Yeah. Remote administration is the new hotness and should probably be used instead of KVMs.

I dunno a year ago?

LOL bark bark!

Ohh I see. So this is where the goalpast has moved to now. Yes, it didn't have VGA runs everywhere, because it didn't have any video runs. But when there are video runs they're VGA.

It'd be really weird to use anything else in a datacenter.

No machines have VGA? Do you mean you thought I believed no machiens had DP?

Or DVI or whatever?

No I'm saying I literally... fuck it.

Okay you're totally right.

No VGA ever in a datacenter.

They'd have to be suuuuuper old to have any VGA.

Tru facts.

Thanks for educating me.

I already conceded, genius. You're the one with all the datacenter experience.

I've been schooled by your claim that there is no VGA in a modern datacenter.

>Being wrong and having it clearly pointed out
>Your autistic!!!

Of course I'm fucking autistic, I work in IT.

Yeah I frequently had runs that easily would have been too far for a stable DVI/DP/whatever signal.

It's only about 15 feet or so.

It's fine for the push cart.

But if you're going to string it through all your cable management it gets too long fast.

Are you suggesting using a BaseT signal booster for every server?

Why am I even arguing with you?

I don't know... I remember conceding. I remember proving you completely wrong. Yet here I am. Still trying to talk to you. I--I am autistic.

Fuck. I should have just told you to cram a dick up your ass like a normal person.

I mean it's not like you actually care about the details about how to run a datacenter.

You're just trying to piss in my corn flakes for some reason.

Your mom.

I didn't say I was a woman.

Yeah no college for me. Worked my way up from the call center.

So no CompSci technically.

With or without your mom's cunt on top of me?

How I think it went down at the BBC:
Secretly based writer: "What do you think of the script?"
Feminist producer: "You're so right. Us women DO work too hard and should work way less and it's not fair!"
Secretly based writer smirks: "So send it to air, yeah?"

House means dick.

🧼

I'm just angry I didn't think of it.

No, I'm one of you kids.

I do the Tik Toks every day.

LOL and lip syncing

I'm hoping to see one set of lips.

I like Matt Christiansen?

I swear I'm not a fed. And it's perfectly okay to say all your criminal intentions into this flower pot.

I admit it is amusing to watch people get all thirsty and pathetic.

... Is this a place where people come to discuss their tastes in men?

This server's taste in men.

Boooooo

Yo sup.

What from?

Maybe you shouldn't have licked all those door knobs at the asian grocery.

Door knobs aren't food!

Listen, next time you feel the urge to put a knob in your mouth you just call me and I'll talk you out of it.

Hmm seemed like a reasonable level of annoyance at first but then later in the video wow. I've encountered people like this out and about myself and they need to chill.

Somebody shoot that buffalo with a tranq.

Cute ones like me?

Golden retreivers are nice because they're very cute, but still large enough to kill my enemies.

I love a good story of somebody coming home to find a half-eaten burglar.