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solididiot

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  1. IQ test for SW Eng interview?

    I mean, seriously? Is that still a thing in 2022? I bumped into such an online test by a marketing firm and I just couldn't bring myself to go through it. Dunno, felt a bit like monkey and a bit like "do I really want…

    15 points 40
  2. Where in EU would you relocate?

    Wife is talking with a FAANG that has presence in pretty much all large EU countries plus UK and Switzerland. Where she relocates to is pretty much open but we most often gravitate towards Germany, UK and Switzerland.…

    13 points 25
  3. To Microservices and Back Again – Why Segment Went Back to a Monolith (infoq.com)
    17 points 4
  4. Wi-Fi Radiation Effects (mdsafetech.org)
    2 points 3
  5. Saving the World from Code (2017) (theatlantic.com)
    2 points 0
  6. Why internal SW is almost invariably sh_t?

    Sorry for the foul language but I had one too many of this. Having worked with a good few Open Source tooling/libraries/frameworks etc and with a lot of similar internal ones I have come to the conclusion that almost…

    32 points 31
  7. Moyenne Island (en.wikipedia.org)
    1 points 0
  8. Manna (marshallbrain.com)
    3 points 0
  9. The Thirty Million Line Problem (2018) (youtube.com)
    3 points 1
  10. Toward artificial intelligence that learns to write code (news.mit.edu)
    1 points 0
  11. WFH seems to chip away at trust (theatlantic.com)
    3 points 0
  12. How do you deal with rejection?

    You've probably been there. Interview after interview after take-home test after pair-programming session to only get a vague templated email rejection without any real info on why you got turned down. How do you deal…

    3 points 8
  13. Is Norway the New East-India-Company? (glineq.blogspot.com)
    52 points 49
  14. Solid. Is it still relevant? (dunnhq.com)
    1 points 0
  15. Ask HN: How do you manage or avoid meltdowns?

    Being a SW Eng I spent hours on a chair. In home-office. COVID lockdowns made this worse. Added extra stress due to bad future outlook and a lack of direction in my career plus dozens of other blockers that navigating…

    62 points 95
  16. Log4j flaw: Attackers are making thousands of attempts to exploit vulnerability (zdnet.com)
    3 points 0
  17. The Kremlin-backed hacking outfit's toolbox seems to grow by the month (arstechnica.com)
    2 points 0