I'm not the best developer but I never had any issues during interview except when I didn't want the job. Damn I'm even stammering but still looks like it goes well most of the time.
Big note, I'm from the EU, interviewed in France and UK (London), none of them had big technical steps like in the US (from what I read here), nor a billion steps.
Why? I think (I didn't analyze anything) that is because I'm just being myself. I talk to the interviewer like it's a friend. If I think of a joke I just say it. Thoughts like "will be it ok if", "should I say this or that", etc NEVER cross my mind. I'm having a conversation, not a test.
Same for technical stuff, if I don't know something I just say I don't know. Hopefully I still have an idea, so I would say something like "I don't know this / never used that, but my first guess would be X", then usually it ends up being a discussion that at the very last would teach me something, even if I don't get the job.
That being said, I understand it's hard to do stuff like that if this is not your default mindset and you are being close to desperate.
I understand what you're suggesting. I do act very confident and unafraid to ask any questions. I don't act "desperate." When I voice my concerns through a forum, I do sound desperate because it's a way for me to voice my emotions; but I never act this way in person.
I'll never understand comparing code to art. Not the first time I'm seeing it but for me it couldn't be further apart.
There is no best way to make a drawing.
There is no best way to make a movie.
There is no best way to tell a story.
There is no best way to make a painting.
There is no best way to create a song.
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There is (almost?) always a best way to do a piece of code. Code has nothing to do with emotions. I'm not trolling I truly don't get it, like at all.
This is a dubious assertion. Best is fundamentally a subjective metric. Code is only the best for a given set of criteria. What's best code for rapid development isn't best for maintainability. Sometimes you have to break maintainability for speed bottlenecks. Saying there's a best way to code something is a very contextual claim.
There is (almost?) always a best way to do a piece of code.
Nah....we can't even decide on a 'best' language to use. Or how to best indent, or where to put the braces, or what variable names to use. The code you write is a reflection of what's inside your mind, just like art.
You make me think about that commercial you couldn't skip on DVD. "YOU WOULDN'T STEAL A CAR" Bitch if I could copy a car on street for free I would do it.
Not to mention the only people seeing that fucking clip were the ones that bought the DVD. Way to ensure returning customers, well done.
When I saw people saying stuff like "hacking a salad" I considered this term lost forever. Putting food together is not hacking a salad people, it's literally making one.
I concur: the term 'hacking' has become hopelessly diluted by wannabe use applied to unrelated activities that are only very weakly analogous.
A 'hack' is a self-deprecating description of a quick and dirty programming job, anybody who proudly self-describes something they've done as hacking has totally missed the point. It used to be that one could not self-style oneself as a hacker but rather became one when others who are recognised as such begin referring to one as such.
(I used to be referred to as being one, but I gave up my fascination with computer security and exotic computer science concepts in the mid 2000s.)
Hacking doesn't need to be self-deprecating. I'm proud of some of my work that I consider a hack.
When I worked in finance, I hacked together a bridge between an FIXML order pub/sub service and a proprietary exchange server. Was it my best work? Obviously not. Was it ugly as sin? Hell yes. Did I slap it out in a few weeks? Yup. Did it prop up the business for the 18 months it needed to develop a "real" solution? Yeah.
That ugly hack probably earned the business millions in revenue.
Though I also concur; the term hacker is overused, diluted and twisted in meaning, and I have no interest in bringing it back.
"Growth hacking" is another pointless phrase. The words "hacking" and "hacker" have become pretty useless, actually. They just mean way too many things to different people. One might just as well replace "hacker" with "person" and "hacking" with "doing".
The movie looks really bad but as someone who saw the movie, it's actually pretty good and funny. The quatuor works perfectly, there is no feminism message at all, it's just a good comedy.
Maybe it won't be your type of humor, but this is not a bad movie in any way. People are just rating the movie without seeing it, which is pretty stupid in the first place. Because of that I expect the score to be much higher, hopefully a lot of people won't listen to the haters and see for themselves.
Simply casting typically male roles (comedic lead, scientist, etc.) with female actors is feminist. The movie doesn't need to have a feminist "message" to be feminist. Note: when I say feminist I mean that entirely as a good thing.
> Simply casting typically male roles (comedic lead, scientist, etc.) with female actors is feminist.
No, it is not. Print roles as male only that is mysogenic. Comedic lead and scientists are only typically male roles because they are - and a lot of freak White guys are trying to "fight hard" to prevent that móveis and the internet changes it.
I never understood people's issue with news.
I don't read any newspapers, I don't read any news-sites, I literally read titles of /r/worldsnews (knowing that most of them are clickbaits, but still) and that's it.
I don't think I'm missing anything, the relevant news come to you one way or another. Yes you'll have it like a day later but who cares? In the meantime you are free to do stuff.
Letting children play freely is hardly a new idea lol.
I won't comment the cuisine and racism thing, daily reminder that the US police is murdering black people on the street (and on camera for added entertainment).
Still I agree with you that France is becoming more and more like the US and that worries me because I definitely think it is NOT the way to go at all.
Try to figure out how they do it, and feed them with porn and anti chinese propaganda. If they do it manually then pray for them because they have a shitty life.
Basically they imitated the full design and even the URL routes. The "logo" has parts of our logo.
There are no hotlinks used.
What they are doing serves the Chinese market, which we didn't do yet (so it is a positive thing), but we don't have the resources to really compete with them yet.
I'm trying to work out why retaliation with porn / tragedy propaganda is even vaguely acceptable.
HN would typically be aghast if you served NSFW content potentially to unexpecting audiences (..think of the children!), or even with the real life analog of becoming vigilante on someone who wronged you.
There seems to be the underlying notion that: because it's China, any riposte is acceptable.
Again, HN would typically be aghast if you drew sweeping stereotypes over 1B+ people.
There are multiple solutions.
If someone is hotlinking your content, block their requests.
Innovate and update more often. Copying, legal or otherwise happens all the time, in all jurisdictions.
Ratinally weigh up the real damage their site is causing, and act accordingly.
It's a common strategy. It has nothing specifically to do with China. I don't think I've ever seen HN posts saying think of the children.
Here's a popular post about a guy doing it, I'm not sure where I first found this post, it might have been HN. Either way I'm pretty sure I've seen some of his stuff linked on HN. http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1011 He wrote several followup posts with metrics and stuff.
> There seems to be the underlying notion that: because it's China, any riposte is acceptable
I disagree.
Rather, its: "Because its not anywhere else, you have no option to defend the business you have created for yourself and your employees."
This has very little to do with China and more to do with the company has little other options given the circumstances.
If I were a web developer of said clone company, and I noticed hotlink protection had been enabled (easily, 301s, 404s), I would have already scraped all of the content on the page (new content notwithstanding), and onError I would serve up the copy of the content I had saved locally.
The only thing I could imagine you doing besides the retaliatory measures listed above is removing the site from SERPs. However, Baidu won't respect your wishes.
Messages about Tiananmen and other "censored" topics will allegedly get the website automatically banned by the Great Firewall. I've heard that some sites suffering from Chinese spam just put that somewhere in their webpage and have the traffic magically simmer down.
Because in the absence of law and order, when the social contract is broken we as humans feel the need for justice.
If justice could be served using legal channels, then it would. As it is in the Free World. Given the parent's examples of why legal channels are unavailable, vigilantism is the automatic next best thing.
Legal channels often serve as the path of least resistance compared to vigilante acts in other cases. Their ineffectiveness in cases like this push people to do what they feel they must.
That and it's really funny. You're ripping me off? Surprise! Your site's made of porn now! It's enjoyable in a somewhat twisted way, a la schadenfreude.
I don't know if I would call legal channels "ineffective" and I'm not anarchist enough to say that you "must" be a vigilante when they don't work. But yeah, sometimes it's really enjoyable to get back at people.
There's nothing wrong with being morally wrong. (Just as long as you're not hurting anyone, in my opinion.)
They're not hotlinking us, so these approaches wouldn't work in our case.
Furthermore I think (e)Sports is a rather apolitical thing so I wouldn't like to find myself on some Chinese blacklist, as we definitely want to expand in the asian markets.
> we definitely want to expand in the asian markets.
Is China required or could you settle with Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, etc?
You might want to investigate the experiences of other businesses who have tried to sell within China. China's judicial system is worse than ours.
I wouldn't pump much time or money into tip toeing around their rules. Ultimately they can just block and clone you. Consider that China's blocking of FB, Twitter, and Google allow them to create their own copies of these sites that create jobs and earn money within China. China likes to say that these sites don't play by the rules, but it seems when you operate in China the goalposts are always moving. Personally I think that's because any government that is not by the people is unstable. That's up to them to decide, however.
South Korea is huge for eSports so definitely also a huge target for us. But I am not sure that you can play a role in China from outside.
The current interest in China (and our FOMO) is mainly driven by potential investors or acquirers. We've nearly finished our app with which we hope to bring eSports for-money tournaments to a whole new level.
In our type of business everyone is moving goalposts all the time, we have had interesting experiences with regulators in EU and US so I am unsure if Chinese bureaucracy can really top this.
Obviously, when structuring international business in that region Hong Kong or Singapore are prime locations, but I don't think the big vision can be implemented without having native speakers both in CN and SK.
As a German company, a lot of our "good old manufacturing" businesses have written case study over case study about expansion to China, with very mixed results. But I feel we're kind of forced into that decision right now, because growth can be explosive.
One of the story in the comments is awesome (from jakob). Dude got unleashed to a client without the necessary knowledge, client got angry and asked for a replacement, a senior came and actually teach the junior. I expected the story to end poorly and it actually was a great happy ending. Would read again.
