fractalsea

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Platform Engineer at Pusher. Interested in category theory, complexity theory, programming languages, graph theory, AI, big data....

http://willsewell.com/

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Comment · 10 years ago
This startup was created to solve just this problem: https://nugget.one

One of the founders is the host of the Techzing podcast http://techzinglive.com. You can hear some of the background on Nugget if you listen to the more recent episodes.

Comment · 10 years ago
The documentation is amazing. One problem I find with rendered literate haskell is that it because quickly unclear how the indentation across blocks of code fits together. It would be nice if there was some kind of renderer that kept the indentation in the docs, or had some kind of "indentation guide".
Comment · 10 years ago
In the intro you say that data from >1000 interviews shows:

> men were getting advanced to the next round 1.4 times more than women

> men [...] had an average technical score of 3 out of 4, as compared to a 2.5 out of 4 for women

The conclusion of your experiment was

> masking gender had no effect on interview performance

So the question is: why do women perform worse (by the above metrics) even if the interviewer does not know they are a women?

Unfortunately you spend the remainder of the article showing that women are more likely to quit after bad interviews, and hypothesise that this is due to lower self confidence. This is interesting and all, but it does nothing towards explaining the discrepancy you described in the introduction!

Comment · 10 years ago
Hi, I'm the author of this post. I found it hard to get good information about this topic in Haskell compared to other languages, so I'm hoping this post will help people get started if they are in a similar situation to where I was. This is a topic I'm still actively learning about, so I'm eager to hear about any suggestions or feedback you might have.
Comment · 11 years ago
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Comment · 11 years ago
This is what I thought when I first saw the parent comment. It looks like an interesting alternative approach, but from the example I am not clear on why it is more flexible than the version using typeclasses.

I reckon I will need to re-implement my mocks using the technique you describe to really understand the motivation.

Comment · 11 years ago
> know your worth

How?

I think this wouldn't be so hard if you are in the valley (or other large tech cities in the US), or targeting large companies (Glassdoor). But how do you do this if you are in a different situation?

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