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This is my experience as a staff dev in an org with this type of org chart. Staff devs are considered lead engineers with no reports and sit in most of the lead meetings.

Very much this. If I'm looking to know about a job somewhere, the first thing I do is check my network to see if anyone who knows me and has worked with me works there. Otherwise I'll see if people I'm close to know someone who works there.

Then I'll set up a chat with either an internal recruiter for that company or a hiring manager. The chat is to discover if the company would be a good fit for me, and on their side to see if I'd be a good fit for the company. If both of those things are true then interviews come very quickly afterward.

Having someone who works there means that you already have someone internally who can vouch for you. If it's already determined that you'd be a good fit from internal discussions then you generally have a leg up in the hiring process. And again it's also really great to figure out where you definitely don't want to be working.

Back when a was a tech lead and made hiring decisions for my team I would run the questions I asked candidates by the rest of the team in a 1:1 setting. We were checking that people could answer the questions well -- and sometimes when they couldn't it could show us weak points and give us ideas for training.

I always ended those 1:1 sessions by asking if the team member would be comfortable working with people who couldn't get to the correct answer. And if they could, what they would want to see from a candidate working on the question.

Padding the array is a bit of a code smell. You can't just pad an array without allocating a new block of memory. After allocation you need to copy the array into the new space. This is a significant amount of overhead to a fairly straightforward and efficient algorithm.

In this case Monopoly for Millenials is a Walmart exclusive item. So the money is made from people going to Amazon to buy it.

It used to be that you could buy them as Digital Signage monitors. But for the most part these might now also be smart devices.

The last time I bought a TV it took a bit longer because I insisted on buying a dumb TV. Privacy is a large issue for me, but also not loading my TV up with software that it simply doesn't need.

I ended up getting a TV that is not from a major brand, but has ended up looking just fine to me. I would love if more manufacturers continued / resumed selling dumb TVs of high quality.

That is a major conservative politician talking point. I do not consider it founded in reality, but making it a talking point and an objective does increase political contributions from wealthy sources.

The article said that a judge ruled the search unlawful after the fact, and one of the reasons for that was because of the questioning -- so I'm not surprised there was no questioning in the cases you are familiar with since they may have been carried out correctly.

This seemed incredibly questionable for me when I read it. Of course, if he was prevented from consulting with his lawyer, how would he know if this is an empty threat or not?

> We’ll have you work on actual bugs in our actual code

> you’ll pair with us on a real feature or bug

Are you paying people who are interviewing with you? Or are you getting them to do real work on your code for free?

I'll be honest, I stopped reading the article as soon as it mentioned Hypermedia, because I instantly saw the problem as the author being upset that Swagger is not Hypermedia.

I have a really hard time seeing APIs ever reaching that level of standardization, and I'm tired of having the Hypermedia discussion. I generally support logically organized APIs with good documentation. As long as those things are true, I'm happy for the API.

You wouldn't notice a change from me, since I switched to Linux on my MBP. My next refresh will be to a Carbon, but this laptop is still fairly new.

Nintendo actually has a very sizable war chest. I don't think they are struggling for survival at all.

Although Nintendo doom and gloom has been a popular theme for many years I'm a little surprised to see it here.

The point is definitely collecting the special coins. The pink coins seem to get harder to obtain as the game goes on. The purple coins afterwards are even harder, and the onyx coins are really challenging.

The levels also have different obstacle and coin layouts depending on the special coins you are going for.