getify

What Hiring Should Look Like

This is definitely not the first time I've written about this topic, but I haven't written formally about it in quite awhile. So I want to revisit why I think technical-position interviewing is so poorly designed, and lay out what I think would be a better process.

I'm just one guy, with a bunch of strong opinions and a bunch of flaws. So take these suggestions with a grain of salt. I'm sure there's a lot of talented, passionate folks with other thoughts, and some are probably a lot more interesting and useful than my own.

But at the same time, I hope you'll set aside the assumptions and status quo of how interviewing is always done. Just because you were hired a certain way, and even if you liked it, doesn't mean that it's a good interview process to repeat.

If you're happy with the way technical interviewing currently works at your company, fine. Just stop, don't read any further. I'm not going to spend any effort trying to convince you otherwise.

darko-mesaros

    // VPC
    const vpc = new ec2.Vpc(this, 'VPC');

    // Security group
    const webSg = new ec2.SecurityGroup(this, 'WebSG',{
      vpc: vpc,
      allowAllOutbound: true,
      description: "Web Server Security Group"
    });
    webSg.addIngressRule(ec2.Peer.anyIpv4(), ec2.Port.tcp(8080), 'Web from anywhere')

darko-mesaros

import * as cdk from '@aws-cdk/core';
import * as ec2 from '@aws-cdk/aws-ec2';


export class CdkSsmEc2Stack extends cdk.Stack {
  constructor(scope: cdk.Construct, id: string, props?: cdk.StackProps) {
    super(scope, id, props);

    // import the default VPC
    const vpc = ec2.Vpc.fromLookup(this, 'VPC', {

getify

I received a question about this snippet of code:

function def(first="oldValue" , second=function(){
         return first;
}){
        var first="updatedValue";
        console.log('inside',first);
        console.log('function',second());
}

itaditya

async function orderItems() {
  const items = await getCartItems()    // async call
  const noOfItems = items.length
  const promises = []
  for(var i = 0; i < noOfItems; i++) {
    const orderPromise = sendRequest(items[i])    // async call
    promises.push(orderPromise)    // sync call
  }
  await Promise.all(promises)    // async call
}

itaditya

async function selectPizza() {
  const pizzaData = await getPizzaData()    // async call
  const chosenPizza = choosePizza()    // sync call
  await addPizzaToCart(chosenPizza)    // async call
}

async function selectDrink() {
  const drinkData = await getDrinkData()    // async call
  const chosenDrink = chooseDrink()    // sync call
  await addDrinkToCart(chosenDrink)    // async call

davidgilbertson

const linkEl = document.createElement('link');
linkEl.rel = 'prefetch';
linkEl.href = urlWithYourPreciousData;
document.head.appendChild(linkEl);

steveklabnik

use std::env;
use std::io;
use std::io::prelude::*;
use std::fs::File;

#[derive(Debug)]
enum Error {
    Io(io::Error),
    Program(&'static str),
}

darraghoriordan

(function () {
$(function () {

/*I add the ui elements I need here. I thought it would be better put them in here at runtime rather than hard code them in the index.html in case the index.html from my version of swashbuckle is made obsolete in a future version of the package. */
var hmacAuthUi =
'
<div class="input"><label for="input_api_username">Api Username: </label><input placeholder="Api Username" id="input_api_username" name="input_api_username" type="text" size="20"></div>
' +
'
<div class="input"><label for="input_api_hmackey">Api Key: </label><input placeholder="ApiKey" id="input_api_hmackey" name="input_api_hmackey" type="text" size="20"></div>

ellerbrock

Free O'Reilly books and convenient script to just download them.

Thanks /u/FallenAege/ and /u/ShPavel/ from this Reddit post

How to use:

1. Take the download.sh file and put it into a directory where you want the files to be saved.
2. cd into the directory and make sure that it has executable permissions (chmod +x download.sh should do it)
3. Run ./download.sh and wee there it goes. Also if you do not want all the files, just simply comment the ones you do not want.