NotesSince everyone started using AI, more candidates started clearing the first round with flying colors. The platforms had to recalibrate to let in their target percentage. But they're not measuring the code written by the candidate anymoreâthey're measuring how well the candidate uses an LLM.
Most developers who can actually write this code try to do it themselves. They get marked lower than peers who used AI and completed it faster.
The result? Hiring teams keep raising the bar arbitrarily, trying to find the candidates who are best at prompt engineering their way through a coding test.Unfurl
NotesHiring processes should focus on problem-solving, collaboration, and growth in relevant areas. Unrealistic expectations donât attract the best talent â they just exhaust and discourage it. If companies want adaptable developers, they should focus on the long-term ability to learn, not how fast someone can tackle an arbitrary test. Dropping these absurd assignments and focusing on what really counts could foster a better, more inclusive tech culture.Unfurl
NotesI lost my job in March and Iâve been slowly starting to look for my next thing. Iâve been talking to other folks whoâve been laid off to get a sense of the job market â and the stories theyâre sharing give me flashbacks to twenty years ago.FeedUnfurl
NotesIn other words, the 1099 economy is almost perfectly calibrated to serve the needs of fast-moving start-ups â lower costs, less liability, the ability to grow and shrink the labor pool quickly â but is it good for the people doing the work?Unfurl
NotesBarring a civilization-ending event, technology is not going to move backward. More and more of our world will be controlled by software. Itâs already become so ubiquitous that, argues one of my colleagues, itâs now ridiculous to call some firms as âtechâ companies when all companies depend on it so much.FeedUnfurl
NotesIt really is that simple. The nation's roads, bridges, electrical grid, water systems, national parksâthe whole infrastructureâis crumbling. At the same time unemployment remains persistently high. Put people to work fixing the stuff that's broken. It's not rocket science.
It would be that simple, except for a Republican Party that won't do what's best for the country, won't attempt to fix these things because fixing these things might help reelect President Obama and Democrats in Congress. Furthermore, making the country work proves that government works, and Republicans want none of that.Unfurl
NotesQuicken Loans has started the website www.valleytodetroit.com to promote the Motor City to Yahoo workers axed last week. Quickenâs businesses include mortgages, venture capital and sports graphics.FeedUnfurl
NotesFor too long, we over-invested in the wrong places. Those retail centers and subdivisions will never be worth what they cost to build. We have to stop throwing good money after bad. It is time to instead build what the market wants: mixed-income, walkable cities and suburbs that will support the knowledge economy, promote environmental sustainability and create jobs.Unfurl
NotesThe Great Recession may be over, but this era of high joblessness is probably just beginning. Before it ends, it will likely change the life course and character of a generation of young adults. It will leave an indelible imprint on many blue-collar men. It could cripple marriage as an institution in many communities. It may already be plunging many inner cities into a despair not seen for decades. Ultimately, it is likely to warp our politics, our culture, and the character of our society for years to come.FeedUnfurl
NotesItem number 3,785 in the Republicans-really-don't-care-about-the-deficit file is this from Speaker John Boehner rejecting yet another offer of concessions from Democrats in the Super Congress negotiations. Unfurl
NotesYou know what, Mitch? If you don't want to look "intransigent" ... then don't be intransigent! If you don't want to look like you're sabotaging the economy ... then don't sabotage the economy! And if you think rejecting the jobs bill makes you look bad ... then don't reject it!Unfurl
NotesWhat we're seeing here is another piece of evidence that Republicans are more committedâmuch more committedâto opposing Barack Obama than to doing even the most basic, routine things to keep the economy going and keep bridges from collapsing under us. Filibusters like this are exactly why 50 percent of people believe Republicans are intentionally sabotaging the economy. (And, of course, Joe Lieberman and Ben Nelson are joining them.)Unfurl
NotesTheyâre fighting you, winning big-time, and youâre the loser. Itâs just one generation since conservatives put Reagan in office: In those three short decades the income and wealth of the top 1% has tripled while the income of the bottom 99% of all Americans has stagnated or dropped.
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Yes, folks, America really is under attack daily. We are fighting on the defense in an historic class warfare. Yes, the Rich Class really did start this war. And yes, they really are winning, big-time. And yes, they are addicted to winning at all costs, to get richer and richer just for the sake of getting richer and richer. Unfurl
NotesAs a developer, you are sitting on a goldmine. Do you even realize it? No, seriously, a @#$% goldmine!
Never in modern history has it been so easy to create something from scratch, with little or no capital and a marketing model that is limited only by your imagination.Unfurl
NotesRosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:Senate blocks $60 billion infrastructure plan, another part of Obama jobs bill â The Senate shot down another piece of President Obama's $447 billion jobs bill Thursday, as a stalemated Congress goes through the motions of attempting legislation to spur...FeedUnfurl
Notes"Everybody believes we have infrastructure deficiencies and more needs to be spent to repair, replace and in some cases build new infrastructure," Boehner said in a speech. "The problem is nobody wants to pay for it."Unfurl
Notes Today, the Senate is talking about whether they should vote to debate a jobs bill. Another Republican filibuster looms, in which the Republican Senate won't even vote to allow the Senate to debate and vote on doing a little something to try to save this economy. In this madness, Democratic leadership hopes to at the very least shame Republicans and possibly get a few of them to peel off from the Republican agenda of wrecking everything in sight and stealing all the rest. Unfurl
NotesIn a letter to Speaker John Boehner, House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer and 182 other House Democrats signaled that including controversial policy provisions known as riders could again risk a government shutdown, and the lawmakers demanded that those measures be removed.Unfurl
Notes"Imagine if, one year ago, Congress had passed a stimulus bill that really worked. ... Well, it would look almost exactly as it does now. Because those nice descriptions of the stimulus that I just gave arenât hypothetical. They are descriptions of the actual bill."Unfurl
Notes""I'll just get straight to the point. You've been affected by the layoffs." ... I watched as my access to various parts of the guts of Flickr fell away. I noticed how naturally I searched for any and all bits I could think of, just in the hope that it still existed. But no. I was shut out entirely within about 14 hours of the phone call. ... I was beginning to feel humiliated, particularly given what I was up to. You know, being in Taiwan at an international conference to talk about my work."FeedUnfurl
Notes"The Internet is not a truck. Itâs a complex network of arcane software, expensive hardware, and maximum-security server closets disguised as ordinary cloakrooms."Unfurl
Notes"ProQuest, a digital repository and provider of scholarly documents from all over the world, now employs 478 people in Michigan. It expects to create 303 jobs during the next five years"Unfurl
NotesKind of a fluff piece, doesn't tell me much about what's going on at Google A2. It's all "Wow, kooky Californian office space with weird carpet and massage chairs and sunlight! How can you get any work done?"Unfurl
Notes"After careful consideration, I regret to inform you that I am unable to accept your refusal to offer me an assistant professor position in your department."Unfurl
Notes"The terrifying reality regarding your resume is that for all the many hours you put into fine-tuning, you've got 30 seconds to make an impression on me. Maybe less."Unfurl
Notes"Requirements: Laser vision Ability to fly Ability to breath underwater Invisible plane would be a plus Web throwing experince is a big plus"Unfurl
Notes"Michigan is far more at risk than many other states because its manufacturing-dominated culture is addicted to an entitlement mentality that has long since disappeared in other regions and industrial sectors"Unfurl
Notes"Congratulations on finally reaching that corner office! Enjoy it while you can. Next year, you may be operating a business out of your garage."Unfurl
Notes"Develop a course on the practical aspects of software development and software engineering." I don't have the degree, but I do have experience. This almost seems appealing to me. (Although there's a candidate in mind.)Unfurl
Hackerrank was broken - but now it's actually harmful â segfaulte
Please, Stop the Absurd Coding Challenges | _blackentropy
Silicon Valleyâs Contract-Worker Problem -- NYMag
How the internet is making us poor â Quartz
Daily Kos: Elizabeth Warren: 'Why arenât we rebuilding America?'
Mortgage Lender Wooing Laid-Off Yahoo Workers To Detroit « CBS San Francisco
How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America - Magazine - The Atlantic
memeorandum: Senate blocks $60 billion infrastructure plan, another part of Obama jobs bill (Rosalind S. Helderman/Washington Post)