Been doing some interviews lately. I have someone else in the room helping who hasn't done many interviews before. Partly because it is interviewing for a role I don't have any practical experience in. I have come to the conclusion that:
a) TAFE should still exist. I mean actually exist, not the shambling corpse the various flavours of neo-liberal governments have allowed to continue to wander the earth. b) It should offer a semester long course, with labs, of how to interview.
ugh...the dilemma of being excited for a space launch, but also kinda wanting it to fail because the money guy is a prick, and his motivations are absurd.
A lunch.
A lunch.
Apple like to think they are pretty good, but with their smart assistants they are so far behind. Why, Siri is still telling me, years down the line, that she can’t find anything in the web for the sound of chicken frying in the pan or the sound of my mixer kneading dough. Get your shit together, Apple.
One of my teams just came through a tough period of getting a piece of work through an initial round of testing so it can be merged and hidden behind a feature flag. It was hard in them and I’m proud of them for solving the problems.
Some of them worked long hours and weekends and we have to deal with that. Spoke to some of them today and told my newest team member that I will never expect her to be responsive at all hours. That if I need her to work long hours I’ll actually specifically ask for it and set boundaries and work out time in lieu.
She told me it’s the first time a manager has ever said that to her.
What is wrong with people?
I might be “become expert with pro-tools” level of obsessed with the idea of Rebel Girl, but with a string quartet.
I’m beginning to think auto correct has achieved some low form of sentience and has recognised my (regrettably ongoing) issues with your/you’re and there/their/they’re and is changing them even when I get it right.
We’re moving offices into a WeWork and my pass has a slogan “Do why you love” and I really appreciate this suggestion to go home and have a nap and maybe start drinking some G&Ts while reading a book.
I bet I'm not the only person to ever fat finger and type crontab -r.
Seems like a bad design to use those two keys for what I imagine are the most-used and least-used commands.