Through The Looking Glass

Content HAVE WE STRAYED FROM INTERNET STANDARDS? NO, IT IS THE OTHER HIE HI BROWSERS WHO HAVE STRAYED FROM OUR STANDARDS.

This is what happens when you use position: absolute on everything and refuse to learn Flexbox. That building is basically what your webpage looks like after you've spent 30 minutes randomly adjusting CSS values by single pixels, hoping something magically aligns. The architect clearly used !important way too many times and then just shipped it anyway. Classic "it works on my machine" energy right there. The windows are like divs that escaped their container and now live wherever they want - complete CSS anarchy. This is why senior devs drink.

Content I've interviewed a lot of people over the last year (Java), and my favorite test is to throw a Stack Trace at them and ask them to figure out what the problem is. The answer is actually quite clear, however. Half of them don't know it's called a stack trace. Some don't know what they're looking at (BYE!). Several focus on the wrong section of proprietary code. Some ask to "open a debugger". however the answer is right there in plain english if you just read the method names. Many don't realize the line numbers are RIGHT THERE, and then start focusing on the lines ending with "Compiled Code". Then there are the ones who work their way up from the bottom, starting with the application container code, and lose their minds. Some who figure out what is happening don't have a solution to prevent it from happening. No, I'm not sharing the trace; suffice to say it's been reviewed by more than 5 of my peers and they all passed. Like Reply 1h Edited I mean, it isn't hard to eliminate people with a coding question. Do you find it impossible to teach people how to read text stack traces, or is this a skill without which they will be unable to do anything of use, or do you just not want to hire anyone? 1 am serious. 1 can come up with dozens of useful programming skills I can test a candidate on that most perfectly skilled programmers would fail. Start with eliminating people who can't code at all. Then find out what they can do that could be useful. If I have 5 people who can already take a printed out stack crash dump, I probably don't need another, and if I do, a qualified candidate can be taught that skill by someone who knows it in under a week. Then again, maybe you work for Stack Trace Inc, and your entire job is looking at stack traces. If so, by bad. Like Reply 22m

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The dev brain is truly a marvel of selective amnesia. Skip coding for a single day and suddenly your framework knowledge evaporates, your syntax is from 2015, and you're Googling "how to center div" for the 500th time. Meanwhile, you can perfectly recall that one obscure Stack Overflow answer from 7 years ago about why your production server crashed. The two-month setback is real - I've returned from a one-week vacation needing three days just to remember my password conventions.

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