jamespollack

Can everyone posting please post about their interview process:

How many:

- technical phone screens

- video interviews

- projects (esp. length and duration, paid/unpaid, etc)

- portfolio / code reviews on past projects

- onsite interviews and if there's any whiteboarding/pairing/etc

And the total amount of time you expect interviewing to take?

Candidates need the ability to compare positions, processes, etc.

i love redux - surface area for bugs is reduced so much compared to the past. thanks!

Author too busy hating to actually explore tools that would do exactly what they want.

So... people who hate learning should use SSR?

Once you've used grunt, using gulp is not a big logical jump. Then to webpack. Whatever, they're just build scripts! Roll your own shell scripts if you want! A day to learn them, or a lifetime of being a hater.

...? "Most of the world is fine with whale oil lamps, who needs electricity"

Try a really good interactive article from the New York Times. You'll have a much more impactful experience than if you read a blurb about the same thing on your RSS reader.

I think that "I'm a backend person" says it all -- most of the people in this thread are probably not JS natives or front-end natives. All of the complaints about JS fatigue, or not knowing how to use client-side routing are because you've done things differently on the backend. Is it such a surprise that front-end frameworks and tools make more sense to people who actually enjoy and have experience working on the frontend?

If you provide an API schema, with a SPA the whole frontend can be developed separately of ever touching backend code. Okay, so you changed the name of model.thing to model.anotherThing - quick change in the reducer that is consuming that end point and call it a day.

> That doesn't seem like a valid issue. If a bug in a single page could take the application down then the same could be said for the API powering the front-end.

What? The previous poster said coupling frontend / server tightly will result in crash of both if there is a server bug. Your response is that a bug in an unattached API could happen? Of course a bug in your API could crash your API. But at least then it's just your API that's crashed, not the (thousand) servers you're using to serve the front end and every device using them.

have you not used a client-side router in like 5 years? you just plug one in and BAM browserHistory, etc.

threads --> web workers

sockets --> web sockets

processes --> communicating btw microservices

memory usage --> app and performance profiling

it sounds like you're comparing a junior (high school-level?) FE to a senior BE.

in my experience FE is difficult because your code is generally running in a lot of different environments and you have to create something that works reasonably well in all those places. oh yeah, and then there's a human who actually uses the product and who knows what crazy stuff they'll do.

maybe a good distinction is that FE requires being comfortable with a lot of uncertainty, whereas BE is appropriate for people who like things 'just so'.

i find the fact that you created a HN account just to troll us with your little puzzle to be 'counterproductive'. you're not the NSA, you're a PHP dev house. respect people's time and maybe you'll get the applicants you're looking for

MFA Digital Arts and New Media. This is an interactive perspective.

Right now the crossover between the arts and virtual reality is incredible. You need to be able to: dress a set, light it, do sound design, puppetry (avatars/rigging), sculpt / model, paint, and code. Artificial intelligence for agents and their behaviors. Narrative to tie it all together. Oh -- and to take risks, withstanding brutal critiques while taking the advice that helps and ignoring the advice that doesn't. To document the entire process, present it in public, and speak about it with alacrity. How to research new methods & materials, and adapt them to your practice.

I'll take a second to plug all the programs at UC Santa Cruz -- Department of Computational Media, Center for Games and Playable Media, Digital Arts and New Media MFA.

Yes, definitely! I'd love to remove the manual metadata step for the photos. I looked at writing the exif XMP data but had trouble sorting it out -- your code looks great, thanks for the lead!

ha cool, very similar! perhaps the same one: ) how interesting , its cool to see how other people make different choices considering the same starting material. I like route search box!

after reading ABOP, i did a lot of searching on L systems and found this amazing three.js library -- http://grow3.zyxxy.de/

Define value (specifically in relation to art, or music, or both). Define how something is 'devalued' (specifically to art, or music, or both)). Define who has 'devalued' the 'whole industry'. Define why hip hop has been the 'most devalued of all musical genres'. Then tell me how this gnostic priesthood giving us mere mortals a peek at 'the real thing' is going to give all that value back to hip hop.

There's no technological fetish here, simply a desire to live today and avoid a historical fetish. I don't live in the Renaissance Era or in the 'Swinging Sixties'. It's 2014 and it's sad that this group of people find actually addressing the problem of relevance and value in our day and age too difficult and instead recycle old, problematic forms.

Of all the arts, digital has probably helped music the most. Send me a link to the 'Art' section on the App store.

Does Wu-Tang really need validation from the institutions (the academy, galleries, museums, etc) that they don't already have from the millions of people who listen to their albums and go to their shows?

Do you honestly think that this showing is going to help those artists who want to earn a 'middle-class paycheck'??? Because it seems to me altogether unlikely that most artists will be able to afford to put on a multi-location, state-of-the-art-security presentation like this. C'mon, be realistic.

'Rarity' is only one component of aesthetic beauty. All of the other ones need to be there to give something value. Increasing the 'rarity' to maximum does not an art object make.

Patronage is nice if you've got enough $$$$$$. Hope you get the chance to see the 'holy grail' in your lifetime. Start saving.

this is one of the worst, most backward-looking, anti-innovative views of art today that i've ever encountered. i'm sure they'll make money on it, but i can't wait until the first rip of this 'unlistenable' album hits pirate bay. as a piece of 'institutional critique', the website/album/company itself is moderately interesting, but barely that since most of what they say regarding contemporary art, exclusivity, ephemerality, and Damien Hirst can be rather easily countered -- due to their tendency toward bombastic or hyperbolic statements without any evidence thereof. let's pay attention to people trying to make the world better and not this pseudo-intellectual, luxury circle jerk.

also, terrible website & tired copy. http://scluzay.com/

this is really nice. well done

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well you could do NLP on the reviews and sort it using some lexical grammar. if you're into sorting and all that.

mort importantly the ybb reviews are basically useless from a reality perspective due to the way the data is collected (gateway for letter grades) -- they never told you anything important no matter their format, and never will.

if you want to know what a professor is like you just ask around or drop in on the class during shopping period. ybb+ is not an improvement on that process.

digital equivalent of 'dropping in': coursera or open yale. digital equivalent of 'asking around' ... ? not ybb+

personally i think it would make sense to get each professor to record a video introducing themselves and the material. then skip that awkward first lecture. actual teaching video would be tops...

this is the most useful service i've personally come across in months -- thanks!!

the twitter feed on the ripoff homepage is priceless right now :)

HLS (http adaptive streaming) is non-existant in Chrome, except for on the Google TV. So I end up having to develop in Safari, which is painful. Especially when I'm making apps for the Google TV (and other SmartTV Platforms).

::le sigh::

what's behind not being able to search while a song is playing or paused? is that expected behavior?

it's pretty neat -- with some nice styling and sort options, there's a lot of potential. but it's a great base. maybe i'll send you a pull request sometime -- edit to say running this on ec2 server with a shared dropbox as the music folder could lead to a whole lot of awesome

took a while to get everything up and running -- works nicely now though.

it'd be nice during setup if you used the non-minified includes for all the scripts, with the minified paths commented out (or vice versa!)

i was trying to change the default search terms and they were stuck in scripts.min.js

ditto wanted to see where it went. a stripe button would be better than gumroad

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