Random Rants
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@Giles I have the Dakine bag also for travel. The big wheeled one. You can fit a fk ton of gear in those. Very easy to go over the weight limit with that bag as well though. Great value those bags.
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Travel with the Ortlieb Big Zip since 15 years now. It is waterproof and lightweight.
We have exactly that bag (we it's blue) for our dive kit…
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I've thought about buying Pelican cases for all my Iron Heart treasures to travel in.
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A pelican wardrobe case would be the schiznit!
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I ship all of my work equipment in 3 pelican cases, which Pelican usually replaces all 3 about every 8 months due to shipping damages.
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@der:
dented as fuck
Made me smile
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Or you can just line your suitcase in murder plastic. It's pretty cheap from the hardware store and works good.
I'm sure you mean for waterproofing…unless you're worried about what might leak out.
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I had a job interview and did a coding test for a contract role a week or two ago. The company was after a tech lead, and it would have involved being involved much more on the business side.
I was meant to have a second round interview on Wednesday last week, but the manager didn't call. I followed it up with the recruitment agent, and heard nothing back.
The agent just dropped me an email. The company no longer needs a lead, but they're after a couple of senior developers. The trouble is that the rate is now 75% of what it was.
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@Steffen it's common for IT companies in Australia to demand a coding test be completed, normally before an interview takes place.
Typically they'll ask you to write an Android app to do the following:
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Connect to a remote server, and download a piece of data.
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Process the data, typically from JSON, into a format that the program can use.
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Create a UI to display the data, normally this has one or two screens.
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There might be other requirements, such as store the data to a database, handle screens rotating, or display the results on a Google Maps window.
None of this is difficult, and there's very little scope of doing anything clever. But it can take a few days to put one together from scratch, because coding is a slow process.
The thing is that they could ask me for a piece of sample code (to see my style), and an outline of how I'd approach the problem (to see if I miss anything important), which would tell them as much as the test, and only take half an hour.
British IT companies don't run their candidates through this testing rigmarole. It seems to be an Aussie phenomena.
@Snowy the lead role involved a lot of work interacting with the business, and this was the side that appealed.
@Giles I agree.
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Graeme, I know a few big US companies that do similar style of testing as a pre-screen to a phone interview these days. One of the larger ones does 2-3x in person interviews in 1 day where you're expected to write real-world code on a whiteboard for ~1hr each time to solve a problem. Not an aussie thing, think it's more a supply/demand problem.
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@Snowy I had an interview with Facebook a couple of years ago that was a day of interviews with whiteboard tests. I can't remember if there were three or four. My brain was fried about halfway through.
Didn't get the job, unfortunately.
I've just dropped a CV into Atlassian to see what they say.
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Screw you, NBCSN. I don't want to watch SOU play LIV in the Premier League. I don't know who those teams are, and I don't care. I want to watch curling, luge and other obscure sports; which is what your online guide promised to be showing right now.
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Screw you, NBCSN. I don't want to watch SOU play LIV in the Premier League. I don't know who those teams are, and I don't care. I want to watch curling, luge and other obscure sports; which is what your online guide promised to be showing right now.
Those things you mention, “curling” and “loogies”, you just made them up didn’t you, they’re not real. You crack me up Chris [emoji1]
Also any sport without an offside rule isn’t really a sport and shouldn’t be on TV.
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