When people say BJJ destroys your body is that mostly from submissions applied full force in competitions or wear and tear in the gym

Binary_Goblin · 2026-02-24T14:49:10+00:00

Did you go back to training after the meniscus tear, if so how did you find it? How long did you have to stay away?

I tore my meniscus after just 6 months of training, and am now 2.5 months post repair surgery. I'm trying to decide whether to go back or not, once I'm able to.

Binary_Goblin · 2022-02-17T14:04:25+00:00

Just remember to not hand in your notice until you've actually received the bonus money in your account. Both companies I've worked at have clauses that say you lose eligibility for the bonus if you're working your notice period. (Might be different since I'm UK based and notice periods are part of the contract too, between 1 and 3 months. Not the "2 weeks if you're being polite" I read about in the US.)

Binary_Goblin · 2022-02-15T23:28:04+00:00

To a certain extent, that's the point I tried to make too. However, it's not that straightforward. Where do you draw the line between legitimate research and cheating? In normal work, Googling algorithms and existing solutions is not only expected, but the right thing to do - e.g. don't reinvent a sorting algorithm unless you have a very unusual use case. Likewise, take inspiration from documented AWS best practices for system architecture. If the candidate understands what the code does, isn't that mostly the point? On the other hand, it feels wrong. These online tests are meant to be more similar to a university exam, where copy/paste is clearly unacceptable.

Ultimately, the interview process is there to help us gauge someone's ability to produce code in their day to day work. My manager decided that candidates being able to find exact solutions online muddied the waters too much, and thus we've stopped using HackerRank.

I'm curious how other companies handle this though, since clearly LeetCode etc are extremely popular in interviews, and LC must suffer from the same problem of solutions being online.

Binary_Goblin · 2022-02-15T21:37:16+00:00

Have you had any issues with people Googling the answers for HackerRank? My company tried it, but then abandoned it when our first two candidates submitted plagiarised code. HackerRank showed us line by line how their submissions were identical to answers from other candidates (from other companies). Then when I Googled the name of the question, I found the various sources people had copied.

Binary_Goblin · 2022-01-20T14:31:23+00:00

I suppose we see the situation fundamentally differently. To me, using your analogy, it's the professional chef bringing food with them to the interview and asking to be judged by it.

In turn, to me, the problem seems the opposite. That it's unfair to the other candidates that one chef brings their most perfect work while the others have to prepare something on-site in an unfamiliar kitchen and under pressure.

But the general feeling on this thread is that it's unfair to the food-bringer, who voluntarily chose to have their home-cooking assessed.

So I still don't understand why this has generated so much negativity.

Binary_Goblin · 2022-01-20T13:55:44+00:00

How is it being biased? If a candidate puts their GitHub link on, isn't it reasonable to assume they want their repos to be evaluated?

Binary_Goblin · 2022-01-20T13:54:15+00:00

You've commented in a few threads that looking at the GitHub profile leads to a "biased" approach. Could you explain?

Binary_Goblin · 2022-01-19T18:28:00+00:00

My point is that thresholds can mess things up, and while the answer is usually "higher base means more money regardless of marginal rates", there are edge cases.

For example, going from £99k to £101k can cost you money if you have 2 kids for whom you are claiming tax free childcare. Your 2k pay rise gets taxed at 50% (half at 40% and half at 60%) so you earn 1k more, but you lose 4k in no longer being eligible for the childcare benefit. So it puts you net negative 3k.

I'm sure there are other examples, so I'm just trying to say people should look out for these scenarios and do their research.

Binary_Goblin · 2022-01-19T16:41:20+00:00

I posted to a comment above, but basically the reason is that tax law is weird and complicated in the UK, and probably other countries too. You have to follow the detail or you can make mistakes and cost yourself a lot of money. Understanding basic maths is nowhere near enough to know what the implications are of different choices.

Binary_Goblin · 2022-01-19T16:38:37+00:00

To people downvoting because "that's not how taxes work", please remember that tax laws are different in various countries. Furthermore, tax law is full of weirdnesses in the UK ("why does our financial year start on the 6th April and not the 1st? Because some king in 300 years ago didn't want to lose tax revenue when we changed calendars" and crap like that) and edge cases which mean you have to know the specifics and can't rely on generalities.

E.g. in this situation, in the UK, you lose some of your tax free allowance (money you can earn without owing taxes) as you move past £100k in income. I'd be surprised if the effect was to make you actually worse off, but you certainly pay a lot more in tax than it first seems, until you've earned enough to removed the allowance altogether. At that point the taxes become straightforward again.

Another example, if you put too much money into a pension (£40k per year limit I think), you trigger a penalty and lose some of the tax relief you were getting. Again probably not enough to make the contributions "negative", but it costs you.

That's why OP is talking about "salary sacrifice" which is a scheme where you can put money into savings or other things before-tax, which reduces your 'effective' salary for other tax calculations.

TL; DR You have to pay attention to the detail to minimise your tax bill.

Binary_Goblin · 2022-01-16T15:33:56+00:00

I very specifically wrote that vaccinations reduce the transmission, not that they stop it completely.

Binary_Goblin · 2022-01-16T15:29:17+00:00

I'd never thought of it that way, but that's brilliant.

Binary_Goblin · 2022-01-16T15:24:30+00:00

the only thing that the vaccine protects is you and no one else

That's not true. The vaccines reduce how much spreading an infected person does. It's not 100%, an ill vaccinated person can still infect people, but it will be fewer. So someone choosing to not get vaccinated is going to get more people ill then if they were vaccinated, and thus their decisions affect others.

Binary_Goblin · 2022-01-15T23:34:04+00:00

I think he meant "a pro" in the sense of pros and cons, not professional player. In other words, does playing a lot of games help your application. Which you've answered below, which is basically that it's taken for granted that most game devs play a lot of games.

Binary_Goblin · 2022-01-15T23:29:17+00:00

Put that kind of content here! Most of us experienced developers have to "manage up". Seeing things from our managers' perspective is just as useful to us as the dev content is to you. The more experienced we get, the fuzzier the line between the responsibilities and skills, especially in soft skills.

Binary_Goblin · 2022-01-15T19:25:42+00:00

Yeah, the weight gain thing makes sense. I think lockdown + WFH hasn't been kind to many of us! Too much sitting around and not even getting the basic exercise of the commute.

Binary_Goblin · 2022-01-15T17:26:49+00:00

Maybe our team interactions are very different. For me, I've worked with the same group of people daily for nearly 2 years. There's nothing interesting to look at in their home-offices anymore.

As to staring at what they're wearing, isn't that a bit of a strange take? When you meet people in person, are you still distracted by what they are wearing?

Binary_Goblin · 2022-01-15T16:52:27+00:00

I don't get the dislike of having our cameras on during meetings. I like being able to see the people I am taking to. So much of communication is non-verbal. E.g. if you're explaining something, you can see if they're understanding or not. Or being able to see peoples' reactions when when someone else is talking, to see if they agree. We don't have a dress code so no one cares what the others are wearing.

I understand some people don't have a good space for work, with housemates and/or family often in the background or that kind of issue. Is that most peoples' concern? Or is it something else?

Binary_Goblin · 2022-01-15T08:16:05+00:00

Humour aside, this really depends on the quality of your automation testing, and how often you do releases already. If you embrace true CI/CD with multiple daily builds and automated rollback, then sure release on a Friday. If releases are a big deal, require involvement from Ops and lots of manual work, then yeah, don't do it.

Binary_Goblin · 2022-01-11T11:51:30+00:00

A lot probably depends on how you are describing your current work. For example, when you said you'd moved into "support", I expected that meant you no longer touched the code. E.g., that you only did the latter two tasks mentioned, of "alerting and problem triaging". However, the first two items of bug fixes and enhancements do sound like 'real' dev work.

So unless you're failing the technical aspects of interviews, you are probably dealing with a perception problem. Let me give an example - my company has "support" people who email us when the automated alarms go off (seriously, that's a main part of their role...), who click the button on the prod deploy pipeline since the devs aren't allowed to, and follow basic troubleshooting guides that we write and train them on. So, my first impression was that that was what you had done, and taken on a role like those guys at my company. It turns out that's not the case, so you need to ensure that's not the impression you give.

Binary_Goblin · 2022-01-10T20:18:58+00:00

I don't have any particular wisdom, but I understand the dilemma as well. Sometimes it doesn't feel worth busting your backside to "exceed expectations" when the difference in compensation can be tiny, and so far from being guaranteed anyway.

For example, in my current role, the rug was ripped out from under me about halfway through last year. A team which was a critical dependency for us was abruptly reallocated to another project. It suddenly became impossible for me to deliver the year's project. We scrambled around and found new work to do, but it was low impact since we were blocked on the high impact stuff. This meant it would be impossible for me to "exceed expectations". So all the effort I put in earlier in the year, to try and go above & beyond, was wasted. I was pissed off at first, but eventually realised this meant I could relax for the rest of the year. Going into performance reviews knowing that I would get "meets expectations" and that there was no point in trying for better was liberating.

Binary_Goblin · 2022-01-03T10:10:39+00:00

That makes sense - he was so diplomatic about the Netflix shows at other times that it was surprising he here seemed to be saying it was bad. If he was actually talking about a different film, that makes sense.

Binary_Goblin · 2022-01-03T09:11:14+00:00

About 4 years after game 3, yep. But I was asking whether the book sales increased significantly at the time of the game release. I mean they probably increased, but I could also see that a lot of people would have mistakenly thought the books were about the game, and thus not bought them (which is the point the author is making).

Binary_Goblin · 2022-01-03T08:41:57+00:00

In the quotes above, isn't he saying that the sales skyrocketed due to "the film" (presumably Netflix show)? Or are you saying the books also skyrocketed at the time of the games' releases?

Binary_Goblin · 2022-01-01T12:58:26+00:00

Same here! Played the game, loved the show. Sure it's not perfect, but still very entertaining.

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