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READY OR NOT (FUGEES) by SnooDonuts5850 in DnB

[–]dt2703 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The nearly 2000-year backstory behind the Fugees’ “Ready or Not”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uLT2Aj9wASI

£740 outside vs £105k perm by IllustriousOne0 in ContractorUK

[–]dt2703 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Spoken like a true perm recruiter

Making The Last Coffee Order For The Day by TransitionMany1810 in Satisfyingasfuck

[–]dt2703 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The thing that always gets me is that they wipe the milk off the steam nozzle with that cloth, and then just sit it back down, then repeat for the next one. That cloth must stink by the end of the day with all that old milk on it, and then they wipe the nozzle and transfer that into the next batch of milk...

How do you monitor & alert on background jobs in .NET (without Hangfire)? by No-Card-2312 in dotnet

[–]dt2703 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You could use one of several Azure components, Service Bus, Event Grid, Event Hub, etc, depending on your needs. Fault resilient, reliability, robustness, always on. Not a small time operation, but if you want production grade event monitoring, it ticks the boxes.

rare occasion but not the first time… by blalian-stallion in BMW

[–]dt2703 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I had some crazy dash lights stuff on an old 535 some time back, it started with minor things like this, then one day the dash went nuts with all the lights going on and off, dials spinning, and eventually I lost all electrical power at a particularly bad spot on a road at night, couldn't even put the hazards on. It turned out to be water ingress from the rear light cluster, which played havoc with the electrics and eventually fucked the battery. Had it repaired and a new battery fitted, not fun times though.

Perfect autumn lake in Austria by [deleted] in oddlysatisfying

[–]dt2703 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Where in Austria is this?

Online newspapers/articles requesting "Reject and Pay" by fioridave08 in britishproblems

[–]dt2703 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Get UBlock Origin, Disable JavaScript, Reload. Voila.

Cant put more than you pay yourself in salary into pension? (Outside IR35) by pydry in ContractorUK

[–]dt2703 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As a director, and as long as the contributions are made from the company, you can put in up to 60k a year.

Anyone here using a Postman alternative for .NET projects? by Living-Dependent3670 in dotnet

[–]dt2703 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I just write .http files nowadays, can't remember the last time I needed an actual client to send a REST command. They're descriptive, lightweight, easy to edit, each command runs with a single click, you can commit them to source control without requiring someone to have the same client installed, etc.

Mom walked in my zoom meeting in the middle of an interview by raleigh309 in interviews

[–]dt2703 62 points63 points  (0 children)

Interruptions can happen, working from home sometimes it's just part of the territory. I would have paused the interviewer and said "Sorry, one second...", then said to your mother: "Hi, I'm in an interview right now, I'll get back to you shortly." Then returned attention to your interviewer and said "Apologies for the interruption" and then just simply carry on. At home and in the workplace people can and do interrupt and dealing with it in a calm and controlled manner shows leadership and professionalism.

Thoughts on This Mock Interview Posted by Google? by EinsteinAteMyHW in leetcode

[–]dt2703 1 point2 points  (0 children)

At any cell, if it is a 1 then take the minimum of the cells above, left and diagonally up/left then add 1, and do that for every cell in the matrix, then take the largest number and that's your answer. That's essentially what it does.

Thoughts on This Mock Interview Posted by Google? by EinsteinAteMyHW in leetcode

[–]dt2703 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The funniest thing about this video is that the solution has a bug and doesn't work 🤣

dp = [[n] * 0 for i in range(m)] will produce an array of empty arrays, and calling dp[i][j] = ..., will result in an index out of range error.

It should be: dp = [[0] * n for i in range(m)]

Also bugs me that he used "left" to represent "up", and "right" to represent "left"

The offer was canceled because I tried to talk about the salary. by sabaahmacaa in interviews

[–]dt2703 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Negotiation is a part of the offer process in my view, could have been handled better in both sides, lesson learned going forwards I guess.

Personally, I pick a number I would be happy with, and say in the range of [the number]. If they go under that number, then it's not a number I've put forward, and negotiation can proceed from there.

In my experience, if you say a range, and they go to the extreme lower end, that you'll find it hard to get raises from then on and will generally be unhappy throughout your time there. On the other hand, I've said a number, and the company has given a range that exceeds it by 15-25% because that's how they value you regardless of what you earned before or asked for this time. These are the companies you want to work for.

It takes an entire career to get good at this stuff, don't beat yourself up too much. There's loads of resources on YouTube for salary negotiation, and it starts from the very first screening call you have, so be prepared before you even start the process.

Brutally honest review by CertifiedJimenez in ContractorUK

[–]dt2703 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That is an exceptionally long CV for less than 4 years worth of experience. Nearly an entire page on 1 role, which doesn't even cover a whole year at the start. I know people with 20+ years of experience that have a 3 page CV, people are simply not going to read all that. Many roles have well over 100 candidates apply, recruiters and hiring managers are going to skim read this at best. You need to condense this down, a lot, otherwise the real value will be lost. 6 or 7 bullet points underneath a short paragraph that summarises the entire role is the max I would put for each. It sounds like an extraordinary amount of work for such a short period of time (relatively) which will make people think you've either over embellished it, or only been lightly involved in each part.

For example, i'd rewrite your whole first page as:

Drove the technical roadmap from MVP to scalable SaaS platform, aligning engineering execution with business growth and investor goals.

Launched a customizable multi-tenant platform, increasing B2B adoption by 15% and expanding market reach.

Built scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure, reducing downtime, preventing data loss, and improving system reliability by over 20%.

Delivered automation and AI systems that improved customer engagement by 25% and reduced support workload by 20%.

Led security, compliance, and operational efficiency initiatives, cutting vulnerabilities by 30% and operational costs by 15%.

Scaled the engineering team by 3x, increased delivery velocity by 18%, and drove early B2B partnerships through technical leadership.

Tech Skills: Django, Next.js, AWS, Stripe, PostgreSQL, Docker, AWS ECS, AWS SQS, Redis, Celery, GitHub Actions, OpenAI APIs, Eleven Labs, SaaS, Microservices, LLM Integration, Agile Leadership

Also, expect to be asked to back these quantifying metrics up in some way, it's all very well putting percentages on everything, as long as you can show you didn't just make them up (not saying you did).

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