bhollan

I feel 100% qualified to do the job I'm interviewing for this week, but I'm mostly just looking for any tips on how to study for a non-coding interview w/ them. Any horror stories? I've checked Glassdoor (and googling) and coming up with mostly small odds/ends here and there. Any tips appreciated!

I've been asked to help with the construction and opening of a computer lab in Belize. The plan is to have it used by the remedial school that will host it[1], but also available for use by the public. The target audience/content is more literacy-oriented than tech-oriented (think GED, not SWE).

I'm sure this is not the first one of these in existence, so I'd love to hear any tips/tricks or recommendations/precautions (both for the "developing nation" side and general "public computer lab" side). My personal background is more EE/SWE than IT.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/groups/740055676147398/

Is there a way (yet?) to add a chat layer to a codebase? Basically a layer that would take it's best guess at the ERD and functions after reading the code, then be able to articulate about it and respond to questions?

One of my biggest struggles is "getting to know" a codebase when I first walk up to it. I'm trying my best to get better, but I have to balance that with actually producing deliverables. It would help radically if a teammate (or better yet, the author!) could spend a few hours with me answering questions, but who has that kind of time! So an LLM wading through a codebase and then being able to sufficiently answer my questions about how modules relate, "what's [thisFunction] for?" and "where's the file that [doesThing]?" and the like would be absolutely something I would pay for.

Anything out there already? Is this an unmet market need, now that we know the tech is up to the challenge?

So my dad got a computer engineering degree back in the punch card days and ran his own business as a "computer consultant" since the early 90s up until he went to prison for 14 years starting in 2007 and gets out next March (his crime was not computer-related). He mainly used MS Access to develop on-prem apps for small businesses. What [printed] materials can I send to him to update him to modern times before he gets out? I'm sure he can catch up after release, but he's obviously got a lot more time on his hands now, but no computing access.

Also, any ex-con-in-tech related advice is welcome.

I just got a job as the "rails guy" and "data guy" at a small educational app company. I'm interested in the best/worst, opinions, facts, recommendations, horror stories about JS DataViz packages. Bring it on.

It will be used with mostly vanilla JS, pulling data from an in-house (Rails?) API. My familiarity with dataviz is pretty extensive as far as years, but pretty sparse when it comes to JS. I have 2 degrees in Engineering, but <5 years in Web Dev (and <1 attempting data science). Right now the company/customers are super-impressed with just JQuery's datatables, so the bar isn't super high, but I just want to make sure I'm not "that guy" if I pick the worst thing by accident or something.