The funniest thing is that Portmanteau is not a french word in the first place. it's a large travelling case wich open like a book (in old english).
Porte-Manteau used to be the guy carrying the coat of the King and is not a Portmanteau. We translate portmanteau as "Mot-Valise" in french which means "Case(as in luggage)-Word".
I had to deal with theses processors this weekend (Allwinner H3) for a side project (Pandora Box5 Jamma, an arcade system), the documentation is awful, i was unable to find the "real" SDK, the boot0 is a proprietary blob, but i found this awesome project https://linux-sunxi.org if you want to work with these kinds of processors.
You don't need an "SDK" for a general purpose computer. Always check mainline U-Boot and mainline OS (Linux, BSD) first. (For Linux, check distributions like Armbian and ArchLinuxARM.)
I don't think there's generally much reason to use Allwinner's boot0 on H3 or older, since mainline U-Boot has supported those chips for a couple of years now. In principle you can even just run Debian on them (though I don't think they build installer images for anything that new right now, and most people use Armbian for its better user experience).
>I think that its time that the enterprise switches to full stack Typescript as a much better solution for developing enterprise software.
We use TypeScript for our frontend (Angular 5), I find it better than plain JS but the language has some weird paradigms, NPM is driving me crazy. Our backoffice is in C#, and i will never trade the safety of C# for TypeScript.
>The Java ecosystem did not manage to produce a good frontend development solution, and that was its downfall.
Agree. (haven't done Java since ages, but the support of java EE in GlassFish/Jboss/Tomcat was a mess too)
At Work : TFS 2017 (On Premise), most of the communication is done at the coffee break.
At Home : Used to work with Gitlab CE on a Raspberry Pi, sometime Github. but most of the time a local git repository is enough (so nothing). We used Gitlab / Slack for a project with a group of friends, but moved to Telegram.
I bought a dish washer too, but i stopped using it. Don't get me wrong, I hate the doing the dishes by hand, but this is so brainless that my mind wander and I often find myself solving problem (work related) while doing it.
I still use Foobar2000 on Windows (cmus on Linux), but i wonder why everyone want a Custom UI (Skins) in media player, Is it an old WinAmp feature everyone is nostalgic for ?
For me I think it's because music is a hobby I care a lot about, and I'd like the "option but not the obligation" to easily improve my experience. I've tried a bunch of other music players over the years (on the go, Plexamp seems the most promising in the "access and play all the weird formats in my music collection anywhere in the world, look nice, and get out of my way" category) but I keep coming back to foobar2000 for the sheer capability and flexibility to tweak how I manage and interact with my music every day.
> Even a short phone screen where I just ask someone to code a simple question takes 20-30 minutes of my time (plus however much time I need to get back in the zone), so HackerRank is appealing if only to weed out the very worst candidates.
But you took 20-30 Minutes of their time too, the only difference is that you get a compensation at the end of theses 20-30 min, they don't. If someone told me, "OK , i m gonna waste 3 hours of your time in exchange of a mere promise of a job", i will simply decline the job.I work 9hr/day , I have better things to do with my free time...
Yeah, with often very high ratios (I've seen above 100:1 in positions where I had information more than once recently) applicants for open positions, hiring simply isn't going to work if it requires symmetric time investment from hiring managers and applicants.
I'm assuming that you don't expect companies to hire everyone who applies and therefore some candidates are going to have time wasted. What do you think is a fair amount of time to expect someone to give for an initial screening?
My longest and latest job interview lasted 3 hours but we talked about the goals and the visions of the company (that part doesn't bother me), the technical part (code with a pen + questions) lasted about 15 mins. But to set a threshold, generally i ask if the test requires more than 1 hour, if yes, I decline politely.
