Portfolio to Vending
Portfolio
Why don’t employers care to look at a programmer’s portfolio? In job applications, I often see requests for a LinkedIn link, sometimes a personal website, and rarely a Github link. In interviews, I get the impression hardly anybody looks at these. Are there fields where employers do normally consider your portfolio?
Estimates
Is it true that small tasks can be estimated more accurately? In my experience, it is not, at least not when measuring the inaccuracy as a percentage of the original estimate.
Auth
How are passkeys better than tls client auth?
Vending
What is the source of the phrase “vending machine problem?” You want some candy from a vending machine, so you have a function in your mind like _getCandy(candId:int, price:int)_. The candy you want is number 75 and costs 50 cents, so you put in candy 50 and 75¢ and you get the wrong candy. I thought I read it on Eric Lippert’s blog, but I must have imagined that.