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by akanet 9y ago
Hackerrank tends to offer a different cost-benefit tradeoff in interviewing - less time invested on the part of the company, and more time invested by the candidate. I don't particularly like this approach because I think higher-skille
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by akanet 9y ago
An interview isn't a surprise attack, they're usually scheduled days in advance. Good interviewers will usually characterize what kind of questions you can expect to receive ahead of time. I'm sorry that you've had bad e
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by akanet 9y ago
I did many interviews, and enjoyed most of them. I had some bad ones, which I either failed or refused to do. Software devs are very highly paid professionals and can afford to refuse opportunities with quite a bit of discretion. I encourag
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by akanet 9y ago
Another user wrote a great answer to that in the original article comments: https://www.indiehackers.com/forum/coderpad-interviewing-pla...
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by akanet 9y ago
Truthfully, I really just wanted to buy something instead of making CoderPad. I imagine it's certainly possible for floobits, or atom teletype, or something else entirely to get enough adoption to render our product mostly useless. W
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by akanet 9y ago
It is very hard to extend in even small ways. I still use it, I just hate it.
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This is perhaps the highest praise from a candidate we have ever received. Thank you, that means a lot to us.
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by akanet 9y ago
Haha you worked with Buzz! Your work's great but MAN those guys were really... something, huh?
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by akanet 9y ago
Hi I'm the guy in the interview. I actually have a lot of thoughts about this that are hard to condense, so I'll just say this: curiosity isn't a personality trait. People tend to model curiosity as just something you "h
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by akanet 9y ago
This is because "movfuscation" isn't a practical option for people actually trying to ship binaries that still perform well for customers but resist reverse-engineering. One of the battlegrounds for this sort of thing is the
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by akanet 9y ago
YMMV of course, but when we used the fonts CDN a very large proportion of Chinese users could not access our website intermittently.
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by akanet 9y ago
The other big technical reason to self host Google fonts is wanting your website to load in China. The Google CDN is blocked there, in case anyone here is unaware.
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Oh, sorry, I'm not saying it's _good_ that this is the case, just that you'd be surprised by the number of small companies pulling this kind of shit too.
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by akanet 9y ago
Well, it's more about familiarity with the system than work required to game them. I've met one-man operations paying effectively the same rate as Apple, they just know the legalese well enough to do it on their own.
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by akanet 9y ago
Try it! I wonder, too.
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by akanet 9y ago
Yeah, this is a very strange statement. Many businesses are printing money advertising through Facebook.
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by akanet 9y ago
I sincerely doubt foreign purchases are the main driver of rent increase, and no study has ever demonstrated as much. The anti-foreigner mindset is extremely dangerous. Rising rents are almost entirely because of local restrictions on creat
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by akanet 9y ago
You've just linked a chart that you claim shows "lots" of housing demolished or merged over the last five years, but these numbers are tiny, representing far less than a single percent of the city's housing stock. The va
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by akanet 9y ago
I think Sonja's study does more than "prove a point" - it also illustrates exactly _how_ "luxury" housing helps everyone, which is a huge sore point in local politics. Understanding of the nature of how flexible pre
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by akanet 9y ago
This is patently untrue, especially weighted by number of units. There may be a lot of small rebuilds of single family homes into duplexes, but the projects that add the great bulk of housing units to the city are usually built on empty lot
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by akanet 9y ago
While this is true factually, the practical benefit of the US registration is the social benefit of being able to flout rules. For drug runners, they have an easier time just radio'ing down passport numbers if they have an american fla
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by akanet 9y ago
I'm interested in this as a technical solution, but I'm not sure what content I actually expect to share or see shared on Keybase. Public dropbox links work pretty well for me right now for "ordinary" files.
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by akanet 9y ago
Hah, this is really something. I literally gave a talk at Dropbox entitled "how to start a side business without quitting your day job," and a lot of it was about B2B SaaS sales. You might enjoy it: https://youtu.be&#x2
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by akanet 9y ago
I would suggest thinking harder about making money, not less. I think these projects represent a half measure between _really_ trying to make money, and having fun. Real, profitable side projects cum businesses are usually much more boring.
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by akanet 9y ago
All of those places are certainly expensive, but for instance in Seattle, 1BRs rent for a bit over half what they rent in SF. There's a ton of wiggle room in "expensive".
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by akanet 9y ago
Sure, that's fine. The current level of what investors have demonstrated they're willing to build is by far below the norm for even SOMA. There is still a very significant amount of surface parking or 1-3 story developments in SOM
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by akanet 9y ago
This is a very Malthusian attitude that hasn't really been borne out by the data. Many metro areas with similar earnings potential to SF do not experience nearly the level of crowding and rent gouging that we have here.
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by akanet 9y ago
I think this is an incredibly fatalistic attitude. California is also great for many reasons beyond "great weather". Lots of people want to live here for family, emotional, or safety reasons. I've met so many gay and transgen
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by akanet 9y ago
I am a YIMBY and we consistently say all those things. I also reject the notion that the eastern district is "built out" or that developers will stop when things don't "pencil out". What pencils or doesn't is a
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I don't see any theoretical reason to only choose two, and reject it. We can choose three. Building more housing to lower the cost of living probably has very little to do with the bay area's tech income potential.

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