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by akhmatova 4y ago
can you please tell us if our job search tool sucks? Why sure -- because you employed a dark pattern, namely enticing us with a link to "explore jobs" that ended up requiring us to create an account (which as you understand very
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by akhmatova 4y ago
"Leaves out the fact that ..." she basically deserved it (or it was otherwise necessary)? That seems to be the innuendo you're making. Either way, I'd like to hear some substantiation as to this "significant pull f
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by akhmatova 4y ago
Sometimes analogies actually do apply.
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by akhmatova 4y ago
The basic everyone else mentioned (sleep, diet) + minimizing negative influences: especially alcohol (which mess heavily with both sleep and digestion), negative thought patterns and ... negative people. Sleep conditions matter also -- it
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by akhmatova 4y ago
"I see your job title says Program Manager / Product Owner / Tech Lead, but tell me please -- what is your real job? Remember, response time is a factor." Hoped for (but seldom received) answer: "Why of course -
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by akhmatova 4y ago
The fact that the government is spending time scrutinizing private investment firms' portfolios just doesn't make any sense to me. It's called "overriding public interest", and until the bros get their act togethe
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by akhmatova 4y ago
An earlier take on the overall risk issue, from about a year ago (when this risk factor was first becoming known): Still, doctors are reassuring patients and families. “This is an incredibly rare event,” says Dr. Asnes. He adds that patien
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by akhmatova 4y ago
And we can be sure he was thought of as genuine rain-maker, by his own superiors.
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by akhmatova 4y ago
In fact, these are the exactly the kind of people that the LC process is designed to filter for .
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by akhmatova 4y ago
Per this person's experience (which seems sadly far from atypical), you might as well be: https://www.benjamistan.tech/2022/06/26/wasting-time-in-tech...
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by akhmatova 4y ago
You do have control, actually -- you can always say things like "Sorry, but the number of weeks / rounds does not seem to be in line with the TC being offered", knowing that this carries a moderate-to-high risk of rejection.
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by akhmatova 4y ago
And the irony is -- they suddenly think you're "hot" because you're getting competing offers (or competing invites to do 7 or 8 rounds of culture fit interviews and/or LC grinding, in any case). Which is another wa
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by akhmatova 4y ago
It was a suggestion, not a demand. Anyone who reads stay/quit advice they read on the internet as a "demand" has bigger problems than I can help them with.
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by akhmatova 4y ago
My employer just announced last Friday that starting July 5th being in the office Tue-Thu is mandatory. Then you need to remind your employer that your presence on the team is not "mandatory", but rather optional. In the form o
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by akhmatova 4y ago
You should expect a large number of companies to ghost you. It's just part of the process. I would say no - it's not part of the "process". Every company swears they are against ghosting (and are "shocked" w
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by akhmatova 4y ago
The bountiful blind arrogance I have come to expect from threads like this on HN. I didn't read it that way at all. The commenter was simply relating their observation of how remote works well for some co-workers, but not for others
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by akhmatova 4y ago
Functions that accept dicts are a nightmare to extend and modify. Compared to what? I see the article's point about dicts being, like everything else in programming, a tradeoff with benefits and limitations. But the article's
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by akhmatova 4y ago
There are and never will be (meaningful) statistics for the "N percent of bugs are caused by X" question. Every org's use cases are different, how do you get (let alone compare) data frm different orgs, who really counts thei
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by akhmatova 4y ago
You just need to word the postings appropriately and be willing to teach people what they don't know. OK, I'll grant that if you have that "magic skill" then you can in fact recruit developers for niche languages. Most
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by akhmatova 4y ago
Not "a salary", but a Jane Street salary and resume cred. Otherwise you just won't find that many takers.
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by akhmatova 4y ago
If the voting majority truly cares about access to abortion then we will hopefully see enough democratic traction to give them the mandate needed. The problem with this reasoning is that the democratic process has been successfully gerrym
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by akhmatova 4y ago
If Jane Street can teach OCaml to traders, I can teach it to developers. You can if they are motivated to learn. Unless you are offering Jane Street levels of compensation; and in return, the candidate is willing to believe, or pretend t
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by akhmatova 4y ago
It's not getting things done that matters. It's feeling superior to others that matters.
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by akhmatova 4y ago
As is widely known. It's also the decidedly less popular route of intake.
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by akhmatova 4y ago
No - I care (somewhat) about basic factual accuracy when it comes to public health debates. What I don't care about is [sic] "other people do or don’t want to deal with your version of life?"
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by akhmatova 4y ago
Not to play Code Golf here but the premise that retention takes 50+ lines of SQL is plain wrong. Yeah, where I stopped reading when when you drill down into that 50-line SQL query and find all these lines about unpacking JSON structs and
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by akhmatova 4y ago
Lovely? Based on what it's doing to your lungs and circulatory system, I'd put it more in the "it rocks, until it doesn't" category.
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by akhmatova 4y ago
Being addicted to cannabis is not really any different [from non-chemical habits] On a psychological level, perhaps. But it is pretty obviously not so when it comes to physical risk (if one smokes in whichever form).
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by akhmatova 4y ago
Why do you care ...? I don't. It's just an observation. That doesn't mean I care.
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by akhmatova 4y ago
Sure, we all know a few. But overwhelming personal observation indicates that in the vast majority of cases -- it blunts your game (and if you pick up the habit in your teenage years, and don't manage to put it behind you -- it can der

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