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by balaji1 5y ago
with the the roles of recruiters being so metrics driven, most recruiters seem to be optimizing for funnel metrics. FAANG or not. But especially at FAANG where the number of recruiters and candidate pool is large that they prefer metrics.
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try cursing? lol
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Not about a sob story. But it seems like a lot of people wish they had not been too cool for school. Many times, too cool for school phase also includes rebelling against parents. There is a lack of enough guidance or mentors for youngsters
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What do you wish you had more of in terms of status? Or where you wish you had followed the crowd?
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by balaji1 5y ago
Is there a simpler way to make long-haul more efficient by investing in trains along the major arteries of trucking traffic (which would include ports, big production and consumption cities/regions)? And then more intense and automated
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The changes you list here would take longer than 10 years. But yes the fallout will be intense. It is also hard to imagine anyone in government is incentivized to go after such issues. The huge lobby machinery that will influence the planni
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by balaji1 5y ago
True. In general, jokes are almost always at the expense of someone. Also from the article: > here are two ways a joke can fail: it can be too bland or too offensive. In comedy shows, I find most jokes that get laughs/laugh-tracks a
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by balaji1 5y ago
In this case, tech/programmer people have differing opinions about returning to the office. But the managers or at least the management have only have a single blanket policy for all. A compromise like 2-3 days in the office is one suc
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Social Rules at Recurse Center(recurse.com)
2 points by balaji1 5y ago|3 comments
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Quoting: "The social rules are lightweight. You should not be afraid of breaking a social rule. These are things that everyone does, and breaking one doesn’t make you a bad person." They point out and warn against actions that are
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by balaji1 5y ago
You are depressed for other reasons. People read the title and connected more with the title than the hard-to-read and dense article. If anything, call it a click-baity title. It is hard to buy consumer products that work well also. Look at
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Only endless renovations that make apartment living in Bay Area even more miserable. While the buildings basically seem low quality to me - Hear your neighbors all the time. Definitely hear the people upstairs walking. No natural light or v
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I can live with the fact that they built houses 50 years ago with poor natural light. But this article is talking about artificial light? I would lose my mind in that case.
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I tried to login to Spotify today, after many weeks. And it was down at that time. I woke up on the wrong side of the bed definitely.
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Build better houses? Bay Area has nice weather and sunlight. Still so dark inside most apartments.
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Why not let it filter through to you via a group of friends who are well informed? And will highlight whatever is interesting, funny, urgent or important. Kinda like HN front page. Each person in my group has slightly different sources they
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by balaji1 5y ago
A supply factor that this article doesn't consider - a big chunk of the new wave of graduates are software engineers in different parts of the world. And building a team in those countries will be a big trend. Rippling did this well, b
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Ask HN: How much does a YouTuber in India make?
1 points by balaji1 5y ago|0 comments
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for the N number of websites that force me to create accounts, I use an auto-generated password from the password manager and save to the same SaaS password manager. These are for websites I don't care if the passwords get leaked, I ca
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I find myself creating more and more playlists on YouTube and lists on Twitter. I want "lists" to somehow be a part of content apps in general.
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by balaji1 5y ago
the idea of unsolicited app specs is cool. Everybody should be writing more specs. Not just apps but about other things in life also. It is hard to change an app. It is actually easier to change other aspects of life by writing an intention
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You could seek automate-able repetitive work and not have to dodge said repetitive work.
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This article needs to be more readable. Or at least easier to skim once. But this is a great initiative. Hope NZ makes progress.
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For me, Facebook used to be a place to connect with people as I met them IRL. Now LinkedIn has taken over this purpose of being a digital address book. But sometimes I get stuck scrolling forever. Maybe that ad revenue is enough for them. I
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Ask HN: Does iPhone's Covid Exposure Notifications Work?
2 points by balaji1 5y ago|0 comments
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I don't have much I want to bring up to my manager in 1:1s but I still prefer to have them as a manager myself. So 1:1s definitely never felt unreasonably effective. Never thought to optimize it tho. Anything of value or importance has
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so everybody gets it soon?
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Thoughts on hledger?
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very few (other) comments suggest getting married, having kids or being religious. Seems like OP didn't even consider it.
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giveback

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