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by bhuga 8y ago
One general rule: avoid binary/rating questions. So not: "Do you like working at X?" This question has a "right answer" (yes), and you'll always get it. Instead: "What's your least favorite thing abou
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by bhuga 8y ago
For many utilities, it's not as simple as that. They're heavily regulated and their prices are generally set, capped or otherwise limited to give them a certain percentage profit. They often have to get price increases approved by
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by bhuga 8y ago
This is the model that Lambda School is using. It's early yet, but they're having some success.
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The US startup is disappearing(qz.com)
180 points by bhuga 8y ago|230 comments
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Our project-based interview experiment for hiring engineers(about.sourcegraph.com)
1 points by bhuga 8y ago|0 comments
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by bhuga 8y ago
I just finished a job search 6 months ago and it came down to comp. The earlier-stage companies I talked to seemed much more fun, but my life has some problems that money solves, and comp was very important. The base comp was lower at the e
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by bhuga 8y ago
Crystal looks great in many ways, but it's hard to go all-in with a new language that lacks parallel processing. Go, Elixir, and Rust all have great concurrency stories, and their adoption has a lot to do with that. It is a gorgeous la
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by bhuga 8y ago
You're not wrong for the individual laptop case. But there's a lot of systems out there that download code, inspect a text, YAML, Dockerfile, or whatever kind of file, then sandbox it to run it. That's more or less how most C
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by bhuga 8y ago
This is a good idea, although the focus on 'anti-whiteboard' is a bit limiting. It's a shame it's its own site instead of a feature on other sites. There's no interview process that works best for every candidate; s
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by bhuga 8y ago
There's some assumption here that there's a reason for the account blocking, and if only a human could be reached, it could be explained in detail. But that may not be true. ML systems usually don't explain themselves by defa
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by bhuga 8y ago
What a cool way to learn. I've been doing this 20 years and it never occurred to me to just unravel some of the basic tools I use every day and see if it matches my expectations.
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by bhuga 8y ago
> Leakers do not simply lose their jobs at Apple. In some cases, they face jail time and massive fines for network intrusion and theft of trade secrets both classified as federal crimes. In 2017, Apple caught 29 leakers. 12 of those were
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by bhuga 9y ago
I had a great experience with Triplebyte as a candidate (now hired employee), but I'd love to see them expand to other categories. Remote-friendly companies is a big one, but even more important is different skill levels. Right now tri
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by bhuga 9y ago
What is "centralized globalization?" The top google result for this term is a paper talking about the Vatican; results quickly seem to become less relevant (for example, talking about "globalization, centralization, ..."
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by bhuga 9y ago
From the response steps: > Our first action, which began immediately after the incident concluded, was to implement a 24-hour cooldown on republication of any deleted package name.
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by bhuga 9y ago
This is a good post-mortem with clear, policy-based remediations. Nicely done. I wonder why they are only preventing republishing for 24 hours. Is there a good reason to allow a package namespace to be recycled with less than, say, a week?
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by bhuga 9y ago
Is the Model S/Pilot comparison useful here? Wouldn't most of the weight of a semi would be in the trailer? It doesn't seem intuitive to me that increasing the weight of the cab, even by several multiples, would meaningfully
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by bhuga 9y ago
Radiolab did a great summary of this just a couple of months ago: http://www.radiolab.org/story/sun-dont-shine/ You can skip the parts about the time capsule if you want. tl;dr: it's not clear what defines th
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by bhuga 9y ago
You're right, but both the MIT and the non-commercial portion of this new license explicitly grant the right to sublicense. It's not obvious to me that a free use case can't sublicense its use to a huge organization.
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by bhuga 9y ago
I can absolutely imagine this being an effective strategy for companies hiring for high-talent jobs. I have 15 years experience, and there's competition just to interview with a company. In my last job hunt I talked seriously to maybe
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by bhuga 9y ago
I just went through a round of interviews and came away with a better opinion of these "toy" interviews than I started with[1], so I'll play devil's advocate here: these questions have a place. The main reason to use the
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by bhuga 9y ago
My pixel hardware has been a disappointment. The vibrator actually broke off from the phone and it now just makes a rattling noise as it bounces around inside the phone. The screen scratches easily. Bluetooth pops and crackles. I couldn&#x2
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by bhuga 9y ago
I've tried the DDG switch twice and not being able to select results from the past year has always been what sent me back to Google. But it looks like they let you scope it to the past month, now, so maybe soon!
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Disrupt SF: Visitors personally targeted via online ads(dailyinsight.online)
2 points by bhuga 9y ago|0 comments
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by bhuga 9y ago
> Could be a solid strategy compared to the competition. I thought the same, but from a different angle. Traditional channels with commercials can be monetized by Amazon in a way the rest of the big 5 can't. Watching a commercial on
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by bhuga 9y ago
Like many content websites these days, Forbes loads in well under a second and is a great website if you disable javascript. I use "Quick Javascript Switcher" in Chrome, which just toggles javascript per-domain. I'm not sure
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by bhuga 9y ago
A family member of mine used to take medical malpractice cases from these communities while I was growing up. She was routinely harassed and hassled by whatever (exclusively white) sheriff of whatever town was the brother-in-law of the doct
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by bhuga 9y ago
Matt Levine at Bloomberg wrote a fascinating piece on this yesterday: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-02/bitcoin-e... It's an interesting read even if you don't care about shorts or
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by bhuga 9y ago
I'm working with them now as a candidate. Huge, dramatic thumbs up. Skipping first-round interviews saved enough time that I could talk to a lot of companies that I wouldn't have otherwise.
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by bhuga 9y ago
For anyone who finds historical money markets interesting, the problems arising from a lack of efficient currency in the late 17th century are the recurring theme in Neal Stephenson's _The Baroque Cycle_, which is a great (if long!) re

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