cloudedcordial

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by cloudedcordial 5y ago
I had an onsite interview for a unicorn company. The onsite consisted of 3 meetings. After the first two meetings (one with a C-level personnel), the recruiter came to the meeting room and told me that he's checking the availability of
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by cloudedcordial 5y ago
Note that multiple border crossing points including the ones in Poland shows red or orange in the traffic data. I assume that many people are still trying to reach the neighbouring countries.
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The road to success is paved with rejection letters(perceiving-systems.blog)
281 points by cloudedcordial 5y ago|136 comments
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by cloudedcordial 5y ago
Sorry I meant GiveSendGone. Butter fingers!
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by cloudedcordial 5y ago
Wayback machine has taken snapshots of GoSendGone including the csv.
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GiveSendGo Has Been Hacked(twitter.com)
74 points by cloudedcordial 5y ago|92 comments
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by cloudedcordial 5y ago
I had a similar negative knee jerk reaction upon learning that Yo-Yo Ma gives one of the courses from MasterClass. The whole MasterClass business seems like entertainment as you've noted. Music could be entertainment but there's s
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by cloudedcordial 5y ago
I live in Canada and have worked with a lot of former Blackberry/RIM employees. A lot of them are still very fond of the exciting era in the 2000s. I can see some of them would be emotional over the EOL announcement. Some people own an
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Let's talk about sexual harassment in Big Tech(youtube.com)
1 points by cloudedcordial 5y ago|0 comments
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by cloudedcordial 5y ago
One of the students from my high school, who was orphaned at 11, enrolled himself to the military university. At that school, he got free education, free uniform and free boarding. Every graduates must commit themselves to serve the militar
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by cloudedcordial 5y ago
Thank you for cautioning others not to over-generalize and discount Jesuits in history. I know someone who has been a Jesuit in the last 10+ years and was ordained a few years ago. At present, the order still encourages education, intellect
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by cloudedcordial 5y ago
Jesuits is one of the forward-looking and outgoing Catholic orders. They work on topics that both non-believers and believers could agree. Matteo Ricci was fluent in Chinese culture and language. Jean de Brebeuf learned aboriginal language
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by cloudedcordial 5y ago
The guide is only good for people who have received a diagnosis or are aware of their own behaviour. For the folks who don't aware of their own ADHD behaviour, they think it's completely normal to interrupt, to feel restless, to b
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by cloudedcordial 5y ago
What you've described is common among many first adopters. I know someone who has a common first name and last name combo, signed up for gmail in mid-2000s and use the firstname+lastname@gmail.com. He got many "weird" message
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by cloudedcordial 5y ago
Somewhat related to the 90s web. Here's the aesthetics of the buttons, title bar and dropdown menu during those days. https://jdan.github.io/98.css/
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by cloudedcordial 5y ago
I don't know if they gave a reason for leaving. My friend found out after they got the refund.
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by cloudedcordial 5y ago
One of my friends actually paid upfront for a short-term semi-private accommodation. They did not stay for the whole time, asked for a refund of the remaining balance and left. My friend has been mad because they took the money.
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by cloudedcordial 5y ago
I'm just an acquaintance. I don't know if the family got power of attorney.
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by cloudedcordial 5y ago
A friend's acquintance has been mentally ill for the last 10 years. They lost their spouse, their job, their car ... everything! They've been gradually increasingly incoherent in their speech over time. They've been resisting
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Song Encoder: $stdout(changelog.com)
1 points by cloudedcordial 5y ago|0 comments
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by cloudedcordial 5y ago
I am from Canada (not Alberta) and am waiting for an in-depth analysis of how this breach works. The quotes from the CEO makes the development team has not carry out the basis of well-known security practices. The CEO denied the issue but t
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by cloudedcordial 5y ago
And also Focals by North
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by cloudedcordial 5y ago
I'd like to add "working in antiquated/propriety languages and infrastructure" in the list. As a new grad desperate for getting paid, I took a job working for a software built on a language no one uses outside of the com
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by cloudedcordial 5y ago
I am a Hong Kong immigrant in Canada. I spent a part of my childhood in HK and the rest of my time in Canada. There was an era that the parents insisted on communicating with their kids in English so that their kids didn't fall behind
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Today was my last day at Google(linkedin.com)
23 points by cloudedcordial 5y ago|7 comments
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by cloudedcordial 5y ago
Well said. There are substantial business related activities related to the product/hobby that you may not love to do. I used to worked part-time in a ballet school. My boss and her business partner are highly trained ballet dancers. O
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by cloudedcordial 5y ago
Very good food, too. The downside of Taiwan is to learn the local language.
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by cloudedcordial 5y ago
Non-Pole here. Visited Poland in the past 10 years. Beautiful countryside for sure. Cities and roads were clean. Decent food. During my last visit, wireless phone service was super in the major cities...even better than Canada's. As a
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by cloudedcordial 5y ago
Also in Canada as well. I have been regularly courted by recruiters from both US (remote) and Canada. I have started a new job a few months ago. My now former manager was trying to come up with a counter offer, but my new offer is too far o
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by cloudedcordial 5y ago
I grew up in the part of Asia that PAL was the standard. Kids beg their parents to buy an NTSC TV so that they can play Nintendo (Japanese version: the red and white one). I feel old.

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