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by fivedogit 12y ago
For the purposes of a just-below-the-surface cooler, yes I believe you are right. But my understanding from the book is that if you go slightly deeper, you will get to a somewhat universal soil temperature no matter where you actually are,
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by fivedogit 12y ago
I live in flyover country and I'd argue it's easier to form and maintain a team of engineers in another country than here. In other countries, the talent can't get to better locales for immigration reasons, leaving them stuck
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by fivedogit 12y ago
While working on WORDS for Chrome ( http://www.words4chrome.com , soft-launch 6+8=14), I've done a lot of thinking about the problems with web comments. In short, it's two things: 1. The Clean Slate Effect - the ability
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by fivedogit 12y ago
Exactly. The ground is usually 58F. I remember reading about this in a thermal home book. (If you effectively bury 3/4 of your house, you only ever have to warm it to 70F from 58F.) It's actually somewhat funny. Did they think the
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by fivedogit 12y ago
Excellent post, although I'd say 12 years to recover is less about the time since burnout and more about finding something new that gets your blood moving. Once, when I was younger, I burned out completely on my club soccer team. I was
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by fivedogit 12y ago
I had this exact same idea yesterday. I loathe Facebook altogether and did not miss it one iota when I quit for 3 months earlier this year. I had to go back to it, however, when I caved and added Facebook login to my chrome extension proj
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by fivedogit 12y ago
Word of advice: When they give you the option to use an IDE instead of a whiteboard or screenshare, do it. When they say, oh you can write in psuedocode or you don't have to "really" create the hashmap or array, don't fa
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by fivedogit 12y ago
my twilio interview was the worst I've ever had in my life. Flew coast to coast, aced the tech, aced the preso, then was rejected on the basis of a perceived lack of motivation. In other words, the fact that I didn't already use t
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by fivedogit 12y ago
It's a triple-edged sword: You give a huge chunk of your company away, take on a huge wild-card risk and to top it off, investors will now be wary of you... because they know co-founding is like a marriage and can go wrong in a multitu
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by fivedogit 12y ago
Engineering interviews are fundamentally flawed. Let me explain: 3 weeks ago, I had an interview at the big G. I wanted the job sooooo badly that I was insanely nervous during the interview. The interviewer asked me to write a piece of recu
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