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by gcheong 7y ago
There is no amount of preparation that will prepare you 100% and guarantee you a job at any of these companies. I think we've gotten to a ridiculous point with the interview process now and at some point you just have to decide you&#x2
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by gcheong 7y ago
Realize that you've been in this situation before and that as you got more experience you developed a sense of competency. It's not "fake it till you make it". It's you taking whatever knowledge and skills you have
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by gcheong 7y ago
I meant as a long-term situation that would give him a social support structure for when you are gone or can no longer provide for him. I see now you mentioned in another comment you wouldn't be surprised if he ended up living with his
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by gcheong 7y ago
Is there any potential for a group home situation for him that he could eventually transition to?
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by gcheong 7y ago
I would surmise that we can solve the loneliness problem without going back to having larger families which would only place more stress on the environment hastening our eventual extinction. The crux of the matter is having opportunities fo
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by gcheong 7y ago
Sure, but without knowing what the grading criteria are (coding speed?, optimality of solution?, etc.) I can only go by what appears to be the criteria according to the signals I get during the interview ("Is there a more optimal sol
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by gcheong 7y ago
It's on par but still bullshit. I interviewed with Uber, got said phone screen, managed to solve the problem then was told Uber decided to "go in another direction" and would not be moving forward with my application. When I
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by gcheong 7y ago
I prefer a small take-home project with a follow-up meeting to go over it. The follow-up meeting to discuss the project is crucial though, as I get to asses if I think the critique of the code is reasonable and I can make more in depth comm
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by gcheong 8y ago
And today we're still "wiring" money to each other.
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by gcheong 8y ago
There is a psychologist in the Netherlands who has developed a very brief (1 session typically) phobia treatment based on her research into fear memory activation and reconsolidation. The theory is that when a fear memory is triggered, it c
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by gcheong 8y ago
That may be how it is now in medical colleges but it was a long road in getting there, starting with being allowed to even attend medical school in the first place, and some would say we're still on it. It didn't just go from 0
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by gcheong 8y ago
Essentially it is a way for the company to allow some variability in your income, in case of an especially good or, more typically, bad year, as well as hinder turnover by withholding a large portion of your compensation until after, typic
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by gcheong 8y ago
This article may give you some information on that with links to the full list on the USDA site. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2011/06/18/1372492...
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by gcheong 8y ago
On the negative externalities point, can someone please explain how there are no negative externalities when you have 100 farms with 100 cows each vs 10 farms with 1000? The amount of waste generated is the same, presumably, and it all has
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by gcheong 8y ago
Better Never to Have Been: The Harm Of Coming Into Existence by David Benatar . The best argument I've read as to what it means for a human being to be brought into existence, why it does that person more harm than good, and why we sho
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by gcheong 8y ago
I don't think at this stage the number of electric cars being made by other companies is the main threat to Tesla. The main threat is still convincing people that electric cars are a viable alternative to ICE cars, in which case the mo
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Our Sex Toy Won a CES Robotics Innovation Award, Then They Took It Back(loradicarlo.com)
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by gcheong 8y ago
Beyond practice, low doses of beta-blocker drugs (e.g. propranolol ~10mg), have been known to be helpful with performance anxiety and are commonly used by actors and musicians. I know at least one person who says it is very helpful for them
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by gcheong 8y ago
Maybe think of it incrementally in the sense that you can start out with the goal of pursuing a masters, with each completed course adding to the completion of that goal as well as adding to your current knowledge and skillset, with the und
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by gcheong 8y ago
Read "The Hard Thing About Hard Things" by Ben Horowitz.
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An Essential Self-Regulation Strategy(psychologytoday.com)
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by gcheong 8y ago
Even if Musk loses the profitability game he will have won in helping to push ICE manufacturers to produce electric vehicles which really seemed to be his ultimate goal considering he said he would open source Tesla technology. https:&#x2F
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The Neural Signature of Procrastination(psychologytoday.com)
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by gcheong 8y ago
All those wasted sword fights. https://3d.xkcd.com/303/
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by gcheong 8y ago
It might be good to get a neurological checkup if your uni has a clinic that could do that or refer you out for one just to rule out anything obvious. On the practical side of things, Cal Newport (calnewport.com) has written extensively on
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by gcheong 8y ago
It's kind of sad, this state that interviewing has become where people spend months to prepare to pass a rather arbitrarily selected coding question that is supposed to tell the company whether they are good enough to go onto an even m
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by gcheong 8y ago
"It makes sense to get another job". The problem there though is that almost every company now, at least in the Bay Area, seems to be doing these coding screens as that is now the standard set by the big 5. I guess you could consi
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Courts Don’t Determine Scientific Facts(thelogicofscience.com)
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by gcheong 8y ago
Assuming you have a grass lawn, you wouldn’t want to spray roundup on a yard regardless as it would kill your grass also and potentially any non weed plants as well. There are other herbicides that grasses can tolerate though. In any cases,
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by gcheong 8y ago
Maybe start here: https://toool.us

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