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by ghaff 4mo ago
I do understand there are job applicants who don't want to travel and/or don't want to do an in-person interview. But <shrug>. I also do think that (mostly) post-COVID I mostly want to meet with a candidate in person.
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by ghaff 4mo ago
One problem with referrals is that referral bonuses tend to encourage referring people they barely know and never really worked with. But actual networking often works.
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by ghaff 4mo ago
Eh. I've been on hiring committees and have been sort of eh and then they're the one. Let's do it.
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by ghaff 4mo ago
Yeah, probationary periods are one thing. But, if I leave a job and, especially if I relocate, I want a pretty good implicit guarantee however informal that, absent a real mis-meeting of the minds I'm not going to be on the streets in
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by ghaff 4mo ago
That's nice. But a lot of people looking for professional jobs may take a year+ to find a position.
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by ghaff 4mo ago
It doesn't even need to be startups versus FANNG. I've seen first-hand how people hired into various roles aren't a great fit for roles as a company grows and changes. Of course, they can adapt to various degrees but they&#x2
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by ghaff 4mo ago
Much of it has been based on networking for a good 20+ years. Yes, there was a certain if you have a pulse era in tech at at a lot of companies--leet code notwithstanding though that was an issue--that has largely passed and a lot of people
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by ghaff 4mo ago
In the US, there's not much demand for media rental any longer (RIP Blockbuster)--which has been largely replaced by licenced media streaming--but there are certainly private libraries of various types.
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by ghaff 4mo ago
Usually don't have dollars either.
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by ghaff 4mo ago
I don't have any change on me.
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by ghaff 4mo ago
Well, with writing it's more editors and lunches. That's how I got a book contract.
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by ghaff 4mo ago
>also do people really want humanoid robots at home? For the right price and capabilities? Sure. I pay various people to do things around the house. Replacing those people with a humanoid robot is probably a big ask. But I'd certain
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by ghaff 4mo ago
The house I live in has one small bathroom. It was probably built before there was indoor plumbing. (Early 1800s.) A back of the mind concern when the day comes I end up selling but not much I can do about it. The house has had a lot of upg
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by ghaff 4mo ago
There is a lot of cost and effort associated with moving into (or building) a new house. Honestly, where I live isn't huge but it's probably a bit more than I need at this point. But, absent a real shift such as buying an urban co
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by ghaff 4mo ago
That's the thing or at least one thing. These discussions aren't about most small towns and cities in the Midwest. They're about prime areas on the coasts for the most part. Heck where I live about an hour west of Boston&#x2F
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by ghaff 4mo ago
Doing a daily anything is hard. Garry Trudeau sort of did a good compromise by pivoting to just a Sunday entry--that is still pretty solid. But my general observation is that it's really hard to keep things flowing day-in and day-out a
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by ghaff 4mo ago
A lot of non-fiction fits in 50-100 pages or so. Longer than a magazine article. But it's not publishable through a publisher if it's less than 250-300 pages. One of the reasons I probably won't work through a publisher any l
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by ghaff 4mo ago
Personally, I don't care for podcasts much around the house. I listen to them much less now that I don't commute.
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by ghaff 4mo ago
And my experience is that the freebie books available through your local library's online service absolutely pollute the available offerings with self-help and associated types of books.
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by ghaff 4mo ago
Well, maybe especially as a solo dev. Things like Heroku and other tools that were largely called PaaS at the time were very popular with individuals and small teams but they had limitations for enterprise development--and even ran into ba
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by ghaff 4mo ago
When I was giving presentations to fairly large groups for a larger company, the feedback forms would often include both "way too basic" and "really great insights."
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by ghaff 4mo ago
>We agree that doxxing is dangerous online yes? Potentially. But this is also information that was not historically a deep dark secret absent measures that, to a first approximation, no one took.
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by ghaff 4mo ago
I went down a bit of a rabbit hole on re-indentification a while back related to a research journal I was helping with and some presentations I was giving. One of the things I ran across was how easy it was to de-anonymize healthcare record
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by ghaff 4mo ago
The ownership and selling price of a parcel of property are pretty much a matter of public record throughout most (all?) of the US along with aa number of other things. Deeds are recorded with the county clerk in MA. Some of that can be obf
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by ghaff 4mo ago
I have an ME (pretty much MSc). I'm not sure anyone in the US really cares about the degree and I'd never put it beside my name except on a formal resume. I wouldn't say no effort; it took a couple of years.
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by ghaff 4mo ago
And a lot of countries have things like national IDs that, rightly or wrongly, given things like RealID and passports, that a lot of Americans just don't like on principle.
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by ghaff 4mo ago
There's a ton of information in the US that is accessible to various degrees--especially through the the deep web much less background investigations. Unless you're a wealthy person who can set up various levels of trusts you can&
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by ghaff 4mo ago
It also depends on the company. I was picking up my buffet dinner at a company event in Europe and the CEO who I somewhat knew was alongside; this was a moderately large company--maybe 10K employees at that point. We went to sit down at a t
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by ghaff 4mo ago
Even going back decades, I recall major US university libraries served a dual function as having books, reference librarians, and serving as study and group work spaces. Maybe it's changed a bit but it's not new.
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by ghaff 4mo ago
I agree to some degree. But I'd also note that some of the biggest libraries don't have open stacks.

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