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by mattm 8y ago
The original quote of "the customer is always right" referred to"the customer" as the market as in the collective group of customers is always right. As anyone who has worked in retail or has had customer interactions ca
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by mattm 8y ago
It's crazy how this isn't more common knowledge that the Economist needs to write an article about it. We're also seeing the same thing recently with tuition prices. There is more money available for student loans so school
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by mattm 8y ago
OTOH it means they've been skimping on raises (not keeping pace with the market) and now it's come back to bite them.
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by mattm 8y ago
Wow, I lived in Japan for five years and have known many people on the JET program and never knew this. Thanks for posting. Would be interested in those documentaries if you remember them.
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by mattm 8y ago
As a Canadian who moved to the Bay area, this is true. Finding a Canadian company that is going to be competitive with Bay area salaries is almost impossible even if their revenue is in USD. Even large US companies generally require intern
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by mattm 8y ago
Unfortunately, going to SEA is figuratively digging yourself into a hole. The longer you stay there, the bigger the hole gets and the more difficult it becomes to climb out. I have a good friend around your age in your situation and have k
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by mattm 8y ago
This is the wartime/peacetime leader conundrum. The tactics she used worked well because the situation was dire. They probably wouldn't have worked well in a company with a good culture. Winston Churchill is the most famous exampl
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by mattm 8y ago
Having lived in Japan that doesn't use DST, it really sucks. In the summer, it starts getting light just after 4am but then it's dark by 7:30pm. The daylight time is wasted.
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by mattm 8y ago
1. It took me about a month. However, I wasn't working at the time so I didn't need to switch back or worry about being productive. I only typed about 60 WPM and I reached the same level. 2. It probably was at the beginning but
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by mattm 8y ago
People don't like paying more for the same thing. There can be cultural reasons which make this more sticky in some places like France perhaps. I came across a survey in Japan where companies also said they were having trouble hiring
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by mattm 8y ago
I came across a guy on Reddit a while back who was currently employed at Facebook. He thought he'd try making a video of him doing one of Facebook's interview questions thinking it'd be easy for him to do. He stumbled throu
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by mattm 8y ago
Try signing up again now that you're in the bay area. I think anyone outside of their target market gets the closed beta page.
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Because they've been found guilty of it. Apple, Google and others were found to be colluding to keep salaries down and recently the same thing has been found in the animation industry with Pixar, Disney and others.
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by mattm 8y ago
For the misers out there (like me) who don't like spending money, the way I avoid this is set X% to be automatically transferred to a savings account that is my fun money. It helps a lot because mentally I've written off the money
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by mattm 8y ago
Thanks for this. I'm going to look at moving away from Dropbox.
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The expensive colleges benefit from this practice just as much as the companies issuing the loans.
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Most 18 year olds have never had anything more than a minimum wage jobs and now they are supposed to be responsible for making decisions worth more than they've made in their entire life and lasting longer than they've been alive?
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by mattm 8y ago
Yes because most of the goods come from the US so Canadians are in effect paying USD but receiving CAD income.
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by mattm 8y ago
The main thing is the amount of time it takes to get a call right. If there is technology available to make certain calls immediately, then I'm all for it. Unfortunately with video review, it can take several minutes to look over whic
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by mattm 9y ago
Hmmm, I applied about a year ago so maybe they've changed that recently? Edit - their FAQ page says that they accept Canadians so maybe ask again? "the companies we work with CANNOT provide visas for candidates unless they are fro
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by mattm 9y ago
Yeah I believe Triplebyte will only accept candidates from countries that have an easy way to get a work visa in the US - Canada, Mexico, Australia and Singapore (I think). (I'm Canadian and am working at my current company through Tr
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by mattm 9y ago
And the average NHL career is only a few years like the NFL.
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by mattm 9y ago
"Fail Safe Investing: Lifelong Financial Security in 30 Minutes" by Harry Browne "The richest man in Babylon" was also a good read for me early on. It's told in a story format. "Your money or your life" is
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by mattm 9y ago
A manager of a large consulting firm in my city told me that they used to hire 8 month co-ops and would consider themselves lucky if they broke even.
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by mattm 9y ago
> What's the point of adding regression tests to spaghetti code? All you're doing is making it an even bigger pain in the ass to refactor Refactoring is changing the code to make it more understandable while keeping the functio
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by mattm 9y ago
I recently discovered that there is a direct path to Green card from a TN visa although it does involve a little more restrictions. In your experience, what are the pros and cons of pursuing this path compared to transferring to an H1-B fir
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by mattm 9y ago
Do exchanges publicize their main wallets? Is there a listing somewhere?
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by mattm 9y ago
Please be comfortable and be yourself...but we'll have you vocalize your thought process even though this is something you never do while working, you have no experience doing and it makes it tougher to think while you're talking.
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Does it really matter though? What if I solve problems by eating a piece of toast? There's really no way you can understand how someone else thinks in an hour. All you're really going to look for is "Does this person think
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by mattm 9y ago
The progress of the last 100 years has a lot more to do with technological progress and less to do with the economic structure. Technically the US was still on the gold standard up until the 70s.

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