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by neilv 1y ago
I was very happy when Fidelity added HSA. Much better than the 2 previous places I had HSA. Fidelity HSA just works, and is directly investable, including in the very competitive iShares index ETFs. I wish more startups would find a way t
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by neilv 1y ago
I also heard that. It was said by a physician (IIRC, from a Boston hospital), who was sitting in on Marvin Minsky's class at MIT, circa 2000.
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by neilv 1y ago
I suppose it does come across that way to some of the audience, but that might be necessary. When I was learning photojournalism on the side, I shot a bunch of political demonstrations. A lot of those I saw were performances solely for med
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by neilv 1y ago
Coincidentally, just a couple hours ago, I used asterisk for swear word vowels on HN (for "L**tC*de" and "bl*ckch**n"). Partly as a statement that those are figuratively swear words to me, but mostly simply to avoid key
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by neilv 1y ago
The current live feed image, of an F-word political statement directed against 5 different named parties, shows impressive penmanship.
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by neilv 1y ago
The industry-wide concerns is that the default environment is: 1. Almost no company (with very few exceptions, like Google) can secure their systems. 2. A tech industry culture of treating customer data as something to be captured, often se
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by neilv 1y ago
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (Boston) Remote: Yes, Remote or Hybrid Willing to relocate: Yes (Portland, Oregon; Providence, Rhode Island; San Francisco, California; possibly elsewhere) Technologies: Web backend and ful
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by neilv 1y ago
> 1. What would happen if instead of buying health insurance, you set aside annual premiums plus your deductible every year and paid out of pocket? What would happen if healthcare was a shared pool for the often-unpredictable risk for
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by neilv 1y ago
New performance ratio: horsepower:dogweight.
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by neilv 1y ago
I've been doing this awhile, and I've seen hiring work really well without the LeetCode grilling. And I've almost always seen the LeetCode grilling be administered by someone who doesn't know what they're doing (and
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by neilv 1y ago
Great idea, and sounds useful. The privacy policy and security model isn't as reassuring as I'd like. Knowing industry practices and competency, I wouldn't trust this Web site with any information I didn't want leaking
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by neilv 1y ago
False choice. The reality of these "rigorous, systematic technical interviews" is that we have a ton of companies doing nonsense theatre that isn't actually about "fundamentals", is also easily biased (as even some
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by neilv 1y ago
> > people who are genuinely enthusiastic > This seems absurdly difficult to measure well and gameable in its own way. True, and it is gamed currently (some prep books tell you to feign enthusiasm). But let's whimsically s
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by neilv 1y ago
I recently showed up to a new startup interview, with a similar folio (with printed copies of my resume, and a tablet of graph paper), and it paid off. I was in a small conference room with the two co-founders, and of them hadn't seen
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by neilv 1y ago
> IIRC Google had an even higher bar in their early days: candidates had to submit a transcript showing a very high GPA and they usually hired people only from universities with elite CS programs. Which sounds like a classic misconcept
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by neilv 1y ago
It was good standard advice even for programmers to know at least a little about the company going in. And you should avoid typos and spellos on your resume. But no "prep" like months of LeetCode grinding, memorizing the "de
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by neilv 1y ago
> Interviewing has always been a big can of worms in the software industry. For years, big tech has gone with the LeetCode style questions mixed with a few behavioural and system design rounds. Before that, it was brainteasers. Before
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by neilv 1y ago
Someone flagged this interesting discussion that a lot of people need to hear, and is especially relevant to tech industry. I emailed hn@. [flagged] Gilded Rage – Why Silicon Valley went from libertarian to authoritarian (paulkrugman.s
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by neilv 1y ago
> Krugman trying to take the piss while he literally makes his living off substack, an a16z funded platform designed to give creators very different platforms and thus finances than they had six years ago, and clearly doesn’t even know
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by neilv 1y ago
Let's crowdsource that question on HN.
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by neilv 1y ago
You could say that they "hacked the Gibsons".
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by neilv 1y ago
https://github.com/mostlygeek/llama-swap
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by neilv 1y ago
Hello, highly experienced engineer prospective hire. Tell me about a time when some memorized interview behavioral question, in STAR format. Now do this coding screening despite all your experience. Now tell me you want to be an engineer
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by neilv 1y ago
One time I used 867-5309 at a chain store, the young male checkout clerk had an instant of a look of recognition, and promptly sang the number, really well.
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by neilv 1y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20251030232647/https://shaun.nz/...
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by neilv 1y ago
Trust is key, if you want legitimate whistleblowers. Anecdote behind thinking a bit about this... I was discussing cofounding a startup that incidentally overlapped a bit with this space. One of the very top concerns was that we needed
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by neilv 1y ago
My first thought on the headline was, "Startup techbros, if that's what it is, are about the last people you should trust, when the problem is corporate misbehavior," but I held my snap reaction tongue, and went to look: &g
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by neilv 1y ago
Where can I get 15% annualized returns, please? (I'm told to no longer bet on even averaging 7% annually, over decades, on US stock indexes.)
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by neilv 1y ago
I might not be the most representative example (I seem to use visual and spatial more than most people for abstract reasoning), but here goes an attempt to convey one data point... If I imagine a particular model of car, for example, I can
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by neilv 1y ago
Initially, I suspected the cloud contracts were for general government operations, to have geo-distributed backups and continuity, in event of regional disaster (natural or human-made). But could it instead/also be for international sp

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