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by novok 5y ago
Yes that is true, I even worked in brazil with a west coast team for a couple weeks. But it's wayyyyyyyyy better than europe, india or china time zones.
872.
by novok 5y ago
Having worked with people in remote latin american offices, the cultural gap isn't as extensive than the other ones actually. The barrier is purely a lack of numbers in this case. The tech industry is VERY used to working with people
873.
by novok 5y ago
We have been trying for years actually, there just isn't that many to hire as the article said :( There is a reason why all tech worker offices seem to be from east/west europe, china, india, USA and canada. Oracle has had offi
874.
by novok 5y ago
IMO I really want tech companies to start hiring in latin america more just for time zone reasons. If India & China was in south america a lot of the pain of having offices from those regions would go away. I've even done several
875.
by novok 5y ago
Whats wrong with websql being sqlite?
876.
by novok 5y ago
When I was a kid, I knew a kid who lived on a sailboat with his parents for a while and sailed around. It's definitely a possible thing to have a traveling lifestyle with young children!
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by novok 5y ago
When they say they favor the false negative, that doesn't mean that false positive wont happen, is they would rather tradeoff a with a process that produces more false negatives if it produces less false positives because they have a f
878.
by novok 5y ago
I don't think that much thought has been put into it IMO. It's cargo culting the google interview process, and no standout success since google has a very different interview process to cargo cult copy. Google had this process be
879.
by novok 5y ago
I think part of it comes from believability, or the inability to make a mental model of what is going on under the hood. If something seems magical, you don't really understand what is going on, it can make it hard to work with becaus
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by novok 5y ago
Generate 1 million lines of stupid repetitive code that varies slightly with a 100 line script and you'll see it happen quickly. Same issues with swift and even kotlin to some level. I don't have specific experience but I'v
881.
by novok 5y ago
Yeah I agree. The people who criticize such metrics backed statements that "it's getting better" say that those same metrics are often subject to Goodhart’s Law dynamics[0], fudging and outright lying with numbers. If you s
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by novok 5y ago
One trend with complicated languages is poor scalability although. They don’t compile fast , tend to have slow iteration speeds and don’t scale with large teams or codebases well. You see this with c++ , rust, haskell, scala and swift.
883.
by novok 5y ago
I also have a hard time with learning concepts too if there are handwavey parts of it. I remember by recreating the higher level concepts from lower level ones at times.
884.
by novok 5y ago
This is why you want your email to be your own domain, so even if you still use gmail, you can recover from that.
885.
by novok 5y ago
Phone numbers are basically super cookie identifiers unless you make a new phone number for each account and use different aliases & maybe addresses for them too. They all sell into centralized information systems and create profiles a
886.
by novok 5y ago
When people say staff, they typically mean google / FB staff. Or apple's ICT5. Levels.fyi is a good translator of what the equivalent term is at a company.
887.
by novok 5y ago
Staff Eng is a name that the industry has coalesced around to describe a certain kind of role, and as time gone on, the industry has become more aware of. The basic difference is only about %10-%15 of ICs are staff or greater and are engine
888.
by novok 5y ago
Publii doesn't work well when you want to edit your one blog from multiple computers. Hugo or whatever is not much of a stretch and you can edit from your laptop and desktop w/ git.
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by novok 5y ago
Yeah from what I've heard, family court is super wonky and does not follow the same standards that normal courts do, yet still have the same full force of law! It's crazy and makes me want to stay away from them with a 10 foot po
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by novok 5y ago
Only 9/52 US states even have common law marriage : https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/free-books/living-to... and only one of them, texas, is a top 5 state as far as population goes. So it's defini
891.
by novok 5y ago
Also has a tax consequence, unlike 'married' health insurance.
892.
by novok 5y ago
It also implies the other spouse (usually father), shouldn't be an equal active co-parent and have autonomy over where the money for the child goes, and it goes only to the other parent. Maybe in a few decades we will recognize that yo
893.
by novok 5y ago
You're not going to dox yourself with compensation bands or something more specific than 400-1500. There are way too many people like that, and comp is not very public info. Are you working in Europe as part of an old tech / non-
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by novok 5y ago
I think there is a bit of a difference between "we have to make sure a level 1 trauma center exists" and "we will restrict people building more level 1 trauma centers indepedently", which is what I think the parent comme
895.
by novok 5y ago
CTO and lead engineer of what size companies? How big was the tree of reports under you? What is the band of your total compensation recently? $100-200k? $500-1000k? Honestly sounds like a bit of cope, especially if you've tried hiri
896.
by novok 5y ago
Remove custody percentages as a part of support payments and the financial incentive that drives a lot of this behavior goes away. In other countries where support payments are not a major thing, a lot of the nastyness of divorce also goes
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by novok 5y ago
People do, but your not a kid anymore and don't do it yourself and you don't browse such things anymore either. The tools are bit different this time, the pieces of art different too, but they are still being made. One example I
898.
by novok 5y ago
Because they want to make new products and become the privacy company.
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by novok 5y ago
I find usually that happens after a couple thousand of lines, so beyond one off scripts the advantage isn't there much. And some of it is just bad language syntax or culture making it obtuse, not the staticness of the language. It als
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by novok 5y ago
I tried id.me and it was a pain in the ass to use and failed on one part. I'm guessing with their anti-fraud style fail closed system this will effectively lock out a lot of old people from using their online services.

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