paulcole

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by paulcole 2mo ago
This is unironically the best post in HN history. All these jabronies crying about not liking technology anymore or whatever and this guy is asking the real questions. Obviously I think you want another weekend day between Sunday and Monday
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by paulcole 2mo ago
I actually don't think it's good to ask for feedback. Mainly for the reason you said here: > They're more like dates than exams It's much better to look at your own performance critically than to trust the feedback yo
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by paulcole 2mo ago
You understand that this is a job interview working as intended? You may be awesome at the work but your values do not align with the company’s and it’s best if you don’t work there.
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by paulcole 2mo ago
Again, I’m not saying that job related questions are bad. I’m saying that these types of questions can be good. You can ask more than 1 type of question!
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by paulcole 2mo ago
From the comment I was replying to: > Unless it is for a position I really, really want, or are unemployed and every opportunity counts, that is usually where the interview ends for me This person is close minded and is filtering themsel
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by paulcole 2mo ago
I think those questions are good ways to assess open mindedness, estimation, and verbal communication skills. There are other ways to assess those skills, sure. But questions like that aren’t bad ways.
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by paulcole 2mo ago
> He didn’t get the job because even though the technical attributes were all good, he should have pressured the customer. 1) Is this word for word what they told him? 2) If so, why did he believe them?
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by paulcole 2mo ago
How do you verify that books and websites and videos are not giving you erroneous content? You trust some and distrust others at face value based on prior experience and what you want to believe. Sometimes you check after the fact and somet
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by paulcole 2mo ago
> And what happens if you don’t get the job? I don’t get the job. Not getting the job doesn’t mean the interview was bad. And if it was a bad interview, life goes on. You’re right that nothing is guaranteed in life. But you can do what y
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by paulcole 2mo ago
There’s probably some downside to drinking 14 cold brews a week, too. Everything’s a risk if you look hard enough.
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by paulcole 2mo ago
I think it’s more that life isn’t that serious and if someone wants an interview bad enough get the tattoo and don’t cry about how life is unfair or that YC sucks.
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by paulcole 2mo ago
Tattoo was $375-ish (I paid) and cold brew is $5.50. I kind of saw it as a hedge against inflation as well. Figured they’d be $7 before too long. I got the tattoo done by the artist who designed it (the shop puts up a lot of local art). She
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by paulcole 2mo ago
They didn’t say they weren’t going to interview untattooed people. It’s a lame stunt but this is just looking for something to get upset over. I would do it if the company was one I was excited about. I’m 45-ish and got my first tattoo this
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by paulcole 3mo ago
It's so funny that you say this because I 100% agree. I have a Remarkable tablet (several of them in fact) and the people on /r/remarkabletablet are always looking for ways to complicate their Remarkables with KOReader or any
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by paulcole 3mo ago
Yep, nobody's ever going to care more about you than you, triply so at work.
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by paulcole 3mo ago
Depending on how long I'd been there, I would just do it over email/in-writing even if it was an office job.
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by paulcole 3mo ago
You can just take the other offer while you wait and then quit when the one you really want comes in.
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by paulcole 3mo ago
So Anthropic makes a new model, Qwen or whoever learns how it works and makes their model nearly (but not quite) as good and then sells it back to Anthropic? Like the soap-making scene in Fight Club.
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by paulcole 3mo ago
Absolutely!
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by paulcole 3mo ago
To be fair, the people who are producing capital-a Art are mostly producing crap as well. Whatever you call it, I participate to find out if it’s crap or not.
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by paulcole 3mo ago
To me, this (whether or not “content” is a good word to use) is very similar to Comic Sans discourse. The stronger you feel about it and the more you seem to enjoy sharing your opinions on it, the less interesting you become.
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by paulcole 3mo ago
No, it’s not really a thing in any significant way. This guy is 17 years older than he was in 2009. The world moved on to YouTube, TikTok, etc. A teenager today is almost certainly not going to set up a blog to share their thoughts with the
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by paulcole 3mo ago
> Open Book Touch is the device I’ve been trying to build for six years: a small, beautiful, completely open source e-book reader that does one thing and does it well What makes this beautiful?
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by paulcole 3mo ago
It isn't wrong to be self-centered! How many self-centered people have you met in your life who go, "yep, I'd call myself self-centered." BUT if you work with people who would rather work with you in an office then you a
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by paulcole 3mo ago
I mean employees pushing for remote work is a status and power play, too. I’d imagine self-centered employees don’t like being told where to work either. Office work isn’t objectively bad and remote work isn’t objectively good. If you like
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by paulcole 3mo ago
> I think we need to address the underlying causes of people outsourcing their thinking like Most people take the easy way out most of the time. Not that complicated.
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by paulcole 3mo ago
If I had $20 a month when I was 17, I would’ve paid for Apple Music in a heartbeat (if it were available at the time).
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by paulcole 3mo ago
You have to define what burnt out means to you. The WHO has a very specific definition of it but it seems like everyone has their own personal definition which leads to a lot of unproductive conversations which are just complaining about wo
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by paulcole 3mo ago
Take the job. Save a lot of money. Nothing more freeing than being young with good savings. Puts life on easy mode.
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by paulcole 3mo ago
> one could say that all of physics and creation is "glorified autocomplete" Exhibit A.

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