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by realbarack 6y ago
Zuck could 100% be elected president someday. It certainly seems more plausible than I would have said about Trump in say ~2012. - The US worships rich and successful businessmen in general. - Facebook is the most powerful media empire the
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by realbarack 6y ago
Fair criticism. I don't have a confident estimate for the number of new remote employees, but here's a hand-wavy one: one third of the 130M US jobs can be done remotely [0]. 20% of CFOs expect about 20% of their workforce to be re
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Remote Workers Should Move to College Towns(blog.zachwf.com)
28 points by realbarack 6y ago|18 comments
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Crowdsourced index of company WFH announcements(goingremote.club)
1 points by realbarack 6y ago|0 comments
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by realbarack 6y ago
The problem is that whatever fills the void left by SAT and ACT will likely be _easier_ to game. Standardized tests are not perfect but they're a better signal than extracurricular checkboxes or professionally-edited essays.
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by realbarack 6y ago
No problem! I'm glad you found it useful.
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by realbarack 6y ago
I've added the news on Facebook's permanent WFH policy in this spreadsheet where I've been tracking WFH announcements: https://airtable.com/shrC1mvKjwntaqocO/tbl73UY1jDmReLge7
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by realbarack 6y ago
I suspect as this scales within and across companies, "location fraud" will become common, where employees claim to live in a more expensive location in order to collect a higher salary. There's probably a b2b opportunity for
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by realbarack 6y ago
I'm tracking remote work announcements: https://airtable.com/shrC1mvKjwntaqocO/tbl73UY1jDmReLge7 I expect lots of announcements from 5k to 10k-person companies over the next few weeks.
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by realbarack 6y ago
Another one. This is a big-and-getting-bigger deal. I'm keeping track of announcements here: https://airtable.com/shrC1mvKjwntaqocO/tbl73UY1jDmReLge7
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by realbarack 6y ago
I'm keeping an index of company remote-work announcements here: https://airtable.com/shrC1mvKjwntaqocO/tbl73UY1jDmReLge7 If you know of companies that have made changes like Coinbase, please help me build the list
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by realbarack 6y ago
Like many here, I was excited to see the news last week that Twitter will be a remote-friendly company forever[0]. Today, Coinbase made a similar announcement[1]. I thought it'd be fun and interesting to track WFH policy changes for co
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Covid-19 WFH policy tracker(airtable.com)
1 points by realbarack 6y ago|1 comments
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by realbarack 6y ago
I'm curious about the timing. Many people seem to find it more difficult to maintain this level of dedication after they have kids. What made things different in your case?
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by realbarack 6y ago
That counts. I wish you good fortune in your job search.
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by realbarack 6y ago
I've been trying to become a better Clojure programmer, so have been attempting to use Clojure and Clojurescript almost exclusively for my side projects, especially since I don't use it at work. First I built a real-time version o
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by realbarack 6y ago
For new projects sure, but you need an escape hatch. App Engine costs can spiral out of control. I know of at least one startup that was pretty successful in finding product market fit but sunk their own ship because they weren't able
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by realbarack 6y ago
But if the "one area" is one of ~10 expensive cities and the "another" is 100s of smaller cities, suburbs and large towns, it's much easier to build to meet the change.
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by realbarack 6y ago
Shuttered colleges should be turned into hubs for remote knowledge workers. The worst part of remote work is that it's hard to build a community without an office; college campuses are designed around community-building, with great sha
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by realbarack 6y ago
True. But there are more prestigious companies than the big tech firms which do this.
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by realbarack 6y ago
A paraphrased anecdote I heard about French math education: "In America, they start by teaching you how to add two numbers, then once you've mastered that you learn to subtract, then once you've got that down you learn to mul
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by realbarack 7y ago
The fast.ai folks wrote nbdev to help with that. https://github.com/fastai/nbdev
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by realbarack 7y ago
I would be shocked if you found it easier to convince candidates to relocate to Detroit than to San Diego.
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by realbarack 7y ago
I'm imagining some world where patent troll-equivalents crawl the web for abandoned experiments that could serve as fodder for lawsuits. I agree with the sentiment that companies shouldn't brick products with code changes but worr
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by realbarack 7y ago
That definitely seems possible, but I feel it might be harder to implement at an organization that wasn't already doing a lot of pair programming since in my experience pairing elicits almost philosophical support or opposition. Maybe
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Code readings: Crockford's approach for building strong software teams(blog.zachwf.com)
4 points by realbarack 7y ago|2 comments
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by realbarack 7y ago
Better formatting: “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, tal
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by realbarack 7y ago
brb starting my venture-backed FORTRAN coding school
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by realbarack 7y ago
What happens to the campus when a liberal arts college shuts down? In Green Mountain College's case it seems like they're looking for a buyer to the tune of $20 million or so. [0] I think it'd be pretty rad if old college cam
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by realbarack 7y ago
Congratulations on your lucrative shitcanning!

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