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by retiredcoder 7y ago
Or maybe he didn’t have to go thru daily stand-ups and have to say how many letters will be delivered today. Just kidding, kudos for him and some people are indeed gifted to make friends and connections intuitively. On the other hand, there
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
Lawyers of HN, can the judge ask questions to a lawyer that can furnish evidence against their own client?
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
One thing to consider when scaling down and up an exercise is to measure progress, kipping is not very precise and usually used to make one achieve arbitrary goals way off ones reach (eg massive ammounts of pull-ups in a short period of tim
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
Being sensible is not having a WoD one size fits all. It oversimplifies too much IMO. People, specially who are new, haven’t gotten serious injuries, or just don’t understand how exercise can get you high, tend to fall in the WoD trap from
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
I am usually the one who scape lunches at work because I want quietness and a break from work. Also, it is typically the only time of the day I can day dream and wander around the city center, where I work. I find that eating at work to be
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
That’s the ideal scenario, normalization with recalibration. Even companies doing that as their main business fail to do so and evaluate people. Now imagine engineers doing that, in a highly competitive landscape, with no motivation or seco
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
I hope one day, well I actually hope to be alive to see, that one day humanity will have enough understand of the brain to teach us our cognitive limitations and how to effective work around/out them. Not long ago I quit one of my jobs
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
Yeah, 2 hrs barely touch anything new in my current job, where we have a lot of boilerplater and in-house infrastructure built by the devprod team. Some companies either take those for granted or just deliberately make the bar extra high fo
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
I guess real doctors can be more precise than me here. However, at where I live only doctors working with trauma/ER work long hours. From what I understand, that’s mostly to work around the overhead of context switch and patient hand o
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
Quite interesting links here! Ps: I, on the other hand, am really more productive and attentive to details after lunch and specially after 2pm. Mornings for me are just good for physical activities..
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
Terrible idea because high doses of Ibuprofen has been shown to reduce protein synthesis. A quick search returns several data like https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/11832356/ The era of no pain no gain w
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
To my own experience, I think the time an adult can physiologically commit to learning is reduced. For example, I noticed that in high school if I really liked a subject I would just sponge it all up, no need for spaced repetition and I cou
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
I think it really depends on the set of languages, e.g.: I can see that for an English native speaker learning French after Spanish can be easier but I can’t see that helping with Chinese. Well, at least didn’t help me much
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
Erdös also did a lot of Amphetamines and claimed Math stopped when he took a break from it.
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
I strongly agree. However to my experience companies decide on quality vs speed based on other factors rather than business needs. For example, in my previous job, CTO called “ overengineering” whenever something went against his will, whil
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
Be a manager?
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
By birth the kid is an American Citizen via jus-solis automatically. At age 18 she or he can sponsor GC parents.
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
As the sibling commenter mentioned, it is a political decision to take federal funds, which sometimes goes against the best interest of the electorate (not claiming to be the case here but seems like so when we read such articles).
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
I think the cue is at “Virginia is one of 19 states refusing federal dollars to close the healthcare “coverage gap” for people not poor enough for Medicaid, but too poor for anything else.“
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
Even if there is citation here, would this data around super wealthy people be of use for public health?
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
Couldn’t relate more. Even things like Employee Engagemebt surveys need to be gamed to save managers face.
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
If I can allow myself to chime in... I think social / cultural differences actually is not enough to differentiate European start-ups. If nothing else, there is a tremendous (deliberate?) effort to follow American standards of manageme
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
I’d guess they opt to do so not just to give you a chance to provide feedback but also liability.
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
I see your point to not trust companies but even I after over 10 years in this industry sometimes get fooled. For me personally, I cannot live a skeptical nor cynical life and I usually deal with people not companies. When I start the inter
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
Reality depends on the market one is subject to. But in my own reality, My tangible options were: 1. Pay upfront and study endless hours for a whiteboard interview + hours with phone screening + day spent onsite. 2. On-demand take home chal
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
It’s good to have folks like you who stand your ground. However, reality is different and unless the company really wants you specifically and the hiring manager has the political capital to change the hiring process like that, it won’t hav
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
Quite interesting. Unfortunately, it seems that we are just now starting to realize the human aspects of software eng. Still, even if there could be a massive amount of data to show in which interviews, or more generically, how human judgin
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
Sorry, but I’ll call BS here. I have a very solid network inside google (ex-coworkers from another FAANG job) and also from xooglers, at IC and management track. Even in my last interview failure (see my post here), the recruiter told me I
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
Yes, there are decent hiring practices out there but first it is hard to make the news here in HN without some degree of popularity..
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
Yes, I have a few close friends hopping jobs every 1-2 years. Part of their secret is be involved with interviews to keep all this crap fresh in their minds and also be part of this sub-industry of tech interviews. Good for them financially

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