skylark

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by skylark 9y ago
Overall, the data lines up with my own intuition, but I thought I might throw my own interpretation into the ring. One of the biggest keys to doing well on technical interviews is to completely separate the problem solving from the coding.
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by skylark 9y ago
+1 on the industry being small. I knew one of my ex coworkers padded his resume with 5 years of experience he didn't have. Two years later I'm working at Google and I'd blackball him without hesitation. You might not get thro
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by skylark 9y ago
Before AirBnB, people would sublet their apartments - I've never personally had trouble finding one to three month accommodations. You're correct that the extremely short term rental market (2 weeks and below) didn't really e
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by skylark 9y ago
That seems overly cynical. I doubt Google would be the company it is today by hiring cheap employees.
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by skylark 9y ago
This applies to social media as well. It's so easy to compare your own social life to the lives of all of your friends and acquaintances put together. In reality most people live rather boring lives punctuated by a few interesting thin
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by skylark 9y ago
Your intuition is correct. Bootcamps aren't learning institutions - they're fundamentally recruitment agencies. They connect companies with smart, motivated people who can learn things on the fly. This is why there's such a m
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by skylark 9y ago
The question is not whether the test can be gamed, but whether WBI have sufficient predictive power to be used as an interview tool. I think this is absolutely the case at large companies which need to screen hundreds of thousands of candid
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by skylark 9y ago
Bonuses are an absolutely standard part of comp at the tech giants and unicorns (Uber, AirBnB, etc.) There's a minimum yearly bonus you can expect to get (10-20% depending on where you're at) which increases with performance. Else
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by skylark 9y ago
Is that a fair comparison? Reddit has a ridiculous amount of data to search through. I feel like if improving search was so trivial, they would have done it already.
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by skylark 9y ago
I noticed Facebook's JavaScript does weird things if the newsfeed <div> is removed from the page. Thus the correct way to hide the feed is to set the <div> to visibility: hidden, but no extension does that afaik. You can us
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by skylark 9y ago
Good commenting requires empathy. You need to imagine how people will interact with your code and write just enough to help them understand the things that aren't already self evident. I've found that the most clean, well maintain
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by skylark 9y ago
My gut reaction was the same as yours because I would personally never use a service like this. That said, the existence of career consultants proves that there are people who do enjoy this sort of advice and direction. I don't see thi
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by skylark 9y ago
None of that is really a red flag for me. The biggest red flag is when I make an account and they send me my username and password in plaintext in the confirmation email. Makes me cringe every time.
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by skylark 9y ago
Case insensitive passwords is entirely a business decision. Banking websites in particular have huge numbers of non tech savvy customers. When they forget their password or type it in incorrectly, they don't go to the password reset fo
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by skylark 9y ago
I'd really like to see standard deviation bars on that chart - my interpretation is that the sample size is extremely small.
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by skylark 9y ago
Above all else, it should be fun. If your son finds programming enjoyable, everything will fall into place. For that reason, I'd suggest a language that enables you to easily make things. I actually think Ruby is perfect, because you c
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by skylark 9y ago
But how is competing on price a business model in and of itself? Surely Etrade can do the same thing, right?
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by skylark 9y ago
This 10x thing is quite frankly stupid. The distribution of developer skill (if that's even something that can be plotted) is not bimodal with good developers and bad developers, it's normal. Sure someone 2 SDs above the mean migh
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by skylark 9y ago
Chase's marketing team hit it out of the park with the Sapphire Preferred (and now Reserve.) This is going to sound stupid, but the Preferred/Reserve lines are fun to use. They have a metal core which makes the card feel heavy. Ca
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by skylark 9y ago
There was actually significant value there, but I fear you're going to do what the other poster suggested, flex your position of power and drop the "disagree/commit" line on one of your friends to get your way. You came
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by skylark 10y ago
It was stated in the article. Contact lenses can cause minor corneal abrasions which allow the bacterial infection to happen. Presumably this means you should be extremely careful while showering if you scratch your cornea.
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by skylark 10y ago
In San Francisco, fresh grads can expect to make between 95-115k at a startup or non-tech company. For the tech giants, check Glassdoor - it's spot on for people with <5 years of experience because of the volume of people submitting
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by skylark 10y ago
I think there's a time and place to fire toxic people and low performers. But to code that into any sort of forced rule seems short sighted. I'm surprised companies like Microsoft even attempted it.
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by skylark 10y ago
My understanding is that this repeals a law which was passed at the end of the Obama administration which never actually went into effect. If that's the case, it's already been happening - this bill just brought the issue front an
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by skylark 10y ago
This doesn't match my experience at all. Bose noise cancelling is excellent and completely blocks out my coworkers' voices. At home I use Beyers and Sennheisers because I enjoy the audio quality, but at work these headphones are a
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by skylark 10y ago
This already exists (not affiliated in any way): interviewing.io
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by skylark 10y ago
Consistency. I used to wake up at 4am every day to go to the gym. The secret is that I wouldn't break my sleeping schedule on weekends. If you're staying up late on weekends, you're never going to be a morning person - Monday
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by skylark 10y ago
From Laszlo Bock, former SVP of People Ops @ Google. > [1] The best predictor of how someone will perform in a job is a work sample test (29 percent). This entails giving candidates a sample piece of work, similar to that which they woul
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by skylark 10y ago
Google actually lets you use a physical key to protect your account. https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6103534?hl=en&ref...
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by skylark 10y ago
Leave. The bottom line is that you're unhappy with your job and there are plenty of shops where you can use the technologies you love. You're under no obligation to stay - your employer is not your family. You're in a contrac

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