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by spike021 4y ago
I was surprised that I got feedback from my recruiter a few weeks ago when I finished an on-site at Google. To be honest I think she was only fine with providing feedback if we were on a call, since there's no paper trail.
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by spike021 4y ago
Again, like I said in the comment that this parent comment replied to: provide a waiver that basically says the candidate can't use the feedback legally. It's a similar thing with the NDA on the reverse end.
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by spike021 4y ago
I don't see why companies can't have some kind of waiver the candidate signs in order to get feedback. We already sign NDA's before most interviews to not provide the interview questions and stuff to people. Feels like someth
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by spike021 4y ago
Have you been to Japan? It often seems like people who have never been only have this ideal in their minds that everyone in Japan travels by bullet train or local commuter trains. There are many bus routes, and many people who still own and
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by spike021 4y ago
Same here. Mine isn't debilitating (yet, maybe). But there are definitely times it's a real pain, and nobody really seems to understand what it's like to have. And in public it gets annoying because older people will come up
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by spike021 4y ago
I always see people mentioning that exercise is one of the solutions to burnout. I'm going to disagree with that. I got a puppy early last year. Once we could start taking walks I started walking on average 4.5-5 miles between walking
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by spike021 4y ago
IIRC, Webex Teams used to do something like this if you walked into a conference room that had a Webex teleconference setup. I haven't used it in a few years, though.
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by spike021 4y ago
Developer-wise, I'm kind of stoked that they'll be integrating their Dark Sky acquisition into an internal API (I know it'll frustrate non-Apple platform users). I was just working on an app earlier this year for fun where I
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by spike021 4y ago
I think it depends on the scope of what a user wants to code. I have a Mac Mini at home, but lately while doing some prep for interviews (sigh, leetcode), I’ve been going to the library or other places with my iPad and a BT keyboard, and it
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by spike021 4y ago
Dang that really takes me back.
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by spike021 4y ago
Something similar happened at Cisco something like maybe 5 years ago? Someone sent the Bay Area employees or whatever list (probably at least some tens of thousands of employees) an ask for a cook/chef they could hire to make meals for
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by spike021 4y ago
At least for this current apartment, my last name has already been on a sticky-note attached to the door since I moved in. Guessing the friendly mailman did it. Yet that hasn't stopped the deluge of junk not addressed to me finding its
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by spike021 4y ago
I wish there were a way to list all previous inhabitants of my apartment address who still get mail sent here and somehow tell USPS "no, they no longer live here". I routinely, in both of my previous apartments, receive(d) mail fo
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by spike021 4y ago
As someone who was in an Awana...club(?) for most of my childhood, I never had this happen. That sucks. Some people are way too crazy.
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by spike021 4y ago
>In some of those cases, I've just left my groceries there at the machine and walked out the store. I tell myself "That'll show 'em, they'll have to put all that stuff back on the shelf!" But it obviously do
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by spike021 4y ago
>(live preview with swiftui/etc) I have a similar experience (started working from scratch on an iPhone app back in January with SwiftUI). Live preview is really awful. I had to basically disable it throughout my project. It'll
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by spike021 4y ago
Back in elementary school a few decades ago, they did a demonstration of what happens if you're not wearing a helmet. They used a watermelon and dropped it from maybe 5 or 6 feet up in the air. I refuse to ride anything without a helme
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by spike021 4y ago
> Take it to the other extreme and you get folks who can’t even solve fizzbuzz. So some coding bar is good. Sounds like the epitome of a slippery slope, to be honest. Some people are going to say FizzBuzz (or similar) are a good enough b
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by spike021 4y ago
I won't argue that being able to apply different patterns to problems is incredibly useful, but a lot of these are also fairly domain-specific. It really depends on what your typical work is like. I've worked on teams that dealt w
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by spike021 4y ago
This process is basically what I’ve done for years. I don’t use tweetdeck though, I just manually curate my lists in twitter's own UI. Mostly works. Some stuff slips through the cracks but my expectations are just set such that nothing
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by spike021 4y ago
I would rather California work harder on enforcement against smoking tobacco everywhere. In my city it's illegal to smoke in city parks, yet people do it inside my neighborhood parks nearly every day. Many times when young families wit
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by spike021 4y ago
>Seems crazy to me that manufacturers are selling cars that are basically designed to be a nuisance. This is a really odd take. The noise in that case is a by-product of how the car's powertrain is designed.
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by spike021 4y ago
Sounds like a way to get more students who would've previously known they didn't have a chance to spend the application fee. That was one of the worst parts about applying to universities for me over a decade ago. A few I knew I h
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by spike021 4y ago
I use Magnet [1]. Works really well, hot keys mostly make sense for various settings. [1] https://magnet.crowdcafe.com/
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by spike021 4y ago
I have a shiba inu and you are exactly right. A lot like cats. Hugely stubborn. Incredibly independent. Exactly as described when I was doing my research originally and deciding to get one. I haven't done a single thing to make him tha
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by spike021 4y ago
I don't keep in touch with any friends from college, even the ones I hung out with for a majority of my time there. IMO for most people it goes the same way as earlier schooling periods; as people venture out to do their own thing, the
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by spike021 4y ago
About 10 years ago when I was still going to San Jose State University I began applying to SDE internship openings at various places in the Bay Area. I recall one of {Uber, Lyft, AirBnb, Doordash, other similar place} having a drop-down on
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by spike021 5y ago
Whoa!! This is amazing. My brother and I used to play the FA-18 "sim" all the time. Thanks for the blast from the past. Now if only I still had the joystick controller...
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by spike021 5y ago
I've said it on HN before. You need to be willing to spend some effort self-curating your feed. Only follow people you're interested in, use the settings feature to mute tweets containing certain words or phrases, and make heavy u
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by spike021 5y ago
100% agreed. A trend I've noticed the past couple years is that people make the excuse of "code should be self-documenting" so they don't need to add comments. But then very helpful contextual hints that are not otherwis

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