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by tsuujin 4y ago
I have worked for Bay Area companies which follow the Silicon Valley gospel a couple of times, and I have a fundamental disagreement with the idea that finding solace in work is inherently good. My experience with this culture is that it is
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I think we’ll need actual regulation before we see any enforcement, unfortunately. Because Apple takes a cut of app profits, they’re incentivized to allow for scummy engagement practices. We need something like the CAN-SPAM (which as for em
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by tsuujin 4y ago
This changed a couple of years ago, apps can send you ads so long as you opt in, but what qualifies as opting in can be as simple as a bit of language during signup; it’s pretty easy to bypass this. > 4.5.4 Push Notifications must not be
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by tsuujin 4y ago
Regulation limiting the amount of notifications you can receive for microtransaction purchases would make a big difference I think. Even though I am refusing to spend money for gems, there is effectively always a “look at me” notification o
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No? The walled garden is a safeguard against malicious apps, not against marketing shenanigans.
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Riven is an absolute masterpiece in visual storytelling. I remember playing it when it came out and just being blown away by it.
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Man I feel this. I recently purged most of my subreddit subscriptions and really focused in on topics I care about that still have content I actually want to see. I probably dropped 90% of my subscriptions. The payoff is that as long as I n
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by tsuujin 4y ago
Seems like it’s a good desktop option, but the mobile UX isn’t there. A single column responsive layout would make a big difference.
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I’ve been toying with the idea of switching from stow to home-manager, but I feel like there’s a lot of friction in the form of hard to answer questions. For example, my emacs config is a literate org file, which is important to me. It is l
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by tsuujin 4y ago
Sure, you can view all of our open positions here: https://experience.covermymeds.com/open-positions (and then narrow down the list with the “all teams” drop down and selecting “technology”) If you’re looking for a general
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by tsuujin 4y ago
For me, this is a role that MUDs used to fill. Text-based online games with player driven governments, economies, and theologies. You, as a person, could work your way up a ladder to be a renown combatant, or diplomat, or merchant; but, non
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by tsuujin 4y ago
Honestly, I think I would encourage junior devs to shop around before just accepting the leet code life. Unless they’re in dire need of income—in which case, do what you need to do—the kind of company willing to treat you like a game show c
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We require that ICs are able to work with others effectively; we have a very large engineering team working on issues related to health care and collaboration is effectively mandatory. We keep the pairing as short as we can and we provide b
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by tsuujin 4y ago
Disagree. I’m highly agreeable.
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That’s making a lot of assumptions about who I am and what I do based on nothing.
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Strong agree with all of this. Ideally, interview questions should be directly related to the domain of the position. Show the candidate what they will actually be doing if they accept an offer. The whole process should be a two way convers
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I ask candidates to write code, but I tell my interviewers that the point is not completing the task but rather the conversation around it. If they can’t write code at all, obviously it’s a hard pass because we’d just be setting them up for
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by tsuujin 4y ago
Disagree. I’m very good at puzzles.
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I’m not sure I agree, but I’m positive this isn’t a barrier to adoption right now . Recruiters are really looking for an edge to provide differentiation, and “friendlier, faster process” is a big one.
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Substantially less than our previous process. We went from a process that took weeks to get through (multiple interviews, about an hour each, with a full code day at the end) to a two step process. Talent reaches out to the candidate and ha
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by tsuujin 4y ago
I answered this in another comment before I saw this, feel free to respond to it if you want to chat about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31453571
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I’m not sure if you’re just being snarky or you’re trying to make an actual point here, but I can tell you that this kind of commentary reinforces the egocentric interview process we currently suffer through. Solving puzzles doesn’t prove
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by tsuujin 4y ago
We basically adopted the MINASWAN interview, which Jesse Spevack can explain much better than myself in his talk [here]( https://youtube.com/watch?v=c4K-ORZmrGk&feature=share ). The overview is that for each candidate we
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by tsuujin 4y ago
> Get used to 'em. No. I’ve spent the last year or so reinventing the hiring process at my tech company to expressly avoid algorithmic puzzles and leetcode nonsense, and I was able to do this because I patently refused to accept the
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Who thought this was a good idea? Probably people who had to type “accessibility” out a dozen times a day. Also marketing minded people who know a memorable title keeps people thinking about the topic longer. Side note, numeronyms have been
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The ticket I got was almost certainly a manual accident in writing down a license plate, but the story serves to illustrate how incredibly difficult it can be to clear up mistakes and how tying it to registration places increased limits on
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It’s ok, it’s California so they’ll just tack the fee onto your registration and force you to pay it if you want to drive legally. At one point I got a ticket for my car for parking without a permit at a college. The college was in a city t
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by tsuujin 4y ago
This has been my commit bible for years. I feel like it has been battle tested and has made my life easier.
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> Because of that, I'm going to ask you, dear reader, to please respect Drew's wishes and not share this post in any public space. This page is "unlisted" and won't appear on the frontpage, and I only intend to s
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> Its goal is to replace software in critical infrastructure to ensure it can neither fail nor be hacked. Tell me you don’t understand technology without telling me you don’t understand technology.

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