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   by vlod 3y ago

   I hate cover letters like every other engineer and agree with most of the points here about them being a waste of time (for me, pretty much 90%+ applications don't get a response with or without a cover letter). However, just trying to
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   by vlod 3y ago

   There are a few ways to get you going: - The "5 whys" - "First Principals thinking" (popularized by Musk), - Challenge and validate assumptions
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   by vlod 3y ago

   Another reminder I should seriously look into qubes-os.
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   by vlod 3y ago

   I noticed that any of my replies to tweets don't get any engagement. This is probably because the algorithm sorts by those that pay the monthly fee first, so my comment falls to bottom of the stack. I'm not motivated to even respo
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   by vlod 3y ago

   I see Lex occasionally looking down (~16.47) and was wondering if he was referring to some notes. Not sure how one does this with a Quest strapped to your head.
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   by vlod 3y ago

   So you review every single resume? Or do you most realistically toss out anything after say 200?
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   by vlod 3y ago

   Oh come on, 95% of jobs are CRUDs: - data is in the database - get data from the database using ORM solution - pull stuff from Backend (from Frontend), using REST/Graphql - display it in a nice way using whatever the du-jour styling so
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   by vlod 3y ago

   >was that the recruiter used my LinkedIn profile at the interview instead of asking for a resume I have never seen this. Most of the time, not only do they not look at your linkedin profile (because like it's usually a reflection of
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   by vlod 3y ago

   I've always wanted to ask for the github profile of the person asking me the question. I doubt they would get the irony of that however and probably get myself red-flagged.
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    by vlod 3y ago

    Remuneration based on experience, then they ask you what you want.
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    by vlod 3y ago

    > I'm using a dedicated server with 128gb of RAM and 12 CPUs, I mean wow, that's quite a setup to watch movies! It puts my dedicated intel i5 nuc (using plex w/ ubuntu) with 8G to shame. You must take your movies very seri
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    by vlod 3y ago

    Sure, but I would like the think that the Mexican Congress would realize this (and did due diligence) and vetted everything before doing this song-and-dance number. There is a slide with companies/universities that did the work. I woul
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    by vlod 3y ago

    I was surprised it looked like it came straight from the movie ET. lol
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    by vlod 3y ago

    Around the 8.05 mark in the link I posted, there were some universities. However I don't speak Spanish. I assume they were involved somehow?
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    by vlod 3y ago

    Here's the 4 hour video footage (in Spanish) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kVl-bKVVlE
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    by vlod 3y ago

    I was hoping someone here would know more details.
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    The Mexican government have released footage of 2 aliens(twitter.com)

    5 points by vlod 3y ago|13 comments
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    by vlod 3y ago

    I'm not sure what to make of this. The Mexican government have released footage of 2 aliens that they have found in a mine. Carbon dating puts it a ~1000 years ago. They've done DNA analysis as well (and released the results). Her
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    by vlod 3y ago

    Monkey Mart is REALLY good! :)
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    by vlod 3y ago

    My eyes immediately went to the rods on the right. I expected them to be joysticks and desk pacman to start playing. Yeah... wasted youth.
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    by vlod 3y ago

    > “[stood] on the shoulders of giants.” That's pretty much a given. I know someone people that worked at Xerox (when Steve Jobs visited) and they pretty much invented everything. lol. I've been told stories that pretty much tec
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    by vlod 3y ago

    Sure, everything could probably be tracked back to the good golden years, but who was really doing TDD before Rails? I was doing Java back (during Kent Beck days of XP etc) and although I had heard of JUnit (and even heard Kent Beck preach
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    by vlod 3y ago

    Amazon leadership principals is a good place to reflect upon: https://www.amazon.jobs/content/en/our-workplace/leadership-...
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    by vlod 3y ago

    For those interested in trying it, I would suggest a first step is becoming a vegetarian (no meat/fish but diary is fine). If that's too big a step, try it 1 day a week (i.e Meatless Mondays). Look in your grocery store for Quorn,
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    by vlod 3y ago

    I expect they have a very large unit/integration test suite. Rails was the first (or very early pioneers) of doing TDD.
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    by vlod 3y ago

    > very quickly realise the higher end vehicle is infinitely better and you never want to go back to driving a heap of shit again. I fixed our 2006 Saturn Ion lots of times and it runs very well. It's generally simple and the parts a
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    by vlod 3y ago

    If seen a lot of code like this and I f.hate it. Devs try and be too clever. With great power... etc Even if you don't like TS that much, nobody would have that much of a problem (IMHO) with having 'simple' types on function
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    by vlod 3y ago

    I heard that immutability libraries like immer.js [0] help with this. Anyone go this way and had good success? Is this 'the way'? [0]: https://immerjs.github.io/immer/
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    by vlod 3y ago

    I switched to React when jQuery (and particularly storing state in the DOM and lots of custom events called) became a PITA. I don't feel that React has reached that tipped point yet, but when it does I'm hoping we'll all move
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    by vlod 3y ago

    TIP: Every subscription goes to google calendar with a notification with T-2 weeks. This also works for paying bills on time to avoid fees like credit cards. Yes I could auto pay, but this helps me validate if I want X each month.