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I used a script to delete all my tweets on my twitter however many years ago. I'm not the one to say anything inflammatory/offensive but I just couldn't risk some errant like or retweet causing me grief in the future. It seems like that wasn't a bad move.

If we fly home for a few weeks for the holidays we'll often bring our dog with us. We pay $125 to bring them in the cabin and they must remain in a carrier under a seat for the duration of the flight. Cheaper than paying a kennel/dog sitter and just easier for everyone all together. No problems at all so far after years of doing this.

The last time I was checking in at special services (due to the dog), the employee told me she registered her dog as an emotional support animal to bypass the fee. This was the airline employee giving this advice. At that point it was clear this was just a big joke. From what I understand now you need to have a doctor's note from a mental health professional and a bunch of other paperwork in order to bring your emotional support dog without a fee/carrier. I figured that would stop a lot of tom foolery, I guess not.

We use Elastic Beanstalk so we just deploy whatever application version we'd like. Honestly not the biggest fan of that strategy because there is at least a 5 minute period of time while the new instances are provisioned and healthchecked that you just need to wait for.

When compared to our Fastly deploys which are global in seconds, it leaves me wanting a faster solution.

I think it really depends on the person. I had the same feelings of being isolated and not really getting to know everyone. I ended up getting an office job which is great. I love seeing people and having a separation of work and home.

I know others who now do remote and absolutely love it. From what I understand though they are in my same situation but it just doesn’t bother them. It all depends on your personality and what you are looking for.

Perhaps find a local coop workspace where you can go meet other engineers in your situation but then is that even remote anymore?

Turn 30, I presume.

I go into it thinking the opposite. Reviews clearly written by management or someone trying to paint a better picture of the company than there really is. Cons can still be misleading but I’d be more weary of a fake positive review than a negative one. Maybe I’m being gamed too.

There is no way this is common. I don't know anyone who knows anyone who lives in this situation.

I’m sure it’s the engineers deciding to do that and not management and leadership.

The bathroom schedule will be tightened up by 15 minutes as punishment.

I love having it on when I'm just hanging out at night. I like the background noise, almost kind of like radio I can pay attention to if I feel like it.

There are people who will sit down and watch full broadcasts and in that case it can be a lot of time.

A lot of streamers are just always on which I'm sure makes it easier.

Cool referrer link check, flagged.

Yeah vacation isn't work time

I just have a bookmarklet that removes any sticky elements.

You should see some streets in San Francisco. No way that a fire engine is fitting on those.

Love this library, I've used it with the python wrapper that makes it pretty easy to get going.

Well that was certainly an interesting read.

I was born in Buffalo, no longer there due to lack of tech jobs (that isn’t blue cross blue shield). The Canadian side of Niagara Falls already destroys our side. Much more development. Way more activities to do. Gorgeous view of the falls. All around better.

Now that weed is legalized this will only become more and more apparent. They will attract more individuals from both sides of the border and I bet see much more money coming in leading to more development, etc.

New York had missed out on this opportunity for years and by the looks of it will continue to miss out.

I would say the biggest thing you can do is practice on Leetcode. You need to be see the different patterns that are used to solve certain classes of problems (tree problems, dynamic programming, array focused problems). There are common data structures that pop up in almost all of the questions (hashmap, linked lists, tree, bst, etc). It's just a matter of exposure but focus on the underlying pattern/technique used to solve the problem and understand how and why it's being used as opposed to rote memorization.

The alternative is finding companies that do not ask these types of interview questions. The only big company I know that doesn't ask those types of questions is Stripe but I'm sure there are plenty of others though they may not be 100% what you are looking for.

Love hearing companies get their comeuppance. Happy to hear things worked out, hope thing are going well with your family.

You see this at small companies and start ups as well. I've seen it first hand myself.

Is there any instances of people claiming the government purposely edited the original images to make them lower quality back when they were first released?

I’m curious if anyone realized the government may be hiding their true capabilities.

Yeah it's tough. Do you go into a new technology and have issues finding jobs or do you use the tried and true, risk stagnating and costing yourself future jobs.

Yeah and it’s one hundred percent true. If the story wasn’t “I won the lottery” but instead was “I missed out big time” that may change things significantly

If startups don't reward engineers and neither do big companies, then what does?

I think we may have had the same first job out of college.

The last experience I have with unlimited PTO is it being unlimited PTO until people actually try to take PTO. Then that all goes to shit.

Yeah my first company out here in the Bay Area was a startup. After that experience, not really looking for another startup position at the moment. All my friends I used to work with have moved on to other non startup companies and are all making minimum 50% more in terms of total compensation.

Yes, yes, there is always things more important than money and they have all that too as well. They can afford good leadership, good management, talented ICs. I can go on and on.

This is exactly what I am talking about and proved my point. It's no where near as bad as you are describing. It may not be for you and what you are looking for but describing anyone who enjoys the Bay Area as someone who really just likes McDonalds but doesn't know better is ridiculous.

This seems like a problem of their own making. Them and other universities could have been investing in younger glassblowers but they decided not to. Now that their seemingly only one is retiring they are paying the piper.

Sounds like GitLab when I used it two or three years ago is the same as today. Downtime all the time where we lost access to code, slow browsing, etc.