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I find coffee very approachable for people without any experience. If you have a good barista they should be able to make a good recommendation for you. Maybe start with something nutty or chocolatey and if you are a bit more adventurous, try a coffee with a berry flavored profile. For me the big surprise was when I started with specialty coffee that I could taste the difference between very small changes when pulling a shot.

Why should we wait for SteamOS? I’m using Pop_OS! on my gaming machine and can play all new games with the Steam compatibility mode. Baldur’s Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance II work perfectly fine. I was quite surprised that there are no problems at all and happy that I can go Windows free now

I have both a centralized Confluence instance and the documentation in GitHub. A GitHub action converts the markdown to Confluence to stay in sync. It's very handy, because developers like to document in markdown on GitHub, but business people tend to favor Confluence. One additional feature you get from this is the search over all repos, which doesn't work without additional tooling in GitHub.

We moved away from LastPass for the reasons you mentioned and for the problem that I couldn't recover the password of a business account. The account was just not usable and they couldn't even delete it, so once someone made a mistake while opening it, their email address was blocked. I think they fixed this since we moved, but 1Password is not standing in my way and does everything reliably and quietly.

They have apps for all (mobile) OSes and even a native Linux app, what I really appreciate. I just saw they also have a CLI, I have to test this, too.

I'm just a happy customer with ~60 users and not affiliated.

But at least they're dogfooding – the feature list is really short, but the quality is always good. I also wouldn't want to use it as my only conference tool, but if zoom is down, it makes a good backup.

I'm using it at work, e.g. to visualize state machines. It makes it a lot easier to discuss it with business people. In Java there is a great library which translates code into graphviz markup: guru.nidi/graphviz-java

It's the job of the manager to create an environment where employees can go to the manager to discuss things which are not going well or change of career anytime without the fear of retribution. I'm mentioning this often to make sure everyone knows it. Last month we had a case where someone was unhappy being a Team Lead and we could change their career path to something more interesting with an equal level of contribution.

I was very sure (correct me if I'm wrong) that salmonella are only on the egg shell and could probably be decontaminated by dropping them in boiling water for a few seconds without denaturating the egg white. I really like the surge in dyi/food realated articles on hacker news, keep them coming!

Build stuff 6 years ago

Then you applied at the wrong companies. For people with a real GitHub repo with a project or contributions, I always skip all programming tests and jump on the real code. It's a real pleasure to have an excited candidate explaining reasons for architecture or choice of tools etc. compared to fizz buzz. I can only encourage everyone to bring a small side project, it will make your interviews easier.

Only my opinion – I'm living and working in Singapore since 7 years and it definitely is a good environment to do business. The justice system is reliable and predictable to not startle potential investors and the government itself does not misuse their undoubtedly great power they have over the country. Misusing it however would result in losing money and that's pretty much the only natural resource they have. I'm feeling more free in Singapore than in my home country because whenever I have to do with the government, I know there's someone to talk to with common sense and nearly everything can be done online. You can look forward to doing business there.

AirPods Pro 7 years ago

I have exactly the same problem, that the pods would fall out after 30s, faster when I'm moving. I gave them to my wife and for her it's like they're glued in. I tried using the pod-"cushions". While they work I have to remove them every time for charging. So I'm a little jealous about people with compatible ears.

You won't find many non-sugared drinks in 2019 in Singapore either. I only know canned Oolong Tea which has no added sugar, the rest in e.g. a 7Eleven is overly sweet. It's next to impossible to get unsweetened yoghurt in a convenience store.

The brown-sugar tea is all over the place and if you order some green-tea with 0% sugar they look at you like you're an alien and tell you it will be too sour and not taste good.

Exactly that. I'm so happy I convinced my manager to let me rollout 1Password company wide. My problems with LastPass were the clunky web UI and the lack of control I had even for enterprise accounts. I wasn't able to do a password reset for a new team member who pasted the wrong password and couldn't login anymore later on. The email address was not usable afterwards anymore. Costs for us were the same, so it wasn't that hard to convince people after they saw the demo.

Vandalize Your Car 7 years ago

That's a surprise for me, in Germany you can do whatever you want color wise without having to update the car license. If a car comes with multiple colors from the factory the documentation says "multi-colored"

But I haven't answered your question precisely: We don't offer a pair, because we don't use the coding platforms. I'd say the homework counts about 80%, the following tech interview 20%.

Of course I have to trust the candidates that they made the homework themselves, but if you don't start on a trust basis that would be a really bad starting point. There's still probation to make sure they're a good fit. I'm investing a lot more work into vetting when it's an overseas candidate compared to local, but mostly to make sure we don't put someone on the street, because I didn't do my job properly.