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The "thank you" emails seems to be a tradition/expectation of the classic corporate culture where the employer has a extreme amount of candidates for each opening and each candidate must please the interviewer at all cost. (e.g. a extreme imbalance in power between employer/candidate).

Quite contrary to the "startup" culture where there is a limited amount of candidates for each opening and where it's acknowledged that candidates might get multiple offers (e.g. a more balanced employer/candidate power)

Free Ross Ulbricht 7 years ago

On the last day of trial, Serrin Turner, the NY lead prosecutor, addressed the jury and stated that none of the six contracted murders-for-hire allegations occurred.[28] One charge of procuring murder was originally filed in October 2013 in a separate pending indictment in Maryland (which was later dismissed in its entirety in July 2018);[8] the other five allegations were never filed.[38]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Ulbricht

If your app or website uses a Unicode character which isn't supported on a device, the user will usually see � - a replacement character. If you include Unifont, they'll see the correct character.

Neat idea. I think the transition to UTF-8 is practically done, I'm not seeing � anymore these days (used to be extremely common a while back).

They do all kinds of caching, image compression, etc. I think most of those are in paid plans though.

Just mentioning it as it's quite a simple, fast, free change that doesn't cost any developer hours.

I've found HackerRank to be great at acing the algorithmic/data structures questions during interviews. You don't even need to finish Cracking the Coding Interview (which is incredibly hard to do with ruby as it's mostly performance based).

You could use "hacker for hire" services on Tor.

You could also hide a bounty somewhere (e.g. in an email, in a private Github repo, etc.).

You don't even need to mention this is your account, e.g. "I want the email password of X for Y bitcoins".

Both solutions comes with its own issues, but I don't think there is a legal way to do a full pentest.

I Miss Rails 7 years ago

Hi, if you are interested in helping people with their ruby/rails issues, there is also reddit / ruby discord / rails slack / and stack overflow. I'm trying to be active on Reddit and the Discord but not very active on slack/stack overflow. There are already quite a few people helping but more people would help :).

Looks like Uber would be a $90B - $120B valuation, so about ~1/4th of Uber.

Uber has ~15 millions daily trips, while Lyft has ~2 million daily trips.

Stack Overflow is such a mess I prefer helping people on Reddit / Discord / Slack nowadays.

SO is becoming read-only in my opinion.

Preaching what I like, and I'm not into extreme performance much:

- Ruby for most things (most generalist language I know)

- JS for whatever can't be done in Ruby

- Other languages when anything really can't be done (or a magnitude harder) in JS or Ruby

I think just trying out to make some simple thing (e.g. an Hacker News scrapper) in different languages will tell you much more than any person's opinions.

https://learnxinyminutes.com helps grabs the basics of a language quickly (especially as you are familiar with other languages).