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In my experience that's true mostly of large companies that have very standardized interview process. All the startups I worked at so far had some kind of coding question but it was not very leetcode-y and more conversational; Trying to get your thoughts about how you'd solve the problem and assess whether you had the right intuitions about software challenges. I'd encourage you to exercise your network and see if you can find a small to mid-size company that does something interesting to you. You'll likely have a much higher success rate!

I think it's partially true and I definitely fall under the category that hates to sink hours into searching for the best YYY where YYY is a random $30 item. But I don't necessarily want less choice, I just want something/someone I can trust. If I could just believe that the "amazon choice" was actually tested thoroughly and matched a quality standard I can get behind, then I'd happily get the "amazon choice" of most things.

That's the kind of projects we need to get where we need to be in terms of emissions. It won't be easy, but clever solutions where there is real $$ incentives are the ones that can actually be implemented!

Musk is the entrepreneur version of "Move fast; break things" - something like "Make it happen; no matter the cost" kind of guy. Leaving a trail of burnt out/injured employees and other negative externalities is just his way of "getting shit done". Not sure how much or how little impact he'll have in the future direction of Twitter, but if I worked there I'd be a bit concerned!

Not if output was satisfactory before and then drops

Then you'd only ever get candidates that can afford to have a "maybe job" for a while until they get out with no pay check. I'd definitely not work for a company with that arrangement. Unless there is some guarantee they pay you until you land your next thing (within reasonable timeframes).

I'd love if OP had more details on how they ask "great questions that give her a lot of signal about the candidate’s skills while ensuring the candidate always feels comfortable and confident". I hate passing interviews and as a result try my best to be a chill interviewer, but I yet have to find good conversational questions that get me confidence in ones' coding abilities.

Somewhat tangential topic, but ... It's interesting to me how most of the companies with real transformative potential have very little need for (dedicated) software engineers.

I think half of that is that most other engineering professions now come with some non negligible coding skill and the other half is simply that "software can solve anything" is a plain and simple lie.

I can't help but feel a little left out of innovation with "just" software skills. Am I too sorry for myself or is that a shared feeling?

What's the book's name? No wonder sales are slow, you gotta promote that shit :)

The space race was a wild time. "Accessory to War" by Neil DeGrasse Tyson is a fun and easy read that talks about some pretty sketchy things. And it's nothing new either, the whole WW2 showed in full display that leaving the military leverage science is a dangerous pandora box.

Is the expected Linus mobile os experience more of a mini laptop with a touchscreen or are they really going after the Android/iOS feel?

Love the mission! It's also such a glaring light on how broken and stupid the credit system is.

And even then, if prohibition showed one thing is that forbidding alcohol does not prevent alcohol drinking at all :D

Can't one facetime on an appleTV/macMini with a webcam? Or use an ipad Pro?

They might just have gotten a "wow these guys have no shame and can sell anything while stabbing your mother in front of you without you batting an eye" feeling that many people in the SV circles like to glorify.

Humble brag. In NYC it gets you around the block twice!

So I guess they realized that Starlink was gonna be a whole lot simpler to maintain. While probably not as cheap to start off, it might become it.

I'm sitting here, still waiting for a new Pebble

I'm suspicious because oftentimes things are more complex than a single source. These articles all point to a single prop (47) and seem to really point out to shoplifting. At the same time the homelessness increased 14% from 2016 to 2017. So is there more crime because of lawmaking or more crime because more desperate people with seemingly no other recourse? Not claiming to know better, but when it comes to social issue I'd stay away from claiming "mathematical" like correlations. Just my 2c :)

It'll probably take a crash and burn of a few big names with VCs being very careful about any new company in that space. I could see something come up that'd be bootstrapped and just slowly gain business in a big metro area before becoming a "thing". Def going to remain a low margin business though so it won't be easy to make it healthy

Do you have any source on these claims? Cause these are typically hard to measure and I get suspicious when I read "Also recent policies decriminalized many acts and have led to rampant street crime" and other welfare correlation with crime. Happy to learn new things tho :)

Can't wait for more reasonable platforms to take over. I'd rather have some clarity and honesty than a stack of sneaky fee and not knowing who gets paid what. I have been pretty much only doing pick up orders (from the restaurant's site) since the whole tip stealing debacle. I know that some people would like jobs in the delivery space for flexibility and extra income but it seems too dishonest of a space for me to caution. Just my feeling tho, plenty of no-car downtown life friends who order and that's their choice :).

Probably only one of the few tricks we know of. These companies running unscalable models by burning VC money like it's firewood have to somehow smooth the numbers.

What I don't get is why people all try to do their own when there is already a slew of existing solution and it hasn't gained adoption. Why not back something like Stellar if what you really care about is helping financial transactions!

Isn't something like 40% of the population "vitamin D deficient" though? https://www.nature.com/articles/s41430-020-0558-y

I make the bet that "traditional" banks will steer to go cashless in the near future and start charging all kind of fees for things you never had to pay for back when you could hold money in your hand. This is why the utopia of a decentralized currency would be so needed and will be fought all the way.

Side-note: I don't like the environmental impact of BTC, but I don't like being a victim of banks (who tend to have a terrible impact on the env in their own ways).

Indeed Phoenix is a great web framework for Elixir. Idk that I'd be qualified to tackle something like building a web framework but I'd be curious enough to look into it :)

Maybe my lack of lower level language knowledge will show here, but how does that compare to Rust? I keep seeing and hearing about these new-ish languages Rust, Nim, Zig, etc. that all claim to be C/C++ perf lvl but better developper experience. Any of these is preferred for API/Web development? Does it yield much advantage over something like Elixir that already provides significant perf increase over a Python(Django-Flask)/RoR stack?

My thoughts exactly. It's like asking someone how they like working in a room that's on fire. Is that a fair question to asses how well working from that room goes? Maybe try again when it's not on fire anymore?

I misread this to be about "magic mushroom" but turns out it's an even better article! Fungi are fascinating, on the same order as viruses. It's a marvel of nature, fascinating and also terrifying. I sometimes wish I studied biology instead of computer science, it's a fascinating field!