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What was your prep strategy?

If you play any notes within a scale they are guaranteed to sound good together. Note: I'm not an expert, correct me if I'm wrong.

Airbnb used to have a header X-Hi-Airbnb with a hiring manager's email a while ago. I imagine they got rid of it because of the volume of emails.

I found this article useful: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-one-can-explai...

I remember I checked Hinge API a few years ago and the exposed their users last name. Wonder if this has been fixed by now.

Twitter was the most useful social network for me personally, depending on who you follow you can come across some interesting ideas there.

Yet, after a few months “sober” I wonder if I might be missing out. Is the signal to noise ratio high enough to justify using Twitter these days if you are not a major celebrity and don’t intend to promote something?

What metrics would you consider when it comes to aircraft safety?

How would you define sensitive content? The real challenge here is to train a classifier.

Except that work visas are virtually impossible to get these days.

Even though it’s extremely promising, I think it’s too early to start learning it, as you won’t be able to use in production for the next couple years because of the lack of backward compatibility.

The clients are available under GPLv3.

Does it require any additional configuration?

The issue is not so much the diversity of clients, but fragmentation caused by proprietary protocols they use.

Why would you want to have a green card as a Canadian citizen thought?

This is what I'm talking about. The employer will dangle this prize in front of you for as long as they can and will continue to hold off on promotions and keep your salary the same for as long as possible. This is why Canadian salaries remain low, because there will be another sucker that comes along and will also be offered the same "we'll give you a promotion in a few years!" or "we'll transfer you to the US soon! very very soon!" line and they'll accept it.

After 3 years of being a permanent resizent you can apply for citizenship, and getting one is pretty easy if you work in tech. Companies don't really have that much of leverage on you, especially in comparison with US with a dangling carrot of H1Bs and green cards.

Just out of curiosity, does anyone have a comprehensive argument of why absolute privacy is essential? I understand the possibility of abuse of the power granted to governments, but is there a solution for identifying malicious actors that doesn't involve privacy compromises?

Could you share the link to the post?

Even if you’re not a wizard with words, dating sites also offer an absolute advantage: the sheer number of users. How can you find love that’s one in a million by hanging out at a bar that welcomes at most five new faces every night? Do “friends of friends” introduce you to 20 potential dates a day?

This assumption strikes me as a fallacy. I never understood why even bother with online dating where odds are severely skewed for guys, when it's so much easier to find dates through your social circle, aka simply doing what you love and organically surrounding yourself with interesting women.

North America’s fourth-largest city is also cheaper: Its computer engineers and programmers earn salaries that are on average $71,000 a year lower than their counterparts in San Francisco

It's $71,000 lower than engineering salaries in SF according to the article

What were your key takeaways from 4-hour Workweek?

Personally, I dropped reading it when it switched from generic motivational pep talk to praising virtual assistants.

What other things you look at in potential candidates?

Volition is not the same thing as free will.

The only way to know for sure is to verify your friend's signature in offline.

But you are expected to find the most optimal solution to a problem, and not just a brute force one. And usually an optimal approach would require advanced knowledge of algorithms and data structures.

How would you go about mastering the principles rather than practicing random algorithmic challenges?

The article is, unfortunately, lacking in substance. For example, the author applied to 20 jobs and got interviews with 6. This is an incredible success rate. I'm guessing he had referrals from hiring managers and didn't just apply through a CTS.

Great team player. I hope you hired him.

I've seen a lot of remote startups offering salaries around $100k USD, independent of location.

As long as it's within US?

I've been working remotely for the last few years. Here is my take on the arguments presented in the article:

First, it becomes easier to focus on merit, actual work, rather than on how long people stay in the office. In other words: you don’t need to count hours to see whether someone is being productive. You can now allow people to work whenever they want.

Sure, working remotely boosts individual productivity, but it deteriorates group productivity due to the inherent inefficiency of online communication. It works better for more senior specialists and in scenarios where everyone is working more independently doing heads down work.

I've also noticed that because I could work whenever I wanted and because I was judged by my output only, I tended to work overtime and eventually became more and more burnt out. I'd argue that separating life from work when working remotely is a challenge in itself, and one has to have a very strong discipline to not work all the time.

Third, you can now hire the best people on the planet in any particular function.

Not necessarily. Most of the time a mediocre developer would do just fine, and this essentially becomes a form of outsourcing labor to cut the costs down.

Then, there is an issue of trust online. Unless you have an established relationship with a professional, you'd probably use middlemen marketplaces like Upwork or Toptal to mitigate the risks of making a wrong hire. So even if it's true that there is a vast amount of talent available worldwide, it's still a challenge to tap into that talent not only due to trust issues but also because of the legal restrictions and international payments.

Most importantly, when working remotely you are making a sacrifice when it comes to your career development. Likely, the work you'll be doing wouldn't be as challenging as what you could do in top tech companies. It does allow for more flexibility to work from wherever and whenever you want, but personally, I didn't find that as valuable, as having meaningful work.

Again, this is just must experience, and I'm curious if anyone is happy with their career path working remotely.

If someone wants to experience something similar, sensory deprivation tanks could be an interesting option. I'd argue that the lack of tactile deprivation in the experiment made a huge difference.