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People in a few hundred years are going to laugh about the laws created in late stage liberalism. The frenzy and idiocy makes things like beard taxes seem reasonable

America + Europe have been getting Democracy! good and hard for quite a while, time to shake things up

The only one I know of in Spain is Andasol, which is small scale and enormously expensive

Compared to Florida / Arizona, yes

Molten salt storage doesn't work well in practice. https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/storage/nevadas-crescen...

Even if you're somewhere where the wind could give you 90% of your energy, you'll still need a reliable, baseline power source if you don't want everything to randomly shut down the other 10% of the time.

Wind + solar aren't as cheap as the LCOE makes it seem because you always have to pay for another source of power as baseline. If you added similar subsidies to natural gas it would be by far the cheapest energy source

Also 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019. They'll be right at some point, but it still won't be profitable

Most companies are open about the expectations for the role being interviewed for, the interview process, and preparation tips

When did this happen? I haven't interviewed for a few years, but nothing was open or clear then

Multiple hour coding assessments will work for people who are motivated for a new job. But every company wants "passive" candidates that are already working somewhere. If they're already (moderately) happy somewhere, they're not going to spend 3+ hours on your pre-process.

Companies that can identify talent without wasting the talent's time will be at a huge advantage

I haven’t seen that too often, but I do get a lot of slight variations on my “impressive background” compelling them to reach out

Full on programming as a mechanic seems overwhelming, but I like the idea of automation in strategy games

I’ll give your game a try, maybe I’ll be proved wrong

We want to be a full fledged talent agency for software engineers, and the first thing we're making better for engineers is the interview process. We help you design your own interview process to best show off your skills.

One of the things that make tech interviews so nondeterministic is that it's like taking a test where the teacher never told you what to study. With us you'll know exactly what and how many steps there are in every company's process, and what to prepare for - from the beginning.

A big part of this is negotiating with companies to create personalized technical interviews. Maybe you're an expert in Kafka, so you can give a small presentation on how they could be using it and do a Q&A with the team. Or you're good at getting up to speed quickly and want to show that off in some pair programming. We want creative processes that don't leave you feeling like you just went through a meat grinder.

Companies also want to test your knowledge in some way, so we work with them to get you a guide of what to prepare for. But no being peppered with random CS questions - you'll have a company specific guide on what is important to know for the role, and what you can expect and prepare for in the interview.

This has gotten a little long-winded, but would be interested in talking about what else sets us apart from Triplebyte / Hired, or anything else that comes up

Everything's a bubble, and that's ok. Wouldn't want every city / region to be the same

Good design, but i wasn't able to get very far without having to signup, so i bounced

(In my experience) in SF for programmers as long as you're there for standard / scheduled meetings you can come and go as you need. But that won't be as true for other locations or jobs that are less in demand

It's another distribution channel for your job, with a highly concentrated audience.

It's like you want to advertise to parents, so you put your ad on the park bench at the playground

It's like the dihydrogen monoxide scare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrogen_monoxide_hoax - you start using words like "chemicals", "industrial", "process" and people get worried. Even more so when you add "money" or "profit"

The difference is leverage + tax benefits

It should be only for legislators. Turn the tables and make them live in fear of what they do to other people

So I'm sure that you would agree that the current alleged russian interference is a misrepresentation and not due to putin

No worries - i didn't think so. I was focusing on the quote

No ethical shadiness? Domestic spying, civilian casualties through the drone program, IRS interference in an election against political opponents...

The opposite: "Quite frankly, I don't believe you. I work in a very conservative area, in a very alt-right company, have had encountered nothing racist or sexist, whether at my present employer or any previous one."

Unless you're actually building a database or something like Kafka it's way more useful to have someone that knows how to use a debugger and a profiler

6500 data engineers on all of Linkedin, but 6600 job openings in the bay area. so there are more job openings in one area than all data engineers on linkedin

"Racist" is the new "fascist", it doesn't mean anything, other than "I don't like it".

Minimum 5 years of Haskell experience in Industry, academia and open source

Candidates with direct industrial Haskell experience, significant authorship (ICFP, etc.) record, or a long history of open source contributions will be prioritized

So you don't need 5 years of haskell..

Yeah it's just another perspective

I don't think it validates it - if their not as central why not make them an employee with less equity / control

It might originally have been a misunderstanding, but like how "literally", now also means "not literally" it's the meaning of "culture".

But then again how many of these companies with cofounders, really only had cofounders-in-name-only? Where one person really drove everything but at some point thought - oh shit, if I'm going to be successful, I need a cofounder!

Given the dogmatic advice "YOU NEED A COFOUNDER", I'm sure a lot of it's title inflation - what would normally be first employees are elevated to founder status to look good for the pitch deck or just to follow the advice. That said, they're still going to be quality people - less met at a find-a-technical-cofounder event, more Biz Stone style "can my title be cofounder lol?"

The "just a warm body, any warm body!" mentality is what's so detrimental about the co-founder craze. Both financially (~50% of equity!) and in terms of more risk. It's a bad idea unless they're at least as talented and motivated as you (preferably in an area that complements you), and even then it's dangerous because you give up a lot of control.

If it's your idea and your vision, why not build the prototype, get some traction, then bring on a talented employee for 5% equity? Much better than 50% with someone you met at a "find a tech-cofounder" event