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Running long has a fascinating effect of getting people to talk about things that they normally wouldn't, in my experience.

I have a close friend that I've known since we started graduate school 20 years ago. For 4 months we trained for a marathon together, and the majority of my understanding of his deeper thoughts comes from those hours in that short period of time. In fact, I'll claim that anyone I go on regular long runs with will be someone I end up having a far deeper relationship with overall.

Aren't those one time things that define the future of your career? Sort of a pedigree being established?

You can go to a top tier university, land a great job for several years, have positive references, and still be required to do leet code for a recruiter... that seems like ongoing gatekeeping, rather than a one-time effort/pass.

Look. I've seen a lot of your comments in this thread, and I don't think you're listening. You don't seem open to hearing.

What I read is a knee jerk justification for your hiring methodology without being open to any feedback.

You should take a breath. Clearly people disagree with you. Try to empathize with where they're coming from and understand the point they're trying to make.

> I believe you want to optimize for the hardest day rather than the average day.

I think this is a huge mistake. I work in data science, and nearly universally my colleagues are motivated by opportunities to learn. If you're testing for the very rare day, so that your employee has the right answer in their front pocket when that happens they are never going to feel challenged, feel like they're growing, and they're going to jump ship.

I think you're doing snobby filtering, and it's not to your benefit.

I appreciate the reference.

But, I don't think those are vultures. They are bald eagles. I'm not sure if owls scavenge, but I do know they primarily hunt. Eagles both hunt and scavenge. Vultures primarily scavenge.

So, they're actually testing to see if you have commitments outside of work.

"Great" filtering for parents or people caring for ailing family or any other non-work commitment.

I guess it's not ageism at all, right?

> If people cheat, it screws up the fairness

I think it's strange to think cheaters are anything other than selfish. To make an altruistic appeal seems misguided.

I don't know why CEOs make these sort of announcements.

Several months ago my CEO mentioned in a townhall that raises would be larger than normal this year due to recognizing inflation.

At the tail end of my reasonable and normal performance review I got by far the smallest raise I've received in close to a decade.

So, I'm job searching, because the clear signal is my contribution is no longer valued. Had the CEO said nothing, I might be telling myself that the company was in hard times or something, but instead I know I'm an outlier.

I think what a Monet has to do with real-world economics boils down to tax avoidance schemes.

No, it literally does not.

Lower down it discusses the nationally averaged poverty line. At no point does it make any claims to a number for a SF specific localized poverty line. As you say, local values are going to be different, but the national number is far below the "low income" threshold set earlier in the article.

I found this claim dubious so I Googled: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44725026

You can't just change words like that. It's dishonest. Poverty != "low income".

I'm a little confused - why does the existence of platinum cast gold as negative? Both are "positive" elements, but one may have greater value than the other.

Maybe that's not what you meant though.

Don't worry about getting sued. That's what your renters or homeowners insurance is for.

You should know that COBRA can be retroactive.

You do not have to sign up when you terminate your employment. You can sign up when you actually need medical care that you want to be covered. Though, at that time you have to pay back for the time since termination.

It makes it a little easier to walk away and "hope for the best" on the healthcare front.

I'm not familiar with the author, so maybe you can add context for this comment. I'm reading it as snark that posits the author has no credibility, which isn't a very valuable comment in itself.

My father managed an Eddie Bauer flagship in the 70s, and they sold shotguns and climbing gear, as well as camping and fishing equipment. He considered A&F their primary competitor, which is how I learned that history.

Batteries are sold with an expiration date on the package, and I don't think that's usually decades out.

In the 80s I remember seeing expiry dates on AA packs of 99, and my child-brain thought they didn't expire so they put a meaningless number there instead - I couldn't process the idea of the year 1999.

Before, Abercrombie was an outdoor supply company.

The movement into generation-focused apparel was a pivot. They didn't make the next pivot to maintain. I think most companies need to continuously evolve.

If you're planning on delegating the financial success of the company from the start, why not just go work for a company with an already functioning business side?

I'm confused what the point of starting a business to not do business is. Maybe you have a beautiful idea that doesn't currently have a market, in which case you might want a business co-founder, but you'll still want and need to have opinions about fund-raising and success....

> at which point you are not arguing to persuade but rather to make a point

Excellent concept. I think I get caught up in making points, and this framing will help me do better and making persuasion or agreement the final goal.

> I wouldn't mind using a slow-refresh display for coding

I've seen this sentiment a lot when eink displays are discussed here. But, I'm not quite sure I get it.

I've typed in platforms with significant lag between a keystroke and the character showing. It's horrible! So often, you think maybe you made a typo, but have to wait to see it and fix it, instead of a quick few backspaces and ONWARD! I find it really disruptive to my train of thought and it breaks the brain-interface link.

Maybe the eink displays refresh fast enough to make this be a minimal issue, but my few years old Kindle Paperwhite doesn't have me confident that's true.

Or, maybe I just type way worse than those of you that want an eink dev environment.

I'd delay that discussion until a time when ISPs don't tend to be regional monopolies.

He's flat out rejecting people for corporate experience. You don't know the reasons people take jobs or why they're looking for a change.

That may be a cultural/experiential difference. You may not be familiar with CVs as opposed to resumes.

Why don't you have a recruiter paring down the number of resumes dramatically so that you can actually give each one that passes that review adequate reading?

This is what my company is currently doing. First step after a screener call is a 45 minute meeting with the hiring panel to present anything the candidate wishes - some presentations try to fill the full time, some are brief and there's more discussion.

We started doing this to get rid of the repetitive background summary the candidate has to give with each member of the hiring team in 1:1s. Overall, I think it's working well, and wish that places I was interviewing for myself would follow a similar process rather than multiple hours of 1:1 before a tech screen.

> I don't recall a PC-mob being used to silence any and all non-supportive voices until quite recently.

Scopes would like a word with you.

Thank you!

I learn a lot of things on HN. But, this was a surprise, and a genuinely interesting one.

Poop for the win, I guess.

Why does the title have the 'i' in 4 MiB of RAM? That's 4 megabytes, right? Traditionally 4 MB?

What does the extra lowercase letter indicate? I'm not used to that, and I've been dealing with bytes from the kilo-size to the peta-size for 40 years.

I find this extremely dubious based on my own experiences with renting and home maintenance. You need a citation to be at all credible.