Cofike

From my reading on Hacker News, I may be the only person in tech who enjoys living in San Francisco.

Pack it in boys

Docker containers are a breeze on heroku. The only issue is some wonkiness trying to ssh into the running container. Have yet to get it to work.

Performance improvement plan. Basically a chance to get your act together before they fire you.

Yeah it's insane. I can't tell if the people who say it isn't bad just have good teams or are lying. The fact that there is a chance of crying at work based on your manager is absurd and washes away any good of working at that company.

I've had this same though lately, that I was being seen as inattentive or disengaged by not disagreeing more with decisions I don't fully support. Maybe I'll try this out to see how that works.

The issue though is when you do bring it up and none of the leadership care and they plow ahead anyways. Headlong into another poor decision.

Is that guy running the bot farm not afraid of legal action from Instagram? I'm not well versed but it seems like something they could go after him for. I wouldn't be spouting off about it to buzzfeed, that's for sure.

This was a major problem at my last company. There were days where meetings weren't an issue but the support channel we had to monitor was. Ugh

Any time I've heard of people I knew getting referred by old coworkers they still had to go through the complete interview process. Are you getting jobs through word of mouth alone with no technical interview?

I haven't heard of that happening too much, at least in the Bay Area.

After getting into some comp sci textbooks these last few months I definitely think these books are underrated for the information they provide and how they provide it.

It's hard for me to get into it. It seems that you basically just work your ass off for 20 years, live like a pauper, then you can retire once your (arguably) best years are gone. I'd rather just work and spend my money and experience things during that time.

What also kind of bugged me with this article was that it sounds so crazy that these two people are doing this so young but then it's revealed they made a bunch of dosh off crypto which cheapens it a bit for me. This isn't just a road map one can follow, it implies some sort of luck ahead of time. I guess fortune favors the bold.

My last company made us stop writing integration tests because "they don't actually find any issues". We then switched to blackbox testing which seemed to basically only be integration tests anyways (at least within a single component/module) so that's, good?

This is pretty disgusting. The provincial government should be absolutely ashamed of themselves.

That page loads and the text all grows until it fills the whole screen and freezes the tab. Whats that about?

I mean, he's not dead. You can still talk to him.

Pandemic Legion? I haven't looked at the articles yet but I swear I remember them doing that in their forums.

Edit: Good old PL.

That's a good point I didn't think about. Assuming you are most likely burning some midnight oil at a top tech company, you'd be stressed to keep up a social circle besides your coworkers.

I think that plays a bigger part in it than we are thinking

Take some time to work on stuff you find interesting? That's been the reason I've done it so far.

If you are in the financial situation to do it I would recommend. Granted I work in a location where no one cares if you have a two year gap, let alone a two month, on your resume.

The real trick is not just bum around the entire time otherwise then yes it was probably a bad call.

The two year salary metric is very strange in my opinion. I've quit jobs and taken time off without anywhere near two years of savings.

Yeah that struck me as a little strange.

If you have a "top tier tech job" then I don't really understand the need for two years of savings. Do you think you won't find a job before two years? I guess it depends on location.

I've left jobs multiple times to take a few months off to work on stuff before job hunting again and I definitely didn't have more than one year of savings.

The individuals who are using these drugs already use them openly in the street. I see them daily on my way to work as I work in a popular area for vagrants/homeless.

If it prevents me from stepping on needles and seeing blood from people shooting up on the street, I am all for it. These individuals will use one way or another if they want to so giving them a place to do it safely off the street seems acceptable.

Of course, the ideal solution will be to eliminate heroin and other hard drug use but this is a start.

I'm not a lyft/uber driver but I am almost positive they cannot see destination or payout for a job before accepting it.

The biggest issue for me was that it was hit or miss if my professors were going to actually teach or if they were going to power through powerpoint slides for 50 minutes. Mostly research heavy professors that are just doing classes because of contractual obligations.

The best professors I had did not read exclusively off of the projector.

I took Murat's distributed system course at UB, awesome professor and really enjoyed his lectures.

well lets do this

I worked with a guy who uses PHP in 2017 and we never let him forget it.

The service is absolutely abysmal.

I once had an appointment through Ikea for a few items to be delivered. It took 4 different missed appointments for them to finally deliver it. It was a nightmare. First one they never contacted us when they arrived (I live in an apartment building, no way in for non-tenants). Second one was apparently never put in the system. Same with the third one despite me calling the night before to confirm that everything went through, they even confirmed with the third party delivery service. Fourth time it finally showed up.

Would not recommend.

And we're back

That's how I felt trying to find a job in the bay area. If I wanted to compete with the top talent then I needed to prepare for the interviews and practice those problems.

I don't go to Walmart because of how they treat their employees, the nonsense they pull with their vendors, and now this.

The thing is that I'm not actually sure if any of the alternatives engage in this kind of practice as well.