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Just closed financing on a home. Rocket had a comparable rate but the real no-go for us was their very-limited rate-lock option. With interest rate trends what they are right now, we really needed a 200 day + rate lock with a float-down in case things changed. Other lenders (builder, ownup options, local banks) offered those and the option to buy points and apply them if we were able to float down. Rocket seemed very slow to adjust to the market forces with competitive options.

Wow - I didn't realize the stickies feature is basically unchanged since then

> You should avoid scheduling interviews post-lunch

Interesting opinion when weighed against studies like PNAS' famous parole decision study that found morning and right after lunch were the most favorable rulings: https://www.pnas.org/content/108/17/6889

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I wish we could have experienced this. Our OBGYN didn't catch (after we insisted) that the baby was breach. After 2 hours of labor we were rushed to an emergency c-section.

I'm thankful that my wife did get a little skin-to-skin but it was not immediate and it was for maybe 5 minutes before they were seperated. I think we got to see our baby about an hour later.

The whole experience during and after was horrible but I'm not sure if we or the hospital could have handled it better other than if we had insisted more strongly that the position felt wrong weeks before delivery.

Location: Houston, TX

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Notes: Marketing, BI and business development background. Launched a bootcamp and ran it for 4 years before taking the course on my way out. Seeking first true Programming/Web Dev role.

New web developer here about 4 weeks into learning JavaScript and I decided to challenge myself to automate a process I dread every year - shopping for new electricity plans.

I've always been underwhelmed with the popular tool powertochoose.org (created by the Texas Energy Commission) since it assumes 1000kWh of use every month. I always ended up grabbing a dozen seemingly-low-cost plans and doing some spreadsheet work to come up with the best option based off my previous year of usage. That is exactly what I decided to build into TexasElectricity.io, except it runs through every plan available in your zip code.

I am still working on the site. Next up is a filter for plan term lengths and renewable energy. Please give it a try and let me know what you think. The tool is open source, free, and ad-free.

After some research, it looks like they were a part of Y Combinator's Winter 2019 graduating class so I believe that seed round is a part of the package you get when accepted.

Ouch - 150K in a seed funding round from Y Combinator

Their efforts to block return-free filing is the important issue here. Filing taxes, even on paper, would be orders of magnitude easier if the government had to pre-fill it before sending - removing the complexity that makes tax filing applications necessary for most.

I'd imagine you'd have to sedate the passenger? That would be far too scary and long a trip to risk them panicking when there is nothing you can do.

So, you are essentially paying for 30 min of time to do with whatever you want - got it. Thanks Deepak

Deepak, how are mock interviews performed?

I guess I expected a mention since his work was a huge part of making Dropbox successful.

Honest question: What about Sean Ellis? Maybe I am mis-remembering, but wasn't he the person behind the "invite for more storage" growth marketing effort that really helped propel Dropbox to mainstream use?

As a Director of a coding bootcamp operating out of a co-working facility, this looks exciting for WeWork. We had considered WeWork for a campus now that there are two planned in Houston. It's still an option for us moving forward (heh, or maybe not with this news?) but cost and timing has stopped us from pulling the trigger up until now.

TBH, a vast majority of our students find their employment with companies outside of the co-working space. It's value to our students and school has had more to do with offering a collaborative and exciting environment to the students as well as affording our school more flexibility regarding classroom spaces/sizes and basically allowing us to keep costs down versus building out our own space. The service layer of a co-working building (cleaning, kitchen, IT, and so on) are invaluable for smaller organizations like ours.

It will be interesting to see if WeWork uses this as an added service for it's members - in which case, it will need to be very flexible in it's curriculum to match it's course to the needs of members across a huge number of facilities. Or, if it keep more of the Flatiron approach and attracts students outside of WeWork - and how that works with things like fees, parking costs, membership, and if they meet member hiring needs.

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>"Pricing is based on the size of your organization"

Anyone have an idea of cost?

Full Disclosure, I am a coding bootcamp Campus Director.

I can't speak for the UC Berkeley program, but we do have another Trilogy Education Services program run through the University of Texas here in Houston. I believe the program (at least, the web dev one) is identical.

I've met with several students of these Trilogy courses and attended their first graduation event here. By all accounts, the program is solid. However, I would always recommend getting specific info on who would be teaching your cohort since that is the most important point to consider for any course.

I would suggest going on LinkedIn and doing a search for people who have done the course. Most of these people will also have public portfolios or repos that should include some contact info. Here are a bunch of them https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/index/?keywords=berk...

IMO Amazon should focus on enabling and assisting the development of more skills and integrations for echo devices before pushing out newer models or adding features.

Just finished Daemon and about to start Freedom. Great read, and it's amazing how quickly it ramps up near the end! I hadn't been hooked to a book like that since "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" and "Dune"

Based on the videos on the landing page, I was getting the impression this was a VR/fitness game. Everybody running around had me thinking you needed to run in order to your avatar to do the same. I was actually disappointed how little you actually have to do to play the game when I navigated a couple screens in to get the full-picture.

Unless I missed something, it doesn't seem like the landlords were demanding this information. Is the worry that they might not consider you if you don't answer every question?