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celim307on Small cities in America’s Mountain West are booming

We are already projected to have a water shortage this summer in the Rockies and it’s only going to get worse. Every state along the Colorado river is gearing up for water right battles and I dread to think what’s going to happen once the snow pack in the Rockies gets less and less every year

celim307on Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job?

Hmm I would give rock climbing another shot, pandemic aside rock climbing especially at gyms is very social, I’ve even quit gyms because some are more akin to night clubs than climbing gyms.

Bouldering? Ask for beta or work a problem with someone. Top rope or sport? The gym should have a program for people looking for belay partners.

Give it another shot

celim307on Figma to React

Agreed with this, the tooling for pumping out presentational only components is already there.

celim307on How can you not be romantic about programming? (2020)

The highways of tomorrow are being built today.

celim307on Uganda's internet Shutdown

North Korea says sup

celim307on A CSV file with 80k tweets from the day of the capitol hill riots

I think op is slowly starting to realize they might be the asshole, not the people calling them out on it

celim307on A CSV file with 80k tweets from the day of the capitol hill riots

Curious choice to focus blame on the people investigating and not the people making literal death threats...

celim307on What Silicon Valley gets about engineers that traditional companies do not

We had a large disconnect between product and engineering. The directors solution was to have mandatory 8 hours of sprint ceremonies a week where we would review the definition of “bug” and “epic”, every week. We also were required to sit in on all team meetings regardless if it was your team. We had two full time scrum masters for a team of six engineers.

I suggested instead engineers get looped earlier into the process with stakeholders. The director said it was a bad idea as we couldn’t possibly hope to understand the business side of things.

Very glad I got out

celim307on FAA issuing new rules to allow drones to fly over people and at night

That’s a little different, seatbelts save the lives of your customers

celim307on Interview advice that got me offers

Adding to this, schedule your interviews from least desired role to most desired. You will get a ton of practice interviewing and white boarding, and have offers in hand before you interview at your goal role. This is doubly true if your goal role ends up having an exploding offer.

celim307on Show HN: Find the safest well lit walking route between two locations

I don’t doubt that happens but the flip side is that in my area the food trucks and mom and pop locations have been getting a big boost from people in the neighboring gentrified neighborhood giving them shout outs or sharing job opportunities. My neighbor has started selling her mother’s tamales starting on next door and now has enough business to stop working in an Amazon warehouse.

My area is probably not representative of most Nextdoor communities however

celim307on Equity guide for employees at fast-growing companies

All equity is not created equal. Employee equity pool is usually the first to be diluted and the last to be paid out. Read your offer materials closely. You’ll want some anti dilution clause that gives pool refreshers. But 99% of the time investors will get paid out before employees or founders

celim307on How Chase Sapphire retained customers

They demolished a lot of the benefits though a few years ago.

celim307on Who Americans spend their time with, by age

Sounds like mom needs a hobby and her own friends

celim307on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2020)

Wrong post, this is for employers. You want the other thread “who wants to be hired”

celim307on My Priceless Summer on a Maine Lobster Boat

I didn’t get many marketing vibes from this. Sounded like a young writer experiencing something new

celim307on My Priceless Summer on a Maine Lobster Boat

That was a nice read. The author writes well

celim307on A pacifist's plan to survive the violent world of prison

Is it common to house non-violent offenders with ones convicted of violent crimes?