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Can I please have an electric car that is silent to everyone except people/animals that might need to be warned?

Your comment reminded me of interviewing.io and their strapline "chat roulette without the dicks" Similar idea but for engineering interviews and practice interviews

I just did the exact same thing, for the boats I can see in Falmouth harbour.

In the UK the Consumer Association product the Which? magazine and website. which.com

My rubric for picking the quickest queue is the one with the lowest total age. A queue of pensioners will take longer to pack bags, find the right payment card, redeem vouchers and chat with the cashier.

The signal is clearer if you abandon the trolley and walk out.

Buying a handful of electric buses as the start of a migration away from diesel is a lot cheaper to get started, and a lot less commitment than installing all the infrastructure before you can run a single tram.

I suspect that is probably a good idea. When my daughters were babies the advice in the UK was to avoid nut products, which we did, it seems to have changed more recently.

I also wonder if the fact that my wife has a mild nut allergy and therefore avoids nuts would have been a factor, the girls would not have been exposed to nuts in the womb. Just guessing though, ask a doctor.

This sounds very similar to a treatment that my daughter is due to start next year at a Cambridge allergy clinic in the UK. She'll have to take the peanut based medication every day. She will have the initial dose in a hospital in case she has a reaction and then take the remainder of the doses home. Every two weeks we'll go back to the hospital to increase the dose. I'm very excited about the potential for this to keep her safer, but also terrified at the prospect of deliberately feeding her peanut.

http://www.peanut.cuh.org.uk/

It is a feature, in the same way that all my subscriptions failing when my bank issues a new card would be a bug.

Perhaps if the Google rephrased their email to mention that this is to avoid interruption to your service it would seem less creepy.

Shameless plug here, my side project https://www.mikesremotelist.com finds about 10-20 newly listed remote positions a day, they are not all US based, but the majority are.

This is great, I've been thinking about doing something similar but not been able to make the time so it is good to see someone else doing it. There is quite a lot of information out there about tackling the logistical challenges of operating remotely esp for software development, great to hear other perspectives and industries.

Does it force any particular process / workflow? I'd like to try it but the investment of time and social capital in trying a new tool that doesn't work out for the team is very high.

Trello, Slack, Zoom

Exactly. It's bad enough to be worried that you might have skin cancer, then to worry so much about the cost that you don't go see the doctor can only compound the issue.

I would guess (and don't know) that if you had super amazing insurance then maybe it covers all these unexpected extras. But for those that do not have that level of cover the decision must go something like:

I'm worried that this mole looks bad,

if I go and see a doctor then I might get a nasty bill,

but if I don't go and see a doctor then it might get worse and when it does I'll have no choice but to go,

oh and the cost of the treatment could bankrupt my family

The point I rarely see discussed in these ongoing debates about the best way to pay for healthcare is the benefit of knowing what you have to pay. As I understand it in the US even with health insurance there is likely to be an additional payment required by the patient for treatment, and the cost of that payment is generally unknown upfront.

With the NHS is the UK I can be pretty confident that no matter what medication my doctor prescribes that when I collect it from the pharmacy it will cost me exactly £8.60

I can also be confident that when I go for an appointment to see my GP that it will cost me nothing. This doesn't mean that is is free, as my National Insurance contributions are substantial, but that I know that I don't bear any financial risk from going to see a doctor.

I can't imagine what it would be like to have to worry about whether going to see a doctor about this mole that's changed a bit might land me with an unknown bill. Or to worry that my daughters peanut allergy could see me paying hundreds of dollars when her adrenaline pens expires.

For me the video part of the process involved recording a video about 6 minutes long where I had to answer 5 questions to camera and send that video in, there wasn't a video conference part (at least not for me). After that was a telephone interview, I didn't get any further than that.

This is a great list, thanks.

I also made a site for this, but rather than aggregating the various job boards I'm trying to track down the companies themselves that hire remotely and aggregate the postings on their own sites: https://www.mikesremotelist.com

Anonymity?

Buy gift card from random ebay person.

Pay for something that you'd rather keep secret using gift card.

Reduced chance of getting caught?

e.g. https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/pages/gift-card-paymen...

Excellent advice.

This advice applies to managers hiring new positions as well, make your new hires do this!

The position in my career where I had the most success started with my manager on my first day pretty much setting this exact exercise as my objective for the first week. He gave me a list of 3 people to talk to and told me to find out who the other people were for myself.

Does this mean that tools like https://www.thunderclap.it/ are in for a hard time?

I'm lazy and would start with Textrazor or Alchemy Api

Thanks, I'll dig into those

Where would I find such an article, something that explains how I might go from "I've got a Jupyter notebook that gives me results I like" to 'I'm running those calculations in a production system'?

I've also recently launched a meditation app (iOS only for now), I'm taking a slightly different tack in that I'm not planning to deliver multitudes of teachers and am going for longer duration meditations. The first version only went live in the App Store yesterday and provides a breathing and bodyscan meditation if approx 10min, each time it is played the content is slightly different so as to avoid becoming repetitive. Something like Pzizz for meditation.

The reason I've taken that approach is that when listening to pre-recorded guided meditation from a book that I found myself getting so familiar with the guidance that I knew what was coming up next, and this was quite distracting. In subsequent releases I aim to introduce options to configure the duration and to dial up or down the guidance to silence ratio.

If anyone is interested it's called Alive Meditation in the App Store, and I'd be more than happy to hear any criticism or suggestions.

Some more info from the designers: http://www.type-together.com/literata

Meteor tutorial here I come.

Thnx, good suggestions

Is the real time nature of Meteor important to your product?

I ask because I'm considering trying Meteor to prototype some ideas none of which particularly need real-time data updates in the client.

Would I be better off with some alternative framework or is meteor still super quick to pick up and get stuff done for 'regular' web apps? Being able to knock an idea out quickly vastly outweighs any kind of scalability concerns and most performance concerns.

(Bearing in mind that I am familiar with JS and Android development, free time for noodling on personal projects is in very short supply and not got the time to learn a totally new language)

Four of these: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/60261626/ and a table top to go with it.

Not adjustable unless you take all your stuff off it, but a whole lot cheaper.