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I just use lodash get when I access object properties

Just let your employees be remote and they will go live wherever they feel like.

When I was in elementary school we had this program called GATE and basically it was like once a month you go to a different school with other GATE students from the other schools in the district. There would be special classes like oceanography, robotics, etc. I don't think it added any value into my life ever except variety of experience. I also think it made other students who weren't in it feel kind of bad because they didn't get to go do anything. They should have just done it for everyone IMO.

None. Do meaningful projects that you can show off instead. They will say a lot more about you than a certificate.

> Success has no shortcuts - it requires 100k+ hours of hard working and perseverance. Working leisurely is for the folks that are already prosper (read: take a look at Microsoft employees' avg. salaries.)

Working leisurely is for companies that have a culture that encourages it and nothing more.

I don't consider myself rich (although this is kind of a relative measurement), but I definitely work leisurely and make enough money to buy a house, car, etc.

I also took a lot of shortcuts, like dropping out of college. People CAN and DO have it both ways without already being rich and that should be the standard for society going forward. We should always strive to improve the experience of workers.

> In contrast, Jack Ma, co-founder of Chinese online shopping giant Alibaba, has championed 12-hour working days. In April 2019, he described the "996" pattern, in which workers do 09:00-21:00 shifts, six days a week, as "a blessing".

Yikes, that sounds depressing.

> A report commissioned by the Labour Party in the UK suggested a four-day working week would be "unrealistic".

The report seems to be missing the point of most 4 day work week initiatives which is that we spend a ton of time not actually working because people feel like they are expected to always be in the office between arbitrary hours. Just because people "work" less doesn't mean their output is changing. Unless your definition of work is warming a chair.

Automattic is valued at 3 billion and just bought tumblr.

Yeah definitely a possibility. In this case they told me it was to fill a position on a specific team, but they could have just been saying that.

My main gripe was with the hard 2 hour requirement and the immediate dismissal of it based on what I felt were either trivial or inaccurate concerns. Additionally if you created a PR for the project any point past the 2 hour mark you were not considered anymore. Having a project is fine, but if the applicant takes the time to do the project and it's at least 80% of the way there I think interviewers are doing themselves a disservice by dismissing projects that are not perfect. There is no way to accurately determine whether that person is a good fit or not based on that little information. You might find that they spent more time planning for example and wrote something that would scale better if more time was spent on it. IMO people who plan more than they code are better assets.

In essence, if you require a project to be done for an interview regardless of the time limits and the applicant makes a reasonable effort and demonstrates adequate competency then IMO you should always give them an interview. If you're looking for something perfect then pay them. If you put hard time requirements on the project and expect it to be flawless you give off the impression that people are required to work under pressure.

That being said, I think it might be worth considering giving people the option of a take home project or a long interview. I know one guy who refuses to do take home projects and rather just sit in an interview all day and other friends who are the exact opposite.

I was not a fan of Zapier's interview process. You're actually timed on your project and you have exactly 2 hours to do it. I was ultimately turned down after doing it because they said there were linting errors and they said I was using hooks incorrectly. My usage of react hooks was straight from the documentation and I showed my solution to several other people in the industry and they saw no issue with it. I was under the impression the purpose of those coding assignments is to deliver something imperfect but functioning and talk about how to improve it.

The main problem I see with a lot of remote companies is that they seem to be overloaded with applications to the point they are making strange decisions about how to filter applicants. They also almost always require you to do some type of project which is a big commitment if you're applying to a lot of places. My best application experience apart from the one that hired me was Duck Duck Go. They pay you to do the project and I feel that is a far better approach. That way they don't have to feel bad about turning you down because hey you get paid, and you don't feel so bad about not getting it because hey you got paid.

I ultimately got a much better position at a fully remote company than I would have gotten at Zapier so it wasn't a matter of me overestimating my worth either.

I also found that a lot of the well known fully remote companies take forever to respond to you, gitlab, zapier, and DDG were the most responsive and communicative during the process, but I have some that I applied to 2 months ago that are just now emailing me to set up video screens. Startup companies tend to be the most responsive, I would get video screen invites sometimes within minutes after sending an email out.

Side note: For those who tried DDG in the past and were unimpressed I suggest giving it a whirl again. I kind of wrote it off a few years ago and then tried it recently and its pretty good. You may have to modify some search habits. If you enable location tracking they do anonymous localized results (can read about it here: https://help.duckduckgo.com/privacy/anonymous-localized-resu...) Usually good if you're used to typing in food choices and getting local results

Which one gives you the most achievements? I'm a simple man who just wants achievements. Fitbit has some weak ass achievements.

I do the same thing. I have a feeling a lot of engineers are in this same trap. The problem is that prolonged periods of just going home and watching tv after work is going to lead to an increase in social anxiety for many people. Which then leads to even more isolation.

Ideally I envision myself going to the gym, going to a meetup, playing board games, etc, but I just never seem to bring myself around to doing it.

I've found certain types of martial arts to be one of the most exhausting activities I have ever done. Boxing, Muay Thai, BJJ, Wrestling, no amount of lifting has gotten me as exhausted as those have. Slept like a baby.

There might be other insights that can be gathered from the data that a CGM provides though. Even for healthy individuals.

If you don't have respect for CRUD apps, why are you trying to get a job doing CRUD apps?

Founders generally don't start companies in vacuums. They are the result of communication with other people on the viability of ideas. They meet a subject matter expert in a field, they get to talking, they come up with an idea. The idea gets floated around to other subject matter experts. If something seems viable then prototypes are made to gauge market fit.

You don't need a PhD to find market fits for these types of products. They are self aggrandizing.

There are plenty of executives running biotech companies who have barely any biology expertise. Pretty much everything they know is contained to their product and its competitors. There are PHD's and MD's in SV who basically specialize in working as consultants for these types of products and back up their potential. You see it all the time with health startups when they have a medical advisor or something to that effect.

My favorite interviews are when they give me a take home project that takes 2-3 hours and then during the technical interview you go over the solution and talk about ways to improve it. It gives applicants a chance to actually prepare for the interview in a meaningful way and I personally am much less nervous for this type of interview.

Still not worse than triple digit interest rates

> I think that would be a terrible idea. The gov't would want to make the debt non-dischargeable like they do with student loans. It would be devastating.

I fail to see how this is worse than current predatory loan scenarios.

If filing for bankruptcy had no negative consequences I would agree, but that isn't the case. I agree that we shouldn't be bailing out banks, but we should have a safety net to bail out individuals. People go broke for various reasons, but the hallmark of an accomplished society is being able to ensure a decent quality of life for most people. Telling people to accept personal responsibility for everything that happens to them is a huge cop-out. You're basically saying you refuse to consider what scenarios might warrant this because it doesn't fit into your world view.

I'm not entirely sure what FHA did to the housing market, but as for student loans, yes it wasn't a great outcome, but it is a substantially better outcome than everyone being in debt with high interest rates with predatory lenders.

I feel like the government should be offering some type of non predatory debt relief comparable to this. This service is only a detriment to the borrower due to the crazy high interest rates, but I think the government could break even with much more reasonable interest rates, consumers would be better off financially, and the predatory industries would disappear since they can't compete.

Works great in those cities, doesn't work for the rest of the world. Everyone else is sprawled out.

A ton of money has been dumped into automated long haul trucking already. I think you're just not aware as to what type of work is being donee.

I bought a versa and immediately regretted not getting an apple watch. The majority of fitbit apps are trash and they're pretty limited.

This is really good advice and the same advice I got from our VP in a similar situation. Make it clear to your manager what you're about to do and then work with your lead to elevate the team up. It will show and in most cases you will be rewarded for it. You may not get to be tech lead of the team you're currently on, but it will work to your career advantage. It can actually look bad on you as an employee if you're aware of certain shortcomings and not really trying to do anything about it other than get a new title.

On NextDoor people get really outraged whenever they see a drone flying around. I always see comments about shooting them down even though the city uses them.