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Or maybe he didn’t have to go thru daily stand-ups and have to say how many letters will be delivered today.

Just kidding, kudos for him and some people are indeed gifted to make friends and connections intuitively.

On the other hand, there are jobs that make connecting to other people harder if not impossible. I used to work for Microsoft during the poignant stack rank time and it was utterly hard to build trust with anyone. I never played that game but competition was part of the culture and it ruined genuine relationships at any level.

Lawyers of HN, can the judge ask questions to a lawyer that can furnish evidence against their own client?

One thing to consider when scaling down and up an exercise is to measure progress, kipping is not very precise and usually used to make one achieve arbitrary goals way off ones reach (eg massive ammounts of pull-ups in a short period of time, oh impossible even for elite athletes but with kipping we can get there).

Same goes with handstand push-up with against the wall and that kick up. That’s one of the hardest exercises in gymnastics from my experience, why do one want to do that in a HIIT is beyond me.

As for scaling, I never consider not compromising but actually reinforcing proper form even overthinking it, to prepare one for load and speed (when things tend to go awry). As tools and techniques to scale down, there are bands, eccentrics, Grease the groove, etc.

Ps: you seem to have been downvoted but your question seemed legit to me. I hear that a lot from gym mates

Being sensible is not having a WoD one size fits all. It oversimplifies too much IMO.

People, specially who are new, haven’t gotten serious injuries, or just don’t understand how exercise can get you high, tend to fall in the WoD trap from my observations.

There have been a great mindset change with CrossFit in terms of sharing good knowledge, welcoming new members no matter their level and mixing everyone together but still everyday seems to be race day in CrossFit.

I am usually the one who scape lunches at work because I want quietness and a break from work. Also, it is typically the only time of the day I can day dream and wander around the city center, where I work.

I find that eating at work to be quite unhealthy too. I tend to eat for instant gratification because I am too wired up, since there is no change of environment and my cafeteria is quite loud, etc.

I would also skip free dinner in case I work late but I would welcome a cab or car service to ride me home.

However, I will just add one benefits that would make a difference for me: a quiet room with yoga mats, maybe a pull up bar and some weights for some stretching here and there.

That’s the ideal scenario, normalization with recalibration. Even companies doing that as their main business fail to do so and evaluate people.

Now imagine engineers doing that, in a highly competitive landscape, with no motivation or second thoughts. It is a jungle out there.

I hope one day, well I actually hope to be alive to see, that one day humanity will have enough understand of the brain to teach us our cognitive limitations and how to effective work around/out them. Not long ago I quit one of my jobs because I simply couldn’t learn to be effective due to meetings and all the interruptions commonly seen in an open office/agile/start-up company. Seriously, I can’t be a better engineer in such environment.

Yeah, 2 hrs barely touch anything new in my current job, where we have a lot of boilerplater and in-house infrastructure built by the devprod team. Some companies either take those for granted or just deliberately make the bar extra high for arbitrary reasons.

I guess real doctors can be more precise than me here.

However, at where I live only doctors working with trauma/ER work long hours. From what I understand, that’s mostly to work around the overhead of context switch and patient hand over. For my friend, a lot of stress came from the responsibility, which might not be well distributed across specializations (hence the insurance premiums, etc).

Quite interesting links here!

Ps: I, on the other hand, am really more productive and attentive to details after lunch and specially after 2pm. Mornings for me are just good for physical activities..

Terrible idea because high doses of Ibuprofen has been shown to reduce protein synthesis.

A quick search returns several data like https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/11832356/

The era of no pain no gain workouts should be done by this point but no like that...

To my own experience, I think the time an adult can physiologically commit to learning is reduced.

For example, I noticed that in high school if I really liked a subject I would just sponge it all up, no need for spaced repetition and I could be focused for hours.

In college, I started to feel the need for spaced repetitions but yet be focused for hours.

Now, if I get to do something I really enjoy intellectually, I can get 30-45 minutes of focus. Then rest and spaced repetition. Last time I tried to push 3 hours of study, I not just forget most of the content but it affected my mood so badly.

Somewhat, I see the same pattern with physical activities. I could run have hard workouts back to back in high school while now it is so easy to overtrain and rock my hormones that I need to be really careful.

I think it really depends on the set of languages, e.g.: I can see that for an English native speaker learning French after Spanish can be easier but I can’t see that helping with Chinese.

Well, at least didn’t help me much

Erdös also did a lot of Amphetamines and claimed Math stopped when he took a break from it.

I strongly agree. However to my experience companies decide on quality vs speed based on other factors rather than business needs. For example, in my previous job, CTO called “ overengineering” whenever something went against his will, while “innovation/we are not a Corp” was his tail wind. So much office politics for such a small company :/

Be a manager?

By birth the kid is an American Citizen via jus-solis automatically. At age 18 she or he can sponsor GC parents.

As the sibling commenter mentioned, it is a political decision to take federal funds, which sometimes goes against the best interest of the electorate (not claiming to be the case here but seems like so when we read such articles).

I think the cue is at “Virginia is one of 19 states refusing federal dollars to close the healthcare “coverage gap” for people not poor enough for Medicaid, but too poor for anything else.“

Even if there is citation here, would this data around super wealthy people be of use for public health?

Couldn’t relate more. Even things like Employee Engagemebt surveys need to be gamed to save managers face.

If I can allow myself to chime in...

I think social / cultural differences actually is not enough to differentiate European start-ups. If nothing else, there is a tremendous (deliberate?) effort to follow American standards of management and GTD. However, at the same time, Venture Capital and management overall seem to be a bit more risk averse in Europe than USA.

But thats just my opinion of what is the common denominator here in Europe.

I’d guess they opt to do so not just to give you a chance to provide feedback but also liability.

I see your point to not trust companies but even I after over 10 years in this industry sometimes get fooled.

For me personally, I cannot live a skeptical nor cynical life and I usually deal with people not companies. When I start the interview, I get the sense of their people, and if I find them to be decent I move on with the process. Most of the time my expectations are met fortunately. So, I can’t really blame the victim here.

Reality depends on the market one is subject to.

But in my own reality, My tangible options were: 1. Pay upfront and study endless hours for a whiteboard interview + hours with phone screening + day spent onsite. 2. On-demand take home challenges (vary from 1-2 days, depending on the company) 3. 1-week payed project with presentation at the end 4. Some cocktail mix of the above

Unless you know the founder, senior managers, or have built rapport with most of the engs of a company, I never been able to push back, not even in markets where the demand was extremely high.

It’s good to have folks like you who stand your ground. However, reality is different and unless the company really wants you specifically and the hiring manager has the political capital to change the hiring process like that, it won’t have much effect unfortunately.

Quite interesting.

Unfortunately, it seems that we are just now starting to realize the human aspects of software eng. Still, even if there could be a massive amount of data to show in which interviews, or more generically, how human judging or predicting personalities/traits/etc are intrinsically flawed

Sorry, but I’ll call BS here.

I have a very solid network inside google (ex-coworkers from another FAANG job) and also from xooglers, at IC and management track.

Even in my last interview failure (see my post here), the recruiter told me I had more than enough to support my application. Yet, an exec made the no-go call.

Yes, there are decent hiring practices out there but first it is hard to make the news here in HN without some degree of popularity..

Yes, I have a few close friends hopping jobs every 1-2 years. Part of their secret is be involved with interviews to keep all this crap fresh in their minds and also be part of this sub-industry of tech interviews.

Good for them financially maybe. Professionally, I didn’t see they go beyond the average senior dev. But that just me being sour.