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I'm a hiring manager, but not a recruiter, I use it most months we have a position open to do direct reach out as the pool of people is generally pretty good.

Generally it's a personal connection. Someone will here a startup went out of business and they know they were good at there jobs and get reached out to.

Sometimes the entire team gets hired all at once.

I know this already happens informally, so there is probably a niche there.

This is amazing. I've been following fastai for a few years now and it really is geared towards programmers first. I've used what is taught both directly at work as well as inderectly by being able to better advise on what data we collect.

I even brushed to on my linear algebra to better understand what's going in under the hood.

I'm fairly certain that's the case in most of the US. I know when I worked retail (over a decade ago) we were specifically instructed that if someone didn't stop to do nothing. The worst case was to follow them and get a license plate number.

Honestly, I don't know. Since MS bought them they have made many improvements, and seem to take gitlab seriously. What they lack is a decent mobile/tablet experience so I don't always have to be at a laptop/desktop.

I'm not willing to provide is trusted access to a third party when they have the full backing of one of the most well funded companies in history.

What your looking for is not new or revolutionary. It's just an abstraction. Read about the strangler pattern and it will get you pretty far.

Years is probably an over statement on my part. A second read indicates probably a year and half.

Did it though? It's been in circulation for years.

I have a friend who was working on #1 specifically. They got out of it after they realized it was just playing whack-a-mole.

This is honestly one of the very few use cases of cryptography signing a video or picture that I can see. But that would mean amateur journalists or the common person might be excluded from being a trusted source with video evidence.

Here is how I did it: 1) Pick a challenging language that you have to do memory management (C++ for myself); 2) Start learning it and building applications that you care about; 3) Start learning design patterns (gang of four); 4) Pick up a second language at a higher level (Java was mine); 5) Add databases, caching, etc., to your programs; 6) Ask what is practical to learn in the field you choose based on your local market; 7) Get a job as jr.; 8) You've made it and the learning just begins.

Don't spend any money until you are sure you'll be getting a return -- def. not on day one.

I've never actually heard of a compensation structure which has >$100k of options to even spend on day one. Most of the time they are vested on a schedule.

You only have two options: 1) find a niche with your current employer that you can exploit to fulfill your interests; or 2) find a job that will do the same.

The first involves less risk and if your employer is enlightened will most likely welcome it because they will be able to leverage your experience and enthusiasm in ways that an outside hire will not.

I've never had an official "machine learning" or "ai" title but I have done 5 machine learning projects for current and past employers by simply demonstrating skills.

I actually have the same problem with gmail. I once, as in the last 6 months, waited a good 3+ minutes (as recorded in firefox dev tools) for gmail to fully load. Switching to chrome was a dramatically better experience. I didn't mention it here thinking Google was sabotaging Firefox.

I'm late to the party, but used to work for a collections attorney who specialized in SMB who were close to or are defunct. The biggest mistake anyone ever made (when setting up an LLC) was to mix personal and business funds. It made it trivially easy to go to the court and "pierce the corporate veil" as you so aptly put it.

The way you wan to do it is set up an LLC but then "loan" the business money and act both as it's owner but also it's creditor. This separates you in the eyes of the court.

I love firefox, but it's still leagues behind chrome -- even with the new engine. Especially when used with "enterprise" tools, like Jira.

I keep hoping for the day I can switch and not lose productivity.

I'm going to second this. I've seen on more then one occasion that some people believe it's their job to do this on order to be most effective. I literally had PM tell me (as head of engineering) that they thought it was there job to set unrealistic expectations and adversarial environment in the hopes that it created an environment where the engineers worked longer.

I'm reality it creates a hostile work environment where burnout is high, morale is low, and projects take even longer to finish. It sacrifices all long term gains for short term results.

I'm by no means a expert, but doesn't Go advocate using append with a slice which will create a new array? https://golang.org/pkg/builtin/#append

When I feel supported by management, even when it's not something they want to hear -- also when that support leads to a good work-life balance. I'm not talking anything crazy, just I put in my 8 hours so don't call me when I'm at home.

Too many managers fail to realize that when an engineer is not in the office, often times they are thinking of the problems they will need to solve next. A little outside time thinking generally leads to better solutions then "we need this now" attitude that I see so many inexperienced managers do.

I'm curious why you think this. There's been several attempts at a Googleless Android based phone and as far as I'm aware none have achieved noticeable market share. At least not the kind needed for Huawei.

I personally got tired of all the churn in technology and didn't feel like I could keep up long term. Management seemed to be the easy path forward.

With that said, I'm actually now looking to get out of people management and back to being more of an team lead or cto type of position where I don't have to be a people manager. I miss the technology part.

I really like the idea, but what would be really valuable to me is filtering by does the company use trivia problems like leetcode.com or does it use real world scenarios.

As a seasoned developer, I always have to practice those types problems before interviewing for a new position. It's a complete waste of time as they don't represent actual development work.

It's the largest line item for most companies, so apply pressure there and get the most dramatic result in the shortest time. Do that to every project and it takes too much mental overhead.

I've been working 100% remote for 6 years now, and have seen about half the people who do end up going remote just don't like it or are not self-motivated enough to put in a full day's work without being in an office.

All of the major cloud providers have free credits for new customers.

If the counter party accepts it then it is the contract. You can do this with any contract, to include phone carriers and credit card companies.

Here's the secret -- a good team is built around people who are solidly dependable. What that means is you can give a reasonable estimate for the work, are a positive person, and aren't too much of a bother to anyone. The team is pushed forward in meaningful ways by the really ambitious and smart ones, but they tend to move on quickly after becoming bored. These people are great to have while they are there, but they leave so often that it feels like a revolving door.

But that employee who I can give work to and depend on to be there in a year plus time frame? That's the one a good manager goes to bat for during the tough times.

Paper. I tend to remember better if I physically write something down then if I type it out.

Notion's tables are ironically too complex to use but not powerful enough to provide good functionality. It would have been better if they just had a a simple table like in Word.

It's like they tried to jam airtable into their product.

I think it's common, but not really a lack of trust thing -- instead the code is a work product unless what you are paying for is a functioning application + hosting + support.

If stuff is breaking then it means you have a more serious problem on your hands then just lack of access to the code base and that access will not solve it for you.