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How much do you want to bet that some of those FB employees decided to login by turning off "location detection" flag and in an incognito browser?

I would not be surprised. Some of those 9,000,000+ queries and 2,000+ employees must have had some nefarious use. Statistically speaking...

> I've moved to writing backend code. I'm surprised most of my peers cannot write anything more complicated than a join.

I'd wager more don't even know what a join is.

I've been looking at their site for about 5 minutes and I still have no idea what fomo.com does...

I hate how this is a thing. Mental health be damned. The only way this could be stopped if there was country-wide protests or walk-offs, but I doubt that would ever or could happen.

Interesting. You are right not new to China but the IP laws make it harsh.

At the end of the day, it's all code. Not sure I would ever work for a company that makes you work like a sick man just to get even the with the uneven level field.

How hard is it to get into Tencent/Baidu?

> You need experience and you have no other option to get experience.

This was me and I paid for it. Right now I'm on week 8 of 30 hour weeks. It sucks.

I've had my current recruiter tell potential employers that I "view QA courses on Udemy.com to lower coding mistakes before it goes to QA dept."

I don't do QA courses. I do TDD development. And I never mentioned Udemy.com to them either.

They put words in my mouth.

This is where I have seen stylelint personally come into play and shine. https://github.com/stylelint/stylelint

It lints and validates the styles written and does it ruthlessly.

So a developer in a Dhaka, Bangladesh is making the same as a developer in Palto Alto, California despite contributing the same work?

Agree. $40/mo is a bit steep for just documentation and also when VuePress exists for... free.

In some states, yes. Here in the South, KS, TN, FL (maybe), AL and GA. A lot of these startups... 100M would be a godsend.

I am honestly surprised how Google has not released a GPS navigator to compete with TomTom or Garmin. It would absolutely demolish them in seconds.

How would you recommend getting into it? Might be a viable avenue for me later this year.

> It doesn't help that Amazon retail has a good amount of its workforce based in India and seemingly disconnected from the Seattle based leadership.

Could you expand on this a bit, please?

It depends. My experience has been that contractors usually don't mind working on vacation while on a cruise whereas salaried people are like "I'm dead; don't reach me."

To be fair, you can be let go without notice in the US as well. I was recently let go without notice and I was a salaried employee at the company.

Yeah... but... dart.

How does it handle Electron apps? I thought playing with EXPO was a limited venture?

You know what ruined Twitter for me?

Having them clog up my twitter timeline of people I don't _even_ follow with their tweets or the LIKES of people I do.

They distorted what a timeline was and thus the follow button essentially became ruined.

That sucks. I hope you bounce back...

I don't understand why it should take days to "update" a system. Now, I now next to nothing about how their current system works but information updated should not take so long.

The insurance industry needs a technological overhaul but I doubt it will happen.

Stuck with Aetna as they have lowest rates. Blue Cross was $200 per month more.

In retrospect this is probably what I should have done.

edit: but the thing was, I trust them to give me good advice. The HR providers. I figured, well if they haven't said anything about deferred payments, it might not be applicable to my situation so I never brought it up...

Ah, I understand - thank you.

Yep. And I elected ASAP. One of the first things I did starting new job.

But the I continuously got the "we have you down for this provider" when my COBRA admin told me that that provider could no longer give me coverage. I needed to AETNA to file me under a new provider.

Then I called AETNA and they still said "so and so" is listed as my provider. I told them to change it. "It's gonna be at least a week to update your information, sir."

Call back next week, "sir, you are still listed on 'so and so' provider."

It was exhausting.

Not sure I get you. "But only for unpredictable, irregular events." But if I went into the Doctor's office without insurance, could they turn me away? The bill would be too high?

We looked into ACA... but we thought that the process of switching over from AETNA to COBRA would be painless (weeks at most). So we just went through with it. We did not know it would end up like it has.

The operations for insurance is a daunting, slippery rope. Can you not lay some fault onto insurance and its operations?

What would you characterize this as? People slipping up? That's how the "system has always worked"? People forgetting to process paperwork needed so people can get to their appointments?

I had the same unfortunate experience that in angers me to even think about it.

- I leave my last employer on July 21, 2017

- My old employer rols me off system on last day of July 2017

- On June 2017, they switch HR providers from TriNET to Namely and now the payment processor is Discovery Benefits and the Dental/Vision are now in Guardian. (So it went from Aetna to Aetna/Guardian and two other companies).

Since my wife is high-risk and I have thyroid issues, our best bet was COBRA ($1,000 / mo) because the new startup I joined did not offer group health coverage.

What followed next was this:

- The HR person who was handling my COBRA papers left during all of this. Switched jobs.

- Thanksgiving break

- Weeks of "the system will update this weekend with your information."

- "They were suppose to process your dental, but they never did"

My wife and I tried using our new AETNA IDs once we had gotten them and they still told us that it did not work. I had to have an expensive thyroid blood test pushed back. Multiple dentist appointments postponed. Everything.

FINALLY, once I got my SSN and ID for my coverage on AETNA, I had to pay back premiums all the way back to August 2017 just to keep using my coverage. So that's $4,000 USD for services I could not essentially render. $4000 of my hard-earned money. Gone. For nothing -- basically.

They had the gall to tell me (AETNA did) "Sir, if you paid for anything out of pocket during the time of your retroactive coverage, we can pay you back any cost you incurred."

The whole reason we get insurance is to avoid those high prices.

I'm so spent. I'm not an angry man but these health insurance companies really drove it home for me.

I feel taken advantaged of and it really stinks.

you mean the few remaining Mr. Robot users? Egads. Never in my life have I struggled to get through a season. Season 2 was just mind-numbingly slow. I quit for a while.

A google search implies that it does not and I just tried some PHP code on it to confirm that it doesn't as well.

Depends where, though. I'm based in the South, Alabama, and most of the jobs here want C# or Angular (1x... specifically). I rarely, rarely see React mentioned.

Of those who want JavaScript experience, it's usually followed with "Do you have any .NET experience?"

Google has their own TLD? Not sure how I feel about that. Then again, we do have a myriad of others.