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In general, yes. I believe there's a difference between writing a performance review based on your memory/notes of how someone was doing 6 months ago vs getting into the weeds of a…

Author here. This is valid feedback, thank you. This post was originally an internal post. Internally, I have credibility as "the guy that does his homework". That doesn't carry ov…

Author here! That opt out issue is definitely not intentional, I just gave it a quick try and it worked for me in a few different browsers. Feel free to ping me on colin AT ashbyhq…

Author here. 100% agree with your sentiment. When we do performance reviews of engineers we take the time to comb over at least some of the PRs the engineer has written. We flag an…

I think it's relevant, but it's not the only thing. My personal experience as a Brit is that the UK has a growing trend of anti-intellectualism and being innumerate is "cool" in ce…

Eugh :( Why couldn't that person have just let you know far far sooner? Some people just shouldn't be responsible for other people.

I've had burnout. I was 12-18 months in a startup before I realised it was not at all the right fit for me. I was brought in as CTO to fix some stuff. I fixed that stuff and then r…

Thanks for this! It's almost a rite of passage for a startup to say that they're "revolutionising the world of blahblah"

Hah. Lack of pay on job ads is one of my biggest bugbears! I've always been of the opinion that nice to haves just shouldn't be there. They don't help self-select in a meaningful w…

I've done a fair amount of hiring and I keep coming back to job ads and thinking that most of them aren't fit for purpose. Being on "the other side" my view is somewhat skewed. Wou…

I asked this some time ago and never found a satisfactory answer. There doesn't appear to be much research in this area either :/

I'd say that's just awful UI. Looks just like a normal header for a block of text.

If you're targeting developers then I suspect you'll find many of them have at least heard of the term raycasting from CS degrees at the least.

Interesting! What makes it hard for you to develop trust? For me, I think that if I can't trust someone than I don't want them working for me in any capacity (office or remote!)

I've been a remote person for a little while now and a big advocate for it. I've thought a lot about what's hard for me, but, I'd love to hear the other side of it. What's hard abo…

> Report on first six months of scheme confirms no increase in pollution around the ULEZ boundary

Except if you're already deep into work because you start earlier than everyone else then they just rip you out of your flow. They also tend to be longer than five minutes in terms…

I got to 5 minutes. I have a kid so this was easy :D Once upon a time there was a banana. That banana was called bob. Bob the banana used to have fights with other fruit. His arch …

Just a brief addition to this as a user of APIs. Allow me to create a new token and have two tokens for the same account. This makes rotation of tokens without loss of service poss…