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Not sure if this is still the case, but at least before MIT didn't accept people outside MIT to their Master's programs for some majors, instead you would have had to apply directl…

In my experience that's not the case, but of course varies company by company

Look for series B+ startups in the U.S. that are aggressively scaling their teams. There is a shortage of good senior software engineers, and these startups are desperate and have …

I wonder why Chrome even has such setting, like what's the use case for it?

Sure, you have a visa for me? I will be on the next flight over if so

Management consulting, Investment banking, UI/UX design, Product management are some alternative careers I have heard software engineers pursue

As a Finn, working at an U.S. company, small talk is something I really struggled with and still don't fully understand. The people I interact with it seems like we have found sort…

No, I think they said that they think that "working" towards an idea, a moonshot, wouldn't feel like working

Ok that's great to hear, thanks for clarifying

Render had some pretty bad outages (10+ hours) and couple shorter ones just couple months ago, so it's not perfect either. But anyways I have also found it better than Heroku for m…

This video is from the fifth largest city in Finland, so that hardly counts as a rural area with long distances This is what the roads looks like in the rural areas during winter h…

Haha, ever heard of winter tires? Or winter driving instruction courses? Which btw are mandatory at least in Finland

It depends on what your goals are. People applying to intern positions have insanely widely varying skill levels. Some already have some previous experience and/or extensive side p…

I had a funny experience with DataDog. I applied to a new grad position. Few months go by, and then I receive an email to schedule an onsite, well that seemed odd since I hadn't do…

Obviously sucks, had a similar experience as an SWE intern and new grad. I even got a written offer which was then later rescinded because of COVID. They said they will honor it fo…

Yeah that's true, but still (of course depending on your age and location) it's enough to live in many many places without having to work again

You underestimate how a sleep people are at the wheel or just busy with their own stuff, at least in smaller companies, just no time to think "Let's push this junior out, he is doi…

There are many kinds of internships that can be considered good I think. And it also partly depends what your goals and/or aspirations are. Types that come to mind that I would con…

I wouldn't call this photorealistic, it's more like a poor tinted dashcam realistic. It's impressive that it's happening real time etc., but just looks really bad and the colors ar…

Most banks in Europe have APIs and there is also some kind of directive/law that requires banks to have at least some kind of API. I guess that's not that surprising since European…

What about storing the older things in some slower backup service that's slow to access but cheap? If the user eventually accesses those some day you would kick of some background …

Express.js + React + Postgres For hosting recently started using Render which is even faster to setup than Heroku, 5 minutes from signup and I had everything setup with ssl and cus…

Does R&D include things like salaries for engineers/product?

At a glance "Pirate Bay is the ultimate literary critic." makes sense, but it's not the whole truth. But there are bunch of things that should be also considered such as number of …

Looking outside, YC has also been a key indicator that a startup might have higher chance to succeed than a typical startup. When scaling to hundreds/thousands of companies per bat…