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iirc you can manage the notifications more granularly on the Uber website

Yes, many (if not most?) providers stopped taking insurance for various reasons. The rates provided by insurers are a fraction of the rates they can get charging out of pocket. And…

A twist on the old “what happens when you type google.com into your address bar and press enter” question. If I were answering I’d talk about a couple areas I can adapt from the re…

Can you trigger the reset password flow on disqus, etc? That’s what I’ve done on a few sites to disconnect from 3rd party oauth and use email instead.

I have used Waze regularly since 2014, and my perception is that it plans more aggressive routes (trickier turns, using side streets, etc) to shave off a few more minutes than Maps…

It's well-accepted in psychology/sociology that moral development extends beyond simply following the law, i.e. using the law as a stand-in for moral principles. E.g. in Kohlberg's…

This has been my experience also. I finished the Nix Pills, and got some personal Python/Haskell projects built using nixpkgs by following the nixpkgs language-specific documentati…

Agreed, I see this often where people confuse their marginal income (e.g. $0) with their total income. Most are paid a salary and don’t just choose to work an extra hour on a momen…

Tailscale has been a godsend for my team, saving us quite a bit of effort with VPN/firewall administration. There are very few rough edges, and it tends to just work (at least at o…

Employers are setting GPA cutoffs and checking transcripts for some of the competitive jobs for fresh grads and interns. Not unusual to see a hard GPA cutoff of 3.7, and the employ…

No, and I am actively interviewing to leave. I treat interviewing like a chance to “re-level” myself with a sorta-objective third party, and I am getting offers for 10-20%+ higher …

I’ve found it depends on the position mainly. The more you thrust vertically (cowgirl, etc), the less satisfying due to less bounce. On the other hand, foam is better for digging i…

In most companies in the USA, 2 consecutive weeks off is longer than normal. Not unusual to have a total of 2-4 weeks vacation to use each year.

The elephant in the room is that this sort of enlightened centrism, while it sounds noble, rests on several ill-formed assumptions. The first is that, by reading from both sides, t…

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Even though this isn’t official guidance at my FAANG, I’ve started weeding out anyone who (as best as I can infer) cares about political activism. They are damaging to an organizat…

I love this concept! Especially that you are crowdsourcing completions, so some of the more niche ones can still get built. Thank you for putting so many examples on your landing p…

Fields where tech is not at least seen as a key differentiator can be very frustrating. Expect to work in a culture where basic best practices aren’t used or even known. Expect dec…

Yeah, RSE is probably the term you’ll see in job ads

Yeah, seriously. It’s Basecamp. There’s a very deep bench of engineers and product people that would love to backfill the roles. It will still be damaging short term because they l…

Curious, what are the viable capability based systems within the next decade or so? Fuschia?

Exactly this. What people don’t realize is this move is hardly political. It’s all about building a better business. When work is a safe space free from political flame wars, emplo…