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Personal/un-scientific opinion. It's worth trying going on/off alcohol to see the effects on your sleep, mental health, behavior, and honestly finances. I'm trying no alcohol Jan (…

My advice is to run a real process and track every application. Expect around 100 applications to 25 screens to 10 interview loops to 1 offer. Best case. I would say directly reach…

My co-founder and I divide our days: before lunch, we take meetings, user interviews, feedback sessions, respond to emails, and tickets. Essentially shallow or synchronous work. Af…

A Canadian living in US, so take this with a grain of salt. Canada is a great place to immigrate too, I would also explore Montreal, it has more of a research/AI/gaming scene but t…

Is there any value in having different paternity vs. maternity leave or primary vs. secondary caregiver? Wouldn't something like X weeks paid for anyone parenting/birthing/adopting…

Super interesting to see the pay differences between "programmer" vs "developer" vs "engineer". With the other titles there is either an inference of management/hierarchy (manager,…

The biggest problem I find with long distance relationships, especially across time zones, is the real time nature of it. It's blocking. Especially for two busy people. I would rat…

Just a question for CS graduates here, how many Math courses were required to major in CS? When I was an undergraduate the bare minimum was: - 2 algebra (number theory + linear alg…

I really am I loving the rate at which Parse is adding new features. We are currently using it with one of our prototypes but roughly looking at their blog postings, it is around f…