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I'm a little sad about this. My dad works in computer storage and had access to lots of computers doing nothing. He's now at "just about 11 quintillion flops, 99.12% ranking vs all…

I'm honestly just surprised that "secret crush" translates to other languages

It clicked a bit more for me understanding the box model better. More recently flexbox makes things a lot more clear/easier and handles a lot of those problems by default. I have n…

My personal experience with this was that Angular 2 was announced, which was completely non backwards compatible. So there were a bunch of people that 1) Needed to rewrite their co…

"I got all the way to the end, nailed everything perfectly and then never found out why I didn’t get it" "I saw this repeatedly on jobs that I got all the way to the end point on."…

Perhaps repeat criminals on Promise are not eligible to use it in the future. All a repeat criminal in this case does is lower the governments trust in the product.

It's pretty incredible how many people rock climb (at Planet Granite in Sunnyvale). People are interested in talking there as well, as opposed to lots of cafes where people are hea…

5000 / 3,500,000 = 0.00142857142

I think this is a good idea and would speed up interviewing at companies since you would be able to focus on the match. It does rely on companies actually knowing what criteria the…

Not OP, but I work at refdash This is a fake feedback report for an interview, to show what companies and candidates can expect. Thanks for your comment. I do think it's important …

Thanks for the suggestion, just added it. Interviews are somewhat anonymous, the interviewer only gets your first name (added that too). We've discussed making it even more anonymo…

The biggest thing is that there is more money in evaluating software engineers. There's higher demand than most other professions, so companies will pay more. I have limited inform…

Just for some context about this document, this is a fake interview with fake interview feedback. It is meant to highlight some of the criteria which Refdash uses to evaluate candi…

The interview data is only ever shown anonymously to companies, even if you apply to a company with it. Only when the candidate and company agree to do an onsite are names revealed…

I'm so thankful I work in an industry with high enough demand that I can have a job I love

Interviewing is a skill like all things. The more you practice the better you will get at it. Unfortunately, this process can be slow and the worst part is that when you interview …

The article mentions a drop in Daily users of about 10M (specifies around 12M). This also include any launches that occurred over the last month, which means the retention over thi…

I like https://paribus.co/ It automatically requests refunds for things you buy online that drop in price. It's nice because it's very passive and it's basically found money when i…

From the author on the previous post "It's just that a tool I'm using on the back-end doesn't work very well with the Frankfurt region because of signature version 4. But I'm sure …

Since document.querySelector only returns the first instance, you will need to run this for the number of redacted paragraphs. The above jQuery solution doesn't have this problem. …

https://xkcd.com/927/ For the lazy

"3 months later, call and offer the candidate a job she didn’t apply for" Even if they accept, you don't need to pay the referral bonus. win, win!