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Much worse.

> Does advanced search help P2s retain their discoverability In my experience that's a strong yes, that works really well. I've been able to get helpful context on previous project…

Especially the beginning where she recounts how she enrolled in a computer science university program without owning I found super interesting. I wonder if one could still pull tha…

I’d say “one eighty-four” but of course the problem is that in german we mix up the order of the tens and ones. And in fact so does English — it’s twenty-four but fif-teen (five te…

Eggs are sold in packs of ten here (Germany). Oh, and also packs of six. :D

Oh, hello there, co-author! :D

Wrong link? That’s a Japanese music album. Lovely but probably not what you meant?

It will probably be in ~20 years. :) "Owning" it makes a difference in so far as that I can now be absolutely certain that no issue will be handled by the landlord because there is…

Another anecdote. Me, my wife, and our two kids recently moved. Previously we lived in a large house that looked “special” — old but in good shape. Lots of wood and 4m ceilings. Th…

He also founded the company that sells the food for this treatment: > Longo is the founder of and has an ownership interest in L-Nutra; the company's food products are used in stud…

I’m a freelancer, so this might not be a generalizable answer, but for every Euro I make, I pay about 0.3 Euros in taxes and health insurance.

The latter, it’s based on a percentage of your (taxable, I think) income, capped at what I’m paying (percentage-wise I’d be paying more if it wasn’t capped). FWIW, there’s no notio…

Example from Germany: I pay 860€ per month for health insurance, which covers me, my wife, and our two children. There’s no deductible. Everything is covered, except for tooth repl…

The documentation alone is great — it helped me learn things about CSS I had been kind of using but had never fully grasped.

> What Got Done There are several paid SaaS apps and / or Slack bots that do this. It’s a viable niche, but has gotten somewhat crowded in the past few years. Earlyish example: htt…

It’s a relatively known piece of “wisdom” from storytelling: “The more specific we are, the more universal something can become. Life is in the details. If you generalize, it doesn…

This simple framework helps me format my thoughts for presentation: - What is the problem? - Why is it a problem? (Eg, Business impact, impact on customers, etc.) - What are we doi…

Some more information on how Automattic hires: - https://automattic.com/work-with-us/how-we-hire-developers/ - https://www.andyserong.com/2019/07/25/switching-jobs-and-app... - htt…

I haven't met a colleague at Automattic who quit a job for the trial. And, for what it's worth, my (anecdotal) gut feeling tells me that we have quite a few people with dependents …

> Why go through all of that for an extra $250/wk? You wouldn’t. If you’re interested in the job and Automattic are interested in you, you can do a trial. Because it’s a non-trivia…

I don’t think that companies in general have really figured out hiring. I liked the trial at Automattic much more than whiteboard coding and theoretical architectural discussions. …

As far as I know the hours are just a rough guideline, and then also used for billing. When I did my trial it was OK to do more or less, depending on what worked for me. In the end…

I’m not sure about the source of the number, but I assume that that’s WordPress sites hosted by Automattic itself.