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This is the hard-pill-to-swallow meme truth. If it didn’t already exist, you could make Myst today and it would be massively popular because it’s a great game. It would cost almost…

> people who want to pick up pottery, painting, crochet or other old-timey analog hobbies. In coffee shops and in the low-lit corners of bars, professionals are sharing dreams of “…

Not willing to give up as much as you thought?

Move to Tokyo or somewhere that has trains of the number and quality you want.

What are you willing to give up to get them?

This is unironically the best post in HN history. All these jabronies crying about not liking technology anymore or whatever and this guy is asking the real questions. Obviously I …

I actually don't think it's good to ask for feedback. Mainly for the reason you said here: > They're more like dates than exams It's much better to look at your own performance cri…

You understand that this is a job interview working as intended? You may be awesome at the work but your values do not align with the company’s and it’s best if you don’t work ther…

Again, I’m not saying that job related questions are bad. I’m saying that these types of questions can be good. You can ask more than 1 type of question!

From the comment I was replying to: > Unless it is for a position I really, really want, or are unemployed and every opportunity counts, that is usually where the interview ends fo…

I think those questions are good ways to assess open mindedness, estimation, and verbal communication skills. There are other ways to assess those skills, sure. But questions like …

> He didn’t get the job because even though the technical attributes were all good, he should have pressured the customer. 1) Is this word for word what they told him? 2) If so, wh…

How do you verify that books and websites and videos are not giving you erroneous content? You trust some and distrust others at face value based on prior experience and what you w…

> And what happens if you don’t get the job? I don’t get the job. Not getting the job doesn’t mean the interview was bad. And if it was a bad interview, life goes on. You’re right …

There’s probably some downside to drinking 14 cold brews a week, too. Everything’s a risk if you look hard enough.

I think it’s more that life isn’t that serious and if someone wants an interview bad enough get the tattoo and don’t cry about how life is unfair or that YC sucks.

Tattoo was $375-ish (I paid) and cold brew is $5.50. I kind of saw it as a hedge against inflation as well. Figured they’d be $7 before too long. I got the tattoo done by the artis…

They didn’t say they weren’t going to interview untattooed people. It’s a lame stunt but this is just looking for something to get upset over. I would do it if the company was one …

It's so funny that you say this because I 100% agree. I have a Remarkable tablet (several of them in fact) and the people on /r/remarkabletablet are always looking for ways to comp…

Yep, nobody's ever going to care more about you than you, triply so at work.

Depending on how long I'd been there, I would just do it over email/in-writing even if it was an office job.

You can just take the other offer while you wait and then quit when the one you really want comes in.

So Anthropic makes a new model, Qwen or whoever learns how it works and makes their model nearly (but not quite) as good and then sells it back to Anthropic? Like the soap-making s…

Absolutely!

To be fair, the people who are producing capital-a Art are mostly producing crap as well. Whatever you call it, I participate to find out if it’s crap or not.