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Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?

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Post by neonsunset »

Reality check I got after being accused of having anti-minority opinion while arguing for protection of all categories of people, just without double standards and without giving priority to some over others.

This got me instantly banned from a community I had professional interest and participation in, which made me realize the damaging effects of culture wars that are about to get worse for major corporations.

Without accountability checks, people can and will use the positions of power to police the companies, communities and whatever they can to further their own agenda regardless if it hurts everyone else involved in the process.

It's important we start valuing maturity and ability to exercise nuance in thought process lest it will all go south.

Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?

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Post by hppb »

donatj wrote: post #37
collyw wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A quick chat with HR followed by a "coding challenge" for free. I just had a recruitment consultant tell me that my perspective might be wrong for not wanting to do it. He had 70 people in his pipeline for 25 jobs. So I do half a days worth of work for free and I have approx 2 - 1 chance that I don't get the job.

It’s been ten years and I am still mad at Facebook. Post phone interview on Friday I was given a code challenge to complete over the weekend. When I submitted it on Monday I received a response immediately “The team has reviewed your resume and decided to not move forward. We will not be reviewing your code challenge. Feel free to apply again in one year.” I spent my whole weekend on it, it was shined and buffed and…

That just sounds like an attempt to save both of you time (elapsed time, from interview to offer, not time spent) in case your phone interview did do well.

After the phone interview, somebody needs to write it up, a hiring committee needs to look at it, and then they can decide whether to move forward or not. If they give you the challenge after that it's easily another week.

Frankly I am surprised they gave you a full response on Monday after a phone interview Friday, that's actually quite fast given all the steps and people involved.

Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?

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Post by ChuckNorris89 »

mytailorisrich wrote: post #47
collyw wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A quick chat with HR followed by a "coding challenge" for free. I just had a recruitment consultant tell me that my perspective might be wrong for not wanting to do it. He had 70 people in his pipeline for 25 jobs. So I do half a days worth of work for free and I have approx 2 - 1 chance that I don't get the job.

Looking for a job means doing 'work' potentially for nothing. You have to apply, sit interviews, sit tests, etc. Investing half a day before a decision is very reasonable.

Coding and tech hiring challenges are far longer than half a day nowadays. Some are even up to two weeks.

I much prefer an hour of whiteboarding grilling than wasting an entire week on open ended problems full of fluff.

Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?

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Post by kimchidude »

refurb wrote: post #28
jjar wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/migration-of-millionaires-w... This one?

High net worth individual is >$1M seems low. I mean the Portugal number are clearly due to it's Golden Visa which is for retired people. Having $1M in assets (house included) isn't that rare at retirement.

But I think when you extend the sample to the spectrum of all humanity (as the infographic does), $1 million USD becomes quite clearly a fitting benchmark of wealth.

Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?

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Post by donatj »

dmos62 wrote: post #48
donatj wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s been ten years and I am still mad at Facebook. Post phone interview on Friday I was given a code challenge to complete over the weekend. When I submitted it on Monday I received a response immediately “The team has reviewed your resume and decided to not move forward. We will not be reviewing your code challenge. Feel free to apply again in one year.” I spent my whole weekend on it, it was shined and buffed and…

> Or at the very least lied to me. It sucks that they requested work from you that was not necessary, but would you really prefer that they lied about it? I'd say they mismanaged the situation, but at least were honest about it.

Absolutely. If they had told me that the code was total garbage in a snide tone followed by derogatory remarks about my mother, I would be over it by now. I am a very forgiving person.

Having me do two days of work and immediately throwing it in the trash without even glancing at it is the far worse insult.

Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?

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Post by mytailorisrich »

ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #53
mytailorisrich wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looking for a job means doing 'work' potentially for nothing. You have to apply, sit interviews, sit tests, etc. Investing half a day before a decision is very reasonable.

Coding and tech hiring challenges are far longer than half a day nowadays. Some are even up to two weeks. I much prefer an hour of whiteboarding grilling than wasting an entire week on open ended problems full of fluff.

Person I'm replying to said half a day, hence my reply that this is actually pretty good!

That being said, I've never had coding tests for more than a few hours.

Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?

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Post by markdown »

radicalbyte wrote: post #50
markdown wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This, but with the added realization that I seem to be losing brain power and memory quite rapidly. I used to be able to contribute to intelligent conversations, but these days find myself unable to keep up with peers and elders who're still super sharp. It's terrifying.

If you have young kids.. that's it. Apparently it gets better. It did for me, had a big dip then came up smarter. Now with our third in the "terrible two" phase I'm in a terrible dip. This time next year I'll be back to my horrific smart, egotistical and demanding self :-)

Interesting. I'd never heard that that could be a cause of cognitive decline.

In any case, no, I have teens. I've been wondering if maybe I caught covid without knowing it (asymptomatic) and this is brain fog.

Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?

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Post by dmos62 »

H8crilA wrote: post #26

The 7MW radar that was installed on a one-of-a-kind variant of the RC-135: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_RC-135#RC-135E_Lisa_Ann... From more negative things, the realities of war. See pictures from Mariupol for example, or listen to the intercepted phone calls from that region ...

> The system could track an object the size of a soccer ball from a distance of 300 miles (480 km), and its mission was to monitor Soviet ballistic missile testing in the reentry phase

Sounds pretty cool.

Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?

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Post by throwawaylala1 »

The realization that...

Okay seriously this blew my mind.

The realization that the majority of the rules/regulations/laws/policies that we have in place are directly connected to the suffering of a human being.

Our society is reactionary. We enact new rules in response to negative outcomes. Any time we try to pre-empt a bad outcome, people claim conspiracy and/or believe that the problem is being over dramatized. It takes a negative real world event (often several) before we collectively agree that it's a problem and do something about it.

So then... all of humanity's progress is built upon the pain of other humans. That really sucks.

Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?

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Post by daviddumenil »

robga wrote: post #30

UK -1500 Portugal +1300 Many UK citizens migrated to Portugal upon retirement. They have one of the best regimes re tax etc. for HMWI. Meanwhile, UK has inheritance taxes, high tax on pensions over £1m, etc. Immigration rules play a major role, with certain countries offering HNWI accelerated routes to resettle.

Portugal's +1500 makes most sense in the context of Brazil's -2500.

I'd love to know if that's a longer term trend for Brazil or if their wealthy are spooked by something.

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