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by Peroni 8d ago
I once asked a high-ranking Meta trust & safety employee why they don't just block paid ads that include telegram links and the short version of the incredible mental gymnastics they went through was "identifying telegram link
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by Peroni 8d ago
'normies' is, and has always been, self-deprecating. We (people who use HN, et al) are 'nerds' and 'geeks' who understand tech beyond the surface layer and can immediately see the downside to using things like
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by Peroni 15d ago
I think that's a reasonable part of the assessment but the focus is primarily on the candidates understanding of the output and essentially their ability to QA the output.
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by Peroni 15d ago
The better way existed before AI existed. Take-home tasks were always poor attempts to find a measure for technical ability. Pairing exercises or live problem-solving tasks were, and still are, vastly more effective. If your team uses AI fo
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by Peroni 1mo ago
I like it! The 'skill focus' prep appears to be the only way to improve my skill attributes but despite choosing that for each tournament in early season, it doesn't appear to have any permanent effect on my attributes.
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by Peroni 1mo ago
>At work, if your job is to move a bunch of heavy things from one side of the room to another, you should use whatever assistive tech you have on hand: a wagon, a forklift ... even an AI-powered robot. But at the gym, it makes no sense f
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by Peroni 1mo ago
There doesn't have to be commercial gain for it to be promotion. The distinction is promotion vs contribution. If you view HN as a community and all you're doing is saying "look at the thing I made" rather than actively
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by Peroni 1mo ago
The HN algo is intentionally obscure to prevent people from gaming the system. For example, if there's a bunch of traffic going directly to the discussion link, it will heavily punish the weighting of the post as it's assumed the
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by Peroni 1mo ago
Depends on a whole bunch of factors. Location, growth stage, product industry, and funding are the main influencers. Location - Assuming you're not based somewhere obscure, there'll be endless compensation reports, benchmarks, gla
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by Peroni 2mo ago
16 years and counting.
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by Peroni 4mo ago
Recruiters (internal and external) rarely actually look at any of your personal projects. The more experienced you are, the less relevant your personal projects are to a recruiter unless you've created some well known OS work. For less
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by Peroni 4mo ago
It can be both too. It's entirely possible to protect a companies best interests and promote employee well-being.
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by Peroni 4mo ago
Yeah I read it but it doesn't help me understand why it's considered bad UX, hence why I asked for clarification.
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by Peroni 4mo ago
>Please get rid of that top panel.... This is just bad UX. How so? It displays useful info at a glance. Where's the bad UX?
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by Peroni 6mo ago
The most valuable thing to employers is decent experience with a reputable employer in the US. If you're serious about the move, learn as much as you can about the various visa options. The UK government website is surprisingly excelle
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by Peroni 6mo ago
OP - Without a work visa or other right to work in the UK already established, you're not gonna have a good time. Tech vacancies are dropping in the UK and QA vacancies are one of the hardest hit. Couple that with the fact that QA sala
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by Peroni 6mo ago
>Cut your take home pay expectations by 60-70% as the government will take a huge chunk of your income. 20%-30% on average. >Assume you'll struggle to heat your home because the UK has the highest energy costs in the world. This
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by Peroni 6mo ago
>Often times we assume that hiring an L8 at faang is perfect for a startup and thats usually not the case Agreed. In my experience that's almost always a bad idea if that L8 hasn't previously had first-hand experience of workin
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by Peroni 6mo ago
The startup world has been my exclusive focus for almost twenty years now so I stand by my position. Granted if you have fewer than five years of experience then it's harder to demonstrate value on a CV and that's certainly where
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by Peroni 6mo ago
>That’s why more people are showcasing their work through portfolios. And that’s what recruiters actually look for. Not sure where this assumption is coming from. Most recruiters are looking for consistent work experience with reputable
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by Peroni 6mo ago
Growing companies from ~10 to ~200+ has been my bread and butter for almost 20yrs now. A few relatively universal observations: 1. As sloaken said, your documentation of processes and procedures is NOT adequate. This applies to everything
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by Peroni 6mo ago
> In the process, they may bypass the valuable experience of struggling through early tasks and learning from their mistakes. Students, I worry, could simply become an intermediary between the raw idea and the AI’s output. Even if all A
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by Peroni 7mo ago
>the carve-out only protects people inside the US. Speaking as someone based in Europe, that's a detail that doesn't go unnoticed. I'm not sure an American company prioritising the privacy of American people is worth quest
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by Peroni 7mo ago
If your thought process is "someone should make X..." then your next thought should be "I should try and make X...". Go give it a go and as a minimum, you'll learn something about why it doesn't already exist y
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by Peroni 8mo ago
We'd announce it on here and on twitter but we managed it on meetup.com so if you were a part of the HN London meetup group, you got emailed every time the next event got announced.
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by Peroni 8mo ago
Nice! I'll keep an eye out for it. One small bit of feedback is that it would be useful to see an 'other' category as the four roles defined seem a bit limiting.
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by Peroni 8mo ago
There's a lot of references in the report to companies "reporting difficulties in filling vacancies" with no clarity on what constitutes 'difficulties'. Also, the data notes that 83% of the companies surveyed were
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by Peroni 8mo ago
Really cool tool. Would love to see similar analysis on the 'Who's Hiring' threads. How is the 'Want Remote' criteria assessed?
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by Peroni 8mo ago
Unfortunately we shut it down when COVID hit. I think there's a smaller, less formal HN meetup still happening occasionally but I'm not affiliated with it.
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by Peroni 8mo ago
>it seems as though a 17-year-old in a tech role would be unable to access a corporate network if it was protected by a VPN. That's not what the law states. The actual law states ...by prohibiting the provision to children in the

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