k3fernan

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Founder-led recruiting is scaling your taste(scoutintro.substack.com)
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by k3fernan 4y ago
Personal/un-scientific opinion. It's worth trying going on/off alcohol to see the effects on your sleep, mental health, behavior, and honestly finances. I'm trying no alcohol Jan (like a lot of people) and I've been
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by k3fernan 4y ago
My advice is to run a real process and track every application. Expect around 100 applications to 25 screens to 10 interview loops to 1 offer. Best case. I would say directly reaching out to hiring managers and recruiters is your path forwa
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by k3fernan 6y ago
My co-founder and I divide our days: before lunch, we take meetings, user interviews, feedback sessions, respond to emails, and tickets. Essentially shallow or synchronous work. After lunch, we go heads down on coding, design, or writing wo
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by k3fernan 7y ago
A Canadian living in US, so take this with a grain of salt. Canada is a great place to immigrate too, I would also explore Montreal, it has more of a research/AI/gaming scene but the cost of living is lower than Toronto. Don'
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by k3fernan 8y ago
Is there any value in having different paternity vs. maternity leave or primary vs. secondary caregiver? Wouldn't something like X weeks paid for anyone parenting/birthing/adopting. (i.e. a paid family leave) be a simpler des
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by k3fernan 12y ago
Super interesting to see the pay differences between "programmer" vs "developer" vs "engineer". With the other titles there is either an inference of management/hierarchy (manager, lead) or just a differen
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The real 10 algorithms that dominate our world(medium.com)
5 points by k3fernan 12y ago|0 comments
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White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art(jambop.com)
1 points by k3fernan 14y ago|0 comments
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A Letter To The Guy Who Harassed Me Outside The Bar(rolereboot.org)
2 points by k3fernan 14y ago|0 comments
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Can We Please Move Past Apple’s Silly, Faux-Real UIs?(fastcodesign.com)
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Charlie Kaufman 70-minute screenwriting lecture(nofilmschool.com)
40 points by k3fernan 14y ago|2 comments
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by k3fernan 14y ago
The biggest problem I find with long distance relationships, especially across time zones, is the real time nature of it. It's blocking. Especially for two busy people. I would rather record a small video (rather than video chat), write an
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by k3fernan 15y ago
Just a question for CS graduates here, how many Math courses were required to major in CS? When I was an undergraduate the bare minimum was: - 2 algebra (number theory + linear algebra) - 2 calculus (single variable) - 2 statistics - 1 logi
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by k3fernan 15y ago
I really am I loving the rate at which Parse is adding new features. We are currently using it with one of our prototypes but roughly looking at their blog postings, it is around five additions a month. Impressive.