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by locklock 7y ago
I've only listened to this one, but... 1) You sound very anxious and/or nervous. Which is normal, interviewing isn't fun and can be stressful, but it does not come across great. See if you can relax a bit? 2) "Why do you
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by locklock 7y ago
You can ignore a record spinning on a turntable while you're having a drink, it's a bit harder to ignore a live band playing in the same room
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by locklock 7y ago
And if you're getting a $365k bonus you are likely already so rich that the money is only going for luxury things while for someone making $7.25 it's quite literally the difference between living in a car or not. I wonder if you c
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by locklock 7y ago
How did you get into freelancing, specifically in Germany? Do you get most work from Linkedin? I really don't like that site for various reasons but if it's necessary for freelance work I might have to sign up...
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by locklock 7y ago
It all falls under the same umbrella, which as you accurately described as "rich guys who don't share anything" and as far as I'm concerned any amount of elevated consciousness around that is a good thing, even if strict
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by locklock 7y ago
I'm fine with outrage-inducing propaganda against people who have tens or hundreds of billions of dollars since that class as a whole spends so much time putting out propaganda in their favor. I'm not particularly interested in th
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by locklock 7y ago
One of @jason's tweets in the same thread says "#996 = 6 days a week, 9am to 9pm The same exact work ethic that built America!" Given that slaves built most of America, he kind of has a point, but not for the reasons he wants
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by locklock 7y ago
There's a difference between these tests (has this person smoked weed at any point in the last month, roughly?) and breathalyzer tests (is this person currently drunk?) Showing up to work drunk vs. showing up to work two weeks after sm
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by locklock 7y ago
I've been using Mac products since I was a child (thanks, dad) more or less happily and the removal of the headphone jack and the requirement that you have these adaptors has been the first thing to make me seriously consider going els
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by locklock 7y ago
Kind of, but not for the reasons they want me to like it. The redesign itself is terrible in almost every way, but in being so terrible it really drives a point home I've been thinking about for a while: the "best practices"
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by locklock 7y ago
A couple million dollars a year [1]. It's always interesting to me how relatively little money it takes to make life objectively worse for everyone else in the country while making a small number of people richer. For the cost of a nic
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by locklock 7y ago
On the other hand, this is the second positive article on this plane to hit the top of hacker news in 3 days [1]. A trillion dollar plane that is notorious for costing way too much probably has a pretty decent marketing budget behind it, an
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by locklock 8y ago
it's "really cold" if you're from southern california and "beach weather" if you're from a lot of the rest of the world
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by locklock 8y ago
at this point in time you need a job to pay rent and buy food (and, if you're american, have a chance at decent health insurance). for coders it's easy to find a job, for people without such "in-demand" skills maybe not
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by locklock 8y ago
I'm really thankful I haven't yet had a job where all I'm developing is new ways to force people to see ads. Imagine working on a 'feature' like this for weeks or months, and the end result is simply that people who
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by locklock 8y ago
People actually do use Pinterest to collect images, I think, but I agree with you on the other points
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by locklock 8y ago
I oftentimes find it difficult to balance actually attempting to be successful with finding time for the backlog of Medium posts and other blog articles about "How To Be Successful" that I assume I have to read in order to be succ
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by locklock 8y ago
For curiosity's sake... we know now that Theranos was never anything more than hot air and marketing. What caused you to defend them at the time?
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by locklock 8y ago
Facebook is a very good contacts app attached to a very good events app. The problem is that these things are attached to a massive surveillance advertisement network run by what appears to be a very shady company. Since deleting FB of cour
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by locklock 8y ago
This is a relatively cynical point of view and seems to assume that nobody cares about your CV. I think the main point if I can find it is that promotions can be simply a bargaining tool on the company's part and that it's your
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by locklock 8y ago
That term generally means "it's not my decision to make," it does not necessarily have to do with how much anyone gets paid. In this context he's saying that he did his part, discovering the device, and from that point f
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by locklock 8y ago
It's a testament to the propaganda that VCs set up in the last ~20 years that this is even a newsworthy article. Since the first dotcom boom, basically, the popular idea of a startup has been synonymous with taking venture capital and
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by locklock 8y ago
Having moved out of America, it's the one thing that would have to change before I ever returned. Especially now, having spoken to people from all over the world (Europe, mainly), who simply never worry about any of this. Six-digit bil
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by locklock 8y ago
You can certainly buy a nice house in Berlin for it though!
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by locklock 8y ago
To echo everyone else: practice. Last time I looked for work I immediately went after the job I really wanted, and since I hadn't interviewed anywhere in years it didn't go very well. I then did a bunch of interviews for places I
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by locklock 8y ago
What good is a company that is not sustainable enough to pay its employees enough to live?
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by locklock 8y ago
I feel like I've read this article plenty of times, just replace the scooter company with a rideshare company or a delivery company or anything else from the "gig economy." And after a few months or years, how many of these j
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by locklock 8y ago
I don't think German Blue Cards are tied to a specific employer. As far as I know you only have to let the authority know if you change jobs less than a year after getting the card, and beyond that you just need to make above the money
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by locklock 8y ago
reminds me of Social Roulette [1] which was also brilliant. this seems like a much more involved (and potentially life-ruining) version of that. cheers to making something interesting! [1] http://socialroulette.net/
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by locklock 8y ago
is there any chance facebook will improve in the future, in any way? both the increasingly terrible user experience and the company's shady practices seem like features rather than bugs at this point and to fix either would require a f

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