ben30

Prior to this post Steve had actually discussed Flash and app store via a couple of emails. That's also available via archive.org here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20121006075101/http://www.taoeff...

9 months ago, applied for a FAANG role, did the full day of interviews etc. Rejected, I feel the reason was not enough experience doing these on the spot coding challenges. I was given 2 on the day, 25 mins to answer each. I answered but on retrospect not a 'text book' answer. I know how I'd answer it now.

It is what it is, in practice, on the job your value comes from knowing a system, which takes time, but interviews don't check for that. I don't respond well to artificial pressure like that, but interviews have time pressure, the only way for me to break through that is to practice these puzzles.

I had been making my way through these:

https://www.teamblind.com/post/New-Year-Gift---Curated-List-...

Paused currently though, as I got a job elsewhere, that didn't have the leet code barrier to entry. Respectfully, they told me up front what they wanted to talk about it, so the questions were not a surprise.

The podcast

https://hackaday.com/ and the podcast that goes with it.

Scansnap ix500, scan to pdf with ocr, save to google docs, all in same folder, search what I want via browser interface.

I had the pleasure of staying there for a couple of nights in 2008. The hallways smelt of burning incense. As I waited for the key to my room, I remember someone coming up to reception, saying that they'd like to film a documentary about the place. The guy just looked at them and said no, fuck off.

I think the value here isn't for consumers. It's having a central ledger that all of the main financial institutions use. No need to a move a % of your treasury reserves into the central bank each night. As the treasury department of Barclays for example, the central bank of england can see your liquidity buffers in real time, intraday.

Related article from 1995

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-...

Have you tried pair programming? it's more sociable, but your entire team has to do it, all code needs to be pair programmed, not a part of the time. That might increase your quality of life.