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This strategy works best if you’re engaging with humans rather than human resources.
Seek out the hiring manager directly, or even the management if it’s a startup.
You do realize Han Chinese also live in Taiwan and not just Mainland China ?
I guess it depends on what noise-to-signal density you’re after.
With a a long enough ChatGPT generated output, no one would question a few out of place characters or even an emoji. With 3000+ different emojis to choose from that encodes an entire byte of data.
Another idea is using “they’re”, “their”, “there” as bits.
I was not familiar with these roles before this article. Are they more colloquially known in the M&A world ?
Indeed, both can create negative value for a project.
At least with engineers, we have slightly better proxies for interviewing. Leetcode sucks but it does filters out people who can’t code or grasp recursion. Unfortunately, the source of resentment towards Leetcode is that it also filters out people who can code in a practical setting (false negatives). While false positives are increasingly common with Leetcode now that tech is lucrative and people know how to play the game, people who pass Leetcode interviews can program in some capacity
This could be useful if you want to allow making edits and publishing this to a server, but keep authentication entirely client-side.
Why did you opt for Supabase instead of headless CMS like Netlify?
Why did you opt for Atomic CSS instead of Tailwind?
Driving a bicycle while intoxicated is also treated just like driving a car.
Electric bikes going 25km an hour or faster, or have larger than a 250watt battery needs to be registered as a motor vehicle. You’ll need a driver’s license, insurance, etc.
https://9to5mac.com/2023/02/14/warren-buffetts-berkshire-aap...
There are plenty of trust fund babies who are intelligent and can output economic value. Doesn’t mean they do.
In Google’s case, the individuals can be capable but the org may not be. The sum is worst than the parts.
SSDs we’re limited in capacity and still expensive.
Parallelizing work with MapReduce allowed using cheap fault-prone commodity hardware and disks.
If you’re dealing with terabytes rather than petabytes of data, you probably don’t need BigData
Edit: didn't even realize the F is Cloudflare has since been lowercased: https://blog.cloudflare.com/end-of-the-road-for-cloudflare-n....
I've worked extensively with the best salary datasets available. Even then, you shouldn't believe everything you read. Even when the data is good, it's not reality. I fail to believe SalaryExperts are anywhere near experts in this case when there is so many odd points on that page.
For starters, it's kind of weird to fix game dev salaries on Tokyo when the Kyoto Triangle is a thing. I have on-the-ground context on Japan because I can see the Nintendo office from my backyard. People who aren't familiar with Japan don't realize that Tokyo city doesn't even exist or at least stopped existing over a century ago. That's just a litmus test as to why you trust the anecdotal evidence of people who actually live and work in Japan over a cherrypicked website from Google search for "game dev salary Japan".
Tech ecosystems are based on self-reinforcing feedback loops.
I expect Nintendo to have a different workforce composition than your typical SaaS.
They will proportionally have more artists and translators, who have less leverage/alternatives in the labor market than engineers. That would explain a lower expense line in the profit formula.
Obviously, this is not a value judgement. Diamonds cost more than water, at the margin, but that doesn't mean one is more important than the other.
Japan has the lowest TOEFL score in Asia amongst 30+ countries. English proficiency is much higher in both advanced and developing Asian economies. This is not inherently a blocker for software development, but it reflects a trend counter to globalization and being receptive to American practices.
Japan has less billionaires than both Hong Kong, SK and Taiwan, all of which have a fraction of the population. Tax policy is one part of this, but there is a cultural aversion to risk taking. The typical apartment lease is 2+ years, which reflects the sense to long term commitment. There's also more restrictive regulation and actually following policies to the tee. Even human-powered bicycles require registration and not too powerful e-bikes requires license plates, registration, insurance. All of this means there are less startups, less startup ecosystem, less hackers. Heck, Indonesia has since grown a more vibrant startup ecosystem and even deca-unicorns.
Also reigning in from Japan's manufacturing era is prioritizing reliability and virtueing craft. Japan is still building appliances and electronics that last decades, which is at odds with the SDLC chasing shiny new features for smartphones every year. Unfortunately, consumers have spoke with their wallets that they value updates more than reliability. Ironically, Japan's software is pretty crap and not reliable. My bank is one of the more vibrants one, going through a DX digital experience / "digital transformation" as it is called, but all of the technology, hardware and software is atrocious. It's been the second time within a year where my ATM card has stopped working because it's gotten demagnetized. It's a lot of security theater.
The tolls are quite high, too. Between Kyoto and Tokyo, which is a 6 hour drive, the tolls are about $100.
In Asia, vanlife and glamming is becoming an aesthetic almost. It’s especially popular among affluent people and influencers. People in Japan buy expensive gear such as SnowPeak, including clothing to match, just to sit in a park. With all lifestyle things in Japan, people have to dress a certain way.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_macaque
Pretty much all the big island nations in Asia have monkeys.
Our house just a few kilometers from the center of Taipei has monkeys in the backyard.
At the time, I didn’t know about background processes or VMs. I used the Mouse cursor api in the JCL, so my computer was preoccupied. There were 5 second intervals between actions where I can quickly change the song on YouTube.