Much worse.
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In my experience that's a strong yes, that works really well. I've been able to get helpful context on previous projects from a few years ago with none of the people still around just by search across all our P2s.
And in fact so does English — it’s twenty-four but fif-teen (five ten, not ten five). In german we do that until 99 (nine and ninety).
Oh, and also packs of six. :D
"Owning" it makes a difference in so far as that I can now be absolutely certain that no issue will be handled by the landlord because there isn't one. Definitely increases my perceived agency.
The kids are 6 and 9. I think they just feel more comfortable in the more compact living space.
Me, my wife, and our two kids recently moved.
Previously we lived in a large house that looked “special” — old but in good shape. Lots of wood and 4m ceilings. That was a rented place.
By chance we found a house smaller and not special at all — a mass-produced townhouse, basically — that we were able to afford buying. For a few us-specific reasons we really wanted to buy a house instead of rent it, so we went ahead.
I was a bit scared that it would be a let-down. A downgrade. The house would be less special. I would feel less special. I was certain I would regret it, but it made sense for the family.
The opposite happened. It’s a much nicer experience. The house feels more cozy and more modern. The kids have suddenly lost all problems sleeping in their rooms by themselves. They go play in their rooms. They never did that in the previous house. And being a townhouse, there’s a bunch of similar families around — suddenly the kids have friends.
I work remotely so there’s not a huge difference work-wise. But I’m much happier and more relaxed knowing the kids are happier and more relaxed.
> Longo is the founder of and has an ownership interest in L-Nutra; the company's food products are used in studies of the fasting-mimicking diet. Longo's interest in L-Nutra was disclosed and managed per USC's conflicts-of-interest policies. USC has an ownership interest in L-Nutra and the potential to receive royalty payments from L-Nutra. USC's financial interest in the company has been disclosed and managed under USC's institutional conflict of interest policies.
FWIW, there’s no notion of “in-network” or “out-network” here.
I pay 860€ per month for health insurance, which covers me, my wife, and our two children. There’s no deductible. Everything is covered, except for tooth replacements that are covered only at between 20% and 50% I believe. You’ll never get a bill from a doctor or hospital in Germany, except for those tooth replacements.
The most I’ll pay is a small copay for drugs, usually about 5€, but only for adults — drugs for kids are covered 100%.
Probably a bit simplified, but the above has been my experience so far (I’m 40).
There are several paid SaaS apps and / or Slack bots that do this. It’s a viable niche, but has gotten somewhat crowded in the past few years. Earlyish example: https://iDoneThis.com (worked there 2014/2015)
“The more specific we are, the more universal something can become. Life is in the details. If you generalize, it doesn't resonate. The specificity of it is what resonates.” [https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/jacqueline_woodson_882873]
You can repeat a generalization over and over again. It sounds right — but it doesn’t stick. You can’t translate it into your own practice. You learn the words, but not the intuition.
Telling concrete stories helps us learn the intuition, too.
- What is the problem?
- Why is it a problem? (Eg, Business impact, impact on customers, etc.)
- What are we doing about it?
- What consequences do we expect (or do we already see)?
Depending on the medium, do a sentence, a paragraph, or a page for each.
- https://automattic.com/work-with-us/how-we-hire-developers/
- https://www.andyserong.com/2019/07/25/switching-jobs-and-app...
Work is mostly asynchronous. Not sure if that came through properly. If you have about 90 minutes time every evening you can go through the trial within a month.
You wouldn’t. If you’re interested in the job and Automattic are interested in you, you can do a trial. Because it’s a non-trivial time investment, they offer a small compensation.
If Google flies you in for a full day interview, do they pay you a full day’s salary? Or, any salary at all? They don’t.
And it also helped me find out whether I would like to work there — it’s a trial in both directions, really. For the applicant it’s a much better way to figure out whether they like the company and its people than, say, things a recruiter tells you on the phone.
I can’t find the study right now, but there was one that evaluated predictors of job performance and found that only work samples and general cognitive ability were really usable and reliable measures.
In the end, the trial’s outcome is more determined by results — what you did and how you did it.
"But as far as...we don’t have a set, like, this is the way, right? There are multiple ways to use GitHub in the classroom, and it depends on what goal you’re trying to achieve."
Same is true for software development, yet they promote the GitHub Flow. Find the practices that work for 80% of the people / contexts!