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There are no behavioural questions, the intro bit at the start is just there to not abruptly start asking questions, help you relax a bit, and also nice in case the client wants to look at the video to find out more about you. We do insist that your code works correctly, that's true. We're not overly anal about the format of your solution, but we do expect to cover all edge cases.

I've been an interviewer with Karat for 2.5yrs, it's genuinely great. https://karat.com/

I know you made the statement in jest, but trying to improve on the interview process is not a bad idea. At the very least, it's less engineering time wasted conducting interviews.

The fact that the video wasn't from Technology Connections was both surprising and disappointing. Great share though! I wish ACs and heat pumps were more common in the UK, though I understand why they aren't (yet! I expect an AC installing craze in the next couple of years).

I was curious to see it in action, here's a random Twitch video https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1118988304

I think you might be referring to this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flick_(time)

If anyone is looking for the Alpine article linked in the first paragraph, it's only available via Gemini, or via a proxy like here https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/drewdevault.com/2021/05/06/Pra...

Nice photos, thank you for piquing my interest in Jersey https://www.tom.je/

Also, pretty good advice in this post, bookmarked it.

It could've been a fantastic April Fool's release. I like to imagine that was the original intent and a manager went "eh, release it anyway".

I got the Sonos Arc, which was (a ridiculously expensive IMHO) £799, and I was expecting to be blown away after reading glowing reviews. Instead, it's just... OK. Using the app to calibrate it to the room made a big difference. I might be spoiled by my obsession with headphones, it obviously won't match the fidelity of my e.g. Focal Clears. Still better than the built-in LG CX speakers, and good enough for the occasional movie or Switch game. It also looks pretty good.

This is great advice. Something that somewhat helps me is thinking "you're out on a run, you've already won". Though I'm still insanely competitive and I still end up pushing myself, at least I don't care that much about Strava times anymore.

How do you even get the _feel_ of the device so right? I'm perplexed, such a great project. I started using it unironically to play music, I'd totally pay for a Mac/iOS app haha.

I bought it for home use because it looks so nice. Fits perfectly for the small desk in our living room. It's not as comfy as my Aeron but it's not supposed to be, it's half the price and not uncomfortable for even a ridiculous number of hours. I've only had it for a few months so I'm glad to hear that it will last us a long time.

This sounds silly but it's such valuable advice (particularly wrt weights, which I find super fun, though running is my thing). Creating a somewhat disciplined approach to working out has been the only thing (except for SSRIs) that had a measurable impact on my clinical depression and ADHD.

Top comment nails it:

> So you took over someone elses project years ago, made some money off of it and then killed it. Yikes.

Another person living in the UK, I agree wholeheartedly; nice insights about Singapore and classism. I live in Manchester and take remote contracts with London clients from time to time. Getting paid London salaries outside of London is one way to live comfortably in this country. There are a few larger companies that truly believe in remote work, Utility Warehouse is one of them. I don't understand how people put up with London or the horrible commute.

Depression in my case. I started smoking before high school as something to fill the void, only realizing much later that I've been severely depressed for a long time. (SSRIs are an amazing tool in my case FWIW)

Once you get used to it, it's an amazing social tool -- making new friends/acquaintances becomes a piece of cake. I travelled a lot for work and, as a smoker, I would instantly integrate with the other smokers. It's just something fun that leads to pursuing other social activities together. I've seen ADHD mentioned in this thread and that makes sense, the habit as "something to do" is a powerful grip on top of the chemical addiction.

I agree that it's likely not a universal experience, but I relate to this so much. I just love smoking, and if we had a way to make it safe I'd be smoking every day. I still miss it a long time after I quit, particularly when the occasion would be perfect for a cigarette. I'm pretty sure that clinical depression is associated somewhat with the hold smoking has/d on me; getting better mentally made it much easier to not smoke.

I finished RE8 on Stadia on launch day; it looks great on PC but for some reason it looks even better on a TV with the CCU. As someone who's put hundreds of £s and hours into Stadia, I'm quite content with it, I wish it had more games though, most of the free titles that come with Stadia Pro are ridiculous (though, to be fair, they did help me discover gems such as The West of Loathing).

Thanks to your comment and the sibling, I found this https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/bif6wp/can_ub...

I use two Das Keyboard 4 Professional keyboards, one Mac/MX Brown and one Win/MX Blue. They're pretty much perfect and I love the media controls.

I once hired two engineers for the same role on my team; they both seemed about the same level during the interview. After working with them for a while, one of them was perfectly adequate, the other turned out to be the best engineer I've ever worked with.

Also this -- professional diver discussing the video recorded by someone who dove there unprepared and died https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv4aK2O1X_M

YES! I'm also really struggling with giving up YouTube due to all the wonderful content available there. I wish there was a widely-used alternative like Floatplane to double-post your videos for your supporters.

Unless my math is off, that would put his net worth in the $10-20B bracket. That is positively insane.

I really enjoy Alec's videos and quirky humour. Beware though, this kind of channel is a massive, addicting time sink. Other similar channels that HN might appreciate (the first two are quite well-known, the last one I found recently and is definitely bingeworthy):

- Smarter Every Day https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6107grRI4m0o2-emgoDnAA

- Tom Scott https://www.youtube.com/user/enyay

- Practical Engineering https://www.youtube.com/user/gradyhillhouse

That's a good idea, I wonder whether such apps exist.

Just wanted to point out that you _are_ able to pee anywhere, you might not be allowed to, though.

FWIW I'm self-hosting a Gitea instance on a server <200 miles away from me. I thought it'd be a stupid idea, but setting it up properly was a lot of fun, and it's just stupid, crazy fast compared to anything managed.

I work roughly 60/40 from my office (Windows workstation) and home (macOS laptop). I have a significant insight into how they work and their shortcuts; not only that, but I use Sublime Text and VSCode in both, and am familiar with the differences between macOS/Windows for those shortcuts. That being said, in terms of productivity, ergonomics, and things generally being well thought-out, Windows is nowhere near macOS. It does certain small things right, like Win-Shift-S copying to clipboard by default (you need to hold Ctrl while releasing the capture to get the same behaviour on macOS), and overall is much snappier due to macOS being a bloated mess. Overall, though, Windows is garbage for developers (yes, yes, if you're using Microsoft technologies or oblivious to what happens outside of your IDE you will probably be happy enough) -- and I have tried WSL2, Cygwin, working from a VM (yuck), and many other similar options.

I've recently discovered VSCode's remote functionality (more specifically, how incredibly well it works), so I've set up an SSH box and can now seamlessly work from anywhere (side note, having tools that only serve you is incredibly fast if you're used to things like GitHub or managed CI).

You can always click on the scroll bars -- invisible doesn't mean they don't exist, they simply go out of the way when they're not needed (i.e. most of the time / when not scrolling). You can do that on iOS and Android as well, tap and hold on the scroll bar to quickly scroll through an entire document.

It would be weird if that was not the case, as Go and all its bells and whistles are open source. I found this after a quick search (clicking around will send you to the source code): https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/tools/cmd/compilebench

edit: Ooh, that's nice, I did not know about that, thanks for sharing (especially useful as I'm transitioning to Rust after 10yrs of Go).