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 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
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…
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...
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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
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…
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…
People actually do use Pinterest to collect images, I think, but I agree with you on the other points
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?
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
You can certainly buy a nice house in Berlin for it though!
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…
What good is a company that is not sustainable enough to pay its employees enough to live?
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…
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/
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 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
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…
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...
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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
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…
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…
People actually do use Pinterest to collect images, I think, but I agree with you on the other points
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?
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
You can certainly buy a nice house in Berlin for it though!
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…
What good is a company that is not sustainable enough to pay its employees enough to live?
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…
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/