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Comment · 4 years ago
People in a few hundred years are going to laugh about the laws created in late stage liberalism. The frenzy and idiocy makes things like beard taxes seem reasonable
Comment · 4 years ago
America + Europe have been getting Democracy! good and hard for quite a while, time to shake things up
Comment · 5 years ago
The only one I know of in Spain is Andasol, which is small scale and enormously expensive
Comment · 5 years ago
Compared to Florida / Arizona, yes
Comment · 5 years ago
Molten salt storage doesn't work well in practice. https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/storage/nevadas-crescen...

Even if you're somewhere where the wind could give you 90% of your energy, you'll still need a reliable, baseline power source if you don't want everything to randomly shut down the other 10% of the time.

Wind + solar aren't as cheap as the LCOE makes it seem because you always have to pay for another source of power as baseline. If you added similar subsidies to natural gas it would be by far the cheapest energy source

Comment · 6 years ago
Also 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019. They'll be right at some point, but it still won't be profitable
Comment · 7 years ago
> Most companies are open about the expectations for the role being interviewed for, the interview process, and preparation tips

When did this happen? I haven't interviewed for a few years, but nothing was open or clear then

Comment · 7 years ago
Multiple hour coding assessments will work for people who are motivated for a new job. But every company wants "passive" candidates that are already working somewhere. If they're already (moderately) happy somewhere, they're not going to spend 3+ hours on your pre-process.

Companies that can identify talent without wasting the talent's time will be at a huge advantage

Comment · 7 years ago
I haven’t seen that too often, but I do get a lot of slight variations on my “impressive background” compelling them to reach out
Comment · 7 years ago
Full on programming as a mechanic seems overwhelming, but I like the idea of automation in strategy games

I’ll give your game a try, maybe I’ll be proved wrong

Comment · 7 years ago
We want to be a full fledged talent agency for software engineers, and the first thing we're making better for engineers is the interview process. We help you design your own interview process to best show off your skills.

One of the things that make tech interviews so nondeterministic is that it's like taking a test where the teacher never told you what to study. With us you'll know exactly what and how many steps there are in every company's process, and what to prepare for - from the beginning.

A big part of this is negotiating with companies to create personalized technical interviews. Maybe you're an expert in Kafka, so you can give a small presentation on how they could be using it and do a Q&A with the team. Or you're good at getting up to speed quickly and want to show that off in some pair programming. We want creative processes that don't leave you feeling like you just went through a meat grinder.

Companies also want to test your knowledge in some way, so we work with them to get you a guide of what to prepare for. But no being peppered with random CS questions - you'll have a company specific guide on what is important to know for the role, and what you can expect and prepare for in the interview.

This has gotten a little long-winded, but would be interested in talking about what else sets us apart from Triplebyte / Hired, or anything else that comes up

Comment · 7 years ago
Everything's a bubble, and that's ok. Wouldn't want every city / region to be the same

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