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Comment · 5 years ago

I appreciate the clarity and correction offered!

Comment · 5 years ago

Big fan of Will Larson's book. I once recommended it to an Eng director I worked under who had foisted 5 reorgs in four years on his team, and had proposed a sixth.

I didn't last long there as a subordinate leader. The tales I hear from friends made there following my departure, very few did

Comment · 5 years ago

I thought the KBA was an amendment to US statutory law, not an 'agreement' between nations? What are the other laws and agreements to which you're alluding to, but weren't referenced in the article?

Comment · 5 years ago

Which the article indicates, at least as it relates to the US and her companies, is no longer the case:

> In July 2020, the KBA was dropped, and now the US government allows American companies to provide far higher-quality images of the region (so that objects the size of a person can be readily picked out).

Comment · 5 years ago

So the whole "quitting smoking" thing was...a happy coincidence? Did you go cold turkey? What were the nicotine withdrawal nightmares like? I had fierce ones when I quit

Comment · 5 years ago

Ninja edit: Anyone else find it crazy the value went from $100k in 2017 to $259k in 3 years? Absolute insanity to go up $160k in three years.

You should take a look at the Austin Texas housing market between 2008-2012

Comment · 5 years ago

I thought this sounded familiar and had to Google things and because I initially thought this was the same person I read about in 2020 who had this happen to them.

Instead it was the same behavior happening to a different homeowner.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/25/realestate/blacks-minorit...

Comment · 5 years ago

>When was the last time you saw an “ugly” news anchor. In the papers you don’t care what the reporter looks like.

To be completely honest, I don't care what the reporter looks like in either case. But I'm going to presume this was a rhetorical question and not meant as a reply or question to my specific manner of news consumption?

You'll have to forgive me (or, well you don't have to, that's up to you) but this still feels like putting the career carriage in front of the job prospect horse to me-for some reason. Perhaps said another way: none of what you said speaks to me to be a problem with the medium of interviewing (in this case video, ostensibly via tiktok), but instead rather the individuals participating in the process.

I can't quite pin down why, but it's a very strong sensation. I'll take this elsewhere and find a way to reconcile it without going turtles all the way down here in the thread.

Comment · 5 years ago

There are a lot of really interesting assumptions and projections being made about a number of classes of people going on in this mindset.

But okay.

Thanks for clarifying and sharing your perspective.

Comment · 5 years ago

When you put it like that...I still think the strip club comparison was weird because I can think of at least one other other common and far less contentious career-path with an interview/try-out process similar to this:

Acting.

Is there perhaps something deeper you want to say about sex workers that’s going unsaid right now?

Comment · 5 years ago

Love the coincidence of laying on my couch watching LGR on a Friday night at the very moment that I find a comment on HN talking about LGR.

Comment · 5 years ago

Willful ignorance?

Comment · 5 years ago

I've been having this problem with push notifications for quite a few apps, but Slack just seems to genuinely do whatever the hell it wants, regardless of whatever I've set preferences to.

Comment · 5 years ago

I like that dichotomy. If you or anyone else reading this have any thoughts on it, what are some good questions I ought to be asking during interviews to determine what kind of shop I'm talking to might be?

That's been a real struggle lately, and I want to get better at this to avoid these kinds of push shops you're describing