brainfog

I've tried a variety of tools over the years and always end up going back to a low tech approach: spreadsheets. I set up my credit cards to email me after every transaction, which I then manually copy over to my spreadsheet with additional category information. Pivot tables give me a breakdown by category / month.

The added friction of having to manually copy everything over is a nice incentive to buy less stuff.

If you're interviewing for staff level positions and above, you'll be discussing long term planning and some pretty tactical stuff where an NDA makes perfect sense. Might be a bit overkill for senior and below but meh.

I’m in Pittsburgh but didn't end up applying anywhere local. I was looking for remote-friendly to keep things flexible due to an upcoming move, which definitely limited my options. Out of the 50 or so companies I looked into, barely a third turned out to be remote friendly, with some only pretending to be (e.g. Meta seems to have gone out of their way to make remote suck for everyone involved by limiting it to staff+ on top of manager discretion).

I was definitely nervous about the time off being an issue. The usual stream of recruiter emails had pretty much dried up by the time I started looking for work, and I was fully expecting the search to take forever. It wasn’t an issue at all in the end - no one brought up the gap during interviews. I mentioned it in passing a few times when talking about why I left my previous job and mostly just got “dang that sounds like fun” from people. That being said, I have no idea if I would have gotten more responses to my initial inquiries without the gap on my resume.

I can't help but feel like I lucked into easy mode given the general consensus that everything sucks right now. Applied to 10 places (mix of FAANG and small startups) after taking a year off from work. Heard back from 5, somehow got offers from all 5 and am starting at one of them next month.

It took a fair bit of prep to get back into things - especially when it comes to system design interviews - but otherwise everything went fine. Really enjoyed how some companies are trying non-leetcode approaches lately like code review and debugging sessions.

Another vote for Pocket Casts. The only thing I dislike about it is that the search feature can be janky at times, especially when it comes to non-English languages. No complaints other than that.

Because it's completely irrelevant.

I suppose this is a bit of a special case but the US and Canadian governments both require you to provide the full list of trips from the last ten years when applying for citizenship and permanent residency. Timeline is incredibly helpful there.

> that would necessitate constant retraining

You wouldn't necessarily need to retrain that frequently. If your model outputs hashes / vectors that can be used for searching, you just need to run inference on your new data as it comes in.

Judging from data on levels.fyi, definitely not the latter.

Yes.

Where did all of these people even come from in the first place? Did the industry just have 50-100k at-least-somewhat-qualified people sloshing around doing nothing before they got picked up by FAANG?

ok

- I look up the dates for when security updates will stop, and add a reminder to change phones before then.

- Turn off notifications for everything.

The amount of pedantry and over the top literalism in your comment gave me an aneurism.

Yikes, that looks error prone.

For context, the "apparent TOS violations" were him harassing the authors and a handful of other people.

That is probably less than a rounding error in terms of traffic.

Google, the company that funded Steve King's election campaign, is left leaning?

OP works at google, so at least one person at Google cares about it.

They do to some extent, albeit not really in a measurable way. They could improve the battery usage of their apps, optimize power on Android, and make their services less addictive.

Pinging a bug five minutes after filing it is also an ...interesting... approach.

I'm in the same boat. I was already fraying at the edges before this all started, but this past month has been brutal.

Words don't have to be used literally. Everyone knew exactly what the original poster meant by democracy. Well-actually'ing on obvious things like this is just tiresome.

It may be patently true, but it added nothing to the discussion beyond "well, actually".

Google owns everything by default but you can file a request with info about what you'd like to work on outside of work. If it's granted, you get to keep the rights. It doesn't matter whether you're planning on making money from it or not.

They're usually very reasonable about it, despite what you would expect from a company that covers so much ground.

No.

Why would you expect that?

> Side note: Its funny you cannot get real time updates/SMS when money is deducted from your bank/credit card account.

Most major credit card providers have email and sms notifications for transactions. It's pretty much instant.