Are you sure it was really a Chase representative on the phone with you? It’s sometimes possible to cause an account to be locked without being able to log in by doing too many login attempts.
Yea, I’m like 90% sure it was a chase rep in the end, based on what the in branch people were saying. Though it sounded like it was someone in a local office and not part of a large call center team.
[I know this is tangentially related to your point] Do you have a source on "leather cows"? My understanding is that cow leather is nearly entirely a by-product of beef and dairy cows.
I'm feel very lucky to have gotten my first "programming job" without a technical interview (it was an unpaid high-school internship that I turned into a programming job, and eventually became full-time after I was old enough to be an employee). Interviews are still tough for me, I have experienced interview anxiety extreme enough that I went home instead of continuing a day of on-sites. The interview anxiety is totally unlike anything I deal with on the job, including during other "high stress" activities like presentations, or pair coding and debugging.
Starting my career I stepped into a totally different world. I have a lot of empathy for the situations Austen that mentions here, which are mostly even more stark than my own. I also have a ton of embarrassing stories and memories. Moving between totally different socio-economic contexts is difficult, and complicated.
I suggest practicing over and over again to reduce your anxiety. We all feel anxious when doing a whiteboard or now VC interview where they can ask you anything and you feel like you have to instantly answer.
Oh definitely! Doing high pressure practice in preparation for my last round of interviews definitely helped, and that round resulted in multiple FAANG offers.
VC interviews also seem very high pressure! I've met folks making funding decisions, but never been in the hot seat with them. It does seem closer to the "walk me through your portfolio/a project" interview than a whiteboard interview. Although obviously the stakes can be much higher.
Anxiety isn't related to experience (or actual competence). When it's on the level mentioned, what works is CBT (if you're lucky). That may include practice, but it will certainly not be the only element.
I guess it will vary from person to person. For me, my anxiety is definitely reduced the more prepared I actually am, and the more I feel. Have I implemented all the basic algorithms in the last month in my test language, did I actually run them, do quick sort and other sorts whats the time complexity, then try a series of harder programming projects. Do some of the super common ones like design twitter. Binary search - can you avoid the overflow things when doing the divide by two...
And for experienced people, be ready to say what you left your most recent job, what you gained, what did't work well, is there a noticable arc to your career, if you want a new job type how are you prepared.
Tools like this are extremely necessary and important. I think that platforms (Twitter, Reddit, etc) don't have a real incentive to build out powerful tools to stop this stuff. If you aren't detecting that comments are noxious garbage, then those comments just look like engagement. It's much harder for a platform to notice/quantify the loss from folks leaving or not engaging because of the bad behavior they see, not to mention the direct harm to folks receiving the hate.
When I emailed Daniel (dang) about it ages ago it sounded like there wasn't much automation in moderation on HN. If HN doesn't have the tools, then I expect random Discord, subreddit, etc moderators are also doing their work by having humans wade through manually.
I think Tracy Chou / Block Party are more likely to succeed than the platforms are, since in this case the incentives are actually aligned.
Huh, I've tested on a bunch of devices/connections and haven't encountered that. Do you know what causes AMP to be that slow for you? I'll take a look at serving non-AMP pages by default. It will require tweaking how image inclusion works.
You can't make a valid recursive tree without a pre-image attack against SHA1. However `git` doesn't actually verify the SHA1s when it does most commands. If you make a recursive tree and try `git status` it will segfault because the directory walking gets stuck in infinite recursion.
This is super neat! If it weren't for the FAT limitations you could make one of those SD cards that fake their capacity actually "contain" a file as big as the misreported capacity.
I'm glad you and squeaky-clean wrote these comments. When I was experimenting in the Python REPL, I was confused by the last line here:
>>> 100 is 100
True
>>> (10 ** 2) is (10 ** 2)
True
>>> (10 ** 3) is (10 ** 3)
False
>>> 1000 is 1000
True
I used the disassembler, but I completely missed that although `1000 is 1000` and `(10 3) is (10 3)` both get optimized to nearly identical bytecode they load different constants. I wrote it up in a new post and thanked you both. https://kate.io/blog/2017/08/24/python-constants-in-bytecode...
There’s an animated version at https://www.e11.bio/ and the dataset is publicly available: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/unlocking-the-brai...
That’s a big data application of expansion microscopy. I really enjoyed the charming smaller scale examples in the article.