Hacker News: Cofike

New comment by Cofike in "I had to get a background check for my job; the report is a 300 page pdf"

Cofike — Sat, 01 Feb 2020 17:50:54 +0000

I used a script to delete all my tweets on my twitter however many years ago. I'm not the one to say anything inflammatory/offensive but I just couldn't risk some errant like or retweet causing me grief in the future. It seems like that wasn't a bad move.

New comment by Cofike in "U.S. to let airlines limit service animals on planes"

Cofike — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 03:39:12 +0000

If we fly home for a few weeks for the holidays we'll often bring our dog with us. We pay $125 to bring them in the cabin and they must remain in a carrier under a seat for the duration of the flight. Cheaper than paying a kennel/dog sitter and just easier for everyone all together. No problems at all so far after years of doing this.

The last time I was checking in at special services (due to the dog), the employee told me she registered her dog as an emotional support animal to bypass the fee. This was the airline employee giving this advice. At that point it was clear this was just a big joke. From what I understand now you need to have a doctor's note from a mental health professional and a bunch of other paperwork in order to bring your emotional support dog without a fee/carrier. I figured that would stop a lot of tom foolery, I guess not.

New comment by Cofike in "Ask HN: How do you roll back production?"

Cofike — Sun, 03 Nov 2019 22:41:41 +0000

We use Elastic Beanstalk so we just deploy whatever application version we'd like. Honestly not the biggest fan of that strategy because there is at least a 5 minute period of time while the new instances are provisioned and healthchecked that you just need to wait for.

When compared to our Fastly deploys which are global in seconds, it leaves me wanting a faster solution.

New comment by Cofike in "Stripe’s fifth engineering hub is Remote"

Cofike — Thu, 02 May 2019 16:32:52 +0000

I think it really depends on the person. I had the same feelings of being isolated and not really getting to know everyone. I ended up getting an office job which is great. I love seeing people and having a separation of work and home.

I know others who now do remote and absolutely love it. From what I understand though they are in my same situation but it just doesn’t bother them. It all depends on your personality and what you are looking for.

Perhaps find a local coop workspace where you can go meet other engineers in your situation but then is that even remote anymore?

New comment by Cofike in "How much should I think of saving every month as a 29 year old?"

Cofike — Fri, 26 Apr 2019 02:11:04 +0000

Turn 30, I presume.

New comment by Cofike in "Companies Manipulate Glassdoor by Inflating Rankings and Pressuring Employees"

Cofike — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 17:10:02 +0000

I go into it thinking the opposite. Reviews clearly written by management or someone trying to paint a better picture of the company than there really is. Cons can still be misleading but I’d be more weary of a fake positive review than a negative one. Maybe I’m being gamed too.

New comment by Cofike in "My life with 12 programmers, 2 rooms and one 21st-century dream (2016)"

Cofike — Sat, 25 Aug 2018 05:44:48 +0000

There is no way this is common. I don't know anyone who knows anyone who lives in this situation.

New comment by Cofike in "Twitter shares drop after reporting declining monthly active users"

Cofike — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 15:41:28 +0000

I’m sure it’s the engineers deciding to do that and not management and leadership.

New comment by Cofike in "Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day"

Cofike — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 19:57:28 +0000

The bathroom schedule will be tightened up by 15 minutes as punishment.

New comment by Cofike in "Twitch streamers who spend years broadcasting to no one"

Cofike — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 19:27:58 +0000

I love having it on when I'm just hanging out at night. I like the background noise, almost kind of like radio I can pay attention to if I feel like it.

There are people who will sit down and watch full broadcasts and in that case it can be a lot of time.

A lot of streamers are just always on which I'm sure makes it easier.

New comment by Cofike in "How to build an NPM worm"

Cofike — Fri, 13 Jul 2018 06:58:27 +0000

Cool referrer link check, flagged.

New comment by Cofike in "“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL”"

Cofike — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 17:37:32 +0000

Yeah vacation isn't work time

New comment by Cofike in "A browser extension to make Medium more readable"

Cofike — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 02:57:01 +0000

I just have a bookmarklet that removes any sticky elements.

New comment by Cofike in "The San Franciso Fire Department makes its own wooden ladders by hand"

Cofike — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 19:49:30 +0000

You should see some streets in San Francisco. No way that a fire engine is fitting on those.

New comment by Cofike in "Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos"

Cofike — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 06:53:29 +0000

Love this library, I've used it with the python wrapper that makes it pretty easy to get going.

New comment by Cofike in "Ask HN: What is the first thing you implement at a new company?"

Cofike — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 14:25:00 +0000

Well that was certainly an interesting read.

New comment by Cofike in "Canada legalises recreational cannabis use"

Cofike — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 05:35:46 +0000

I was born in Buffalo, no longer there due to lack of tech jobs (that isn’t blue cross blue shield). The Canadian side of Niagara Falls already destroys our side. Much more development. Way more activities to do. Gorgeous view of the falls. All around better.

Now that weed is legalized this will only become more and more apparent. They will attract more individuals from both sides of the border and I bet see much more money coming in leading to more development, etc.

New York had missed out on this opportunity for years and by the looks of it will continue to miss out.

New comment by Cofike in "Ask HN: How to not fail on coding interview questions?"

Cofike — Sun, 17 Jun 2018 20:04:52 +0000

I would say the biggest thing you can do is practice on Leetcode. You need to be see the different patterns that are used to solve certain classes of problems (tree problems, dynamic programming, array focused problems). There are common data structures that pop up in almost all of the questions (hashmap, linked lists, tree, bst, etc). It's just a matter of exposure but focus on the underlying pattern/technique used to solve the problem and understand how and why it's being used as opposed to rote memorization.

The alternative is finding companies that do not ask these types of interview questions. The only big company I know that doesn't ask those types of questions is Stripe but I'm sure there are plenty of others though they may not be 100% what you are looking for.

New comment by Cofike in "Pregnancy Discrimination Is Rampant Inside America’s Biggest Companies"

Cofike — Sat, 16 Jun 2018 04:14:49 +0000

Love hearing companies get their comeuppance. Happy to hear things worked out, hope thing are going well with your family.

New comment by Cofike in "Pregnancy Discrimination Is Rampant Inside America’s Biggest Companies"

Cofike — Sat, 16 Jun 2018 03:05:30 +0000

You see this at small companies and start ups as well. I've seen it first hand myself.