I think you might want to update this.

> There was a problem submitting your application. Please try again later.

The 8th guy looked at my resume and, without talking to me, decided I'm under-qualified. He cancelled the call 1 hour before it was scheduled. Qualifying 7 rounds before that, and getting positive reviews from 7 of his peers wasn't enough to instill confidence over my resume.

Now I thank my lucky stars. Because that's a representation of the minuscule level of trust and team cohesion that these people have in their peers. Good riddance.

> "Sorry, we're on a hiring freeze"

I pressed my contact to reach out to the guy who interviewed me. He said, 'Yeah. I like the guy. I gave a positive feedback' (I would've been his manager, actually).

So, what really happened?

> Sorry, we're only looking for women candidates for this position.

(My name can apply to both genders. The recruiter called and heard my voice before scheduling the interview.)

Came here to mention Hasura as well (not sure of it's popularity though) https://hasura.io/graphql/database/postgresql

What I learnt there was that there exists a market for chrome extensions that will help you send template messages and even blanket responses to all and every person in a certain search criteria. You can scrape the pages from search results and even extract contact details like email etc, if present in your profile. Before chatGPT, the quality of these messages were abysmal. But they've gotten better recently.

I think Amazon hires smart enough engineers to build bots that can authenticate on your behalf and do this for you. Your job as a recruiter then becomes to only filter through the responses.

I would also like to take this opportunity and blame LinkedIn search for giving absurd results. Because this whole process is dependent on finding profiles on their platform.

If you're counting the number of days since you last had it, you haven't truly moved on.

Return everything slightly better than you found it.

If you want something done properly, do it yourself.

Everything has a place. And everything in it's place.

- Most of these are about avoiding mental overhead. So that you have more brain capacity left for the people around you and the task at hand.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000...

Things just work: nvidia drivers, firmware updates, bluetooth, multiple screens, switching keyboards (bt to usb and vice versa), games (steam, heroic launcher), keyboard backlight (it's a pain on other distros for some reason), those little led indicators on fn buttons, the fn buttons!

The laptop overall is quieter (fans running slow), cooler, snappier - all with an amazing battery life.

This is compared to Windows - something that apparently Intel spent time testing this particular model of laptop with. (one of my relatives works there)

The tiling window manager is a productivity enhancer (feels better than i3wm to me, ymmv). I recently had the privilege of connecting to a 2K display using the thunderbolt port. This thing somehow felt faster (a couple 100ms, but it was noticeable). I have reached a point where Mac feels slow and Windows is just unusable. I'm having a great time with this OS.

Only 1 thing doesn't work: Intel WiFi display. But I guess that technology doesn't have enough market proliferation anyway. So. That.

[0]: https://www.ruok.org.au/how-to-ask

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Was laid off in August while working for a US-based company. My first layoff in a 10-year career. Still looking for a job. I'm broke. As in "can't pay my bills next month" broke. People are hiring but remote jobs are hard to find. (I have family responsibilities and cannot relocate)

I did find jobs. People who took 7 rounds of interviews then never released an offer letter. AFTER verbally confirming that I'd gotten the job. This has happened thrice now. I started with asking for $5000/mo (last drawn). But now, I'm willing to work for anything that pays the bills.

I'm in dire need and at my wit's end.

Everything I am and every single penny I've earned can be attributed back to you or M. Hartl. I'm so happy I stumbled into rails 10 years ago.

I've always heard (and it made sense to me) that to reduce latency of requests from across the globe, you might want to have read replicas or caches spread on global infrastructure. Then how is it that stack overflow is fast here when the db is on-prem, 7 seas across from me? Any amount of RAM should not account for the distance, right?

[Saying anything further will probably lead to a tangential debate. Will digress from root Ask HN]

Was laid off in August while working for a US-based company. My first layoff in a 10-year career. Still looking for a job. I'm broke. As in "can't pay my bills next month" broke. People are hiring but remote jobs are hard to find. (I have family responsibilities and cannot relocate)

I did find jobs. People who took 7 rounds of interviews then never released an offer letter. AFTER verbally confirming that I'd gotten the job. This has happened thrice now. I started with asking for $5000/mo (last drawn). But now, I'm willing to work for anything that pays the bills.

I'm in dire need and at my wit's end.