thiagomgd | 6 years ago | on: How to Escape from Immoral Mazes
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thiagomgd | 6 years ago | on: Amazon can’t end fake reviews, but its new system might drown them out
I think that on Netflix's case they are not going for reviews. They want to know what you like, to suggest something you'll probably like too. Doesn't matter if it's 4 or 5 stars.
thiagomgd | 6 years ago | on: How to Escape from Immoral Mazes
THIS!
Consider someone with a spouse and kids... Let's just quit, right?
thiagomgd | 6 years ago | on: Japan Turns to Coal After Closing Nuclear Power Plants
if a windmill falls/explodes, the area wouldn't be unliveable and contaminated for centuries...
thiagomgd | 6 years ago | on: Your New Medical Credit Score Could Deny You Care
> I'm sure "colonoscopy, clear" and "colonoscopy, with removal of polyp and pathology on it" will have different prices, but you won't know which it is until after the procedure.
Which is expected, and kinda ok. At least, if you do a colonoscopy and there's nothing else, no complications, it would be that price.
thiagomgd | 6 years ago | on: Twitter says an attacker used its API to match usernames to phone numbers
But on twitter you don't need to give anyone your real name. THAT'S the thing. There should be no way to tie your twitter account to you, unless you specifically allow them to share your information.
thiagomgd | 6 years ago | on: Twitter says an attacker used its API to match usernames to phone numbers
I was already thinking of deleting my twitter account.
This is just an extra incentive
thiagomgd | 6 years ago | on: Wacom tablets track every app you open
Good post. It would be nice to see a follow up with brands that don't track you.
thiagomgd | 6 years ago | on: Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code
Have you looked at Wiki.js? I played around with it a little bit and it seemed nice
thiagomgd | 6 years ago | on: Show HN: Minibatch – Python stream processing
Agree! I just assume everything posted here is "for humans". So... what's the differential here?
thiagomgd | 6 years ago | on: “This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server”
I use uBlock + privacy badger, so I whitelist some sites on uBlock. That way I will see those ads, but still block trackers
thiagomgd | 6 years ago | on: What’s wrong with computational notebooks?
Small note: why post an image with the pain points if I need to check the list below to understand what's written?
thiagomgd | 6 years ago | on: An experiment to allow different versions of the same web component on one page
yes, same link
thiagomgd | 6 years ago | on: Mozilla Wants Young People to Consider ‘Ethical Issues’ Before Taking Tech Jobs
It's like, if they are sorry about/regret doing those privacy invasions, are they also going to donate some of the money they made to people implementing privacy solutions or something else? Probably no, right?
Easy to talk, but hard to deny all that money
thiagomgd | 6 years ago | on: Mozilla Wants Young People to Consider ‘Ethical Issues’ Before Taking Tech Jobs
Agree. It's easy to talk, but hard to do. Also: in the end, people need money and at least some stability. Even if you consider working at Mozilla to be ethical, if you consider what they just did, it's not necessarily a safe choice...
thiagomgd | 6 years ago | on: WordPad Is Gettings Ads in Windows 10
> Meanwhile, the Linux Desktop is still a fragmented mess that breaks every few years (at best). I really wish it weren't true, because Windows is a painful experience these days, but Linux Desktop manages to still be worse.
In Brazil we used to say that the year of linux (desktop) was current year + 1. Because people who used it would always tell others that "next year is going to be the year of linux on desktop", only for that not to happen and then they adjust their prediction for the next year again...
thiagomgd | 6 years ago | on: Most Amazon-Owned Private Label Brands Have No Warranties
This is literally the dumbest thing to do with a word. I mean literally, not literally.
thiagomgd | 6 years ago | on: Nototo – Build a unified mental map of notes
This is described in the book Moonwalking with Einstein. It's mentioned that one way to remember things would be to "put them" somewhere you are familiar, like where you run, for example.
thiagomgd | 6 years ago | on: The Perils of Constant Feedback
That reminds me when I installed Tik Tok to see how it was. You could disable notifications for likes/comments on your videos, but not the trending videos notifications. I uninstalled it to get rid of the notifications
thiagomgd | 6 years ago | on: The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview
At home, it's already my main browser. Love the work they are doing on it and it's a nice alternative to Chrome (everytime I try Firefox, I go back to Chrome, so...)
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I've had a rough time looking for jobs, due to 2 main reasons: not getting it right when adapting the resume to a job posting. Many ATS just discard resumes that doesn't have the exact words that they use on the job posting. Even if you are saying the same thing with different words...
The other was the phone interviews, made by a HR person looking for who knows what. For most applies that I did, I didn't get a phone interview. After phone interviews, didn't hear back.
I only got 2 technical interviews for like, 100 applications. One was for the job I'm currently in, the other I declined because I got the job offer to my current job. Both I got through recommendations, even if the people recommending me didn't know me. But they looked at my resume and put it stray to the HR manager for them to talk to me.
I also had a friend (not in IT) that was not getting anything. I told he to look for recommendations. She went to LinkedIn, found someone that worked or used to work at a company she wanted to go, and talked to the person, got recommended, and got the job.
edit: this in Canada