This article is very interesting at first but I once again get disappointed after reading clear signs of AI like "Why this matters" and "The moment of truth", and then the whole thing gets tainted with signs all over the place.
What I thought would be an interesting article about his life in Brazil ended up being… nothing.
Mentioning him as a “hero” in Brazil is quite an overstatement but whatever, but then the article goes on to bash and generalize Brazilians and paint him as a “rare” honest person that’s been lauded for it? I’d guess no one I know even know he lives in Brazil.
As a Brazilian, it has always been about a cool show that showed you cool new things, so he’s well known just like tons of other celebrities that grow beyond the US, and that’s it.
I've got a single motion sensor, and all light bulbs in the house done with IKEA's TRADFRI bulbs, all bought nearly a year ago. The stack is a zigbee USB stick, Zigbee2MQTT, mosquitto and HA.
The lights are decent, I've had 2 fail so far, but both were on the same spot so I suspect something's wrong there.
The motion sensor has been pretty reliable, still working with no signs of failure. Delays or "dropped" events (the light not turning on) have been very rare and most likely a result of the ancient server I have than the motion sensor itself.
Several of the Mac apps that I consume seem to use Paddle for licensing, and this seems to solve your issue in regards to the machines likely to run this.
I have absolutely 0 experience with it but from their website it seems like they handle "everything", if that's what's usually understood by being a Merchant of Record.
Jumping on the bandwagon here when it comes to having extensively used both, I second the "Interac/Fax - Pix/Internet" analogy.
I won't get into the actual implementation details of both solutions, but the way Pix changed the finance landscape of Brazil is something else.
The major difference for me personally is the fact that Pix transfers are instant as in instant messaging instead of Interac's (more often than I'd like) 30min transfers.
Also, paying anything via Interac is kind of awkward compared to Pix's UX flows implemented by Brazilian banks. Can't quite explain it but it's there. Pix is one of the things I miss most from Brazil, and I'm glad Canada's Interac is as prevalent as it is otherwise it'd be a huge step down.
Understand your contacts better by knowing their interests. Scailer ethically searches for information about your contacts – profiles, social media sites, etc. – and produces a 360-degree view
I'm sorry but the "ethically searches for information [...] and produces a 360-degree view" is very sketchy at first glance, making me question the "ethically" in it.
Also, why no Linux version? I've been looking for a mail client but that is a deal-breaker for me.
I have been taking a look and have to say I am very interested and would like to better understand your product and the market you're in.
From my understanding, your product covers well my use case, a personal domain with infinite aliases for many purposes, such as unique emails for different services. Until now, I have used both G Suite and Office 365 (my current one) paying usually $5/month. Both required some tweaking to allow catch-all email with the main limitation: only being to send email from the main address, or I haven't dig deep enough to find it. Besides that, sending email from my main address ([email protected]) is very important, along with the integrated calendar. Pricing would be the main factor for me to migrate, specially because I don't live in the USA and these $5 amount to something larger in my country. In that case, the $1 plan is not enough for me because I am not able to send emails and $6 is too expensive, considering that with G Suite or Office 365 I get a whole other package, such as storage (specially 1TB on OneDrive) and office apps. Do you have any plans in this front?
Also, using your own SMTP servers, how often have you had to deal with being flagged as spam? From a newgrad perspective there's a whole culture on how managing your own email servers is a nightmare. How do you handle that (the spam issue) and also other things such as hardening your servers against malicious actors?
Lastly, have you considered making the process easier to send email from multiple addresses? For me, this would be amazing, although I don't know if I value it enough to pay more than the previous $5 for it. Being contacted through an alias, such as [email protected], and answering from [email protected] usually sucks and adds noise to the conversation.
Hi, I have recently been through this myself as a newgrad and consider myself successful in my goal: get a job in a specific BigTech co.
Here are my two cents based on what I've learned and have been telling my peers (mostly successful also):
The most important thing in any interview is to treat it as a conversation between two colleagues. No one is there to fail you as a candidate (or most of them aren't). They are looking for people to hire as much as you are looking for a job.
As you are looking for a entry-level job, they look specially for people that fit within their culture. Of course, you must know the basics, but most importantly you must be someone ready to talk and listen. Be open to discuss your solutions and other aspects of the code, but managing your time.
From your own self-analysis, I imagine you know the drill of what they expect from code interviews, you know how to solve the questions, and you can see what you could have done better. With that in mind, I have one single piece of advice that I consider the most important one: train interviews.
Before my successful interviews, a friend and I were doing mock interviews basically every single day, for weeks. We really didn't care for the questions, they were mostly easy/medium. What we cared was that they were new and we would focus on how to answer them, how to properly communicate, etc.
I could recommend Pramp but I haven't had any luck there at the time. Find people in the same situation as you, such as friends, and train with them following the "recipe for interviews" to the letter.
That's all, you can contact me if you'd like to talk more about it, email is in bio
Any person with a CPF, our individual taxpayer registry identification, can use PIX. Non-permanent residents of Brazil are included in this category.
As for international transfers, the Central Bank is looking at simplifying existing regulations in order to allow international transfers as late as 2023
That depends on what type of job and career you are looking for, CS is a pretty broad field.
If you are looking for one of those high paying jobs in the top companies and want them without a degree, you will need to impress much more than your graduated peers.
I second this. Competitive programming helps you develop skills that I find important in a career and that, in my opinion, had a strong influence on my current success.
There are many benefits and things where Comp. Programming can help you, but the most obvious one is how interview questions in FAANG (and similar) companies are easy compared to your weekly Comp. Programming contests.