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- Magnus Carlsen is the greatest chess player of all time. He’s 29. Garry Kasparov is #2. He’s the legend. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chess_players_by_peak_FIDE_rating.
- Supercontest.
- The pick id is almost at 9000. It will increment with every pick, and users can repick as much as they want until lockdown. I won’t need to reindex this for a long time, it’s not horribly sparse.
- Looked forward to week 16 where there is no TNF, but 3 games on saturday instead. The app should handle these just like the 3 thanksgiving games, and the regular thursday games. Pick until kickoff. Updated the help text to explain this.
- Week 17 is all sunday games. It should handle that fine too.
- Made the face collage repeat-x.
- Committed lines. Submitted picks.
- Zyme can move as quickly as 1% in 4min, as seen today. Shot up a bit. Made $275 on the day.
- Post Malone was the most streamed artist of 2019. Drake was the most streamed artist of the 2010s. The most streamed song of the 2010s was Ed Sheeran’s Shape of You. https://newsroom.spotify.com/2019-12-03/the-top-songs-artists-playlists-and-podcasts-of-2019-and-the-last-decade/.
- Made all gitlab projects public again. I flip on this so much. At the end of the day, I want to support open-source tech across the board. Who cares if it comes from me or someone else. Let’s just improve.
- GitLab has pretty impressive culture. They’re fully remote, and here’s why: https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/. They even have specific rationales for stuff like burnout, anxiety, etc: https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/mental-health/.
- Their application made this clear. It was very accommodating. It asks for your pronouns.
- Connected lumin to gdrive in incognito.
- Winner of each division advances, 1, 2, 3, 4 for each conference. The next 2 best records play in the wildcards against 3 and 4. Then everything is as expected after that. Each conference with 4 remaining teams.
- This is cool:
- Apps.
- Played with printing PDFs from the resumes. Thought about where to host them. You could just do public shareable links from google drive. Google docs has a “publish to the web” option. You can do it straight from a word doc, don’t need a pdf. It will update with the gdrive source. I did that.
- Finalized resume for sendoff. Whittled it down to an abridged resume as well.
- Looked at disney. Not much.
- Intuit’s interface was kinda weird. Didn’t search much.
- Looked at spotify. No software eng positions in LA/SF.
- Robinhood, menlo park: https://careers.robinhood.com/openings?gh_jid=1946247.
- 23andMe, sunnyvale: https://www.23andme.com/careers/4338566002/.
- Renaissance, new york: https://www.rentec.com/Careers.action?computerProgrammer=true.
- Netflix, los gatos: https://jobs.netflix.com/jobs/865957.
- GitLab: https://boards.greenhouse.io/gitlab/jobs/4247953002.
- Pornhub is based in montreal.
- Probably not gonna apply to amazon. Can always followup with recruiters later.
- Replied to Rosie from Google (via olivia, friend in X/moonshot), who had reached out 15 months ago. Replied to Tara as well, another recruiter who reached out. She responded, and we have a call scheduled for monday.
- Submissions today: gitlab, netflix, renaissance, 23andme, robinhood, google.
- The longest one was gitlab, with actual questions. The others were basically just a simple resume upload, with explicit fields for contact, and gender/race/veteran/disability declarations.
- Created doc to track all details (team, title, locations, salary, etc).
- Some great sports voice cracks:
- Looked through a bit of ruby/rails documentation to familiarize to my expertise in python/flask.
- Lot more builtins than python, it seems. Esp for webdev specific stuff. Gems. Templates.
- .rb file extension. erb is the templating system, .erb files.
- Checked some template services too: https://github.com/mattbrictson/rails-template.
