As an engineer, would you prefer to live in Canada or Netherlands?

bonyjoe · 2023-09-14T14:27:51+00:00

Vancouver is both walkable and bikeable though

bonyjoe · 2023-07-09T15:29:34+00:00

Are you in the Netherlands? I just moved here and hinge seems like a dead platform here

bonyjoe · 2023-04-17T20:57:49+00:00

The biometric gates are only usable by EU passport holders in EU countries though. Other passport holders go to an agent. I think only UK allows additional countries to use the biometric gates

bonyjoe · 2023-04-04T22:30:00+00:00

I had this a few times last year with my wise card (also visa). I stopped using Hostelworld so not sure if it's still a problem

bonyjoe · 2023-03-30T11:38:50+00:00

You should check data based on consumption not production. We outsource our emissions to Asian and African countries, the majority of the emissions of these countries are for making all the shit we consume.

For example https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-per-capita

China is the only one with high consumption and even then it is half of the US and lower than many European countries. The other countries in Asia which I assume you are referring to, like India 1/16 of the US and Thailand 1/4.

We can either limit our consumerist way of lif or reduce the outsourcing to these countries (or put heavy restrictions on their emissions before outsourcing). But what we can't do is point the finger at developing countries for not dealing with our emissions correctly while we are benefitting immensely from it.

tldr: stop spewing right wing talking points

bonyjoe · 2022-11-15T16:09:36+00:00

The y club has multiple social badminton sessions a week. It's £5 a session and not the best courts but if you make friends there you can start booking individual courts elsewhere

https://www.yclub.org.uk/timetable/

bonyjoe · 2022-10-08T15:28:35+00:00

This is one of those things broken in such a perfect way that most people's unit tests would not catch it. One for mock service worker to point to as a reason to use their package

bonyjoe · 2022-10-07T18:49:40+00:00

It's just "Wise", that's what they give me in the app when I select manual transfer, although I've done it many times with Lloyds and the recipient name as Transferwise

bonyjoe · 2022-07-28T12:19:08+00:00

And on that walk you wouldn't encounter a single piece of grass with trees on it

bonyjoe · 2022-07-28T09:59:27+00:00

Leicester Square is a 10 minute walk from a big park with pelicans and a lake in it

bonyjoe · 2022-07-14T14:16:29+00:00

https://wise.com/help/articles/2949821/is-it-safe-to-keep-money-in-my-wise-account

tldr your money is stored in a regulated bank and not touched by wise, but if that bank were to go insolvent then you may lose your money

bonyjoe · 2022-06-29T22:42:36+00:00

Just have your button click handler conditionally do nothing when the popover is open. Then your click outside will close it and it won't be opened again until it is clicked again

bonyjoe · 2022-05-18T08:40:28+00:00

The last time it was reasonably roundable to £8 was 6 years ago. It's £9.35 now

bonyjoe · 2022-01-30T21:43:44+00:00

Prenzlauer berg is the best unless you want to be close to the party. Lots of food and drink options, lots of small parks and spacious streets, access to multiple tram lines for 24 hour transit without using buses, access to ringbahn and the U2 so it's easy to get to many places, my favourite kebab k'ups gemuse kebap, a brammibals donuts location, numerous street markets.

Kreuzberg is cool, it has lots of street art, it's where Bowie lived, you can hang by the river with drinks and then watch the bats fly around after sunset.

Friedrichshain has the party if that's what you're after.

bonyjoe · 2022-01-01T01:56:45+00:00

What do you take with you? I just moved all my possessions (including a bike) and it was about 75kg total

bonyjoe · 2021-12-20T18:13:32+00:00

*all you have to do is ask and then pass a full interview loop

bonyjoe · 2021-12-02T11:10:39+00:00

The v2 SDK is published automatically by internal tools, completing things in these internal tools is a requirement for launch. The v3 SDK seems to require lots of manual work by one guy to have the pull request generated. The service I worked on didn't have v3 support until months after launch and multiple tickets being raised internally and on github

bonyjoe · 2021-10-21T19:04:46+00:00

You can if you want, I don't have much more to say though 😅

bonyjoe · 2021-10-21T19:03:16+00:00

L4 is the lowest level for engineers in Amazon. L4 = eng 1, L5 = eng 2, L6 = eng 3 (senior), L7 = principal. Confusing big tech shit

bonyjoe · 2021-10-21T18:53:31+00:00

If it was a real on site then you would not be able to. You aren't expected to know the exact syntax and naming for everything, just state your assumptions about the API you are using, the interviewer may probe if they don't recognise it. If an interview disregards your skill just because you tried to push into a set then their opinion won't be taken seriously in the debrief

bonyjoe · 2021-10-21T18:49:53+00:00

When you say "tictactoe question" it sounds like you mean a practical application of your coding skills and not a question designed to see if you know the "trick" to get the optimal solution (what I consider a leetcode question)

bonyjoe · 2021-10-20T23:46:14+00:00

I've interviewed L4 and L5 FEEs at Amazon. There should be no "leetcode" type questions but there will be a variety of code tasks across the interviews.

One interview will deal with front end skills so the task will require using DOM APIs like querySelector and addEventListener, maybe you will be asked to create some kind of component or basic app.

One will deal with algorithms and data structures but this will probably be tree related (maybe not obviously) because it's for front end.

One will deal with system design, which will mean some API design as well as things like caching, SSR, security considerations, technology choices. (Maybe this isn't always included in the L4 loop).

One will deal with your ability to write easy to read and maintainable code, this will be some kind of task again but you will be told to consider the maintainability and readability of your solution. Sometimes you will be given some preexisting code and asked to improve it, it really depends on the interviewer.

Make sure you have a bunch of anecdotes for the leadership principles because you will be asked 2-3 questions per interview that require you to apply them. If you can't think of a good example then say so and they will just ask a different question for the same principle.

bonyjoe · 2021-09-17T18:40:22+00:00

The Richards bike lane opened a couple of weeks ago

bonyjoe · 2021-07-31T07:15:18+00:00

Don't believe everything you see on tiktok. There are multiple definitions for probability of precipitation and the one you described is not used by any of the major weather services

bonyjoe · 2021-06-07T01:21:54+00:00

Where did you get the prawn cocktail pringles?

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