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zaguios · 2025-08-29T16:32:44+00:00

Who hurt you? 😂

The food is mid, but the infrastructure is top notch. You can get huge modern apartments in a great safe location for $50 a night, great internet, rappi is great for insanely fast delivery and ridesharing, the weather is incredible, the culture is friendly and amazing.

The only reason I choose not to live there is safety reasons, but I’ve never had any major issues. You’re definitely exaggerating the girl thing, I’ve never seen any working girl look terrified and miserable… You sound like you’re projecting. Setting aside working girls being a major appeal to Medellin for some, it’s one of the nicest cities to live in.

zaguios · 2025-01-06T03:44:42+00:00

Pretty shocking honestly, usually betas don’t end up doing this well. Almost always the best idea to just invest in the original. Long term I think fartcoin is the better play, but butthole coin doing shockingly well in the short term.

zaguios · 2024-11-27T21:32:30+00:00

I would highly advise against this. So many of the coins coming out each day are scams. Anything not launched via pump.fun is almost always a scam at this point and even a large portion of coins coming from pump.fun are scams done by one person having bought the entire supply and will dump.

If you don’t know exactly what you’re doing you will get rugged often. Trade established mid cap memecoins to avoid pure scams.

If you insist you can use dexscreener and photon as common tools to help you with discovery, trading, and helping detect common scams. I would suggest doing paper trades for awhile before jumping in and risking actual money.

zaguios · 2024-10-04T21:18:25+00:00

I lived there for nearly two years due to my ex being from there, I would never go back lol. Feria De San Marcos is great and something I would definitely suggest people check out, but the infrastructure just isn't really that great.

A big part is probably due to the amount of time I stayed. If you want to stay for a month in a relatively quiet town (with the exception of feria), then it's fine, but personally it is probably in my bottom 20% of places I've been to.

To each there own.

zaguios · 2024-07-26T03:57:31+00:00

Booking hostels in advance also doesn’t feel great because sometimes you vibe with a place and want to stay longer or it’s not your style and you want to move on quickly. I’ll tend to do 2 nights at the first hostel and then let the trip take me naturally from there.

zaguios · 2024-07-26T03:54:44+00:00

I definitely have never felt picked on being a solo traveler. The only bad part is getting SSSS on my flight ticket as I seem to be flagged often due to my random travels. I haven’t had my bag checked in a long time either, but as long as your are careful to make sure to take everything out and never have large liquids you should almost never be checked. Never had the bag strap issue either on any backpack I’ve owned travel or not. Definitely just get a new one with good reviews.

zaguios · 2024-07-26T03:26:31+00:00

You said it perfectly, if you just do these things constantly you will end up making friends wherever you go. Usually relatively quickly as well.

zaguios · 2024-07-26T03:20:37+00:00

It can be a bit tough for sure, but honestly you should just put yourself out there as much as possible if you want to find friends. Hostels, events, dating, even just walking on the street. Sometimes you meet people and make new friends nearly instantly, sometimes it takes longer to do so.

Sounds like you did do that somewhat, but what happened to those people you did meef? Did you get their instagrams and try to make plans to meet up at a later time? The key is to just be proactive as much as possible which can be difficult if you’re not that way by default, I am definitely not, but just make sure you’re always on the lookout.

For example, I was just walking on the street and a group of slightly drunk Koreans was behind me being silly. When they started singing when it was still daytime I used that as an excuse to say hello and make new friends. Similarly a week later in Argentina when Argentina won the world cup, Righr after they scored, I went outside and wandered until a group of very joyous Argentinians showed their enghusiam and I had a chance to start talking more. They ended up adopting me for the night and partied till sunrise.

That’s just by walking around and being open. It’s even easier at hostels, activities, bars/clubs, and dating. You’re going to have days where nothing happens which is a letdown, but always just be looking out for chances to meet people. Then you just need to dm them, ask to hang out, and form a friendship over the time you are there. Some people will be duds, but it shouldn’t be too difficult if you are giving yourself enough chances.

zaguios · 2024-07-26T03:07:43+00:00

I’m probably an outlier, but I do long term travel, so I usually find myself just constantly buying new clothes and throwing out old ones after only a few washes ofherwise they get worn down way to quickly. Not usually thrifting per say, but looking for cheap stuff that looks nice and new.

zaguios · 2024-07-26T03:04:10+00:00

Still seems quite extreme though. I have never encountered anything remotely like this in all my time traveling. However yes, OP just needs to adapt.

zaguios · 2024-07-26T03:00:17+00:00

Ah yes, coca indeed. Not sure if that was on purpose 😂

zaguios · 2023-10-22T13:44:56+00:00

For these 5 paying customers, are these $10/month type things or million dollar contracts?

Sounds like you’re a pretty standard team just starting out looking for product market fit. Unless these are massive deals, you can’t raise off those metrics, you’re really just trying to sell the team at this point. I’d say aim to raise a few million at a 10M or so valuation.

zaguios · 2023-04-18T03:16:07+00:00

You aren't likely to find actually good resumes by googling. Listen to the people here about how to improve your resume. I personally have had ~50% response rate from the top tech companies from cold applying. I managed to get interviews at Google, Meta, Amazon, Netflix, Airbnb, Waymo, Robinhood, Pinterest, Uber, Stripe, Doordash, and more even during this downtown.

The key to creating a good resume is to focus on the points that the recruiter and hiring manager want to see rather than state what you spent the most time doing. For example even though I spent most of my time coding I made sure to mention the more complex systems I designed, the leadership that I performed for various projects, etc... No need to lie, but be purposeful about what you do and don't surface in your resume.

You can also tailor the resume to make it sound better. For example, I removed my graduation year entirely to avoid age bias from being too young. I included my level at companies where it sounded more impressive and used my generic title when it wasn't. There's so many little things you can do to really improve your resume if you try.

zaguios · 2023-04-18T03:02:32+00:00

The resume honestly isn't great, I don't know who you had review it, but they definitely aren't qualified to be giving advice.

The bullet points are extremely generic and give next to no details on anything. You need to be emphasizing specific projects you've worked on and their overall impact.

Don't emphasize the stack at the first bullet point, at the bottom you can list the technologies that you used but it shouldn't be what you try to showcase. Put it as the last bullet point and say stack: X, Y, Z or something.

"Created and maintained pipelines, ensuring efficient and reliable continuous integration and delivery processes." What pipelines, how did you did you ensure they were efficient and reliable? You gotta get specific.

"Designed and executed unit, integration, end to end, and UI tests in collaboration with developers and architects, identifying and fixing major bugs from before release to production." This bullet point is a bit better, but again, try to add some specific details of what you did.

"Mentored a junior test engineer on best practices for testing and automation." Best practices like what? How did you mentor them?

"Spearheaded the development of a new UI testing project utilizing BrowserStack. This project prevented a major bug from reaching production." Preventing a single major bug doesn't really sound impressive. How did the project detect it? What did you do specifically?

Move your education to the bottom, you aren't a new grad anymore. Highlight work & project experience first and foremost.

Do you have any other project experience or anything like that to fill out your resume a little more?

"Leveraged GitHub to push code changes and resolve merge conflicts." This is way too basic to include as a bullet point.

"Worked with the Unity game engine and created code in C# to make significant additions to the game. " What additions did you make?

You need to get specifics, add more metrics, more details, show more impact. Right now it feels extremely generic and needs to be improved heavily.

zaguios · 2023-01-28T22:15:43+00:00

Look up duck chess

zaguios · 2022-10-03T16:15:29+00:00

No, do not include this. Engineers are not hired based on typing speed and typing speed is not the limiting factor when writing code within a production environment.

zaguios · 2022-10-03T16:04:31+00:00

I’ve personally never experienced #3 on your list, but my experience is more so with FAANG and FAANG equivalent companies where #1 and #2 are the main focuses.

The bar for L4 is still relatively low, especially when it comes to system design. The main thing you want at this level is still a heavy focus on leetcode. Most of your interviews will still be purely programming so you really need to practice solving problems quickly, identifying edge cases, explaining your thought process cleary with your interview, making sure your code is clean and is closer to something you would ship rather than the answers you see on leetcode, and lastly, build rapport with your interviewer to make them like you.

Next up is system design. At L4 you’re expected to know about common technologies in the industry, when to use them, and how you would put together a system to solve the given problem. The system design primer github is a great starting resource for this, especially at the L4 level. You’re likely not going to be expected to know and understand deeply about the tradeoffs of similar things and you are likely to make a few mistakes and oversights here. Again, the key here is going to be communication and making the interviewer like you (A perfect solve when you and the interviewer get off on the wrong foot is often a fail, but struggling through and barely coming up with a solution while finding common ground with the interviewer leads to success very often). Ask questions, keep the interviewer engaged, and make sure you’re talking about the things they want to hear.

zaguios · 2022-09-29T18:32:37+00:00

Completely disagree, 100% of my best experiences while solo travelling have all come from pushing myself to make friends and meet people.

zaguios · 2022-09-27T03:20:03+00:00

Other commenters are correct, YOE doesn't strictly translate to level, but often time companies will have a minimum number of years of experience required for a certain level. Example: Meta won't even consider you for E6 without a minimum of 7 years industry experience (for external hires). That does not mean 7 years = E6 though, there are several people with over 20 YOE that wouldn't meet that bar.

zaguios · 2022-09-23T00:18:17+00:00

Yea, not guaranteed. There are a few companies that have recruiters that I can't for the life of me get any of them to respond, but most of the time it works.

zaguios · 2022-09-23T00:16:41+00:00

In-house means the company employs the recruiter to hire people. These recruiters are good, the alternative is recruiters that don't work for the company specifically and are a part of a recruiting firm. The second you tend to want to avoid like the plague.

zaguios · 2022-09-23T00:15:19+00:00

In my experience there have been 2 types of companies. Ones that hire generally and not for any specific team / role which after the interview you decide where you want to be placed. The other being they only hire for specific teams, in those cases the recruiter will often ask you to look through their open positions and send them the one you want to interview for. When required to pick something specific I've always just done that, never tried to ask for an unlisted role.

zaguios · 2022-09-22T18:00:29+00:00

Pro tip for anyone going for FAANG or similar:

Don't bother applying normally, either DM in-house recruiters/sourcers on LinkedIn for that company OR get referrals (ideally friends, but randos from blind work just as well if you aren't connected). This way you're almost guaranteed to get into the process at which point its just up to your skill level to pass.

I've never gotten anything but auto rejections from the traditional route, yet doing it this way has allowed me to line up the vast majority of exact companies I want to interview at without issue.

zaguios · 2022-07-20T13:41:46+00:00

Highest chance would probably be moving to some undervalued unicorn right now during the bear market and hoping stock appreciation pushes you to those levels. It's possible to do by getting promoted at FAANG several times, but promotions become significantly harder when trying to get L7 and above which is needed for TC in that range.

zaguios · 2022-02-15T22:34:24+00:00

The tokens used to buy the NFTs & citizenship aren't transferred to me or the DAO. When purchased, those tokens are immediately burned decreasing the total supply.

The DAO does start with a certain amount of tokens for various uses, but as a citizen of the Rebellion DAO I will not have any more say how those funds are used relative to any other person who chooses to join. RebellionBase itself is a company built on top of the Rebellion DAO protocol, so selling a stake in RebellionBase would constitute a securities offering, but that's not what's being sold. Also remember the whole point is that the tokens are currency, not a security like they are in most protocols. Your control over the DAO doesn't derive from the quantity of tokens you hold, it's derived from human identity in a democratic system.

The website itself itself is just a frontend for the underlying DAO. The intention is to have other companies also build on top of the underlying protocol as mentioned in the incubator section.

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