My wife and I took birthing classes, read a few books, etc. but nothing prepared me for the moment my first child was delivered. It was an almost indescribable experience where everything just…changed.
Patience. Remember you are both on the parenting journey together, but mothers and fathers will do things differently.
Take care of your partner. Postpartum depression is a very real concern and is difficult with new mothers already wondering if they are “doing it right.” She especially will get no shortage of advice. You and she know what’s best for your baby. And if you have a question, don’t hesitate to call your pediatrician or even the maternity ward.
As someone else said, make time for you and your partner. If you have family nearby, take advantage of that support system however you can. We moved away from all of our family and friends when we had two very young children, so if you are in a similar situation my first note about patience is even more important.
Finally, the cliché that kids grow up too fast is very true so enjoy the journey, embrace the mistakes. You only get to hold them for so long.
> I've told at least 5 or 6 companies that wanted to white-board me to suck it. It's honestly insulting that I'm forced to white-board when I have two books with my name on them (published by Apress), contributions to Golang (small commits, but they still got me in the AUTHORS file), and OSS projects with hundreds of stars on GitHub
That is all commendable but none of that tells me if I can work with you. When I interview candidates I use whiteboarding as a collaborative opportunity to see how the interviewee thinks. I treat it as a similar experience when I am the one being interviewed, which is why I have never understood the hostility toward whiteboarding. How else in the limited window of time that is the interview can I learn as much about the people I would be working with?
> a collaborative opportunity to see how the interviewee thinks.
In principle, this sounds great. In reality, if the interviewee fails to come up with the correct/optimal solution for the duration of the interview, they are going to be rejected.
> I have never understood the hostility toward whiteboarding
Maybe you haven't been blown off and treated like an idiot by some interviewer when you couldn't answer their pet question? Even when you're more experienced and skilled than they were?
> I have never understood the hostility toward whiteboarding
If anything a candidate that rejects whiteboarding is a good signal that they're not a good team fit.
I personally prefer to conduct coding interviews in an environment where the code can be executed (if that's the main objection for "whiteboarding"), but even so the environment is often too different from what the interviewee is used to (IDE / availability of familiar libs / OS environment) that it's not that different from whiteboarding anyways.
In my personal experience there are indeed occasionally people that I'd recommend for strong hire with their past experience / credentials alone, but it's too rare to make any rule out of it, and if any candidate outright rejects it, it probably gives a signal that I'd personally interpret as negative anyways.
This is the dumbest excuse for white boarding/l33t code that isn’t even applied in real life.
You can be the most pleasant person who’s articulating their thoughts in simple and easy to understand ways and if you don’t solve the bullshit problem in o(-1) time you’ll get rejected.
Unless something changed in the 30 years since I learned to drive--in California-- the "California Rolling Stop" is a pejorative and is not at all legal. In California, and every other US state, a stop sign means come to a full and complete stop.
The trouble with this threads is they straddle a gaping chasm between complete delusion, or amazing trolling.
Just imagine if stuff was like this though and computing were more 'analogue' -- each of those 15 layers of JavaScript transpiling just degraded the quality of the end result slightly.
Really weird things happen with half-knowledge and fixed ideas built on it. If you "know" it'll sound different, it will sound different to you. Combine that with actual, unrelated variations and maybe a bug that fits the pattern at some point...
What made it click for me analyzing music, in particular rock songs like 'Gloria.' That song very strongly identifies E major as the tonic, but the D and A chords are not in E, they are diatonic to A major. To say it is in A major would mean the song's tonic would be A, but since it is E major it is more correct to say the song is in E Mixolydian.
Adam Neely recently did a great analysis of 'Hey Joe' that goes pretty deep into this stuff https://youtu.be/DVvmALPu5TU
If you want to go further down the rabbit hole of symmetrical scales, checkout Olivier Messiaen's modes of limited transposition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_of_limited_transposition. For a given set of pitches within an octave there are a limited number of times those pitches can be transposed before you wind up with the same set of pitches. And the modes in that scale must also be fewer in number than the number of pitches in the scale, meaning at least two modes of the scale must have the same interval spelling. The simplest example is the whole tone scale. Up a half step I get the same set of pitches, another half step and I get the same pitches I started with, so it is 'limited' to one transposition. And there is only one mode of the whole tone scale, since no matter where I start I always have the same set of intervals.
My first exposure to Chick was also through Spain, playing bass in high school. My friend and I decided we wanted to start a jazz band and found some charts for Spain, however it was a watered down arrangement with the rhythms...let's just say not as interesting as the original. Imagine my surprise when I finally heard the original recording. That is where I trace the beginning of my love for jazz and 30+ years later, he is still my biggest musical influence. I count my blessings I was able to see him perform many times in many different settings.
According to the WSJ article I read, states have the privilege of petitioning the court directly. Anyone else attempting to file a similar suit faces years of filings, appeals, and then the Supreme Court actually deciding to hear the case, so highly unlikely.
> ...is not a realistic concern given that a driver can easily override Autopilot at any time by using the steering wheel or brakes and should always be prepared to do so
This seems too dismissive on Tesla's part. If I am looking to add this option, and I am expected to be just as vigilant with Autopilot engaged as with it not engaged, why bother?
Have you tried Autopilot yet? If you use it long enough, you'll probably have to take over sometimes because AP is not perfect. It's annoying when it happens and can be dangerous but despite that, Autopilot still makes driving less tiring. It's good enough that you're happy to drive a little slower, because you know you will feel well rested when you arrive at destination. All in all, it really makes driving safer over time.
Patience. Remember you are both on the parenting journey together, but mothers and fathers will do things differently.
Take care of your partner. Postpartum depression is a very real concern and is difficult with new mothers already wondering if they are “doing it right.” She especially will get no shortage of advice. You and she know what’s best for your baby. And if you have a question, don’t hesitate to call your pediatrician or even the maternity ward.
As someone else said, make time for you and your partner. If you have family nearby, take advantage of that support system however you can. We moved away from all of our family and friends when we had two very young children, so if you are in a similar situation my first note about patience is even more important.
Finally, the cliché that kids grow up too fast is very true so enjoy the journey, embrace the mistakes. You only get to hold them for so long.