#tribe A friend of mine has had a bad experience working for an organisation. The company's management was toxic and almost a non-existing work-culture. I can vouch that it was indeed true, because I had faced the same problems as he did, when I was in that same company though we belonged to separate teams. Now he is on the lookout for a new job. And we want to be sure that he does not end up in yet another company with a toxic work-culture. The question is: How do you assess the culture of a company without even joining one? Asking for individual references or reviews from sites like LinkedIn maybe an option but, it does not make for a robust process, especially when there are so many companies, job-openings and roles to select from. I am not sure if Glassdoor ratings/reviews are hundred percent reliable, though it maybe helpful in catching red-flags and obvious worst companies. What is your take on this? Is there a way to use Google search phrases to bubble out these companies? Any kind of publicly managed lists or repos?

This is one way to think about it. Here is the tweet.

Any suggestions for a laptop stand - my laptop is 15 inches ones

Hey guys -- do you know how is it to work for ANZ bangalore?

Been a while since we discussed hardware (I can't find the older threads 😅). Any recommendations for a monitor? Budget ~12k. The one that was highly recommended the last time was Dell P2419H but it's almost 3 years old now. So I am wondering if there are better, newer ones that you may have tried.

Out of the options available for the Ipad. Any recommendations on which one to buy? Light to Medium usage.

Anybody have experience with receiving employment or contract work through Deel : https://www.letsdeel.com? (Or paying someone using their service…) Ups/downs, pitfalls, limitations, +/-?

Hey #tribe. I will be on the interviewer side for the first time on Monday. Super scared and excited. Any pointers? How should I plan this?

I am hiring a developer for one of my projects. Can I get the NDA signed digitally. Will it still be valid? Very new to the process, can you please provide some pointers to keep in mind and a sample NDA document?

What are your thoughts or experiences about Turing.com ?

Has anyone hired people directly from coding bootcamps and such? Has your experience been different from hiring through regular applications?

https://gpu.land/ Came across this GPU provider on hackernews. They claim to be cheaper than AWS, GCP, etc. Has anyone tried it?

Can anyone highly recommend an anti-fatigue mat?

Is there any free service available where I can deploy a minimal python script?

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#tribe How many of you are in Goa as of now? Let's have a meet-up in case!

Anyone who interviewed for consultant role in Microsoft just wanted to understand the difficulty of interviews, could someone please help me understand that

Is there any one who has tried pair programming to write production code in their team?. I am working with a novice and can see remarkable speed at which they learn doing that. Would that work for people with more or less similar skill level?

has anyone build embeddable widgets with react?. if so, can you share some good resources to follow or learn?

I could not able to search thread on eye glasses which discussed deeply sometime back in past. Can anyone help me in finding that?

Is it wise to take courseera ipo considering the future learning of online mechanism . They are offering at30_33$ a share

What income proof do you all have when you work as contractor? For one of my clients I use paypal invoice and for another i just use a free online invoice tool. Should i get any other proof from clients like salary slip?

Anyone here who is familiar with

PyTorch

? I need to split the CIFAR10 dataset into training and validation set. The problem is that I wish to apply augmentations to training data. These are applied while loading the data. But if I split the data into validation set it also contains the augmentations which I obviously don't want

train_transform = transforms.Compose([transforms.RandomRotation(10), 
                                       transforms.RandomHorizontalFlip(),
                                       transforms.ToTensor(),
                                       transforms.Normalize((0.5, 0.5, 0.5), (0.5, 0.5, 0.5))])

train_data = datasets.CIFAR10('data', train=True, download=True, transform=train_transform)

# Generate validation set - <https://stackoverflow.com/a/51768651|https://stackoverflow.com/a/51768651>
train_size = int(len(train_data) * 0.8) # 80% training data
valid_size = len(train_data) - train_size # 20% validation data
train_data, valid_data = random_split(train_data, [train_size, valid_size])

This snippet above applies augmentations to validation data (since it is just a part of the originally loaded data). Can I split the data before applying transforms?

Hey everyone, any recommended VPN service providers? Also, what specific services(p2p support, speed, etc...) you look for while deciding to go with one?

Hey folks, If I am moving from a freelancing/contract role to a full-time role with another firm where my pay might go down by about 3x (yes 3 times), so to offset the income loss, I am considering asking for equity. So, how much each equity should I ask for? I am a complete noob on this so I've no idea how to evaluate equity.

I just stumbled on Affinity suite of design apps today as I had to do some SVG editing and Inkspace was too difficult to figure out. It is brilliant and at a very affordable, one time licence. (I haven’t bought it as yet) — but wanted to check if anyone else has used it and recommends? https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/ (I had the Photoshop Creative Cloud monthly subscription going which I discontinued last month)

🤔 Hey Tribe, Curious to know your thoughts on this ⬇️ https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1376976647220555790

Any Google Analytics Expert here? Need some Help in creating Campaigns, Site is Up on Webflow with GA Code.

Hey tribe, I have a use case in which I have about 10 members in a private group (different emails - GMail, Hotmail, etc) and I want to email one email address - for example:

<mailto:groupname@provider.com|groupname@provider.com>

which then delivers emails individually to all email addresses (with REPLY TO: my email). Essentially, I want a mailchimp like functionality without having to go through the process of creating a campaign everytime. (I have a Google Apps account as well if there is a hack to get that going). Any suggestions? (Preferable to not have to bother the members to sign up / create an account / etc).

LearnAwesome.org now has a cohort-based course module: https://github.com/learn-awesome/learn/issues/241 If anyone here would like to join the beta testing group, please DM me.