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by Dilpil 18y ago
I just got back from a Google recruiting session where the guy announced that there was not a hiring freeze nor was there a plan to have a hiring freeze.
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by Dilpil 18y ago
Not that I don't believe you, but some sources for that would be nice. I've suspected this was true, but I've never seen a real in depth analysis and explanation of it.
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by Dilpil 18y ago
Yes, we could give a low interest loan (low relative to the risk of the loan) to GM. This might save some jobs and help the US economy. Or we could let GM fail, and invest that same money in energy and biotech. Many would lose their jobs,
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by Dilpil 18y ago
This whole anti prostitution thing is kind of disappointing, honestly, if people want to trade goods for services, the government should not intervene.
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by Dilpil 18y ago
Wait... what?
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by Dilpil 18y ago
Scott Adams lives in a world without transaction fees.
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by Dilpil 18y ago
You may actually already have all of the talented hackers in Florida working for you. More likely, you have all the talented hackers who are willing to sacrifice job security for excitement and potential upside.
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by Dilpil 18y ago
Absolutely nothing like the proposition that god exists, and I wag my finger at you for associating the concrete facts of mathematics with superstitious claims backed up by hearsay.
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by Dilpil 18y ago
You could, but it would be a hedge fund rather than a tech company.
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by Dilpil 18y ago
I live in Pittsburgh, which is dangerously close.
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by Dilpil 18y ago
It's a beautiful thing, linear algebra.
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by Dilpil 18y ago
Plenty did. This is one of those articles that pretends hedge funds are one big unit, but, in reality, you can find hedge funds on every side of every trade. I would be surprised if no hedge funds made money from this.
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by Dilpil 18y ago
Have you ever noticed that every epic failure begins with "Well, they were highly leveraged and..."?
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by Dilpil 18y ago
The sites most vulnerable to spam are ones that a) have a critical mass of readership, especially dumb readership that will click on ridiculous spam links, and b) ones not run by people who are active contributors to the field of spam filte
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by Dilpil 18y ago
Can facebook possibly make as much money as has been invested in them?
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by Dilpil 18y ago
Number seven sounds suspiciously similar to the halting problem...
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by Dilpil 18y ago
Element b is a member of set X. Element b has property q. Therefore all members of set X have property q? Really?
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by Dilpil 18y ago
Classic example of a business sacrificing long term gains for short term gains. Sure they gain money by doing this via google or whatever. But in the long run, well, this is why there is no Apple developer ecosystem.
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by Dilpil 18y ago
WHAT? No confirm email address??????
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by Dilpil 18y ago
Pittsburgh's abuse of PeopleSoft is a double whammy: It is not good software to begin with, and they insist on using it for things it has no business doing.
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by Dilpil 18y ago
Whenever I want to see if a prospective employer is a complete hack I drop some of those letters and see if they think their irrelevant.
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by Dilpil 18y ago
School administrators are assholes. Policies and actions like this are pretty common place at public high schools. I can't blame them though, they've had to shepherd children around their entire lives, and get paid less than many entry le
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by Dilpil 18y ago
Why tech will survive: Tech actually makes things. Finance, no.
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by Dilpil 18y ago
Because all problems in math and engineering have already been solved, and are programmed as calculator functions.
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by Dilpil 18y ago
Take comfort in the fact that you are still being 10x as productive as everyone else.
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by Dilpil 18y ago
Any company that disqualifies you from a job for something you did when you were 13 years old needs to seriously examine its HR processes.
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by Dilpil 18y ago
Your entering a crowded market (there are a million sites with this purpose), but your site is about 100x nicer than the others I've seen.
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by Dilpil 18y ago
You could move back to India and run the buisness from there. ...yeah our immigration policies are pretty bad aren't they.
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by Dilpil 18y ago
100 to 1 leverage: A fundamental right of all Americans. Perhaps if this man hadn't skipped college, he would realize how stupid the business decisions he is outlining were. Nonetheless, he makes some good points about the pervading sense
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by Dilpil 18y ago
Good luck teaching the unwashed masses lisp.

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