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   Airbnb: How Not to Hire Software Engineers(medium.com)

   19 points by HeavenFox 11y ago|0 comments
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   by HeavenFox 11y ago

   I worked on the desktop client for several months up until the first public beta release. No, Mailbox for Mac has been a fully native app since inception - which is how you get those nice fluid gestures. What happened next I have no idea, s
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   by HeavenFox 11y ago

   Because xxx.onion is essentially hostname. One can conceivably have https://example.onion , ftp://example.onion, telnet://example.onion, and so on.
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   by HeavenFox 11y ago

   Some hotels I stayed at went as far as disabling HDMI ports on their TVs, which is extremely annoying.
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   by HeavenFox 11y ago

   It's probably wrong to accuse the Chinese. Most I know actually want to stay, but it's very hard for them to. For that reason, many Chinese choose to go to US/Canada despite being much more expensive (ironic right) The reason
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   by HeavenFox 12y ago

   "i am in love with a girl" "You don't seem in love with a girl to me." I gotta admit, an AI just broke my heart :( [edit] Acuman: "Btw, what do you do for a living" Me: "Software engineering" Acu
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   by HeavenFox 12y ago

   This. It basically holds true for any product: price doesn't increase linearly as quality goes up. I go to college in U.S., and a lot friends of mine attend one of the best universities in China. I have the freedom to take practically
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   by HeavenFox 12y ago

   Kind of tangent, but this is the reason I find a formal CS degree important, despite the "hacker school movement" that tells you otherwise. Sure, you may never need the stuff you learned in Algorithms or Computer Architecture, but
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   by HeavenFox 12y ago

   I read a draft version of it through my employer, and I have to say it is the best book on Web security I've ever seen. It is basically an encyclopedia of attack vectors, organized by the technologies that enabled them. The author di
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    by HeavenFox 12y ago

    Google Engineers mostly use their beefy workstations with a Google-flavored Ubuntu installed to code. Most engineers have Mac laptops though (at least my team), even though their use is quite limited (you cannot store code there, so mostly
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    by HeavenFox 12y ago

    I'm working on a single page application that heavily utilizes IndexedDB. While feature detection can tell the presence of it, it tells nothing about the quality of the implementation. For example, in Safari, inserting ~9k rows takes 1
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    by HeavenFox 12y ago

    As a result, Instagram was blocked in China a couple of hours ago. An unfortunate collateral damage.
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    by HeavenFox 12y ago

    They've been issuing them for a while. It's not chip and pin, but chip and signature. afaik no major US bank issue chip and pin yet.
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    by HeavenFox 12y ago

    This happened to me too. LinkedIn somehow recommended my airbnb host, despite I've never linked the two accounts. I can only imagine two possible reasons: either my host checked my profile frequently enough to trigger their algorithm,
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    by HeavenFox 12y ago

    In case you want to use Chrome for both, Chrome actually has a built-in multi-user system, so you can have two cookie jars. If your company uses Google Apps this would make even more sense.
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    by HeavenFox 12y ago

    What about Google Moderator? https://www.google.com/moderator/
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    by HeavenFox 13y ago

    Incoming Dropbox intern here. Interested in that as well. Could someone from YC answer that? Many thanks!
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    by HeavenFox 13y ago

    Both Google and Facebook stopped taking applications in late February this year. So you guys should probably start earlier