Kluny

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by Kluny 9y ago
> I went through a ton of iterations and debugging to get this to work. The hardest parts were the electrical design and getting everything to fit inside the phone. Crikey! How many iphones did he drill holes in? > I also ended up hav
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by Kluny 9y ago
Doxxing/outing people here is probably against site rules, and if it's not, it's still unprofessional and likely to reflect just as badly on the him as on the recruiter. The recruiter can say to his boss, "shit, I didn&#
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by Kluny 9y ago
You have to get past ignorant gatekeepers. Do some google stalking to find out who's in charge of the team you want to join, and reach out on social media to let them know you'll be applying. Then include "so and so is expect
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by Kluny 9y ago
> they will not tally up years of experience or record your answers directly into an Excel spreadsheet. They absolutely will ask for the exact years and months if you haven't listed them, and they'll think you're hiding so
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by Kluny 9y ago
Try portaging your canoe for 20km through the wilderness and say that again :)
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by Kluny 9y ago
It's discouraged to mention people's spelling/grammar on HN, provided the intended meaning is clear, but in this case the mistakes are obscuring your meaning in a way that's likely to bring downvotes. I'm guessing t
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by Kluny 9y ago
Did he bother thinking about what Google, Facebook and Amazon thought of the idea? Google is the worldwide leader in search because they have an army of the world's brightest engineers working 24/7 on improving their algorithms...
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by Kluny 9y ago
What, are you saving up your upvotes to buy a pony or something?
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by Kluny 9y ago
> Plus, given Uber's issues, being a woman had to be a big plus for Whitman. Seems to me that if she had been offered the job, she'd be set up for failure. I'm glad they went with the other one.
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by Kluny 9y ago
I think "We'll just make that not have happened..." would be correct English, but your version, though clumsy, is more evocative of what you actually meant. It's coming into more common usage, too.
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by Kluny 9y ago
Omg... with that kind of intense training and focus... it would make sense to call it something like "boot camp"! Let's do it! Shut up and take my VC money.
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by Kluny 9y ago
I'm told that TVs have lower refresh rates that make them unsuitable to use as monitors. Have you looked into that? Maybe it's only relevant if you're gaming.
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by Kluny 9y ago
Would a monitor do it for you? I've got a 32" monitor that cost about $500, and it doesn't have any smart features whatsoever, not even a video camera. It's not as big as most people's living room TVs seem to be, bu
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by Kluny 9y ago
I'm thinking gas stations will stop selling garbage and start selling actual food, since charging takes longer and people will be hanging around for a little while.
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by Kluny 9y ago
Ha, an app that tracks your blood sugar and warns you not to interact with humans when it gets too low would be killer.
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by Kluny 9y ago
> but if it looks like a landline then the caller would feel hardly done by getting charged extra This was a tricky bit of grammar but I believe it's 100% correct.
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by Kluny 9y ago
It's weird water. It's very hard and there's a lot of copper in it. You get buildup on bathroom fixtures and it looks gross. When I first tried it I didn't like it... but I got used to it after like a month and now it ju
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by Kluny 9y ago
> Regarding the stigma, it may be a regional thing (Vancouver), but most people don't care about what I order at a restaurant or drink at a social function. The strangest look I'll get is when I order room temperature tap water
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by Kluny 9y ago
I don't think so, no. If I needed this software, I'd be very happy to see that price tag and know that the programmer has a sustainable business model and can continue supporting the software for as long as I need it. $127 to make
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by Kluny 9y ago
> Mobility and a willingness to learn new skills seems to prevail. It's what other generations have done, millions of immigrants (my parents included). Yeah, but after all the moves I've done in the last 10 years, I'm star
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by Kluny 9y ago
> If that understanding is correct and the goal is to increase the overall pool of qualified candidates, then why a diversity programme? Why not a general internship programme where the most bright of _inexperienced_ candidates are chose
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by Kluny 9y ago
The normal hiring process goes like this - apply -> short interview -> short (a few weeks) trial period, paid -> a second interview -> hired. It's a good process that leads to quality hires, but it's also a very slow o
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by Kluny 9y ago
I would expect anyone who needs a job to accept any job they get offered if it's a job they want.
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by Kluny 9y ago
What makes a person qualified? Experience, usually. If you find that all the qualified - and therefore experienced - people available are white and male, it shows that only white and male people have been able to get experience. That's
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by Kluny 9y ago
There was a dedicated office in San Francisco that was free for Automattic staff, but it closed down recently because they were paying to maintain a space for 300 people and only 2-3 ever showed up.
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by Kluny 9y ago
Automattic. But it's remote, you have to supply your own office. They contribute $250 toward co-working space.
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by Kluny 9y ago
That five minute question may well save you an hour of work, but it's just as likely - I'd say_more_ likely - to steal an hour of productivity from the person you ask. Just send them a message in slack. Don't be so obnoxious
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by Kluny 9y ago
> based on a diversity program for women could have excluded a more qualified man In the case of my employer, all the qualified men who might want the job have already applied for it. The diversity program came about because they are ac
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by Kluny 9y ago
I don't think the grandparent quite expressed themselves clearly. If there is a group of applicants who happen to be equally qualified, but one type of person in that group is more likely to actually get hired - it's not reasonabl
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by Kluny 9y ago
Why not post the original article, instead of basically stealing it verbatim? That was well beyond the amount of excerpting I'd call "fair use". http://paulgraham.com/ds.html

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