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by MCRed 11y ago
The TSA has resulted in millions in stolen items, and not caught a single "terrorist". Its procedures are a joke, it is irradiating everyone, or if they opt out, molesting them, which is a crime in all 50 states... not to mentio
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by MCRed 11y ago
Yet another example of regulation that sounds good in theory, actually serving to harm the industry. When canadians pretend to be americans their payments gets taxed in america, and not in canada. Meanwhile, no uneconomic canadian content
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by MCRed 11y ago
By the way, it's interesting how we hear about all the "evil" things that Steve did-- often overblown for political reasons- but we never hear about the far more heinous things done by others, for example, Bill Gates retarded
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by MCRed 11y ago
Also, this is the guy who really made a dent in the universe. While HP was founded in a garage, the Apple Garage is the story people know. He lead passionate and talented people for many years to create or fundamentally transform significan
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by MCRed 11y ago
I'd love if anyone can point me to community site for DIY Bio / garage materials hacking. I have an idea for a hobby project that involves building a robot to mix small amounts of (safe, non-biological) liquids... need to be able
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Garage Biology in Silicon Valley (2010)(synthesis.cc)
16 points by MCRed 11y ago|12 comments
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by MCRed 11y ago
And elixir/erlang are great for writing custom servers handling custom protocols.... but you're better off just dropping in Cowboy and working at a higher level. Go is really compelling in producing a single-binary application...
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by MCRed 11y ago
Consider this, though, Amazon has a large need to fill vacancies and the media (even in Seattle) is happy to run stories about worker mistreatment. I never worry about pointing out the evils of Amazon (despite them making me sign a contract
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by MCRed 11y ago
True, I wonder how many other women at Google have had this happen to them-- pregnant then suddenly PIP. If there's a pattern there, then a clear discrimination case could still be made, I think.
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by MCRed 11y ago
For most readers of Hacker News, though, I suspect that they see these anecdotes rarely, and for many the NYT article is the first one... yet they have seen press releases from Amazon that are designed to tout it as a tech company and Jeff
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by MCRed 11y ago
Yes, one of the big lessons of the corporate world is that almost anything you hear from HR, even in good companies, is a lie. OR at least, some sort of spin. Even when they are saying good things, they don't really know, they'r
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by MCRed 11y ago
I totally understand and sympathize with her viewpoint, even though it differs from my own, because much of this reads like someone who was kicked out of Scientology but still thinks the Church of Scientology is full of brilliant people mak
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by MCRed 11y ago
What he's relating shows a lack of competence in the interviewing process from toptal. This indicates that the people running the company are junior engineers who think brain teasers and algorithm challenges are how you test for a good
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by MCRed 11y ago
Thanks for the answer so far. Let me give an example. I've been told that iOS developers these days, who are experienced (eg: over 4 years experience) should make $150/hour as contractors. I've seen people trying to hire iOS
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by MCRed 11y ago
We have a democrat who is president, and who took over after a crisis during the term of a republican. (never mind that he was part of the cause of the crisis with his 1990s era "not lending to people who can't repay is racist&quo
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by MCRed 11y ago
Note: I've been slow banned for this comment. Please read it, I'm sure a hell ban is coming next. Apparently having a different opinion politely expressed is not even allowed here anymore. Debt to Income- yes everyone and their d
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by MCRed 11y ago
I predicted the 2008 crisis in 2001. (Well an article on http://mises.org made it clear it would happen.) This was before the housing bubble started to inflate, and was easy to expect due to the changes in the CRA and the artif
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by MCRed 11y ago
Warren Buffett says "If you're buying hamburger your whole life, do you want the price to be low or high?" For me, the situation is such a mess that I don't think we're close yet to what I would consider a buying op
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by MCRed 11y ago
It's a sympathetic response. Some of it is going to be people selling assets to cover margin calls if they are overly leveraged. Some of it is people selling because everything's declining and the want to wait it out.
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Ask HN: What do developers earn on toptal.com?
75 points by MCRed 11y ago|94 comments
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by MCRed 11y ago
His account seems much better than what I experienced. I still think he has swallowed too much koolaide-- and this is why Amazon focuses on the young kids they can make an impression on.
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by MCRed 11y ago
Yes, companies should be named and shamed. In fact, we need something like Glassdoor but where bad reviews don't magically disappear.
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by MCRed 11y ago
Well, they pay less money when people leave, and one of their approaches to "solve" the "problem" of people leaving is to get increasingly junior and inexperienced people. The team now is made up mostly of people whose p
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by MCRed 11y ago
The small inconsiderations are the reality leaking out and letting you know what they think of you. They don't respect you and they won't respect you when review time comes around or when raises and bonuses are handed out. Thus it
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by MCRed 11y ago
Sorry, your internship is not representative. They are trying got trick you into working there. You were treated special in a number of ways. Further, AWS is isolated to some extend from the abusive nature of the company by being a separat
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by MCRed 11y ago
In 2014 I worked for a company where the whole team quit. From Summer to fall they built a team who built a product. By february all of them had quit or been fired, except for one programmer (and me who had just been hired.) Did the compan
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by MCRed 11y ago
Look, you did the right things, both times. Most people spend too much time putting up with BS or even rationalizing that it isn't BS they are putting up with (a lot of people at Amazon are doing this right now.) Work on your temper if
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by MCRed 11y ago
My experience at Amazon was straight up abusive. It is a hostile work environment and it should not be tolerated. If you have any self respect, do not go to work there. The only way abusive companies can learn is when their abuse is discov
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by MCRed 11y ago
That this factual comment is at -1 on Hacker News is my proudest achievement. No more proof of the anti-intellectualism of this site is needed. I'm pretty much done wasting time here wading thru 20 year olds mindlessly regurgitating c
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by MCRed 11y ago
You concede the politicization of science, which is my point, so thank you for that. Even if you have a different ideology, thanks for conceding the point. That's too challenging for most here.

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