Peroni

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by Peroni 8mo ago
I once approached Woz about potentially speaking at Hacker News London, fully expecting my email to be completely ignored. A few days later, he actually responded enthusiastically and mentioned an upcoming trip to the UK. He loved the grass
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by Peroni 9mo ago
I get how your solution solves for on-device cheating tools. Unfortunately, it's really not difficult to have a second device (even just your phone) transcribing audio and processing answers. My point being, if people are going to chea
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by Peroni 9mo ago
I'd be interested in seeing if I'm in the minority but there's no world where I'm agreeing to download bespoke software in order to participate in an interview. >I kept seeing candidates produce near-perfect solutions
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by Peroni 9mo ago
Teachers, Doctors, Nurses, Fire fighters... I can think of an endless list of service based career paths that involve no evil, and are immensely meaningful.
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by Peroni 9mo ago
>most HN negativity is substantive rather than toxic. This is addressed in OPs post. The vast majority of the 'negativity' I encounter on HN is technical critique rather than criticism or toxicity. I've found HN to arguabl
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by Peroni 9mo ago
Like it or not, LinkedIn is still by far the most used platform by recruiters (agency and internal) looking to hire. I despise the platform but it's undeniably valuable as your career progresses and the probability of being approached
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by Peroni 10mo ago
>The main thing missing from this IMO is an element of chance or randomness, the ability to incorporate “unknown unknowns” into your life. 100% this. When I started working in recruitment, it was literally intended to be a temporary mean
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by Peroni 10mo ago
When there are entire multi-billion dollar industries built on trying to solve the problem you are facing, you can safely assume that the solution is likely more complex than you or I are capable of figuring out effectively. If you're
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by Peroni 10mo ago
The less HN behaves like a social media platform, the better.
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by Peroni 11mo ago
>Some industries are correcting after the hiring boom of the pandemic The main correction is the staggering reduction in job vacancies. There's no world where I can be convinced that the surging number of redundancies can be explain
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by Peroni 1y ago
Obligatory xkcd (from 2010!) - https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/
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by Peroni 1y ago
>You can insist on retail vendors accepting legal tender by law That's a common misconception. In most jurisdictions retailers can set their own payment policies.
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Automating the Humanity Out of Hiring(talentstuff.com)
2 points by Peroni 1y ago|0 comments
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by Peroni 1y ago
$14.3 Billion seems excessive for it to be a pure aquihire play. There's undoubtedly some IP acquisition (or at least exclusive access to certain IP) involved.
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by Peroni 1y ago
Yep. They were quite blatant about it in the article: >The structure was intentional. Executives at Meta and Scale AI were worried about drawing the attention of regulators.
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by Peroni 1y ago
>And it’s decimated other professions like manual agriculture, assembly line jobs, etc. When Henry Ford introduced the moving assembly line, production went from hundreds of cars to thousands. It had a profoundly positive impact on the s
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by Peroni 1y ago
I'm really struggling with Amodei's position because it feels like he (and lots of others) are essentially saying that either AI won't create more job opportunities OR that AI will automatically replace the roles it displaces
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by Peroni 1y ago
Aline is a bit of a Hacker News legend. She's been active here for longer than most people have been working and when you see how she's built her product, it's plainly obvious that she legitimately understands and sides with
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by Peroni 1y ago
Create a stock response for candidates that are coming to you via their platform that explains they do not represent your company and that you will not review any applications that come via their platform. Include a link to your own careers
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by Peroni 1y ago
Glassdoor isn't gospel but it is a useful data point. >How do you realistically tell from outside if a company does treat their people well, or has a difficult culture? The challenge there is that everyone has different interpretati
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by Peroni 1y ago
My Dad would agree with you. He enjoys his work, he likes the people, and he'll be the first to admit that he's been happy enough with the convenience of it all to prevent him from wondering if the grass might be greener elsewhere
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by Peroni 1y ago
I hadn't considered the idea that my motivation for writing this might be interpreted as a ploy to generate more business. :) Most of my perspective comes from working for and with startups. There's nothing wrong with a bit of m
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On loyalty to your employer (2018)(medium.com)
425 points by Peroni 1y ago|448 comments
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by Peroni 1y ago
>In order for that to happen we need to have stable Gaelic communities to sing the ballads and tell the stories, with formal and informal education that invites new generations into the tradition. Whilst this has been true for centuries,
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by Peroni 2y ago
> the candidate did not speak any Polish, but was based there and graduated from Warsaw University of Technology. He spoke in broken English, and with a very strong accent that sounded Asian, but these weren’t warning big red flags, and
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by Peroni 2y ago
>If anything, we should be proud of britain’s response, especially knowing that it would never get aby kind of gratitude for it. Some examples of Britain's response: * Establishing soup kitchens for the starving, where, to acquire f
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by Peroni 2y ago
I've been lucky enough to have visited a lot of incredible places and seen a lot of amazing things but the experience of walking into the Vasa museum and seeing the ship in real life is up there with one of the most surreal and breatht
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by Peroni 2y ago
Extensive experience with both. These days I default to Deel for no reason other than I find them more flexible with obscure requests and niche questions. They are both competitive in terms of price and both have a solid UI (more important
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by Peroni 2y ago
I feel like the answers to this will be heavily skewed by the jurisdiction you live under. Here in the UK, I had an airline hold a substantial amount of my money hostage and they refused to engage in a discussion to allow me to get my money
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by Peroni 2y ago
They already have: https://www.gmb.org.uk/campaigns/deliveroo/

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