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by TheGRS 8y ago
Is there a reason to believe that getting rid of a regulation actually fosters in better regulations? I don't think I follow that logic.
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by TheGRS 8y ago
Even before Net Neutrality became policy there were shenanigans happening with ISPs throttling the biggest service in terms of broadband usage: Netflix. And Netflix opted to pay instead of battling it at the time.
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by TheGRS 8y ago
There is a strange lock-in with facebook for me here. I use other apps for talking to close friends or anyone in the know. For talking to my partner or family who aren't very tech savvy Facebook is still the best choice. They are all r
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by TheGRS 8y ago
I could see them doing something like the Surface where you have the detachable iPad, but a more powerful rig when its attached.
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by TheGRS 9y ago
That's easy, there is a vast chasm between people who say they can do things and people who actually can do things. This is precisely why these filters exist!
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by TheGRS 9y ago
The take home exam is quite a bit more of an efficient filter than a blanket phone screen. Anything less than a 20 minute call isn't going to tell me much.
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by TheGRS 9y ago
Sure, but there's only so much responsibility one can take for this stuff. Presumably there are other candidates willing to respond.
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by TheGRS 9y ago
Yea I was trying to think of a way of putting this that didn't sound too trite, but I think you've nailed it. This process is decent way to combat nepotism or BS'ing your way up. There's a bit of elitism to "if you
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by TheGRS 9y ago
Personally I think it'd be fine to e-mail back and say "sorry I don't have time to work on this with my current schedule, could I do an in-person interview instead?" That's me though, I would hope the rest of the in
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by TheGRS 9y ago
I see on this board more than any other where people will agree that taking time to hire correctly is by and far more cost efficient than hiring quickly, but incorrectly. I've definitely gone through a lot of experiences now where some
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by TheGRS 9y ago
That's almost like an exercise in economics. There's a middle ground of what the buyer (i.e. the employer) wants and what the seller (i.e. the applicant) wants. Buyer wants all sorts of qualities + a low salary + an NDA and non-co
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by TheGRS 9y ago
I don't think this assertion that the technical interview is inherently filtering out great candidates is being very honest (you responded similarly to another comment of mine the same way). One quality being tested is "can you tr
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by TheGRS 9y ago
Hence the take home interview. At least at the last company I worked at we began doing these because we could tell that the stress was filtering out some otherwise decent candidates. At least that was one of the reasons, it also gave us a c
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by TheGRS 9y ago
Totally, by the time we have a phone interview I'm pretty seriously considering that candidate and I want to get to know their personality better to see if they're a good fit, so whatever I can do to shrink that pool in a way that
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by TheGRS 9y ago
For sure, its something I've thought about too, but at the end of the day you need to do something to get from the many down to the one. Gut intuition gets used at some level and I prefer that to be way down the line after we've g
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by TheGRS 9y ago
I'm rethinking what I did on my last hiring position. I sent a take-home test that should take about 2-3 hours to those who sent in a decent resume. It filtered out a little over half of the applicants I responded to, as in half didn&#
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by TheGRS 9y ago
Maybe to your experience, but it likely is a filter for others.
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by TheGRS 9y ago
IIRC the original content was in response, not in spite of 3rd party content pulling out of Netflix.
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by TheGRS 9y ago
This also assumes a good market of people who want to use mass transit vs something private.
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by TheGRS 9y ago
Ehhh, I think given enough time and money just about any problem can be solved. Given what we know today, it seems pretty reasonable to say that we will achieve a car that can drive itself in any situation and not cause deaths...at some poi
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by TheGRS 9y ago
Probably the best point I've seen made by this. Humans are not computers and will do illogical things like jay walk across busy streets. Can't say I know the details for this particular situation, but many times a driver will see
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by TheGRS 9y ago
IIRC the people who programmed the first auto pilot for a major airliner were required to be on board the first test flight, so I have to think their testing methodology was pretty meticulous.
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by TheGRS 9y ago
Sure, but you still had to host their advertisements. I would consider it a platform, but I also wouldn't compare it to facebook.
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by TheGRS 9y ago
Yep that's the one! haha awesome.
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by TheGRS 9y ago
I think Adobe moved a lot of that type of offering to other projects like XD, but I'm not really in that space.
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by TheGRS 9y ago
Most who were just tinkering still posted to something like geocities, but I agree that spirit has been lost. What do they do in middle school / high school web development classes these days anyway? Kind of the appeal 20 years ago wa
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by TheGRS 9y ago
Every now and then I go to the Space Jam site because for some reason they still host it. Some great 90s web stuff in there, especially all of the tiled backgrounds and liberal use of frames. https://www.warnerbros.com/archi
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by TheGRS 9y ago
I remember some of those old free text image sites where you could make stuff like your title. Ah the good old days. I'm disappointed by your lack of frames btw, I feel like every site had frames in frames back in those days. :)
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by TheGRS 9y ago
New Yorker article I had read some time ago. Took me awhile to find it again, its not a very widely talked about topic apparently. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/10/13/rock-paper-sci...
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by TheGRS 9y ago
That's pretty clever. I've been reading this discussion off and on a lot today because I'm pretty fascinated that so many people feel so strongly against electronic voting and would rather have paper. On Hacker News of all

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