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by adetrest 8y ago
Firing based on test results sounds illegal. Same reason why employers can't give iq tests to candidates anymore IIRC.
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by adetrest 8y ago
Exactly, the show was ok but the film is much better. While the show takes place in a similar universe, it's not a continuity.
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by adetrest 8y ago
Or we could re-evaluate how we eat and drastically reduce the amount of meat produced and consumed.
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by adetrest 8y ago
I have heard a similar thing from friends who played the expat game for a few years. They lived in a compound where they could live as they wanted (within reason: no pork, no porn, etc), but the moment they stepped outside, the wives and da
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by adetrest 8y ago
Good that an ISP has the balls to do that. On a technical note: is this kind of censorship at DNS level, where that ISP's default DNS servers return a different ip for the blocked sites, or is it one level deeper and using third party
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by adetrest 8y ago
I chuckled
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by adetrest 8y ago
Quality of life is low in Toronto IMHO. It's impossible to find a decent apartment to rent for most: not necessarily because rents are crazy high (2k/mo for a 1BR poorly built condo anyone?) but because landlords are so picky that
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by adetrest 8y ago
You don't need to dig that deep. Brainstation sells bootcamps in downtown Toronto. If they can show that working in tech in Toronto yields crazy opportunities and salary, they'll get more people to buy their bootcamps. If you look
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by adetrest 8y ago
Which begs the question: what happens if the premature baby is born to a US family that can't afford a decent insurance plan? Does the hospital repo the baby? Is the family bankrupt and the baby's life ruined from the get go just
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by adetrest 8y ago
The kind of "tests" that most interviews use (and leetcode etc) are more riddles than anything else. Either you know the answer already and are able to recall it and pass the interview, or you don't know the answer and you&#x
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by adetrest 8y ago
Totally disagree with you. What you're describing is a code monkey, in which case it's a commodity and a race to the bottom. A "freelancer" that charges top rates will give you all that you say the client should have com
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Ask HN: How to learn design and UX as a software engineer?
10 points by adetrest 8y ago|8 comments
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by adetrest 8y ago
I thought I was getting crazy, glad to see I'm not the only one. I very much resent training Google's ai for free as well just so that I can login or send a contact form.
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by adetrest 8y ago
Audio: http://archive-server.liveatc.net/einn/EINN-High-Nov-09-2018... (skip to 17min40s)
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by adetrest 8y ago
UpWork is a race to the bottom, I'd rather do anything else than find work through this platform.
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Ask HN: Introvert freelancers, how do you find the willpower to network?
49 points by adetrest 8y ago|22 comments
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Ask HN: Solo freelancers, how do you outsource parts of a project you can't do?
3 points by adetrest 8y ago|0 comments
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by adetrest 8y ago
"think of the children" or "protect you from terrorists" or whatever the next cause to all our problems are will be used as an argument when it'll time to make this mainstream.
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by adetrest 8y ago
You don't even need a knife for fingerprints, you can lift them off of whatever that person has touched.
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by adetrest 8y ago
... And this isn't even the Onion. I always have the feeling that the UK is obsessed with surveillance and security in an even creepier way than the US, but I can't quite put my finger on the reason. It's not like the US and
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by adetrest 8y ago
From the amazon page about ultramind: "Three-time New York Timesbestselling author Dr. Mark Hyman unveils his groundbreaking program that shows how we can fix our broken brains by healing our bodies first. Based on the emerging field o
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by adetrest 8y ago
Exactly. A private company selling a supplement paid for a study that shows said supplement is beneficial and should be consumed... This study cannot be taken seriously.
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by adetrest 8y ago
Ha, I'd print it and put it on the wall too.
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by adetrest 8y ago
Now that's dedication, especially when you consider the cost of data on satellite phones.
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by adetrest 8y ago
I hope what you're describing never makes it past your dystopian, or a movie at best. What a terrible world you're describing.
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by adetrest 8y ago
How would that work?
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by adetrest 8y ago
> On an unrelated note, I am pretty upset that my Samsung ~$1200 TV has ads built into it. If you knew all the data it collects from you, you'd never give it internet access again: - grabs the list of HDMI connected peripherals to s
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by adetrest 8y ago
Apparently, Amazon has no idea which seller sent in the item amazon is selling you. I don't know how they can get away with it, or how this is even allowed. What if the item is so shitty that it causes injury or death? Wouldn't am
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by adetrest 8y ago
Amazon can do things. For example, why not tie each product to the seller that sent it? They would very quickly find who sends the fakes and who sends the genuine items. But I suspect they wouldn't be good for amazon's growth numb
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by adetrest 8y ago
> So because Apple releases new software and hardware every year, that means that the phone I’m already using immediately stops working? In apples case, yes. You might very well be able to install the latest iOS on your 2010 iPad, but wh

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