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by alanchavez 13y ago
Dogs as humans have selective hearing. Do you wake up when there's an ambulance passing by while you're sleeping? What if you change your statements to: 1) Detecting an abrupt change in sleep patterns in mammals is useful. 2) Dogs are mamma
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by alanchavez 13y ago
that's way too much elaborated for a lazy person whose job is walking a dog.
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by alanchavez 13y ago
I'm just updating the post... the company didn't rescind their offer, and I'm happily employed now!!
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by alanchavez 13y ago
You're right. I could have done community service instead, but I didn't. I didn't take responsibility for the ticket, and I just let it go. There's no excuse.
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by alanchavez 13y ago
That's totally awful. The company that offered me the job offer told me that they will not be doing any reference check on me.
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by alanchavez 13y ago
well it's not 400 but it's in the 400 range. I know there are no excuses, and I've been irresponsible. However sometimes bad things happen to good people, and it's been a rough year. Before that score I used to have a score in the range of
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by alanchavez 13y ago
I have a web portfolio, I have three blogs, and post YouTube videos regularly for my blogs. I have commited code to large open source projects, and have released some other projects on my own. I'm just not good at freelancing, I tried it fo
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by alanchavez 13y ago
I've been working in software development since I was in High School; I started at a small agency in my hometown developing CRUD applications in ASP and PHP for local companies. Then I went to college and in my first semester, the research
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by alanchavez 13y ago
South Texas (Rio Grande Valley). No tech companies, no headquarters of any kind. The company that offered me a job is a big company (5000 employees) and is among the fastest growing companies in the US, so it would be a huge bummer if I got
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by alanchavez 13y ago
That is very sad :) That's another reason why I'm looking for another job. I've proved soon-to-be employers that I'm smart enough to make much more. I don't want to bad mouth my current employer, but they don't appreciate software developme
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Ask HN: Have you ever had a job offer rescinded?
19 points by alanchavez 13y ago|50 comments
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by alanchavez 13y ago
Run a validation test.
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by alanchavez 13y ago
LOL. That's exactly what my friends told me.
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by alanchavez 13y ago
I personally prefer working with Mods because when you're committing to an open source project because you're somehow limited with the owner of the projects goals. They have a set of features that need to be implemented, and sometimes there
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by alanchavez 13y ago
I'm facing a similar situation in which I've job offer from 3 big name companies and I don't know which one to accept. Those 3 jobs could easily be my 3 dream jobs :( Tough call.
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Startups are more likely to adopt Ruby on Rails, find out why...(thefrontenddeveloper.com)
1 points by alanchavez 13y ago|0 comments
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by alanchavez 13y ago
I haven't gotten job offers yet, but I got 3 on site job interviews at 3 big companies using the traditional hiring system. However, I don't think it's unfair if you make use of your professional network. I'm pretty sure you spend a lot of
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How The Hallway Usability Test Can Make You Lose Your Job(thefrontenddeveloper.com)
3 points by alanchavez 13y ago|0 comments