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by alnayyir 16y ago
You really want to prioritize embedding yourself in the industry, making a brand/name for yourself, and networking. I'm not trying to sound like some kind of wanker, I'm a programmer too. My career never really got off the ground until I st
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by alnayyir 16y ago
I don't see anything wrong with Apple maintaining this much cash, it has serious strategic (albeit unquantifiable) value. Who could outbid them if they saw a serious opportunity? One of the best ways to maintain a strong lead is to have the
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by alnayyir 16y ago
I grew into it, started young. First saw the salaries I could command for my passion, then I saw that I could do my own thing and make out even better doing what I love. Serendipity. I could've loved carpentry and I'd have been boned, econo
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by alnayyir 16y ago
Clearly Apple has no idea what they are doing and should take their investment/M&A advice from the peanut gallery.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
It started with my making a note of it. It's other people that inflated the balloon with hydrogen, now I'm just riding it into the volcano.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
I would like to state for the record that I wrote that shortly before passing out for 11 hours. That is all.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
Way past soliciting employment, stop fixating on a moot point. As I said, I don't actually need a job, I was curious about their company.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
"Damage" I don't need a job right now and as I mentioned elsewhere, this kind of thing usually takes a company out of the running for me anyway.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
See? I'm not the only one.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
It's far simpler than that. Everyone person in a position to make a hire has potentially irrational but commonly effective "cues" they use to sniff out if a candidate is a bad idea. Such cues would be carelessness, lack of attention to deta
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by alnayyir 16y ago
We? Do you have a dev?
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by alnayyir 16y ago
You've missed the point. I can generate a PDF/DOC in a minute. I can do it programmatically using a parser and a lib. That's not what I'm getting at. The resumator thing is annoying. People make note of far less serious UI mea culpas on her
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by alnayyir 16y ago
An employer that only accepts word and PDF documents for my 'resume' isn't one I want to work for. You'd think that'd be clear from my displeasure with their rather factory-oriented submission process. I'm not in need of a job right now, I
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by alnayyir 16y ago
No, no you can't. It requires an upload of a PDF/DOC/DOCX in order to submit the form.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
Yeah I was going to say, I'm a silver level and this strat does not work that well even in that tier.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
My resume is a website/page, how exactly do I submit that in this resumator thing? Reformatting a website as DOC/DOCX/PDF is a bit absurd.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
It seems my brief back and forth with PG is the subject of this post. (indirectly?) I'm not sure if my criticism of blind positivity (boosterism) is intended to be what you're concerned about, or if you're just referring to the popularity o
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by alnayyir 16y ago
Happiness is a choice, virtually all programmers have been there, depressed that at some point in their life. "Shitty past" pffft. Some people starve and die before they're 10. I had what is a comparatively "rough" start to life compared to
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by alnayyir 16y ago
Rebalancing, ala StarCraft 2?
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by alnayyir 16y ago
This is very good and interesting advice that I actually haven't seen before. It particularly hit home for me because I'm young, single, and my career's started to really hit its stride. That said, I'm at a point where I feel like I need to
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by alnayyir 16y ago
Eh. I'm capable of it, but not at a sustained rate. I exceed that kind of rate in response to external pressures. I'm most productive when I fiddle my thumbs and have bizarre bursts of genius or when I plug at it at a pretty normal number o
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by alnayyir 16y ago
You seem to understand this, but it's hardly that I'm advocating tolerance for dumb/mean commentary, but rather galled by the hostility towards healthy skepticism. We probably agree more than we don't. I might as well drop this albatross si
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by alnayyir 16y ago
It is untenable, the community will disintegrate if this place keeps getting invaded with marketers and MBAs who've never actually built anything and nobody has any constructive criticism. I mean really, the instant youtube/$SITE_WITHOUT_AJ
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by alnayyir 16y ago
Nothing better out there in terms of news or community that I've found so far. I'm sure I could find nicer people, but it wouldn't be a constructive use of my time.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
He's not the only one discontented with the state of the community. It's gotten so bad here that I can't convince half the programmers I know that this place is any better than a cult locked in a warehouse. Almost no one I know takes anythi
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by alnayyir 16y ago
I agree with what you're saying, and it's been severe enough that I've taken to either not bothering to comment, or simply deleting my comment because HN had apparently deemed it that bereft of value. The circle-jerk behavior is what is dam
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by alnayyir 16y ago
If I was talking to you about a job, and I knew this ahead of time, I'd be a lot more likely to consider it even though I'm a python guy. The fact that you made sound engineering decisions and continue to improve on what you can (while bein
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by alnayyir 16y ago
Seeing Clojure deploy on LLVM would be a moment worthy of cracking open some expensive champagne, personally.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
It's a very nice looking OS, but there's no compelling reason for me to use it as opposed to my G2, or if I so desired, an iPhone so far as I can tell. The defaulting to Bing search and maps would in fact be a deal breaker for me. Non-exist
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by alnayyir 16y ago
Kitchen sink is something you feel (UI clutter, features most users don't want), not something you measure (megabytes).

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