bonemachine

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by bonemachine 13y ago
"If you don't like it, tough" can work as an attitude, sort of, if you're a car dealership battling with another car dealership over some piece of marketing territory in Texas. But if you're a startup with an iffy b
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by bonemachine 13y ago
This may not have occurred to you, but it's an investment of time both ways . The company most likely spent >2 hours of staff time filtering resumes, & handling communications before issuing the code challenge. If a fizzbuzz-o
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by bonemachine 13y ago
True on some abstract ethical level I guess, but under the modern corporate mindset also plainly irrelevant. They don't make a point of referring to us as "resources", after all, for a lack of a reason. It is wrong to treat
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by bonemachine 13y ago
Also: How many times did you pull a few all-nighters in a row during college? I can't even count. Enough to realize that it's a really stupid idea (for the same reasons everyone else is saying), like a whole lot of other stupid
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by bonemachine 13y ago
Second, how many times did you pull a few all-nighters in a row during college? I can't even count. I certainly didn't die. It may not have killed you, but somewhere along the way, something you did, or something that happened t
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by bonemachine 13y ago
More like slang within a certain age / social group, rather than an "idiom."
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by bonemachine 13y ago
Yer FIRED, dude! If you can't be assed [sic] to write accurately and consistently in your native language ...
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by bonemachine 13y ago
Their logic is so flimsy (and manipulative) that it actually serves to turn this engineer (and Bay Area native) off to the idea of working for them. Working the other direction, they could have introduced us, for example, to... Lee, creat
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by bonemachine 13y ago
What is nanotechnology, or modern optics, if not a collection of observations, leading to correlation and causality? Specifically: not merely a "collection of observations", but an organic body of reasoning, and understanding o
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by bonemachine 13y ago
Which is a pity, because... XML is nothing like JSON.
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by bonemachine 13y ago
OK, so they understood correlation and causality as applied to a particular use case. "Hey, we ground up the pigments real fine one day, and this nifty effect popped out." But to imply that they had any understanding of "nan
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by bonemachine 13y ago
Maybe you can find a way to charge for it in richer countries, while keeping it free in developing countries? People might feel more likely to pay for it if there as some nominal, charitable aspect to it: "Buy now and help support wom