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by briholt 11y ago
> Q: Is the Digital.com domain for sale? A: We bought the domain to develop, rather than to speculate, and have declined several substantial offers. However, serious offers will receive suitable consideration.
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by briholt 11y ago
Great explanation. Notice how the VC fees eat heavily into the LPs profits. $500M in profit netted only $200M after fees - leaving only a 20% return after ten years . The S&P500 would've easily beaten that rate. A VC firm needs to
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by briholt 11y ago
Agreed. On the same note, please stop putting in scroll-activated moving objects. You might think it's cool that that stock picture slides 50 pixels left and fades when I scroll to point X, but really you're just making my browsin
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by briholt 12y ago
Who do they think sold all of the pre-Common-Core textbooks and assessments? Pearson, obviously.
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by briholt 12y ago
Self-taught person here. This is surely a minefield of downvotes, but I've noticed several differences in CS students: 1. While CS students have a broader array of programming knowledge, they have narrower perspective about it. By this
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by briholt 12y ago
Classic selection and confirmation bias. I have a GitHub profile > I'm great > I only hire great people > I only hire people with a GitHub profile > Everyone I hire is great and has a GitHub profile > Everyone who is gre
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by briholt 12y ago
In the scope of factories in the industrial revolution, I think he's clearly referring to low-skill assembly line work, which made up the vast majority of jobs. You're referring to master craftsman. The problem with software is th
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by briholt 12y ago
So, in summary either (1) no, we don't; (2) no, we don't; or (3) yes, we do.
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by briholt 12y ago
The company seems very cool. One off topic thing that I can't help but note - just loading their homepage requires 113 HTTP requests. It's crazy heavy with tracking and designy tags. http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt&#x
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by briholt 12y ago
This is a really interesting case and I think there are two paths you could take, depending on what you want to do with your life: 1. Do you want to be the businessperson? Do you want to raise money, start a company, deal with HR, have boar
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by briholt 12y ago
No, this would be so easy to code. Enter 100 basic phrases: You look so [appearance adjective], my [affection term]. Hey [affection term], I'll see you at the [social location] tonight. ... and so on Then enter possible variables: affe
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by briholt 12y ago
I just learned about this today. This is the greatest marketing concept since "million dollar homepage." My life is a failure for not having thought of this.
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by briholt 12y ago
I posted a decent programming job in a decent market on there about a year ago, but didn't get any qualified applicants.
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by briholt 12y ago
Creator here. I previously posted EmployIQ here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8282180 but thought it was appropriate for a redux post - partly about EmployIQ improvements, partly about taking feedback. On the previo
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EmployIQ – a slightly smarter job search engine(employiq.com)
2 points by briholt 12y ago|1 comments
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by briholt 12y ago
JP Morgan got hit pretty hard. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8403459
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by briholt 12y ago
It's not clear from the graphic or the article, but the list of top "sites" is actually the top networks - showing all of the network's sites' traffic is aggregated together. So "Fox" represents traffic
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by briholt 12y ago
Anyone have any insights into this? From the outside it looks like Mozilla is parting ways with Google because of Chrome. Interesting they went with Yahoo and not Bing.
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With every new team and new layer of management, the agents' incentives drifted farther away from the organization's leading into a gray zone entirely focused on self-promotion and detached from fundamental business ethics.
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by briholt 12y ago
I once had to write an OAuth client for each of the major invoice/accounting cloud services. It was a huge hassle, with very little standardization. Everyone had to add their little quirk to the system (like client-specific endpoints,
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by briholt 12y ago
Perhaps a bit darker than the other quotes, but I wake up everyday thinking "At most, I've only got X years left before I die." When you appreciate time/life as a limited resource you'll spend it more wisely. Typica
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You might as well just call it a "17 trillion dollar company" to claim credit for the entire US GDP.
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by briholt 12y ago
Good suggestion, adding that now.
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by briholt 12y ago
A little of both - some sites (smartly) offer an API feed, some have easy-enough to scrape sites. Getting wide coverage will be an ongoing and difficult challenge.
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by briholt 12y ago
Thank you for your thoughtful feedback. On point 1, there is currently a category for "programming" which includes all languages ( https://www.employiq.com/jobs/all/programming ) and on point 2 there is a
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by briholt 12y ago
Good find. It's confusing Arlington, TX with Arlington, VA. This is happening because "Arlington, VA" was listed as "Arlington, DC" because it's a suburb of DC and thus wasn't matching. Mutli-state regions
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by briholt 12y ago
Sure, it's info@employiq.com
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by briholt 12y ago
Creator here. This is a little project I'm working on to apply some better natural language processing to job searching. As it stands now with most job search engines, a search for "software engineer" won't return jobs p
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Show HN: EmployIQ – A slightly smarter job search engine(employiq.com)
39 points by briholt 12y ago|25 comments
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I can't help but have a very negative reaction to this, not necessarily at the author, but at the startup ecosystem as a whole. These are posted as "lessons" as if they were difficult to learn, when this really should be labe

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