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U.S. Steps Up Probe Of Hiring In Tech(online.wsj.com)
12 points by dabent 17y ago|4 comments
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by dabent 17y ago
The sounds like a very clever strategy. The kind most middle managers I've known couldn't come up with. My experience is that it's all template language, and the old skill keyword gets replaced with new one. So instead of needing a Java d
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by dabent 17y ago
That's the one thing I took away from the article. I'm obviously not the target audience that made the telephone a killer app. If it was up to me, we'd probably have gone from telegraph to SMS/email, skipping the phone. There's just somet
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by dabent 17y ago
Well, at least the idea that we all have to physically travel to a certain location is. It may be needed for certain jobs and may not be for everyone, but I think working from home could work from both the employer and the employee if it's
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by dabent 17y ago
If I recall, Jobs indicated the $999 price was analysts. I don't have a reference, but that's also the price I'd expected the base model iPad to be. So I think Jobs just took what he saw as everyone's expectation of the anchor, let that s
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by dabent 17y ago
I worked through a recruiter for my current job, so I was asked to name a salary up front to make sure it met the client's frame. I named a price some 20% higher than they wanted to pay max, but in the end, the client (now my employer) cam
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Forget The Tipping Point. Focus on Joe the Plumber.(laserlike.com)
3 points by dabent 17y ago|0 comments
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by dabent 17y ago
Most businesses want delivery (and pickup) during working days.
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by dabent 17y ago
>If I'm eating at my desk, don't touch my food. >If there's cake in the breakroom, have a piece, but leave your Tupperware in your car. People actually do that? Where do you work? >If you get upset in a discussion with someon
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by dabent 17y ago
That was my thought exactly. They've got 13 people doing what exactly? I tried to read their story, but the "Our Start" page in the company section isn't there. It's a really clean design, but really sparse on real information.
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by dabent 17y ago
>I've been looking for job opportunities w/ the big 4 Just curious. What draws you to working for the big 4?
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by dabent 17y ago
Very cool idea. I've long wanted something that gets me to the employer directly, rather than routing me through a recruiter. One failing of most sites is the sheer number of recruiter ads I've seen. Want to disrupt? Get rid of the midd
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by dabent 17y ago
Maybe Regator? http://regator.com/#feedsearch:section:20:0
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by dabent 17y ago
Maybe you don't have to hit all the numbers to make things work. I see Google as hitting numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, and maybe even 10. Actually, Google has APIs, so it is programmable. Just thing of the useful or playful mashups people
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by dabent 17y ago
"Given Fox's ratings I'm sure they can fill the void with less picky companies." Did you know that gold is at an all-time high? Gold is the standard you can rely on in troubled times! BUY GOLD NOW! Did you know that gold is at an all-time
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by dabent 17y ago
What?
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by dabent 17y ago
Exactly. I had to reload the page to see it. Once I tried it out, it seemed like a pretty cool idea. It just needs some smoother execution. The reload was one thing and others have mentioned the confusion of the "try it" button. Maybe a
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by dabent 17y ago
The key element people keep pointing out in founders - persistence - is the same even if it's a single-founder comedy startup. Martin worked for over a decade before his big success, then branched out with the same determination into actin
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by dabent 17y ago
The site I work for only accepts members from US, Canada, UK, Ireland and Australia. It has to be that way to combat fraud. The non-us traffic for other sites I've built has meant one thing: spam. If there was a way to better filter out
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by dabent 17y ago
That's 1 cup, mashed. I looked up 1 medium banana: http://www.weightlossforall.com/calories-banana.htm Edit: To note that I still do see your point about why certain diets avoid them. I think of bananas as the 3 Musketeers Bar of fruit.
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by dabent 17y ago
One of the comments in the article says "If I can mortgage my house and bet it on black at a roulette wheel in Vegas, I can surely invest in a friends startup, regardless of how wealthy I am." There's a lot of ways to just blow money, but s
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by dabent 17y ago
My daughter had "Lover of the Day" installed, which named her uncle as her Lover of the Day, which was simultaneously hilarious and really, really creepy. I had her uninstall the app about 5 minutes after I saw what happened.
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by dabent 17y ago
I also didn't think the problem was fruit, but rather things like HFCS-sweetened sodas. A banana or an apple has about 100 calories, but a 12 ounce can of soda has about 150. I know people (I was one) that will drink 32 ounces (about a li
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Ten Most Active VC Firms of 2010 (So Far...)(pehub.com)
2 points by dabent 17y ago|0 comments
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by dabent 17y ago
> some who get into Harvard don't For every Gates, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Page, or even Patzer, there are many who went to a top school who never did much or even really blew it. Part of me wants to see a post-mortem on their careers, much
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by dabent 17y ago
Especially when one considers the variety of items most bookstores have. Barnes and Nobel has a music section, calendars, magazines, trinkets, comic books and a cafe. I think all big bookstores are the same. It isn't like one would actua
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Ning CEO Bianchini steps down to become EIR at Andreessen Horowitz(digital.venturebeat.com)
4 points by dabent 17y ago|0 comments
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by dabent 17y ago
SimplyHired and Indeed are mostly aggregators of other boards. It's just a slick interface on a broken system. I'd like to see something that's a little more direct, that gets me to HR/hiring managers with fewer people in the middle.
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by dabent 17y ago
"In 1847, Hungarian doctor Ignaz Semmelweis discovered that washing one's hands with chlorine between deliveries practically eliminated fatal infections among laboring women. (His colleagues ignored him and later committed him to a mental h
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by dabent 17y ago
I've heard Americans (I'm American) complain about it, especially with their neighbors. We tend to stay holed up in our McMansions with the AC/Heat on and watch TV. Or we are the lone passenger in our car, listening to XM with the windows

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