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by donretag 14y ago
Over a year ago, I applied to a job that I considered a great match with my experience and interests. Never heard from the company after applying. I had a couple of offers from other companies and I choose one. Many many months later (7-8?)
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Florida is killing Computer Science(computinged.wordpress.com)
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by donretag 14y ago
You mean by having Captain Kirk do commercials for them?
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by donretag 14y ago
Pot. Kettle. Black. How ironic, a linkbait post about linkbait.
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EBay Deprecates Wildcard Searches(ecommercebytes.com)
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by donretag 14y ago
I live an hour and a half from Silicon Valley. Recruiters are constantly shocked when I tell them that I do not want to work in SV. They can't understand why not. I simply do not want to be part of the game. That said, rants like these are
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by donretag 14y ago
LinkedIn can very easily take control of professional meetups, but no one has the brains to do it. LinkedIn has group, has events, but both features are terrible, lack good APIs and are not integrated. I would rather join a technical group
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TryComputing.org: Resources for students and teachers about computing(computinged.wordpress.com)
1 points by donretag 14y ago|0 comments
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by donretag 14y ago
Very few of those are for Austin. Many are from CA/NY companies.
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by donretag 14y ago
Exactly. Zynga laid off employees from a failing division? What's the problem? Who cares when it happened. Those employees should have seen the writing on the wall.
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by donretag 14y ago
Lucid Imagination has an annotated version of the “Release Highlights” for Lucene/Solr 4.0 http://searchhub.org/dev/2012/10/12/apache-solr-and-lucene-4... Spellchecking built into the index instead of needing an ancillary one is a big fea
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Fight the MOOCopalypse(computinged.wordpress.com)
1 points by donretag 14y ago|1 comments
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by donretag 14y ago
So people now rant about features that do not even exist yet? Seriously? It is probably easier for Netflix to ask for authorization for all sharing and then actually have users select what they want to share. No one knows until they build i
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by donretag 14y ago
I am barely 5 digits long. Too bad I forgot my password a decade ago!
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Let’s Predict the Next ‘Voice’ Finalists(blog.bigml.com)
1 points by donretag 14y ago|0 comments
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by donretag 14y ago
I rather have the Activity feed as the default view and not the public repositories. Activity is far more dynamic and useful. Now the activity feed is two clicks instead of one. Not a problem, just a slight annoyance.
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by donretag 14y ago
"> There's little status to be gotten from tinkering on "someone else's" repo. So github is about status? Silly me, I thought was contributing to OSS.
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by donretag 14y ago
It was actually posted much sooner that that, but gained no traction: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4542383
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by donretag 14y ago
Such a site already exists, or will soon (for every sport): http://sportsrecruitsllc.com/
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by donretag 14y ago
A year or two ago I read Tim Ferriss' The 4-Hour Work Week. Most of the advice in the book did not pertain to me, but one tidbit of knowledge that I gain is that you can save time by simply ignoring the news. Most of us are not in the posit
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by donretag 14y ago
For point #2, http://startuply.com is a site that caters only to startups. The monthly Hacker News "Who's Hiring" thread is another place to start (ex: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4463689 ). Networking is always the best, but it
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by donretag 14y ago
Luckily for software developers, we can ignore the horrible job sites. Here is an article on Monster.com and endless email: http://blog.brusic.com/2012/07/how-private-is-your-online-jo...
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by donretag 14y ago
Exactly. "information is easily accessible on LinkedIn". Unless LinkedIn has some psychic abilities, LinkedIn only knows what I voluntarily add. My LinkedIn profile contains only company names, dates, and titles. No descriptions. No StackOv
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by donretag 14y ago
What a great idea, let's put all our tech team members all on one page so that recruiters can have one-stop shopping for people to spam. I am half joking, but also half serious. I minimize my profile online to cut down on recruiting spam. C
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by donretag 14y ago
Related article and discussion (Eight Out Of China’s Top Nine Government Officials Are Scientists): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2556590 A scientist's/engineer's life is one of constant learning. They simply cannot take time off to
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by donretag 14y ago
Pardon my ignorance, but how involved was Munich in the entire WWII conflict? It was not too close to the front (especially to the west) and the closest bordering nations were allies.
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by donretag 14y ago
Outside Magazine had a story about doing just that: http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/biking/Who-Pi...
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Sebastian Thrun bets education over driverless cars(computinged.wordpress.com)
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by donretag 14y ago
Previous hacker news discussions on restaurant websites and why they suck: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2865836
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by donretag 14y ago
Regarding the helmet: they truly are a no-brainer. Even the cheap 30 buck ones the OP talks about must meet the minimum federal guidelines for safety (in the US). No need for a more expensive helmet, which mainly provide less weight (avoid

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