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by exBarrelSpoiler 9y ago
Regardless of the merits or flaws of either identity, it is a fallacy of false equivalence to claim they are of equal threat to the public safety. Antifa are a rowdy thuggish reactionary youth subculture that only shows up to rallies, neo-N
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by exBarrelSpoiler 9y ago
Sam Hyde is currently facing an International Court of Justice war crimes tribunal on the charges of being a Tired Unfunny-Ass Meme. No one should underrate the danger of this washed up pathetic villain.
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by exBarrelSpoiler 9y ago
He's also an upstanding citizen.
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by exBarrelSpoiler 9y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9342994 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12502336 https://mic.com/articles/154788/apple-employees-say-their-me...
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by exBarrelSpoiler 9y ago
Maybe the positive stories are from those who have experienced survivor bias
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by exBarrelSpoiler 9y ago
Stripe is renowned for having a good corporate culture.
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by exBarrelSpoiler 9y ago
#36 is Apple and #37 is Microsoft. I suspect that once you get to that level those happiness ratings spiral into meaninglessness. Especially when the companies involved are huge.
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by exBarrelSpoiler 9y ago
Did he say why he was unhappy? Just look at the Frightful Five. At least two of them are renowned for having brutal, sometimes abusive, corporate cultures. Three if you include stack ranking-era Microsoft. Having an awful culture doesn&#x27
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by exBarrelSpoiler 10y ago
If only more tech companies can learn from bees for when they do on-boarding!
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No, Palantir. Your internships are not worth 5 months, 8 interviews,...(reddit.com)
124 points by exBarrelSpoiler 10y ago|37 comments
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by exBarrelSpoiler 10y ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/22/business/economy/bay-area-...
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by exBarrelSpoiler 10y ago
It's quite fitting that the dating scene in S.F. is often similar to tech interviewing. Play the number games, don't get attached, and move on. Nothing personal, it's just metrics. Is this what cutthroat economic competition
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by exBarrelSpoiler 10y ago
Curious synergy between this article and the San Jose Mercury story about SF Bay Area commuter traffic now being worse than LA's.
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by exBarrelSpoiler 10y ago
It's been said that's why Google hires the best of the best, only to assign a lot of them to do mundane tasks like A/B testing and the like.
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by exBarrelSpoiler 10y ago
At the very least, they should write less treacly Dear John letters to their former customers http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com
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by exBarrelSpoiler 10y ago
Plenty of time to get cracking at a Feedly to their Google Reader, then.
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Heaven save those who have to handle Heidegger.
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by exBarrelSpoiler 10y ago
I thought Code Fights was the current hotness, people have been hyping how they feature real AIs (testbots) created by actual companies or note. Isn't its format at least distinct from the other sites, which are mostly the same Top Cod
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Ask HN: Why can't coders code?
3 points by exBarrelSpoiler 10y ago|2 comments
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Maybe try to figure out how and why there can be devs with experience yet no programming ability: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12826364 My theory is that the state of technology is that people are able to use APIs,
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by exBarrelSpoiler 10y ago
Which coding challenge website do you prefer? HackerRank, LeetCode, TopCoder, CodeFights, Stockfighter, etc.?
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by exBarrelSpoiler 10y ago
Sounds like corporations should either: 1. Lower their standards and admit that many, many coding positions are API gluing and tinkering with libraries to fulfill business requirements, and not actually about engineering. Software is in a s
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by exBarrelSpoiler 10y ago
They're probably working on some sort of next-gen haptic feedback interface.
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by exBarrelSpoiler 10y ago
$129 is pretty cheap nowadays, you can get a Google Home for that price.
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by exBarrelSpoiler 10y ago
The ad makers are people too, for now. One would assume they would get wise of the stigma of having ads plastered on your face and would try to create commercials in different styles and formats that are more subtle/interesting than th
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by exBarrelSpoiler 10y ago
Hire both!
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by exBarrelSpoiler 10y ago
Robert Zubrin has been planning for Martian colonization for decades. He's like the Kurzweil for the movement, his Mars Society has been on a quixotic quest. Hopefully SpaceX hires him on as a consultant.
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by exBarrelSpoiler 10y ago
Don't forget The Expanse, which is coming back in January.
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Submit to Our Incredible Journey?
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by exBarrelSpoiler 10y ago
Well, for those who love work so much, they'd do so regardless of the extra monetary benefits, would they not?

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