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by fspear 10y ago
You are absolutely right. I guess the point I was trying to make is that companies are not considerate when it comes to a candidate's time. IF after making a candidate go through a coding test or several interviews you still have doubt
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by fspear 10y ago
Can you share any resources about how to buy/where to find existing side projects that are profitable or at least have potential to be profitable?
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by fspear 10y ago
>It's just the way it is. And if we don't take a stand then it's going to be like that forever. We can't let companies continue to get away with this. In the end they need devs more than we need them.
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by fspear 10y ago
Yes you have a right, and a duty, to be angry. I say duty because it's our fault for not massively speaking up and demanding a radical change. We let companies get away with this, and it's not going to stop until we do something
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by fspear 10y ago
>Maybe the discussion on their hiring team was "Well, if he pulls out some magic in the coding challenge..." This is an unreasonable expectation. If it gets to that point then it should be a no-hire, don't waste the candid
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by fspear 10y ago
>1. We're bad at hiring, as an industry. We just aren't very good at identifying good candidates How do we fix this? It seems that everyone who claims to be actively working to fix hiring in tech is only exacerbating the issue
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by fspear 10y ago
>On top of this, intellectualism itself is viewed with great suspicion by many Americans, who much prefer to hear celebrity gossip, or watch sports and reality shows. As a result, the "public" intellectual debates of the era ar
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by fspear 10y ago
http://chartmage.com/index.html
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by fspear 10y ago
To women almost every man is average or below average in looks nowadays. Women's standards keep rising and rising. http://www.girlsaskguys.com/sexual-behavior/a22977-girls-on-...
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by fspear 10y ago
It is also the reality of A LOT of frustrated young men that need a little more empathy, not contempt or ridicule.
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by fspear 10y ago
http://www.girlsaskguys.com/sexual-behavior/a22977-girls-on-... Tinder only works if you are in the top 10% of males. If you are short (anything under 6 ft nowadays), a minority, fat, etc using tinder is an invitation
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by fspear 10y ago
This is what I really hate about functional programming (specially Haskell), is almost as if the more obscure and unreadable your code is the more competent you are deemed to be.
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by fspear 10y ago
I keep finding that no matter how much I want to be an optimist I cannot. The problem I have with it is that it feels as if I'm deluding myself whenever I try to be optimistic about anything and I can't hold it for any significant
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by fspear 10y ago
Maybe add a feature to import your linkedin profile & skills or maybe allow users to submit their pdf or word cv to pre-populate their profile.
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by fspear 10y ago
No. And I'm not against objective analysis, however by humanizing such individuals in the name of "objectiveness" you are disregarding the suffering of a lot of people.
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by fspear 10y ago
>The pleas you're seeing for a calmer and broader conversation are not attempts to exculpate Castro. Those of us who have been directly affected by Castro's actions feel that justice was never made, his legacy is not something
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by fspear 10y ago
Not "all" evil but malicious intent and a complete lack of empathy for the suffering of others.
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by fspear 10y ago
Castro is up there with the worst of the worst (Hitler, Pol pot, amin, mugabe, chavez, Kim Jong, Stalin, Mao, etc) these individuals resigned to their humanity the moment they decided to step all over their citizen's rights and dignity
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by fspear 10y ago
>brilliance Indeed how brilliant it is, how a government steps all over their citizens rights.
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by fspear 10y ago
>Maduro is facing assault on all sides due to this crises. Trust me he's rather be in the heady days of Chavez, when things were all kosher and happy. As someone who lived in Venezuela during Chavez's regime things were anythin
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by fspear 10y ago
>Whoever is buying dollars (or dollar-denominated goods) at the "official" exchange rate is making a killing. And will do so for about 6-9 months, before the entire thing collapses. It's been like that ever since the curre
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by fspear 10y ago
Or just plain malice. Do not be mistaken, the final objective of the "socialist" agenda of the Venezuelan regime has always been to enslave an entire nation in order to lock themselves into power forever.
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by fspear 10y ago
Nah Venezuela is where it's at.
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by fspear 10y ago
Thanks for your sincere advice and I have to admit I admire your "eloquence", not a native English speaker so I'm not sure this is the right word, I guess what I'm trying to say is that I really really like the way you w
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by fspear 10y ago
"Security" is being used as an excuse.
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by fspear 10y ago
>Bummer about the height, but there are also women who are not very tall. Actually, I its the shorter women who have higher standards for male height, the most "harsh" rejections (due to height) have come from short women. Tall
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by fspear 10y ago
Thanks for that, the reason for rage quiting is more to do with the fact that the existing dev team is getting excluded and all of our concerns are shut down and, I hate to pull the "race" card, but it "just" so happens
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Ask HN: Am I being unreasonable?
6 points by fspear 10y ago|6 comments
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by fspear 10y ago
What if you can't ever find someone who truly likes you? Being a short and unnatractive male I've completely given up on dating or meeting someone who actually likes me. I've experienced so much negativity around my height an
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by fspear 10y ago
> I received offers from most of them Congratulations, not an easy task. The hiring practices of these companies are brutal (specially for senior engineers). If I had your skills and experience I would start a startup offering help to 30

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