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by gearoidoc 11y ago
Right? And its totally possible for a supposed 'A player' to suffer a dip in productivity (due to, y'know, LIFE) and its similarly possible for a B player to upgrade to an A given enough experience. Overall the whole A/
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
It's a shame that those stories of the racial discrimination experienced at Yale haven't been the central point instead of this letter.
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The New Intolerance of Student Activism(theatlantic.com)
166 points by gearoidoc 11y ago|269 comments
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Ask HN: Why did DHH's last article get pulled from the front page yesterday?
3 points by gearoidoc 11y ago|2 comments
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
Without doubt an issue that needs reform (which I believe is coming - there's a lot of campaigning around it). Would be surprised if many people outside the country knew about this problem though. Of course, its possible I'm wrong
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
Curious as to why you "wouldn't have expected Ireland to be on this forefront". Not trying to sound accusatory - just genuinely curious on the perception.
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
Dublin is a different animal than the rest of Ireland because the country is very centralised there (despite some efforts to combat this). It would like measuring the average house price in the US by just measuring the BA. I can buy a house
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
Irishman here - living in Canada nearly two years now. It's not very sudden to be honest - changes like the Marriage Equality Act have been wanted by a lot of people for a long time. The criminalisation of drug use clearly doesnt work
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
If they're being specific on 'profiting' then in theory dealers could 'donate' their stashes to addicts and write it off against the tax man :D
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Ask HN: Tax implications of becoming a full time remote employee
1 points by gearoidoc 11y ago|1 comments
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
I guess its important to make allowances - especially for non-native English speakers. I worked on a portlet system a few years back (oh the horror!) with a Chinese dude. Super developer. It wasn't until the last day that I figured out
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
Haha, I'm a dev and I pronounced it like this for a while (knowing it was incorrect). Someone like me probably set them down the wrong path!
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
If your API receives 1 spam request a day its no biggie. If it receives a few million (eg. via LOIC or whatever), its disabling.
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
A recruiter once lost it with me when I was job hunting about 5 years ago. They has put me forward for a job which I'd already applied for (one of the biggest consulting co's in the world) and was convinced that I'd cut them
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
Unsolicited I know but a good friend of mine runs a recruitment firm in NYC. He's a tech guy (I've worked with him for nearly 10 years) and the founder is an ex-Google dev too (I've only Skyped with him but he seems to know h
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
Top marks.
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
If you have people willing to pay for your product and a clear go to market strategy then why do you particularly need YC?
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
A little advice: state what you do in the first sentence. Lost my interest after one paragraph.
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
Couldn't care less about karma tbh.
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
I think the "A-Class" employee idea is a myth. Obviously I've come across individuals who are more talented than others but it's very, very difficult (maybe impossible) to put people in a box. Would you prefer to work wi
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
I'm confused as to why this made the front page (and is still there). The content isn't new or noteworthy. I suspect some strategic upvoting but maybe I'm just paranoid.
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
Might be taking honesty to an extreme there :)
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
To respond to your point on being asked about weaknesses: I've always taken the honest route. I've given reasons like "hard to find motivation if I don't find the project interesting" and I've found they'v
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
This is a puff piece thinly veiled as a guest post.
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
In this scenario, I imagine it's the idea itself. The app shred has developed is reasonably within the market with which Smule operates. Smule is likely arguing that the IP was created whilst the founders were under their employment an
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
You're either a troll or seriously hung up on an ex-girlfriend/ex-boyfriend.
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
It's strange - I've lived in several (Western) countries but have to witness this seemingly pervasive behaviour that men are driven mostly by physical attractiveness. Anecdata I know but I've seen lots of good looking girls g
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
Is this your own personal experience? Also: define "attractive".
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
Well they're not mutually exclusive but I can kind of see where you're coming from. I think you're setting yourself up to miss out on a lot if you're only interested in dating someone who makes X dollars a year though.
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
You missed my point: "If you think that its simply a case of not using your old employers code then you're naive". A third-party code review would do little or nothing to prove whether Shred have "stolen" anything.

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