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by gifnamething 5y ago
Well I certainly hope you don't work for a company that lets your political opinions influence the hiring stream, then.
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by gifnamething 5y ago
Then a wedding ring is unprofessional.
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by gifnamething 5y ago
How about 'I'm taking paternity leave'? That's them telling you something x-rated they did 9 months ago and it will definitely change how you solve problems.
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by gifnamething 5y ago
How can you not talk about politics at work? What happens if you want to discuss a disputed nation? I hope TSMC isn't a supplier. Banning politics is impossible because everything in life has some hand in politics. When they say it can
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by gifnamething 5y ago
Thanks
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by gifnamething 5y ago
The list made people uncomfortable. How would you deal with that?
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by gifnamething 5y ago
>Usage notes >This term has historically been used in America to describe black people who were considered to be acting above "their place", and is considered by some to have racist connotations when applied to black people
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by gifnamething 5y ago
Management took a stance against the employees. Management cancelled their employees, removing their platform to talk about internal politics. Framing this as 'these people' vs Basecamp is ludicrous. It's 1/3 or more of
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by gifnamething 6y ago
The article complains about gas fees, how will they change after ETH2?
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by gifnamething 6y ago
Over 1 million people are killed by 'horseless carriages' every year. That's not including the ones who will die from climate change.
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by gifnamething 6y ago
Caveat omnis. Failing to read the manual is a danger to everyone around you.
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by gifnamething 6y ago
That's the crux for me, too. The time you're most likely to be rejected for a ride is after going out drinking, which is also when your safety most depends on getting a ride.
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by gifnamething 6y ago
Do you dislike digital speedometers?
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by gifnamething 6y ago
Well there are video editing GUIs, even straightforward ones. But they'll have footguns and surprising behaviour everywhere. Lossy or compressed video is a hard problem.
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by gifnamething 6y ago
Bugfixing isn't optimisation
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by gifnamething 6y ago
>I knew that I didn't get to keep any upside That does partially answer what is not in the blue box.
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by gifnamething 6y ago
The features are listed on the homepage
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by gifnamething 6y ago
Oscillating? It's multiple people!
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by gifnamething 6y ago
That's all of FAANGM. Their last year looked pretty good.
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by gifnamething 6y ago
I suspect it's easier to write a good cover letter if you are shotgunning. I'm very out of practice, whereas an edited template (incorporating words from the company vision) belonging to the shotgunner would be well-polished.
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by gifnamething 6y ago
And now you're presumably much less likely to try applying again, regardless of how well you fit future openings. They burnt the bridge. The equivalent for you would be turning down a job offer with 4-letter words. In many areas there
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by gifnamething 6y ago
I applied to my current employer 3 times in total. Better candidates would already be working for other companies after the first time.
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by gifnamething 6y ago
Business plan: Undercut Pymetrics by offering a free service. Dominate the market. Then, monetise it by selling optimisation to the applicants.
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by gifnamething 6y ago
I find job application advice and takes very polarising. Some people are adamant about including other interests in a CV/resume while others consider it a waste of space that implies something negative about the candidate. There are al
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by gifnamething 6y ago
>here are two large pots of boiling water already on the stoves Tangent: In the UK, I boil any water I need in a 240 V kettle. It dramatically reduces the waiting time.
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by gifnamething 6y ago
Mean is an average, not the average. Mode is an average. Median is an average.
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by gifnamething 6y ago
When I read 'fetish', my mind jumped to some exposure service. For a low fee, we'll monitor numberplates and expose your innermost desires when we think there's nobody else around!
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by gifnamething 6y ago
BMW operate like a company that have given up on expanding their addressable market and now seek to extract as much value from it as possible. In a vacuum, this is common and makes sense, but not at the cusp of a revolution in that industry
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by gifnamething 6y ago
>That, regrettably, is what it discovered. The SEC’s investigation revealed the secret behind Robinhood’s high order-flow revenues: The company charged principal trading firms much more than the going rate. Typically, the SEC found, paym
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by gifnamething 6y ago
>Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be interesting. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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