hibikir

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by hibikir 10y ago
The first problem I see is that your rubric is a complete shibboleth: The candidate has to guess what you are evaluating. In some interviews, all they want is working code. Others want performance. Others care about testing: Based on the qu
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by hibikir 10y ago
There's always gerrymandering as a concept: If you build everything by algorithm, you are making the problem far smaller, but ultimately the decision of which algorithm to use is never going to be as good as proportional representation
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by hibikir 10y ago
I look at it backwards: Rejecting a candidate to day doesn't mean that they won't be exactly the kind of person I'll need to hire 3 years later, as both my needs ad theirs have changed, and therefore, I think that a good cand
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by hibikir 10y ago
Unfortunately the 'I am in an open relationship, want to fuck?' line is something that I've seen more than once, initiated by both men and women engineers. At least one of those examples goes to a lot of conferences, and pret
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by hibikir 10y ago
Airbnb already has a whole lot of listings out there lying about the address because the people that put the apartment for rent don't want the building association to know that they are renting. They often just claim that the apartment
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by hibikir 10y ago
There is no perhaps about it: Every card out there that gives a decent amount of cash back has a very large interchange fee. The very best ones are easily a percent and a half more than the cheapest ones. Now, the small business might not b
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by hibikir 10y ago
Java circa 2005 had a whole lot of problems, but if you ask me, the biggest problem of it all was that many of the 'solutions' to the problems were worse than the disease. Back in the day, a friend of mine brought me in to write b
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by hibikir 10y ago
When we fix software, we know that full rewrites are bad ideas, and that the way to success is to make easy changes until finally you end up with a better product. This is true because failing, for any amount of time, is a terrible outcome.
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by hibikir 10y ago
I was born and raised in Spain, and now live in the US. In my experience, the coverage of news about Israel in the US and Spain are about as different as black and white. What you describe about The Guardian seems like normal coverage in Sp
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by hibikir 10y ago
What I find distressing in your account is not the 130K, which is a good amount of money, but the fact tat you are working 60 or 70 hours a week. Anyone with your experience should have no problem whatsoever getting a job that pays the same
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by hibikir 10y ago
While I am no friend of gerrymandering, arguing that there is a geographic ideal is disingenuous: Voters clump up, and thus any automated mechanism that just looks at geography will be skewed, and, in the US today, Very often skewed towards
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by hibikir 10y ago
But looking at individual salaries is just not the right idea though: to measure shortages in an industry, we have to look at total supply. Yes, I can get all the engineers I want if I pay a million dollars a year. But if they are also empl
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by hibikir 10y ago
I think it all comes down to the big difference between having a degree and being productive at a company, along with how free the labor market is. I have worked at a few places that just didn't take people out of school at all, becaus
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by hibikir 10y ago
They are not moving to chip and pin, but chip and signature: very different. Now, the internet being a bigger share of retail every year, chip and pin is not an improvement: what we need is 2FA across the board. You have my CC number? Great
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by hibikir 10y ago
In practice, if your system if complicated and you have to look at the visualization, you are already in trouble. For anything complicated, you need exactly the inputs you describe, but everything has to be processed already by another laye
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by hibikir 10y ago
This is mostly about phone scammers, pretending to be from either law enforcement, the IRS or, in the right country, to have kidnapped a family member. They don't rely on the victim having a computer, but just a cell phone. They just u
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by hibikir 10y ago
This is well covered by Charles Ellis: The stock market has changed dramatically since the 70s, when most money was invested with almost no information. Getting key information well ahead of the market was relatively easy. A lot of people m
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by hibikir 10y ago
The prevailing wage comes from a chart: you don't just do research or come up with it. Figuring out which prevailing wage to use among the existing job descriptions is already a matter of judgement, and you can just aim for the low one
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by hibikir 10y ago
The article is not about early stage companies though: If a company has 20 employees, yes, chances are that the value is zero. But imagine you are joining one of those companies that aren't public, and have a large paper valuation: hun
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by hibikir 10y ago
You'd be surprised at how close to those salaries you can get in the exact same companies, just not in their main campuses. I work for one of those, from home, with the same salary as bay area coworkers, but a 200K 4 bedroom house. Th
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by hibikir 10y ago
The situation is not just unique to the US though: Many countries which had their industrial capacity reduced to rubble are still in the exact same boat: People that started working in the 50s 60s and 70s did a lot better comparatively than
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by hibikir 10y ago
I'll trade your anecdote for mine: I have been working for Decent Companies for 15 years. Every year my payments went up, the company's prices went up, my copayments went up, and my coverage went down. The real nadir for coverage
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by hibikir 10y ago
We didn't have a lottery system a decade ago: What we had was big quotas, but the same number of green cards as we've had for many decades. So instead of a useless H1-B system which only helped big outsourcers, what we had was a b
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by hibikir 10y ago
It's not that hard to switch jobs once you have an H1B: The hard part is to do so while trying to get a green card. Ultimately, the tremendous wait times for everyone in the 00s, and now the tremendous lines only for a few countries, c
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by hibikir 10y ago
Spain had to deal with major cuts to their coal industry too: Loss of competitiveness closed mines that employed tens of thousands of people directly, and entire towns indirectly. Asturias, the region with the most mines went from being nea
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by hibikir 10y ago
Last time I checked, AA didn't charge for getting a seat early: they just charge extra for all the seats that aren't all the way at the back. The last time I was stuck flying with them the plane wasn't even 1/3rd full. A
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by hibikir 10y ago
Let's look at it in a different way: I have a CS education, and have worked professionally since the 90s. In my resume there's things like: - A code generator that took as input sources - High performance RMI libraries for a phone
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by hibikir 10y ago
It's perfectly possible to make money recruiting by matching exactly what your customers want, but at that point, you are exactly like every other recruitment firm out there. What separates you? Asking people to do awesome CTFs doesn&#
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True, millions of similar jobs are created overseas, but that's when salaries are so cheap that automation is more expensive than just manual labor. As wages go up, automation makes more sense in manufacturing, and job losses happen to
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by hibikir 10y ago
Most of the things that make us better during our career have nothing to do with programming faster: If anything, they can make us program slower, and do worse in interviews. For instance, an interview I took last year came with a premise t

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