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by jarek 14y ago
A large percentage of the records listened to on vinyl today are not from the 50s or 60s.
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by jarek 14y ago
Google did not seem to think they could make enough money from it to make it worthwhile to them∗
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by jarek 14y ago
> I certainly would take my business elsewhere if I discovered the company was doing their accounting on a punch card machine because the 60-year-old white guys were too afraid to learn how to use windows. With the average computer leve
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by jarek 14y ago
If it consistently and predictably works only 60% of the time, it might be a better fit than a shiny new solution that breaks when you least expect it and 'upgrades' you to something different in three years.
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by jarek 14y ago
Do we draw a line? Is there a knowledge baseline expected on HN, or would a submission of the Wikipedia article on bubble sort be fair game? I mean, I've seen links to two generals' problem on Wikipedia getting voted up.
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by jarek 14y ago
Yeah, I'm sure they'll love to switch to a hip new startup that's guaranteed to be around for at least six months.
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by jarek 14y ago
No problem. I'm sure I wouldn't be thrilled with my own HN comment word cloud...
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by jarek 14y ago
I know what this quote refers to (and it's not particularly kind of you to suggest I don't, if I may say). I meant to point out that engaging in "rational" behaviour when it comes to hiring in a market you perceive as behaving irrationally
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by jarek 14y ago
Devil's advocate: or is it employers that need interview coaching? If a candidate otherwise suited for the job (with necessary training, skills, aptitude, etc) is rejected on the basis of an interview, I would suggest it's a problem with th
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by jarek 14y ago
Leaving aside data like macroeconomic statistics which do indeed tell companies how many people are long-term unemployed, companies have a pretty good "feel" about people that send them resumes if they read any of them. If three months ago
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by jarek 14y ago
The argument would be that tests that are easily broken by relatively safe changes are bad tests.
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by jarek 14y ago
We've had wars that run for decades, a timespan in which it's definitely possible for a company to lose interest (or even cease to operate altogether). Thankfully this doesn't seem to be an issue as long as the company running it uses the o
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by jarek 14y ago
I'll respond as I myself hate when people leave me hanging after I respond to their snark... "factoid" (arguably used incorrectly), "authoritative", "verifiably false premise". It could be written more simply. You're not wrong, of course, b
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by jarek 14y ago
And do you think the screeners won't start screening out "personal projects" if enough people start doing that? "Freelancing" for eight months after a career of working for other people, and suspiciously little to show for the freelancing..
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by jarek 14y ago
Ah yes, and here we have the "tptacek shitting on a comment using big words and smart-sounding phrases" comment. ;)
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"The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent"
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by jarek 14y ago
When these people want to work on games, they want to work on games, not "at a programming job." You see phrases like "childhood dream" going around, and to people who spent their childhoods playing games, making games is much cooler than m
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by jarek 14y ago
... replacing one big troll on the bridge that used to extract more than the million tiny ones' total...
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by jarek 14y ago
I would think the trouble lies with the fact that, with some frequency to be debated, a high school drop out commits to startup career, fights through years of slow growth, relentlessly resourceful in finding new ways to keep afloat, then d
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by jarek 14y ago
A while ago we thought the same thing about greenhouse gas emissions or human activity raising global atmospheric temperatures. I like wind power, but that's not a very strong argument without numbers.
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Privacy: You Have Nothing To Fear(mondaynote.com)
4 points by jarek 14y ago|1 comments
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This is a case where singular they would have come in handy...
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by jarek 14y ago
> free trade when it helps them, dirty underhanded tricks when they can get away with it. Do you think the U.S. doesn't do this today or hasn't done so in the past?
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> I don't think mechanical engineers get any perks anyway. Not unless you consider going home at 5 pm a perk.
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I don't think CS grads, however good, will make much of a dent in mech or chem eng salaries and perks...
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Why? Keep it, all the better to confuse competing intelligence agencies.
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Bit hard to hide a 30 m heavy concrete tower in a country as densely populated as mainland France, especially from people actively looking for it.
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by jarek 14y ago
If only there were any other ways of messaging people on the internet
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IE6 wasn't shitty when it was released, it was shitty after a couple of years of no updates. If a substantial amount of users stays on older iOS releases, you will see the same problems with old Safari versions. (As you might already with t
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by jarek 14y ago
The response above also suggests 2018-2020 is too soon. Are you aware of any private entrepreneurs realistically disagreeing?

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