jbarciauskas

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The growing gap between U-3 and U-6 unemployment(img.skitch.com)
2 points by jbarciauskas 18y ago|1 comments
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by jbarciauskas 18y ago
The author is absolutely right - we knew this was coming. Another item he might have mentioned to bolster his claim is that there are other unemployment related statistics that are more meaningful than this one, commonly referred to as the
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by jbarciauskas 18y ago
Oh I hate horizontal scrolling, but it seems odd that the contents of the page are shifted to the left in the demo without any clear way to shift back. Maybe I missed something, but that's usually an indication of a poor UI paradigm. And I'
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by jbarciauskas 18y ago
It breaks horizontal scrolling! That's unacceptable. What's the use case for this?
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by jbarciauskas 18y ago
The razor blade strategy has come full circle. This is a great idea. I'd be interested to see one of the many Seattle-based web companies try something similar in the Market, though. How do you engage a customer on the street about your
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by jbarciauskas 18y ago
This is a fun contrarian rant, but really I think the author is confused about what Yates, and Mendes, by extension, are critiquing. The suburbs, as such, aren't under indictment here, but rather the culture of conformity that was endemic
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by jbarciauskas 18y ago
I think this underestimates the degree to which even the most talented programmers are creatures of habit. Most are able to find a job that is reasonably satisfying and very secure, and so long as they make enough to buy all the Diet Coke
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by jbarciauskas 18y ago
Isn't this exactly what bankruptcy is for? Put GM in a pre-packaged bankruptcy ( http://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/prepackagedbankruptcy.as... ), and one of the planned actions should be shedding these unprofitable brands and severing th
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by jbarciauskas 18y ago
I don't disagree that HR's job is to hire you for the lowest possible price. However, I see the information you concede as largely irrelevant if you are knowledgeable about the state of the market. As in stocks, past prices don't matter,
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by jbarciauskas 18y ago
What a bizarre concept. Both HR and the applicant should have done market research and come to similar conclusions about the appropriate salary range. If the applicant is qualified, what on earth does it matter if he was lowballed by his