jentist_retol

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by jentist_retol 6y ago
The ability of the government to do this, legally, should be factored in as part of that risk taking.
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by jentist_retol 6y ago
Investments have risk. Real estate is an investment. It turns out a global pandemic is a risk, and these people may lose their investments.
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by jentist_retol 6y ago
>if they want to prevent evictions they need to pay the landlords what they’re owed My landlord told me to get a second job after I got laid off. Maybe the landlords should get second jobs.
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by jentist_retol 6y ago
In software, there is incredible demand and engineers have a lot of negotiating power. So, we have the power to actually get new jobs easily! And fine, but then when that horrible thing makes the news and their answer is "i don't
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by jentist_retol 6y ago
If you take offense over a variation of "as you know [your company] made the news for being caught doing [horrible thing]. On your resume you worked on [horrible thing]. How do you feel about that?", then you have a very thin skin
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by jentist_retol 6y ago
Posts that were doing well have been getting downvoted pretty heavily in the last hour. I'm curious to know why that is, but they don't seem to comment. Ah well, that's the nature of an open forum such as this.
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by jentist_retol 6y ago
In my opinion, that's an unreasonable interpretation of: "asking a candidate how they feel about working on a product that made international news (in a bad way)"
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by jentist_retol 6y ago
Well, frankly, there's a need on HN for "correctness" only. And I'm not sure what's correct. And I haven't faced some of the "hypothetical" scenarios posed here. And if a resume came on my desk with s
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by jentist_retol 6y ago
I think you're reading into it too much and injecting politics. I don't know how else to describe it without de-anonymizing other than "it was actually bad and the PM who came up with it did a bad job designing the fraud case
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by jentist_retol 6y ago
Yes, it's absolutely contextual. At the very least, asking a softball question will help filter out someone I might not want to personally work with. I actually think interviewing really sucks, because you spend an hour getting to know
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by jentist_retol 6y ago
Yeah, I addressed this later on. It's very contextual. You're assuming/inferring there's some strict moral framework, and then I walk into that room and say "fuck you for working at facebook, get out of my face&quot
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by jentist_retol 6y ago
Frankly, because I just shit on Facebook in a public place around the hiring topic. These are all sensitive subjects. And it would REALLY be shitty if some hack blogger posted the context-destroying "FooCo refusing to hire Facebook emp
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by jentist_retol 6y ago
>While you have a point about 18yo, it is very difficult to overlook the main job of the military: kill people. Yes. And I have never been faced with someone with a long military career. If they were interviewing straight out of a long c
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by jentist_retol 6y ago
I'm not looking for an apology, or remorse, or a sudden revelation. But an understanding of the work they do and WHY it might receive that perception is a "passing" answer, IMO.
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by jentist_retol 6y ago
I hope so. I wish I could give more information but maybe it's best to keep names out considering the context ;)
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by jentist_retol 6y ago
I work in the security org now, and so I deal with a lot of exmilitary and exfederal employees. Considering that the military is a institution in this country that helps a lot of working class kids get education and training... It really c
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by jentist_retol 6y ago
I'd like to emphasize the nature of the answer which was a defensive "I was just following orders". At that point, I was conducting dozens of interviews a year, and I think that sort of question came up... maybe three times?
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by jentist_retol 6y ago
>I'm sure that your employer loves your personal feelings interfering with hiring talent. When I brought up my thoughts around the Uber candidate, I was supported by the people on the panel. One of them confessed that he had regrett
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by jentist_retol 6y ago
We handle large amounts of sensitive personal information, and developers are tightly integrated into the product development process. We have successfully lobbied against products with serious spousal abuse cases. If you can't handle
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by jentist_retol 6y ago
>I'm not sure where your particular cutoff bar stands I'm not sure either! I'm not an ethics expert. I think the Uber example and the Facebook example are real outliers. They're particularly egregious examples of abus
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by jentist_retol 6y ago
I've taken a hard line with people who work at Facebook. If you're still there and unwilling to represent the failings your company has done to society, then I need to hear a justification before moving further in the conversation
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by jentist_retol 6y ago
>It's worth noting that Pennington had already been cautioned (and fined) by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police earlier in the trip but had continued to flout the law. He fucked around and found out, I guess!
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by jentist_retol 6y ago
i bought a ton of them and then hooked some zigbee light switches up. My own fault.
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by jentist_retol 6y ago
>operated things like AWS at a loss for long periods They are spending billions of dollars to expand into new markets and improve existing offerings. They are definitely spending more than they make. Of course, it would be ludicrous to s
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by jentist_retol 6y ago
I imagine it would be constrained on shipping logistics, initially. Vaccines require temp. controlled shipping. Effectively random.
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by jentist_retol 6y ago
Decentralization works great for small communities and use cases. The moment you start scaling you run into a myriad of problems: - fraud/abuse (spam) - outsized influence of providers who make it easy to get on board without having to
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by jentist_retol 6y ago
I guess I should have. - He uses retrobrite frequently. This is a controversial practice (personally, I'm against it). Basically, restoring a yellowed case to a closer-to-original color. The long term effects of this process are unknow
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by jentist_retol 6y ago
A word of warning: 8-Bit Guy has some interesting videos, but his restorations of vintage hardware are really damaging to the hardware and generally poor quality (even if the final result looks fine). I guess it's fine if he sticks to
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by jentist_retol 6y ago
Unfortunately, solutions such as this tend to break spam filtering in meaningful ways. But, it is a great first step. And yes, you should be backing up your mail, too!
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by jentist_retol 6y ago
The comments on that article (and a few in here), are lamenting the churn and loss of addresses due to the whims of the market. People holding onto email addresses like precious items. It's surprisingly affordable to just have your own

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