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by joesmo 11y ago
Me too. I started an open source project on my own time that helped me learn but was also useful to the company. Only took a couple of evenings and it didn't have all the functionality we needed but it was useful. I was able to get it
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by joesmo 11y ago
I think he's absolutely right about life being long.
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by joesmo 11y ago
And those of us who have lived under such a totalitarian state cower in fear both of the government and the idiots ignoring the warnings and thereby enabling the government's tyranny.
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by joesmo 11y ago
Honestly, at this point, the only solution I can see is to end the NSA altogether. It is clear that it cannot be in check. It is also clear that it mocks rule of law. If the US still likes to call itself a country ruled by law, this is on
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by joesmo 11y ago
In the Bay Area, NYC, and other cities to a lesser extent, yes.
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by joesmo 11y ago
Cultural fit is a thinly veiled excuse to not hire perfectly qualified people usually because of some (usually illegal) prejudice that can't be expressed another way. It's a way to skirt the law and a simple reason to turn down ap
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by joesmo 11y ago
So just because we can't have zero spying, we should accept incredible levels of intrusion rather thank working to put more roadblocks in NSA's way? That's not a rational argument.
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by joesmo 11y ago
I haven't seen much homophobia, but the number of minorities and women tech employs contradicts your claim, not to mention my own personal experiences.
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by joesmo 11y ago
I think what he's suggesting is that minorities find our community unwelcoming, and by unwelcoming they're probably referring to the racism and sexism that's rampant in the tech community. Unlike you, they're not worried
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by joesmo 11y ago
I'll just add this to the list of 10,000 other felonies I unknowingly commit every day. But seriously, most of the claims here are ridiculous and false. Not surprising considering the source. What's that anecdote about taking lega
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by joesmo 11y ago
This is certainly the way it used to be, but nowadays any musician can buy enough equipment to get started in any genre even if they're making very little money. With a few hundred and definitely a couple thousand dollars, anyone wit
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by joesmo 11y ago
I really do not understand why artists sell their work to record labels anymore. Back in the days, they would in theory get some marketing and promotion out of it in addition to the all-important distribution. Now that distribution is pract
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by joesmo 11y ago
Yes, but then your payment is $4-5k a month, more than half of what you're bringing home every month. That's not really feasible and a terrible financial situation to be in.
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by joesmo 11y ago
I disagree with his point about references. They tell you nothing and are a hundred percent of the time only going to tell you positive things about the employee, regardless of reality. No one with half a brain would ever give a reference o
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by joesmo 11y ago
At around $150k/yr, a bank will typically lend around $350-400k (more would be imprudent, even if the bank agrees). So even with two people working and making a decent, probably average wage for SV, it's still impossible to buy a
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by joesmo 11y ago
"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly." Yes, it's done wonders for the drug war.
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by joesmo 11y ago
I think so--seems to be a bit of a joke.
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by joesmo 11y ago
It's likely there is someone just as smart and focused as me that is willing to put in the long hours. The problem is finding that person, and once you find that person and you work them to the bone for a couple of weeks, they will not
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by joesmo 11y ago
I was actually thinking outside of slots. A lot of gambling practices are still illegal like sports betting in most of America. Such illegal gambling often leads to some sort of organized crime around providing loans and the actual gambling
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by joesmo 11y ago
I'd say it's the interviewer who comes off as a disrespectful idiot in the article and Hersh even calls him out on it. When you're questioning the validity of using anonymous sources ... as a reporter too ...
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by joesmo 11y ago
"I think people bristling about long work hours are doing so because they haven't found something that makes them feel this way." Or maybe they just don't like being forced to work for free. What you're saying is th
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by joesmo 11y ago
Great article. There are even more negatives than it points out. After such sessions, it's likely that employees will underperform and try to get away with it as much as possible. When employees see that those weeks of working around t
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by joesmo 11y ago
Considering the utter absurdity of the government's story, I find it hard to imagine any rational person could have ever believed it for a second. Considering Hersh's reputation, the criticism against him is unfounded. That raises
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by joesmo 11y ago
I don't think anyone working in this industry is morally responsible for the actions of others resulting from others' free will. The review you posted is sad in that it points out the reviewer's stupidity, not industry employ
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by joesmo 11y ago
Considering that the state saying, "Sorry, you can only play games for fun, not money." will lead to the creation of a black market and a whole lot of actual crime in addition to the victimless crime of gambling, I think it's
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by joesmo 11y ago
I agree on the purpose of casinos, but I fail to see how it's evil to give people what they want and what they would seek out and do on the black market anyway if it wasn't legal. Just because they're legal doesn't mean
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by joesmo 11y ago
I've worked at over a dozen places claiming to be agile to some degree, shape, or form, and have yet to see a process that's even remotely close, let alone agile. The failure of agile isn't that it takes time to learn and pra
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by joesmo 11y ago
Bad is an understatement. Problems with Lollipop I've experienced so far: * Calls don't work. Had to reinstall OS a couple of times. Known Google bug that they refuse to fix on their own Nexus 4 phone. Bug also exists in And
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by joesmo 12y ago
The worst part of the whiteboard in my opinion is not that it's a poor tool for the job, which it is, but that it adds both unnecessary social pressure and the need to constantly explain what's going on (presumably because the int
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by joesmo 12y ago
I think avoiding negotiating salary in advance is the best way to waste one's own time in the hiring process. Why do a phone screen, one or more interviews, and possibly some day-long coding challenge only to find out that the company

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