lazyant

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by lazyant 12y ago
While I agree with you (genes and all that) just in case someone doesn't know, someone was set to prove that you can in fact raise a "genius", with success in the case of his daughters http://en.wikipedia.org/
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by lazyant 12y ago
to avoid "the curse of the gifted", praise the effort (procedure-based) not the talent (objective-based)
873.
by lazyant 12y ago
And police seizures. And airport/border guard.
874.
by lazyant 12y ago
I agree pretty much with these ideas and I actually follow them, still from my dozen or so jobs in the past only one or two came from a "send us your resume" process; the best resume is no resume.
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by lazyant 12y ago
> Rafael got to be the best Spanish player of all time. Easily considered the world's 2nd best tennis player ever, with chances of being the best tennis player ever.
876.
by lazyant 12y ago
sounds like "The devil wears Prada" book/movie
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by lazyant 12y ago
One anecdote point: there's like zero chance I'm reading a book in my phone (or anything more than a couple paragraphs for that matter), I read on Kindle, I don't even read on a tablet.
878.
by lazyant 12y ago
Nobody will call a country without free elections a democracy, so it's a necessary (not sufficient) condition for democracy.
879.
by lazyant 12y ago
I was expecting the "today you, tomorrow me" post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2003515 (not that this one is not good too)
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by lazyant 12y ago
Connecting Django with a mail backend is easy. Installing and configuring a vanilla mail server (postfix + dovecot) is easy as well, problem is ongoing maintenance/monitoring and most importantly, deliverability (many mail servers will
881.
by lazyant 12y ago
Neat. I suggest adding an explanation of what the special bits do (tooltip type of help on clicking the link?), as this is what's not obvious for most people.
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by lazyant 12y ago
"nearly all have the same problem, which is that any data you upload can be decrypted by the provider". SpiderOak and Wuala do client-side encryption iirc.
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by lazyant 12y ago
If you don't outsource this type of service (preferred solution imho) then from the very beginning you have to monitor internally (the solution done after the fact) and also and most importantly externally, in this case having one or m
884.
by lazyant 12y ago
thanks, I'll be checking the project out for sure
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by lazyant 12y ago
"(Minerva) it’s highly exclusive, boasting a 2.8 percent acceptance rate", you can stop reading here. Quality in, quality out, you can bring in brilliant motivated kids and have them do literally almost anything and at after 4 yea
886.
by lazyant 12y ago
another thing: all the add-on links redirect to the same DNS add-on
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by lazyant 12y ago
fines? do you get fines as a regular citizen if you lie with premeditation to a judge or do you get jail time? plus government officials should be held to a higher standard -> higher penalties than regular citizens imho
888.
by lazyant 12y ago
It seems we have HN'ed the service; after creating a Debian image: "internal error: pool 'HDD' has asynchronous jobs running."
889.
by lazyant 12y ago
thanks, I was thinking 5k or even 10k (about a month's salary) makes sense, esp. if you are able somehow to tap into jobs that are not easily searchable.
890.
by lazyant 12y ago
I agree with you and I understand that a recruiter works for the companies and not for me. Regarding "Engineers were super excited about this. Until I mentioned that part where they'd have to pay me, that is", what specific s
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by lazyant 12y ago
the most important thing for me is the team, the people I'm surrounded with, also like everybody else, autonomy, mastery, purpose http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdzHgN7_Hs8
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by lazyant 12y ago
I'm not expecting to have someone doing everything for me handholding, but I still haven't found a recruiter that hasn't lied to me or stopped sending emails or skipping appointments or is not completely clueless technically
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by lazyant 12y ago
Just to keep ranting, this is a typical process that has been happening to me: - Get unsolicited email by recruiter. I ignore if it's generic but if it looks like they've read something about me I answer (now I demand company
894.
by lazyant 12y ago
sorry, I wasn't addressing Hackerrank in particular, which seems a fine way of doing one of the parts of the recruiting process (tech validation), while my complain is on "everything else" and the general hiring process.
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by lazyant 12y ago
The recruiting game makes my blood boil, so I'll just point to some issues but the main thing is that tech recruiters are clueless about tech and don't bother reading about you or the target company before wasting your time, and I
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by lazyant 12y ago
Doesn't look scalable for a startup but I'd give my pinky (OK, maybe just a month's salary) for having a decent tech recruiter work for me (developer open to new opportunities), as in sparing me of the 90% of BS that I usuall
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by lazyant 12y ago
This service may be useful to security companies and security researchers or analysts, and for them it shouldn't be hard to get this type of data. A better service would be to embed somehow honeypots into the client's infrastructu
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by lazyant 12y ago
From what I understand, the low cost of Korean ship builders has pretty much destroyed the shipyard industry in Europe and other places.
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by lazyant 12y ago
Last time I looked YC had a 2% admission rate, plus is a very successful program (arguably the best one), not sure why it needs promotion.
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by lazyant 12y ago
is there a (popular?) remote job board for server sysadmin work (esp. Linux)? anyone interested if I throw something together quickly?

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