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Does the site have support for remote jobs? From what I can tell, you must choose a single city when searching and there's no way of telling which jobs might allow remote work and which ones are onsite only.
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Just out of curiosity: Do you have difficulty hiring people?
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Just a few idle observations... Women are sexually attracted to confidence and charisma the way men are sexually attracted to youth and beauty. Attraction is not negotiable, so if you have neither confidence nor charisma, you need to learn
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A baseball bat. Keep in mind this is a last resort if you have no other option and you're cornered. A better option is to call the cops and wedge something under your very solid, hard to break bedroom door. If your bedroom door is holl
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Any tips for what to target in those three technical blog posts? Would something rudimentary like 'how to create your first react application' be less impressive than something like 'how I cured cancer with the blockchain
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> So we'll just sit in the same traffic in our electric car for an hour, each way to work? On the bright side, electric cars don't pollute emissions or noise when idling. It's an incremental improvement, but one I happily
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Does anybody here know the difference between normal cold brewed coffee and Black Blood of the Earth? BBotE tastes better to me (less bitterness, fewer jitters, more caffeine) but I don't know why.
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Will do! Thanks!
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> The journalists have had their day. Future political wars will be waged and won on social media, based on propaganda and confirmation bias. What do you think the news has been for the last 100 years (or longer)? It was never unbiased.
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Is the software engineer position onsite only or are you open to remote?
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> I assert that the same technical skills command $200 an hour > pitching software companies on how to increase their sales That's not software consulting, that's sales consulting. If you have the skills to be a sales consul
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"My current salary is confidential, but I'm looking to make between $X and $Y at my next job."
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> The point people like myself try to make is that if you have the technical skills, just getting over the sales difficulty will significantly improve your income. Go read jasonkester's comment again. If this is what he meant, then
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> Sadly, the standard reaction upon learning how much this profession actually pays if you ask is to call whoever filled you in a liar. I suspect those people get frustrated because what you're describing isn't something they e
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It's not, but you shouldn't take my word on it. For a supposedly science focused crowd, most people here on HN don't know what they're talking about when it comes to diet. Programmers in general tend to be overweight and
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If it's a team effort, then why are you judging the developer candidate based on what other members of the team did or did not do well (acquire customers and make money)? It makes no sense to judge a developer based on criteria he'
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> It shows a degree of communication and management, not to mention marketing. Which is important when hiring a programmer who won't be managing anybody or marketing anything.
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Why would a programmer who can do all these things work for you?
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> For non-insulin-using diabetics (aka. most type 2s) medical plans typically cover less than one test per day My T2 father's plan covers 4 a day. He has a pretty lousy insurance plan, too. He hates having to prick his finger four t
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That's how the Glucotrack claims to work. From their site: GlucoTrack uses ultrasonic, electromagnetic and thermal technologies to non-invasively measure glucose levels in the blood. GlucoTrack is intended for use by Type 2 and pre-di
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I used to prepare for about a week every time I switched jobs early in my career. That's back when every company just asked typical DS&A whiteboard questions. Now, every company has its own method. I don't bother to prepare be
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You've completely missed the point. If you need to do this every time you change jobs, then throughout your career you're spending years! of your life on interview prep. Getting into Google for the first time, sure, it's wort
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and I don't understand people who want to waste a month (or more!) of their life every time they change jobs... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13888703
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Oh good, I wasn't the only one. The second question had me wondering if it was testing my knowledge of tree searches or python queues. I don't know python at all.
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The latter. It just seems wrong for a language to require python just to install.
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Good to know. I've always been interested in New Hampshire.
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> Requires python3 o_O twitch
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Where in the northeast? Because NYC companies are absolutely doing this right now.
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> then forces every applicant to spend 5-10 generally unpaid hours completing it. Multiply that by 4.
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> But now post PhD I get to work in companies that are doing really interesting stuff Isn't it crazy hard to get hired for a research position? I was told in the past that just because you had a PhD didn't mean you would automa
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