mabbo

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by mabbo 13y ago
Whenever I see "... for $X in Cash" I really want to believe they rolled up with a cardboard box full of money.
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by mabbo 13y ago
A team related to mine released a new UI for their software. It included a loading bar, of sorts, while it was loading a new page on the tool. Users complained it was too slow. They removed the loading bar. Users stopped complaining it was
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by mabbo 13y ago
Get hired by a good company that wants you, and wants to pay you well. Then have them hire a good lawyer to get you into the country. Alternatively, there are lots of those west coast companies opening offices in Toronto. Get hired there, t
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by mabbo 13y ago
My company is listed as having many H1B's. As a previous holder of a TN visa (NAFTA, yay) we were highly encouraged to get an H1B. Why? because the US border patrol would harass TN holders, and try to trick us into saying the wrong thi
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by mabbo 13y ago
This font will make engineer-types happy, because it's been made in methods that engineers understand and like. Reminds me of Soylent- we don't need to listen to experts in that field, because this is a person I can relate to just
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by mabbo 13y ago
This website looks like a bastion of sanity and rational debate.
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by mabbo 13y ago
While I interned at Google, my manager said to me once "See, at Google, we found a hose that money pours out of. It's name is 'Online Advertising'. We now do two things- improving the flow of the hose, and searching for
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by mabbo 13y ago
While in Phoenix on a business trip, an associate I was working with who lived in Phoenix was driving us to lunch. He said "You know, the nice thing about this place is you never have to worry about weeds or yard care. Nothing here is
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by mabbo 13y ago
Out of curiosity, what city did you base the startup out of? (Couldn't find it on the website). I recently moved back to Toronto (Amazon Seattle to Amazon Toronto) and I've noticed that there really seems to be growth in the indus
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by mabbo 13y ago
Valid criticism. I'd prefer to see them as full time, but I think most large companies today use contacted companies for cleaning staff, etc. It's what it is, and that whole problem is bigger than just one company.
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by mabbo 13y ago
Speaking as a developer at Amazon.com, what contractors? I've never met any, and I only have heard of one who left a while ago. Edit later: Developer contractors at least. I mean, sure, cleaning staff are contractors/temps.
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by mabbo 13y ago
Except that is the very problem: drive 100 miles, and the signs for table and hat are different. Change the conversation, and the signs may be different. I can put an arm low and flat, and it means a general flat surface. It doesn't me
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by mabbo 13y ago
Having studied ASL at University (almost got a minor in it) I have a bit of a hard time believing this is fully possible at all. Signed languages aren't simply a series of words where each word has a given sign. It's a very comple
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by mabbo 13y ago
I know this technique is probably not going to be used for good purposes, and I'm sure we'll have to apply a new patch to fix that vulnerability in our (legal) code, but I still tip my hat to the clever hacks who came up with this
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by mabbo 14y ago
Amazon - Toronto, Canada We're also rapidly growing our Toronto office, and are looking for Software Development Engineers of all levels, Project Managers, Development Managers, Web Developers, and UX Designer/Developers. We have most of th