mchannon

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by mchannon 8y ago
> I've rarely had a candidate reject an offer, so I'd guess the candidates also like it. How many failed candidates did you ask?
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by mchannon 8y ago
As yet another person with some experience with hiring, let's not get theory and practice confused. Taking the time to make sure it's a good fit is a worthy goal, but the industry is operating under some kind of delusion that ther
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> That is only wasted time if there was next best opportunity. People are looking for work so going for on-site interview is not waste of time. What's the unemployment rate for top-end talent in Silicon Valley? 2%? 1%? This fooli
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by mchannon 8y ago
On the last point we agree, but you're missing the main point here. Videoconferencing and phone calls can take care of not all but a large measure of the personality issues that can crop up. Many a brogrammer ends up wasting an onsite
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So you pre-screen on calls, but do you get any of your co-workers to do it? There's no hard and fast rule that you have to spend 30 minutes to an hour per whack, either. You get most of your signal in the first 5 minutes (first impre
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by mchannon 8y ago
The process is usually one person doing one 20min behavioral phone screen, and maybe one technical person doing one 60min technical phone screen, give or take. Maybe a homework. Then maybe 3-6 one-on-one interviews for a 5 hour onsite. F
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by mchannon 8y ago
Let me take you further in this direction of thought- many offers aren't accepted because the candidate, after having been through a dysfunctional interview gauntlet, realizes a different opportunity is better (sometimes after waiting
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This fails to consider the fact that with 25% confidence, 3 out of 4 candidates have no chance, and you're just wasting time, theirs and yours. There are two kinds of hiring managers- those who think the system works and they're s
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I'd be embarrassed to admit to these metrics. This guy has wasted not only his own time by bringing 5x the candidates needed onsite, but his team's, his employers', and the candidates themselves'. A quality hiring proc
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DIY is the way to go. Shell out for a dehydrator with a half-dozen trays, have your butcher thin-slice the best cuts of meat, spice to taste..
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Trees are a step that can either lead to permanent sequestration, or can lead to open-cycle sequestration, both of which are better than nothing. The carbon in a tree can get pulled out of the equation for decades while it grows, and partly
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by mchannon 8y ago
Galvanic protection prevents rebar rusting. In places like the Bay Area, if you look around major concrete structures, you'll see "anodic protection" plates on the ground which contain large blocks of zinc. As long as you k
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by mchannon 8y ago
It doesn't bind CO2 from air during setting- that's the disconnect. By converting the carbonate to oxide, the calcium in cement is free to bond with silicates (and to a lesser extent other compounds). That CO2 released during manu
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by mchannon 8y ago
TLDR: No. Unemployment benefits are strictly a function of being let go for cause or not for cause. You might be on a PIP for cause-related reasons (absenteeism, showing up drunk but otherwise contributing), or non-cause-related reasons (t
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by mchannon 8y ago
There's a bit of a Dunning-Kruger effect analog when it comes to sizing up candidates. You may be worth $175k to the company, and be in a realistic position to know that. The person hiring you may not be good at his job and may honest
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by mchannon 8y ago
Having been in possession of more than my share of "used" panels, there are a few practicalities you need to be aware of: •Used solar panels are off-spec and can't be teamed with other used solar panels properly. They become
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by mchannon 8y ago
Visit thefunded.com, which is like yelp for VC's. You'll see which ones are bad and which ones are really bad. Even if your idea is brilliant and your team and plan are also brilliant, many VC's won't be interested in i
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by mchannon 8y ago
Consider the converse of what you said: Because law enforcement typically only makes strong requests, judges take seriously their duty to reject insufficient warrant requests. I hope that illustrates the folly of both statements. The gover
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Yes, but now the police have to do the work of asking, which is better than nothing.
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By requiring warrants, they're involving the judicial branch. Before, government investigators were dealing directly with the communications providers and bypassing judicial oversight.
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The police were getting it from the companies, without a search warrant, so one step at a time. Supreme Court rulings are narrow in general, and this opinion took pains to make it narrower than normal. Companies need to know where you are s
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by mchannon 8y ago
This case is very important, because it's holding up Ross Ulbricht's/Dread Pirate Roberts/Silk Road Supreme Court case. And this ruling, while helpful, will be more helpful just by removing a barrier to hearing the case.
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Supreme Court rules in Carpenter: Need search warrant for cell site records [pdf](cdn.cnn.com)
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Someone has obviously never used a forklift.
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This is a bit like asking for tech that converts lead into gold. CO2, when unpressurized, is about as worthless a source material as you can think of. Even at pressure (which is derived from mining CO2 deposits) its applications are limit
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by mchannon 8y ago
Reversed as in slowed down, absolutely. Reversed as in CO2 levels brought back to preindustrial levels within a few lifetimes, not known. The "warming" is a small part of the overall problem; CO2 increases are impacting a far wide
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by mchannon 8y ago
The argument I rebutted was that Salmon's quote (lie + wire = conviction) was incorrect. If you get the jury to vote "guilty", then you have proven guilt, even if you have done so using zero logic or critical thinking skills,
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by mchannon 8y ago
I follow your point, but it's an inaccurate point. Take for example, the 9th circuit model jury instruction for Wire Fraud (18 USC 1343). Numerous legal experts find that it is not a concise summary, but one that leaves out multiple ma
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Actually, Salmon's summary of the predicates for wire fraud is spot-on. The data support this, and my anecdata support this. Seeing is believing. The jury instructions serve no purpose other than to frustrate jurors, and frustrated j
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I don't think it's controversial to say the decisions are rational and helpful, as long as you remember to include "to certain entities". Winners: •Manufacturers of Steel, Aluminum, Electronic Components in US. •Consumer

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