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by mjdwitt 15y ago
It'd be interesting to respond to the ad with an entirely anonymous resume and portfolio from some one-off email address. See if you get a response/request for more information.
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by mjdwitt 15y ago
So you think that a YC-funded company posting a job posting on news.ycombinator.com is... _lying_? No. Rather, I have no information that I trust to convince me one way or the other as to their honesty, so I choose to ignore that data. I
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by mjdwitt 15y ago
Timothee has an interesting theory about that: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3346641
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by mjdwitt 15y ago
But if they're that big and growing that much, they can't be that stealth… Hence the ironic-quotes. You do have an interesting theory though. Not that I totally understand why somebody would want to hide the fact that they're a YC alumni.
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by mjdwitt 15y ago
I acknowledge that they could indeed be that successful, but I still maintain that I have no reason to believe their claims until they provide me with something more solid than that ad.
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by mjdwitt 15y ago
Indeed. I myself only put faith in the personality of a company if I know and trust somebody who works there (or in the case of larger ones, in the department of interest.)
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by mjdwitt 15y ago
no reason at all to think this is a real company That said, I definitely have no faith that the graphs are real or even loosely based on reality.
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by mjdwitt 15y ago
That seems to be the point. I'm guessing they're trying to be "stealth."
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by mjdwitt 15y ago
Considering that the only companies allowed to post job ads here are YC alumni, you can trust that they are a real company. If I saw an ad like that posted anywhere else, however, I'd have the same reaction. Doubts of their existence aside,
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by mjdwitt 15y ago
In that sense, record labels are like VCs that also provide PR. For the amount of the investment that both labels and tech VCs make, its quite normal in our society to take an equity cut rather than a flat rate. Making the analogy to VCs al
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by mjdwitt 15y ago
'doh Although, that really just pushes the same decision down to the talent's former employers. After enough poaching, I'd expect that the price of local talent would increase until it became more cost-effective to relocate candidates.
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by mjdwitt 15y ago
It's all well and good if you can find good candidates who already live where you are located, but the article that Garann is responding to here is about how there are no such candidates in Austin without a job. The only choices left to com
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by mjdwitt 15y ago
While it may be correct that "folks who want to make a lifestyle choice of going to Austin from California should get paid less to do it," that is not what this article is about. Instead, the author is talking about Austin companies trying
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by mjdwitt 15y ago
I agree that they have no incentive to help others take their power, I just don't see that their desire to hold onto such power is directly preventing women from taking it. I think it is far more likely that the fact that there are so few f
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by mjdwitt 15y ago
Honest question: did you notice any differences between the reactions of your male coworkers vs. the reactions of your female coworkers? I've noticed while watching my sisters and various girlfriends interact with other women that women see
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by mjdwitt 15y ago
I don't know if you saw Sarah Mei's talk[1] about getting the female population of SF Ruby from 2% to 18% in a year, but she presented a lot of interesting (and effective sounding, based on her experiences) methods of how to attract more wo
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by mjdwitt 15y ago
What makes those male power figures focus on excluding women specifically from their roles? I doubt they care about the gender of their competition; they just want themselves to be the ones in power and nobody else, man or woman.
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by mjdwitt 15y ago
I think you'd be pretty safe to generalize that out from men to society at large. In most cases, women are shunned for being individuals and taking risks. A girl who is slightly different from her peers as a child faces far worse ridicule (
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by mjdwitt 15y ago
In chromium on linux, I can only ever see two lines of text at a time. If I type more than two lines, they scroll off the top of the screen. When I move back up with the arrow keys, I can see those lines again, but I still only see two line
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by mjdwitt 15y ago
Installation shouldn't be too hard. The instructions say that it only runs on top of mzscheme-372, but I've heard that 3.1 runs on top of the latest versions of plt. I haven't tested that, however. Would you know of another less painful, v
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by mjdwitt 15y ago
barely any documentation Ah, I've only recently begun to overcome that myself. Even though the docs at files.arcfn.com/doc are a bit dated (they were written at version 2) I found them to be one of the only resources besides pg's minimal
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by mjdwitt 15y ago
It's written in pg's arc lisp, which you can find at arclanguage.org. The install instructions there are a bit dated, however, as you can now download arc3.1 instead of 3.0 as they say to do. Once you have that installed, running news.arc i
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by mjdwitt 15y ago
That sounds more like your work added some new rules to their filter that bans some of the the content here. Using https would encrypt that content and keep the filter from scanning it. Now you just have to hope that they don't ban it by ur
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by mjdwitt 15y ago
From my experiences with Gentoo a couple of years ago, the documentation is mostly outdated, (although a number of articles have been updated to tell the reader that large portions of the article are out of date and not to be followed.) I e
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by mjdwitt 15y ago
I agree completely. This is, in fact, the difference that I am pointing out. In the case of paid parking, most people would agree that the trade of money for a parking space on land which someone else ones and maintains at cost is a fair tr
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by mjdwitt 15y ago
I think that it's possibly an even more basic difference. Many people are still quite unclear to adamantly opposed to the concept of paying for an idea, which means the very purpose of patent trolls is at best ethically murky to these peopl
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by mjdwitt 15y ago
something ... which searches across the entire phone You can actually use the default Google Search app that comes installed on most versions of Android. You just have to go into its settings and tell it to search more than just the web.
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by mjdwitt 15y ago
You can find what I believe he is talking about buried in the last level of padmapper's menus along with it's crime and walkscore overlays. It's mostly just a text box where you type some number of minutes and a location and it highlights
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by mjdwitt 15y ago
This just goes to prove the point that Numair Faraz in this post that's still on the front page ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3029872 ): Don't build your product on a platform you can't own. Even the AOL guy's preferred developers
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by mjdwitt 15y ago
And for Linux users whose distro doesn't have a F.lux package, redshift is often available as a nice alternative in your package tree.

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