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by njloof 11y ago
Ah yes. And even if there's a "points system" for highly qualified candidates, is there equality of opportunity?
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by njloof 11y ago
If this is a veiled reference to affirmative action, at least show the courage to say what you really mean.
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by njloof 11y ago
Phone numbers are pretty utilitarian. You mean I need a number just to contact someone? What terrible UI.
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by njloof 11y ago
No Morse code required since the 2000s.
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by njloof 11y ago
For back catalog that's often cheaper than buying the tracks online. Why pay $9.99 for an album I can get used for $6?
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by njloof 11y ago
Think of the positives of an Uber job: (a) you can use your car for your 2nd job for free; (b) you meet your state's welfare-to-work requirements!
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by njloof 11y ago
And miss the chance to put our flag first on Mars? I think not.
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by njloof 11y ago
Does ASCII art have victims? Other than its audience, I mean.
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by njloof 11y ago
I feel less sorry for NYC taxis than in most cities -- they have had non-medallion competition for decades in the form of car services, which work much like Uber but you have to use the "phone" function of your smartphone. Car ser
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by njloof 11y ago
Bribery and reducing your net compensation -- what's not for a company to love?
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by njloof 11y ago
At first glance I feared this was an article about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_G._Watt
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by njloof 11y ago
You'd think HN would spot a market opportunity like that and exploit it. Good programmers with unfair criminal records at below market rates?
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by njloof 11y ago
There were paid staffers doing that at MySpace back in the day. I talked to their head of security; not a fun job.
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by njloof 11y ago
Ok, but go ahead and try to DIY your Tesla.
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by njloof 11y ago
For the risk you're taking, you'd be better off as an investor. If they fail you get nothing, but if they succeed you'd have equity, not just a product or service.
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by njloof 11y ago
Some of Google's best friends are dark-skinned people!
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by njloof 11y ago
As a bonus, you can actually get 24/7 support!
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by njloof 11y ago
That, unfortunately, is what's horrible about the article -- the author never makes clear whether this is an objective or subjective comparison. Is the image too poor, or too "good"?
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by njloof 11y ago
What's also missing is that most resumes are culled mechanically by grepping for keywords. Nobody reads every resume they receive. That's why they ask for digital documents -- and then ask you to submit them again in plain text
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by njloof 11y ago
Not always; ask any hospital if their anesthesiology department operates at a loss. The answer is almost always yes. You can't have surgery without anaesthesia, yet the cost of the service (including the market price of anaesthesiologi
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by njloof 11y ago
Seems like the kind of story you see just before a call to expand the H1-B program. I've worked with many fine H1-Bs but its purpose is to fill a need you can't fill locally, not to get someone to take a job that is underpriced.
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by njloof 11y ago
> I don’t think that Microsoft is shedding its most popular executives. And perhaps some "ding, dong, the witch is dead" from Redmond over those that are departing?
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by njloof 11y ago
Including Cuba.
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by njloof 11y ago
... under some of the strictest quality control in the industry. Cutting corners when no one's looking closely enough is international.
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by njloof 11y ago
Probably cheaper than starting 1000 $19M projects and dumping the ones that aren't wildly successful.
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by njloof 11y ago
They'll do it when they start to care more about how much their employees cost. Screening too narrowly drives up the price.
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by njloof 11y ago
Apple's been doing a credible job of duplicating the features of BeOS in MacOS X, with the help of some key BeOS refugees (notably Dominic Giampaolo).
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by njloof 11y ago
This; I have generally been able to get a response by calling the HR or recruiting person with whom I first made contact.
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by njloof 11y ago
Surely this is a solvable AI/computer vision problem. And in text, just search for the regular expression "8=+D".
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by njloof 11y ago
It's also unclear from their homepage why I would want yet another OS/UI combo. What are the advantages? Does it run any apps? I'm definitely not paying $10 sight unseen. Maybe a 30-day trial would be a better model before as

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