obstacle1

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by obstacle1 9y ago
This seems like a really great way to ensure you never retain any decent employees ever. Who would stick around under an employer who would treat an employee like this, even if they had been totally honest about salary history?
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by obstacle1 9y ago
This is what happens when non-technical bureaucrats want to design a system with full managerial control within the structure of a multi-level bureaucracy (meaning there isn't just one group of non-technical bureaucrats designing the s
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by obstacle1 9y ago
Great. The population of Kitchener, Waterloo, and Cambridge combined is just over 500k [1]. Disqualified, then. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-Cities_(Ontario)
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by obstacle1 9y ago
Sorry, you're absolutely right. I misspoke about it being a bedroom community.
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by obstacle1 9y ago
What? I don't care who gets hired. But when hiring at scale, if a candidate can't follow instructions, they don't get hired. It's a basic filter that is necessary when that many people are being considered. How many te
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by obstacle1 9y ago
Wouldn't really make sense, an HQ would need to be in an actual city, not a sprawling suburban bedroom community. Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa, Montreal.
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by obstacle1 9y ago
The recruiter's response isn't irrational. Very clear instructions are being given: put UNIX and Linux on your resume . Not tell me via e-mail. Then candidate goes ahead and 'educates' the recruiter, and puts something
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by obstacle1 9y ago
Not being taught a thing and being bad the thing are not mutually exclusive.
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by obstacle1 9y ago
>Please don't attempt to tell me that I know my argument is bad. I didn't attempt to tell you that, I did tell you that.
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by obstacle1 9y ago
OP's quotation is not speaking of freedom generally , which you are; it is speaking of freedom within the corporation, i.e., you are there and you do not leave. >Comparing it to Stalinism is silly, and surely disrespects No, maki
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by obstacle1 9y ago
> They are setting up their users for disillusionment and disappointment. There's nothing wrong with communities promoting themselves. If people don't know about your thing, they can't try it to make their own decisions ab
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by obstacle1 9y ago
Consider that your personal morals aren't the same thing as a One True Morality. Not to mention that Goldman isn't even paying top of market. So your statement about greed is completely misguided.
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by obstacle1 9y ago
Not everyone is built for success. At least you recognize that in yourself.
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by obstacle1 9y ago
I suspect that falsely denouncing paywalled research as "not science" isn't going to work in bringing about the outcome that you want. Probably a strategy without so many scotsmen would work better.
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by obstacle1 9y ago
>Does not something wrong enough times doesn’t make it correct. This isn't true in natural language. Do something enough times -- 'wrong' or 'right' -- and it becomes a part of the language. Like it or not. Crack
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by obstacle1 9y ago
>If you do not show some level of skepticism, you default to a state of belief. Well, no, you default to a neutral state of receiving information, sans judgment. Also it is not true that if you do not show skepticism, you default to so
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by obstacle1 9y ago
> i do think women experience this disproportionately. The above comment managed to avoid any recognition of this. Why would I recognize something that isn't an established fact, but your personal belief? That isn't reasoned de
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by obstacle1 9y ago
I didn't take notes and don't have a ton of time, but here are some examples: 14:30 - moderator assumes another panelist's position 'surely you're going to take issue...' 22:30 - moderator explains another pane
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by obstacle1 9y ago
Yes, that is how I know that the moderator talks over each panelist in turn throughout the 'conversation'. Do you have something to add to the discussion, or a question you wanted to ask of me that has some value? I'm not sur
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by obstacle1 9y ago
What's really interesting is that the author only became 'boiling' with rage when this socially-unaware moderator talked over the woman on the panel, not when he talked over the other men. This kind of behavior is extremely c
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by obstacle1 9y ago
In this case, the absurdity and nonsensical character of the 'spying' claim is fairly self-evident. When a client voluntarily makes a request to a server, it presents a bunch of information for the server to see and consume. This
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by obstacle1 9y ago
A majority of conference attendees have expenses paid by their employers. If not in full, then at least subsidized.
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by obstacle1 9y ago
Your OP was specifically about being handcuffed to a job because of equity considerations. How it isn't so easy to quit, you see, because equity. In the case of this 'one friend', she was not handcuffed to a job because of eq
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by obstacle1 9y ago
>But they are forced to stick through it due to equity agreements. That isn't what 'forced' means. Any of the people you are talking about could quit. They control their own lives and are responsible for them. Some theoret
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by obstacle1 9y ago
Parent isn't claiming that the Google search is itself evidence. The scientific studies that are returned by a Google search are the evidence. The search is a means of obtaining the evidence.
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by obstacle1 10y ago
There are situations in which you want to just get a right answer and ship, like at an early-stage startup. Then there are situations where the code you write must play nicely within a massive, already-complex system, wherein it will work w
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by obstacle1 10y ago
There's nothing there. It's a suburban wasteland. Yes, you can buy a house there more cheaply than in Toronto. But is owning a pile of bricks worth living in a wasteland? Personal preference, as they say.
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by obstacle1 10y ago
>Equal society Conveniently, you chopped the word "more" off of "more equal society". Kind of unfair to argue against a point the person didn't make.
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by obstacle1 10y ago
>I have not found a good HTTP client like Python's Requests or Guzzle from Php Have you tried HTTParty? https://github.com/jnunemaker/httparty
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by obstacle1 10y ago
>Owners win because we live in capitalist society NYC exists under the same capitalist system as SF or LA or wherever. Nothing you have described (need to drive, no clean water, etc.) applies to NYC. Therefore, your gripes aren't ca

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