parennoob

13 ms·

61.
by parennoob 10y ago
Solaris? The open source nature of it seemed to disappear overnight after Oracle bought Sun, but looks like Oracle's not doing too badly with it. I know there's the Open Source illumos (IIRC) but haven't heard of anyone using
62.
by parennoob 10y ago
I agree, this is a good first move to get black money that is stored as cash out and taxed. Some forms that still remain are: * Gold * Money funneled into "agricultural income" (which is tax free) * Large properties in metros th
63.
by parennoob 10y ago
I would say it was about five-something years ago. You weren't expected to have a smartphone that coddled you like a baby, and people would be more willing to help you out. Example – I was in New York by myself, and without a smart p
64.
by parennoob 10y ago
Some of the doublespeak in large financial corporations is astonishing. > UBS executives insist the shift is not all about costs. “I would be wrong to sit here and say there isn’t an economic efficiency dimension,” Mr. Owen said. “In and
65.
by parennoob 10y ago
As I often keep saying, this is at the root of the "Group X/Y/Z is underrepresented in Tech" problem. You can't make tech attractive to a broad segment of the general populace if it isn't attractive to, well, t
66.
by parennoob 10y ago
This requires a large amount of co-ordination, teamwork, and communication – exactly the qualities that 25 employees together are often most required to have in order to work efficiently. I'd think the raise would be warranted :)
67.
by parennoob 10y ago
You can easily spend a tenth of that and get good food in India if you eat at places where the average local person does. However, speaking as an Indian, most foreigners probably don't want to play that crapshoot, because there is alwa
68.
by parennoob 10y ago
> People seem to try harder at lower scale jobs in the US There is often the excuse of the tips for waiters etc.. but it's the same for customer support and things like that. When you call cust sup in Europe, the service is way wors
69.
by parennoob 10y ago
Why does this extension (and similar ones I have used in the past) require permissions to "View and Change data on all websites you visit"? That's mildly concerning at least, and "No way I'm installing this" at
70.
by parennoob 10y ago
> Even though a $30 entre with no tip is roughly the same cost as a $25 entre where a tip is expected apparently consumer behavior changed significantly. I bet this is due to the same effect that leads to .99 pricing. People concentrate
71.
by parennoob 10y ago
> I don't want to subscribe to 10 different streaming services that all have their own original content, I want to subscribe to one As long as they are unbundled and easy to subscribe and unsubscribe from, I don't really mind.
72.
by parennoob 10y ago
> NONE of my daughter's female friends in high school thought it was cool to take on any of the math/physics/programming classes. They were all interested in environment, film/acting, fashion, literature (my daughter
73.
by parennoob 10y ago
Yes, but I was under the impression that getting a driver's license was kind of optional in Germany, with good public transport. Being a foreigner is not :)
74.
by parennoob 10y ago
> Your bureaucracy makes American bureaucracy seem amazingly efficient in comparison. Yeah, and I thought waiting at the DMV in the USA was a bit of a pain as a foreigner. :) "Wait from 3am for the 1 of 50 tickets available that day
75.
by parennoob 10y ago
I really can't remember. This is the earliest source I can find that basically says the same thing. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100630/12152310025.shtml
76.
by parennoob 10y ago
I agree -- the article is more of a collection of pointers towards Open Source resources, and doesn't directly say why it's important or interesting. But, at the risk of deviating from the article contents I do have a great reas
77.
by parennoob 10y ago
I don't know about Quora's "work with a mod to verify the name" policy works, but I have heard from at least one friend that Facebook makes you give them a scan your driving license or other Government ID in order to sho
78.
by parennoob 10y ago
The IRS can garnish your wages without getting a judgement first. That is just a fancy way of saying they can take your money without going to court. You'll have to sue them if you think it's being done incorrectly, right? Why can
79.
by parennoob 10y ago
How are they different in fundamental principle? Money is being collected from people (taxes) or corporations (Medicaid rebates) for a collective good. > were [not] written by the same people for the same purposes...there's no reaso
80.
by parennoob 10y ago
I am sorry, but as someone who isn't from the US (but does live and work in the US) ... phrases like this make zero sense: > Mylan should have been paying a higher rebate of 23 percent, but did not do so because the company improper
81.
by parennoob 10y ago
I'm tired of seeing CAPTCHAs, redirects, those awful Google "I'm not a robot!" tests, and being forced to fork over my phone number every time I register an email account (it is no longer possible to get an email account
82.
by parennoob 10y ago
As a relatively infrequent HN user, what is the time limit up to which stories can be re-posted and end up as new stories? I posted this yesterday on HN, and am glad to see some discussion around it. Just curious that the new submission did
83.
What New York Can Learn from Barcelona’s ‘Superblocks’(nytimes.com)
3 points by parennoob 10y ago|0 comments
84.
by parennoob 10y ago
I do. Do you want to really be "that guy" who hates puppies (and is ribbed about it all the time)? Software development teams often have all the maturity of a clique of middle schoolers; and exclusion can be just as harsh.
85.
by parennoob 10y ago
> How do you design a process that is consistent, measurable and efficient at that scale? None of these are strict requirements. Individual groups who are hiring can decide best what kind of person will make a good team member, and shoul
86.
by parennoob 10y ago
> so this is just weeding out people who clearly wouldn't pass This is true only if your coding/algorithm interview process is the exact same as HackerRank. Alternately (like they do at the place I work at), if your coding in
87.
by parennoob 10y ago
I am sorry -- since Gayle's book of the same name is a product worth ~$30, I assumed there was a paywall at some point behind https://www.hackerrank.com/domains/tutorials/cracking-the-co... -- I guess I was w
88.
by parennoob 10y ago
I have no idea why people who otherwise are against practices like stack ranking think that companies like "Hacker"Rank which assign you a score based on a set of simplistic algorithm are a good idea. If you are a manager and your
89.
by parennoob 10y ago
Unfortunately, loss of jobs in American doesn't come with free “adapt, retrain” like it does in many European countries. It's still very third-world in terms of that. If you lose your job, and haven't saved much (and many Ame
90.
by parennoob 10y ago
I didn't say I don't trust it, just that I don't trust that it won't leak private info when using the default arguments.

More ›