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Nice goalpost move.
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A contract isn't complete until someone actually spend money (or something of value) in reliance. The standard remedy for breach of contract is to unwind the victim's situation to the position they were in before the contract was
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One of the main selling points of YC is that they promise not to legal obnoxious things. Saying "nothing's done until the papers are signed" is completely missing the point.
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What??
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When making up theories, the burden of proof is on you.
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The question is what relevant correlations there are. You won't do well to hire a taller programmer just because taller people are healthier. See also adverse section paradox.
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As linked elsewhere in this thread,RMS explicitly endorses using GPL software for nefarious purposes outside of restricting software freedom. GPL solves one specific problem. It isn't Superman.
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I have been surprised at how many programmers left the industry to become farmers.
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These examples show that the language is ambiguous. Coders need to cope with that, not pretend English has a good spec.
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That is illogical. If a million plumbers and no programmers applied to be programmers, would Google be wrong to not hire them? We are talking about skilled jobs in a specific trade.
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At growing companies like Google, they hire everyone who meets their vague "hiring bar"
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"No hire" is not a permanent Scarlet letter. Why is it wrong to take a second chance?
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Your friend probably didn't go Stanford or Ivy League. :-/
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You told them to stop calling you.... So they stopped calling you.
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You probably got the "he seems smart, but I would expect someone with this much experience to gave progressed farther in his career, no hire because no trajectory , we can't hire someone with 15 years experience at the '7 yea
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Amazon does hire for specific positions, so if a manager picked your resume but hired someone else first, you get dropped until another manager picks your resume.
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If you are a software engineer, "we no longer need to fill that position" is impossible, because Google uses a general allocation model, not a specific team seat model.
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In most of USA, you can't hide the sale, but you can attach a fictitious name to it, so people who don't know your address can't just Google your house by name.
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On the US West Coast, variance is far more than that, unless you circularly define "peers" as people who negotiated the same level/pay as you.
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Your huge mistake is in assuming employers have access to a deep pool of available talent they believe is qualified. Rightly or wrong, employers are very picky about who they find attractive , and they perceive a shortage. Hence they pay ex
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I don't limited configurability tool that doesn't have an option for my particular monitor's resolution.
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Unix clones are fantastic. Ubuntu and Desktop projects are disasters.
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Need a really good reason to read past "equal to π (3.141593)".
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If you are going to be pedantic, please explain how anything in the Heisenberg Uncertainty-bounded universe can have a transcendental size.
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How much is Google paying the KickStarter backers? Oh.
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That's not really a threat, if copying requires taste and wisdom.
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If the coin has a substantial thickness, is it still accepted as a coin? I think not. How much density differential do you need to generate a 1% bias in a coin no thicker than any existing UN member currency?
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A commenter explains that the most interesting claim (51% bias) is not explained correctly in the article. Humans flipping a coin add a bit of precession (spin) that biasses the toss. The "odd/even time in the air" analysis i