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by praneshp 9y ago
What has privacy got to do with anything? Nuke your address/phone numbers, but it's somewhat unreasonable to ask for a job without a resume, and substituting that with 2 days of work (You said it took you about a day each to build
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by praneshp 9y ago
I hate ESPN. They bought the leading cricket website, cricinfo[0] a few years ago, and the site has been redesign after redesign since then. Also the typical "lets make videos not articles" stance, reducing articles from top write
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by praneshp 9y ago
Are you going to block API endpoints that don't confirm to the spec? If not, no one would bother sticking to the spec.
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by praneshp 9y ago
The few times I needed help with my project Fi connection it took about 3 minutes to reach a human. Even faster if I was willing to chat instead of call.
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by praneshp 9y ago
Yep, I didn't think you were racist. Just pointing out that there is the opposite complaint too.
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by praneshp 9y ago
Haha, and another group blames us (Indian here) for being in office too long without working and pulling down the general team culture.
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by praneshp 9y ago
Actually school time tables, college transcripts, etc all say Mathematics. Only everyday communication uses the shortened form.
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by praneshp 9y ago
Since we are doing this, Maths is common in India as well. I'd never heard "Math' used in an Indian context.
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by praneshp 9y ago
Ugh. That sucks. As much distaste I have for Uber, Ola knocks it out of the park in creepiness.
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by praneshp 9y ago
- Uber has been trounced in two of the largest non-US markets I assume one is China, which is the other one?
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by praneshp 9y ago
In my opinion, it's just a low hanging fruit some people like to hit. It's pretty clear what the GP comment meant. Comments like that make HN worse (IMO) than the pun threads on the Juicero article earlier today ( https:/&#x2
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14M customers vulnerable in massive Verizon data leak(thehill.com)
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by praneshp 9y ago
Another bad handwriting guy here. For me, the answer is "I have better things to do". Learning to cut out distractions on a laptop will serve me better (IMO). Although in grad school I never used to a digital method of annotating
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by praneshp 9y ago
Montreal is a big city, so I concede you have a (partial?) point. I have heard horror stories about cost of living in Vancouver here on HN, as well as from people I met in real life.
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by praneshp 9y ago
THat's why your parent said "in that form factor", I think.
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by praneshp 9y ago
Because they killed a few products that a vocal minority loved, it's a meme that Google products are killed off. Like many memes, the underlying logic is lost, and it's now cool to quote the meme.
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by praneshp 9y ago
They're going to place work second anyway (to finding a new job). It's usually to give them a severance, not screw folks on a visa, etc.
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by praneshp 9y ago
CA has a sick leave regulation: https://squareup.com/townsquare/californias-new-paid-sick-le... When I was at Yahoo, we had unlimited sick days (and my manager aggressively enforced that), but after this law passed the
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by praneshp 9y ago
Often times (in the US) the 90 days notice doesn't mean anything badge/credentials wise. You are walked out that evening (sometimes supervised) and your credentials are revoked asap.
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by praneshp 9y ago
The author was one of the heaviest early contributors on the Openstack project.
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by praneshp 9y ago
>> I've interviewed for an executive branch position where having voted years prior for the opposite party disqualified me How the hell does the interviewer (or anyone) know who you voted for? What's the point of calling it
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by praneshp 9y ago
They (US) don't care about damage to a flight that is not incoming, no?
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by praneshp 9y ago
I vouched this so I could get to know 'johnpython's views.
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by praneshp 9y ago
Thanks for this link. I have (independently) been thinking the same thing, that movements become regressive after a huge goal is achieved. Steven puts the point across well.
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Marissa Mayer Defends Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick(sfchronicle.com)
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by praneshp 9y ago
I agree with you. That's why I said: "I think the second approach will cause trivial change, at best". From my observations as an outsider living here for 6 years or so, even widespread knowledge that factory conditions are b
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by praneshp 9y ago
>> "trust pure capitalism to properly prioritize the values of the American people" But who decides the values of the American people then? Should the govt's approach be "We know this product was made by kids, so i
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by praneshp 9y ago
Ha actually to be fair, one of her "edicts" was "Please everyone switch to git, no other version control, and you have 1 month to do it.". This was when the vast majority of the company was on git, and the holdouts were
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by praneshp 9y ago
Re 2: That was a real example, and a real reason. If you believe that it is sound logic, more power to you then. Re 4: I am sorry, I meant to complete that sentence with "when it came to hiring execs, or buying companies". She hir
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by praneshp 9y ago
I worked under Marissa at Yahoo, and am happy to state (with my real name attached to this comment) that 1. She was a good person, and went out of the way at times to make employees feel good. 2. She was a terrible boss, who would pass edic

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