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by random42 7y ago
They want to avoid the unconscious bias of a single mind, and non decision due to conflicting opinions of even number of interviewers.
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by random42 7y ago
I cannot seem to find it on the jobs page. Do you have a link to it?
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by random42 7y ago
Are you still only hiring Ruby on Rails devs?
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by random42 7y ago
Why would you continue to give airbnb your business, once experiencing something like that anyways?
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by random42 7y ago
> Think of it the other way around: how much per month is Google making by reading your email [...] That is a really weird way to think about it. For all I may know, google may be earning a million dollar by selling my data ... does not
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by random42 7y ago
I think you are saying 2 different things, in your definition of constructive feedback 1.) The feedback should be nice/not brash/not toxic. 2.) The work needs to be done by the person to give more detailed feedback. While 2.) is a
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by random42 7y ago
>... i‘ll make an exception and ask for constructive criticism Tangential, do you not usually do that? why?
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by random42 7y ago
China/CCP doesn't care.
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by random42 7y ago
Interesting project, but why does an open source developer tool needs browser telemetry? You should ask for telemetry permissions _before_ the process starts up (as you do for email address), and keep the default as "No", instead
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by random42 7y ago
> Not sure how Brexit supporters feel about that. Zuckerberg does not care.
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by random42 7y ago
I believe their point was that the "UX is good (conditions applied"). Also, If you have not tried, I'd recommend giving the (android) app a go, bias aside, its one of the smoothest look-to-book experience I've had.
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by random42 7y ago
My point about how do we define "benefit of UI and UX"? If the criteria is conversion/revenue/profit - as arguably it should be for a publicly trading business - Booking and Expedia are no slouches.
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by random42 7y ago
> Airbnb has the benefit of a much better UI and UX compared to several over hotel aggregators like booking.com While AirBnB might be pleasing on the eyes, Booking's UI is optimised for conversion. The benefit of "better UI and
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by random42 7y ago
I believe the parent comment was regarding "Its actually about employee liquidity.. " part.
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Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?
2 points by random42 7y ago|1 comments
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by random42 7y ago
I hope you also periodically validate your backups with restoration as well - A backup is only good if it can be restored.
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by random42 7y ago
I am an Indian, lived in Western Europe for 2.5 years and recently moved back, and you have no idea what you are talking about. You are wrongly assuming the state of a nation as big and diverse as India, by the perspective of handful of peo
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by random42 7y ago
Its difficult to "guess" ahead of the fact how you are going to scale for the next 10x, because you need to know. a.) Which component is going to start breaking, and that depends on the usage pattern. b.) Which business/tech
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by random42 7y ago
It depends on which personal, professional, social, ethical and legal boundaries you are willing to cross. Bribing a foreign government bureaucrat is a "short cut", but it crosses many lines, that are not ok. Spamming users after
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by random42 7y ago
Are you sure you have "no connection whatsoever" with them?
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by random42 7y ago
Thanks, Done.
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by random42 7y ago
Note: Please let me know if this is not suitable for this thread, and I'll delete this. If you are open to BE devs in GMT +0530, I am currently on a break to take care of my aging/sick family, and looking for a parttime remote rol
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by random42 7y ago
I read "make our money" to be "earn our salaries", ie their job is primarily involved with the "seams"
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by random42 7y ago
You are amusing yourself by assuming (without basis) that the resume would be binned. Care to explain why do you think so?
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by random42 7y ago
Checkout https://github.com/containous/yaegi . Don't think its very mature though.
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by random42 7y ago
Thank you for VLC. It has literally been the only software that I've ever donated towards.
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by random42 7y ago
Prosperity vs survival
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by random42 7y ago
> I'm curious what the UX was ... Check the link, it shows quite well.
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by random42 7y ago
> "... For example, if a system makes use of two independent components, each with an availability of 99.9%, the resulting system availability is >99.999% ... " This does not seem correct.
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by random42 7y ago
How do you know this?

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