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by rev_bird 11y ago
I can't remember seeing them looking for anything other than Postgres, which seems less like "big data" than... regular data. Maybe they don't put their heavy duty stuff in job listings?
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by rev_bird 11y ago
Not really sure why "was a physics graduate student" means anything about his business acumen here. Eric Lefkofsky has a law degree, Brad Keywell has a JD and an MBA, we could do this all day. Having a graduate degree in a hard
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by rev_bird 11y ago
I was less surprised by the vandalism than I was by how tame it was.
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by rev_bird 11y ago
> They are not properly trained for social work, mental health services, and so on. Seems like another one of those short-sighted policy decisions here...
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by rev_bird 11y ago
I've seen those video clips: It's a horrifying glimpse at the consequences of our desire for low-cost meat products, and one of the (many) contributing reasons that I'm almost entirely vegetarian these days. But I've als
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by rev_bird 11y ago
> Games industry man. It's a small market with a zillion people who want to work in it. They benefit from "paying" people with "working in the industry they love." That said, $30,000 for 40-hour weeks is now lite
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by rev_bird 11y ago
> When people promise something x in the future, without any official contract I automatically assume that its not going to arrive. This was a painful realization I had to make, and I've pretty recently acted on it even though my em
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by rev_bird 11y ago
There are still plenty of ways to get legal payback, though not in a "slash his tires" kind of way. Personally, I'd LOVE to add this company and its managers to my list of "assholes to never work for." The only pres
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by rev_bird 11y ago
THIS right here is the part that drives me up a wall. Earlier in my (admittedly still pretty short) career, I'd probably have done dev work for free, if only to get some "official" experience and work with some devs I could l
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by rev_bird 11y ago
Personally, I'm freaked out seeing a LinkedIn profile that is complete, but in a way that signals they might have actually paid someone to make it look that way. I've seen great profiles that really give me a good feel for what so
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by rev_bird 11y ago
I'd wager half of the observations of this "talented HR/CEO" are illegal.
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by rev_bird 11y ago
My problem is that I tweet a lot, but seldom about technical stuff that would actually be interesting to an employer, so when I do tweet some neat new devopsy thing, it's buried between four tweets about how I'm scared of the poli
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by rev_bird 11y ago
Not that one. It's a recruiting platform... don't try to buy heroin from anyone on there.
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by rev_bird 11y ago
I can't be the only person who wants to know what company could have abused an employee like this, if only to never apply to them or help support whatever godawful business they're trying to run.
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by rev_bird 11y ago
Good to know, thanks. I've been looking at the Roku 2 for a looong while now. Not really interested in getting mobile games on my TV, might just go with that instead.
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by rev_bird 11y ago
Honestly, smart TVs creep me out. The ones I've used have had impossibly annoying menus and inexplicably slow connections. My parents' smart TV buffers low-res Netflix shows to the point that it's sometimes unusuable. I broug
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by rev_bird 11y ago
I'd guess the option to use the device without a keyboard if you wanted to.
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by rev_bird 11y ago
Cordcutter here -- AppleTV looks like a handy way to combine my Hulu, Netflix and Amazon Instant streams, but can anyone comment on whether it's worth the price if I'm not really plugged into the Apple media ecosystem? I quit the
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by rev_bird 11y ago
Interesting! Integrating with global search would essentially turn them into a media server. Never thought of it that way. Would that be... bad? Their app doesn't have ads, thank god, so I'm trying to figure out what the motivatio
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by rev_bird 11y ago
> Netflix works in Apple's Universal Search but not Google's. This seems counterintuitive to me -- you'd think Apple has an incentive to push people toward iTunes instead of Netflix, but I can't figure out why Google
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by rev_bird 11y ago
I just can't figure out why Jobs, and apparently lots of other people, are against adding an extra, more accurate method of interacting with a touchscreen, without removing any of its current capabilities . I'm not taking handwri
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by rev_bird 11y ago
For some context, I'd disagree with the "low-end laptop" characterization, though if you mean "low-end" in terms of, say, Thinkpads and MacBook Pros, then yeah you're right on. My Chromebook cost about 20 perce
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by rev_bird 11y ago
Thanks for humoring me, this has been really helpful.
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by rev_bird 11y ago
Some funky problems with displaying certain characters after it's been too long since a restart, but otherwise I really like it. I've probably only used the "S-Pen" a dozen times or so, and the little pen-specific apps c
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by rev_bird 11y ago
I don't think servers have a lot to do with this -- when you go to a URL, and a page gets returned, why does it matter where the data came from? For example: Say you've got an AngularJS app sitting in S3 or something, and your bac
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by rev_bird 11y ago
Ah! Now I see, thank you. I think some of this is debatable, though: * Security: Yes, there's not too much argument that can be made for unquestioningly allowing arbitrary code execution on your computer. I think part of this will impr
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by rev_bird 11y ago
tl;dr: I use the Galaxy Note 3 for my phone and tablet. I use it because it's got just enough real estate to check out Reddit/Twitter/websites while on the go, but I wouldn't personally recommend it for note-taking. --
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by rev_bird 11y ago
I think we might agree with each other, but you are being more clear than I was. If we are looking at the web as the miraculous document-exchanging network that it was, yes, Javascript is may be literally ruining everything. If you can rend
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by rev_bird 11y ago
I think I see the connection, but I think it jumped over one piece of my argument (if my statement could even be called that): In the burger example, removing sesame seeds is an act that makes the product objectively worse, just in a way th
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by rev_bird 11y ago
> bootstrapped companies, the latter being much less generator of stress Maybe it's because I've never been at a funded startup, but I can't imagine "this needs to bring in money from day one or my house goes away&quo

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