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by serge2k 10y ago
> Judging an entire recruitment process based on one side of a story from a person who's clearly upset about an interview, and even 3 sentences i wrote on hacker news, seems ... silly. How about the dozens of other seemingly qualifi
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by serge2k 10y ago
Unfortunately they will just ignore the complaints and move on to the next resume in the pile.
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by serge2k 10y ago
> At what point do we start taking reports like these seriously My guess is when the number of applications per position actually drops far enough that the false negative rate starts to hurt. Until then, an interview processed optimized
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by serge2k 10y ago
If you're willing to stream then buying from Amazon is an okay option.
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by serge2k 10y ago
Yes, that would work. If all rapists realized today that they shouldn't rape, and stopped doing it, then no more rape. Now the only way to even start down a path like that is to start letting people know "don't rape". Sh
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by serge2k 10y ago
> There's a good chance it won't run on the latest version of the operating system Why? These companies do put in work to try and maintain compatibility. > they've made a huge investment in software and hardware that w
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by serge2k 10y ago
> It has little to do with security It does when you start to talk about unsupported versions.
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by serge2k 10y ago
> genital integrity (no circumcision) So don't circumcise your son.
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by serge2k 10y ago
> therapy, nursing, and pornography are so well paid and well treated Wow, 2 full examples before you jumped to pornography. That's like saying male dominated professions like software developers, carpenters, and crack dealers.
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by serge2k 10y ago
> how easy it is to book a small conference room for yourself for a few hours, to walk away to a hotel desk in a more quiet part of the office, or (more typically) for the white noise of the central air to obscure everyone's mild so
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by serge2k 10y ago
I don't like wearing headphones all day. That's a stupid solution to a problem created by stupidity in the first place.
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by serge2k 10y ago
> Facebook insists on hiring only them They insist only on hiring those who pass their interview. Seems to overlap with the set of good devs, but it's definitely not the entire set. Which hey, good for them I guess.
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by serge2k 10y ago
> What are the alternatives to open offices for companies with hundreds or thousands of developers? Do you have offices with dozens of people split up by team? Offices. Team Rooms. Decent cubicles. Microsoft has offices for developers. E
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> each person gets X sq. ft Which is how it should be, even with open offices.
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> especially funny in this article. So it's marginally funny at best? on topic: I swear occasionally, not that often, in conversations with people. I mutter swear words under my breath at my computer in a constant stream some days.
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> An isolated room in a corner is not good Sure it is. It's called an office. Traditionally the corner ones are bigger and are given to management/execs.
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Why do team sized rooms make this worse?
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by serge2k 10y ago
> Team sized rooms are definitely the way to go. No, individual areas are the way to go. Team rooms are still better than cramming people side by side row after row.
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by serge2k 10y ago
> according to the “Freelancing in America: 2016″ survey released this morning by the Freelancers Union, based in New York City, and the giant freelancing platform Upwork, headquartered in Silicon Valley Well I'm sure these parties
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by serge2k 10y ago
The problem is, say you have developed an app that is on par with Slack. You launch and are trying to grow your business. Then Slack shows up and is giving away a similar product because they have VC money to burn. How do you compete?
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by serge2k 10y ago
and if your computer is broken that makes sense. But you still probably know how to drive, pump gas, and do basic things like change a tire. You have controls that you understand for things like the radio or cruise control, and you will che
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by serge2k 10y ago
> the "on-a-computer" rationale that makes 'normal' people turn their brain off because they treat this box like it's black magic rather than trying to understand it. Pretty much. "How did you get so good wi
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by serge2k 10y ago
They explicitly ask for permission for that and you can press escape at any time to leave. Seems reasonable.
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by serge2k 10y ago
> some found the emails annoying from PubPeer [since PubPeer notifies authors of comments] if Statcheck found no potential errors I would. > There’s a big, uncomfortable question of how to criticize past work, and whether online criti
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by serge2k 10y ago
> I think I'd vote for McKinsey, Bain, or BCG to manage the executive branch instead of our current Presidential candidates Why not just give them whatever money they ask for and be done with it?
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by serge2k 10y ago
> Manufacturing was, logistically speaking, easier to organize. There were lots of workers at each factory, and most knew one another. Service work is more dispersed and done in smaller crews. Workers living in the same city and employed
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Forcing you to adopt horrible customer experiences to get around a 30% tax is pretty nasty.
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by serge2k 10y ago
> are forced to do this by their shareholders No they aren't. They are using their dominance in search to push chrome on users every chance they get, which has resulted in them dominating the browser space as well. Or do you think C
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because Sony needs money badly?
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I'm curious whether you can make any reasonable argument at all for this.

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