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811.
by shaftway 11y ago
god@heaven.mil
812.
by shaftway 11y ago
They still are in the new logo. They're perfect circles, but they've been rotated to the exact same angle as the old "o"s.
813.
by shaftway 11y ago
I'm starting to think about ditching earthquake insurance. I'm in a modern home, so I'm not making much of a claim if there's a smallish earthquake. But if there's a big one, I assume the insurance company will jus
814.
by shaftway 11y ago
It was in Silicon Valley. The company was owned by a huge conglomerate on the east coast, but was mostly left alone and entirely managed from Silicon Valley. I had worked there for almost 2 years. I was originally hired at about 2/3 o
815.
by shaftway 11y ago
It was pretty awkward. I was given three teams to pick from and was told that if none of them were really a fit I could reject them all, but it was kind of frowned on. I had already given notice at my job (where my boss literally said &qu
816.
by shaftway 11y ago
By comparison my sister had a truly horrible interview experience (long ago, some of her problems have been addressed). Ultimately, if you're in CS, you're in demand so they bend over backwards for you. If you're not in CS
817.
by shaftway 11y ago
I interviewed and was hired almost 5 years ago. My experience was largely positive, though the process took a long time. I had 5 interviewers. I made it clear to each up front that I had never worked in one of the canonical languages (Jav
818.
by shaftway 11y ago
Google Play Music seems to be the write-in candidate that's winning.
819.
by shaftway 11y ago
I spent 2 years at a major bank converting processes from Excel sheets to a database with a strong distributed processing platform around it. They were doing risk analysis of tens of billions of dollars in CDO swaps (hey, it was 2007, thes