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by smm2000 12y ago
Chill out and pick different audience. Most people on HN are not just "scraping by" unless making >$100k first year after college is now called scraping by. I would say overall HN audience benefits much more from current politi
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by smm2000 12y ago
The reality is that most people take more than 4 years to graduate, especially at lower tier colleges.
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by smm2000 12y ago
I am from Russia and at every party somebody will ask me if I drink Vodka or if I drink Vodka for breakfast or some other bullshit. When it's cold outside, somebody will say that I should not feel cold because I am from Russia like it
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by smm2000 12y ago
The end result is that you are on the hook for $10k+ if you decide to quit Microsoft - very similar to the amount charged by Indian outsourcing companies in the article. There are legitimate expenses beyond visa fees that companies incur to
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by smm2000 12y ago
What's wrong about it? You should just charge more in expectations that the job won't last long and you can work at different company on different game mechanics after getting fired. Employing people you do not need is not efficie
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by smm2000 12y ago
Eh, happens even to the best companies in US. Microsoft employment agreement stipulates that if you quit earlier than one year, you have to pay back all relocation expenses (visas, temporary housing, etc). Easily tens of thousands of dollar
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by smm2000 12y ago
I am surprised that student from West Africa was allowed to get on the plane. All airlines check Timatic which has up-to-date visa regulations for all countries. Common sense is to check for visa rules if you are citizen of some backwater c
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by smm2000 12y ago
Does it mean that my research (reading about HP 3D printer on hacker news today) should become public the second I make this conclusion? I just told roommate that HP has very interesting and potentially profitable product.
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by smm2000 12y ago
The reality is that $25k contract is a very small one and nobody will do bank finance on a one off deal like that. If they bought 20+ ATMs it would have been different but not for one.
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by smm2000 12y ago
I am pretty sure that manufacturer of ATM used XP as a base and Robocoin did not really have a choice. They could have chosen different ATM company, but it's not like manufactures are fallen over themselves to sell 70 ATM machines to n
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by smm2000 12y ago
CDC should be able to re-allocate budget on a short notice - I am sure there are contingency plans for it. On CDC website they list priorities - Food Safety, Healthcare-associated, Infections, HIV in the U.S.,Motor Vehicle Injuries, Nutriti
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by smm2000 12y ago
Most experts think that Ebola presents low risk to US so I am not sure why CDC should spend significant resources on it. Private company is working on vaccines and at current funding CDC is perfectly capable of handling a few cases of Ebola
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by smm2000 12y ago
In general people do not ask for raises in big IT companies in US including Microsoft, Google, Facebook and others. The raises are function of performance review, title and budget with very little input from your actual manager. The best wa
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by smm2000 12y ago
I am curious how office manager can make your life hell? In my 7 years working as software engineer in big companies, I talked to office manager may be 5 times total. The only thing that comes to mind is giving bad seat/office assignme
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by smm2000 12y ago
You were low-balled or have particularly shitty resume. 110k is offer for new grads. The right approach to maximizing offer is to get 5-6 offers, do bidding war between companies you do not want to work for and then ask the company you want
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by smm2000 12y ago
Google, Oracle and Amazon among others have Distinguished Engineer title so quite a few people know about it.
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by smm2000 12y ago
Good point, I did not know about SoundCloud.
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by smm2000 12y ago
Zalando is European company with very few sales outside of EU.
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by smm2000 12y ago
Before they become criminals, they fail (statistically) in high school which is already free.
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by smm2000 12y ago
Germany has not so far produced a single website or app that is hugely popular internationally. It does not mean it could not - it certainly have educated population to do it but the fact is it has not.
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by smm2000 12y ago
It's useless to send most criminals (especially minorities with 1/3 jail ratio) to community colleges. Majority of them could not even finish high school and still read at fifth grade level after graduation. It's a noble idea
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by smm2000 12y ago
Do you really want such a strong non-compete agreement to be legal? By preventing people to work in industry they know best for 10 years, you pretty much tell them that they should apply to McDonalds if they ever leave their cushy governmen
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by smm2000 12y ago
Also it's significantly lower for people with college educated parents - majority of HN demographic.
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by smm2000 12y ago
There is no mass smartwatch market at the moment. There are some smartwatches that sells in very small amount to niche audience but there is no mass market and I doubt one will exist until the end of the year. It's like 2005 for smartp
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by smm2000 12y ago
25 tonnes is not much... Five people can load it on two trucks in a few hours even without using any machinery.
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by smm2000 12y ago
Studying using MOOC requires level of self-motivation that most people - both poor and rich - simply lack. Realistically speaking most MOOC do not add much value on top of a book you can get for free from any public library or buy for $30 o
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by smm2000 12y ago
Productivity in LOC/developer/day drops dramatically with increase of the team and code size. Every change requires extensive testing, figuring out interdependency, etc. If codebase is bad, it can take multiple days to make 10 lin
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by smm2000 12y ago
Instagram has ads - not sure if they are profitable. Service should not be too expensive to run - images are on smaller size so traffic and storage should be cheap. http://blog.business.instagram.com/post/95314562151&#x
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by smm2000 12y ago
People said that Facebook overpaid for Instagram at 1B valuation. In hindsight that was extremely good deal that will pay many times over now that Instagram has 200M+ users and is still growing. The bet is that Oculus will be used in many a
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by smm2000 12y ago
When you hire somebody for your your team, company is not the only one stakeholder. The CEO won't spend 40 hours/week with new hire. Your personal productivity and happiness depends on new hire and if he has (1) bad communication

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