spacemaus

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   by spacemaus 12y ago

   Hyperbole, yes, but the word is often used in a sense that is semantically identical to "figuratively". For example, in my previous comment you could s/literally kills/figuratively kills/ without changing the sente
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   by spacemaus 12y ago

   I should say "now officially", then :)
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   by spacemaus 12y ago

   As a recovering language curmudgeon, it literally kills me that "literally" is now an auto-antonym too [1]. [1] http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_eng...
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   by spacemaus 12y ago

   Funny, last week I wrote some notes about doing just this :). It would be hard to build a general purpose platform, but I think if it focused on just replacing the initial technical phone screen, it could be both reliable and useful. There
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   by spacemaus 12y ago

   Relevant: a startup called Interview Club[1] presented at the Launch Festival recently. Another startup called PreHire[2] won the hackathon (although their product is more for hiring customer service reps). [1] http://www.launch
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   Show HN: Postvox, an open, distributed, newsfeed/chat thingy(github.com)

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