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by throwaway_374 10y ago
Capitalism will eat you alive if you don't stand up for your wages and standard of living. I used to be a naive young graduate grateful for a job with the delusion that I would commit everything to my employer and get treated fairly in
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by throwaway_374 10y ago
This kind of commoditization attitude of developers really fucks me off. "Shut up and code and don't complain". Nah, you can fuck right off mate.
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by throwaway_374 10y ago
Seconded, you are just selecting for your own bias. Facebook knew you were at a bar. Campari happened to be pushing ads. You noticed the ad and probably disregarded other bar-related ads.
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by throwaway_374 10y ago
Get a lawyer and begin sending threatening letters to the full extent of the law. They will settle. Most here will say "learn a life lesson and move on". The point of getting legal is investors will be very interested in why the f
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by throwaway_374 10y ago
A while back I looked at a (HN formed?) startup www.paperspace.io which offered something similar. Ended up not using it due to security requirements as I wanted to host a proprietary process on it but I loved the concept.
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by throwaway_374 10y ago
Absolutely. I've been to more than one final round where the feedback was "not technically strong enough" but it was clear from the interviewer's attitude that it was largely about "fit" and whether they wanted
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by throwaway_374 10y ago
Doctors' and lawyers' experiences are not gained purely in school. Realistically, a comp sci major gains immediately usable skills during a degree as compared to either of those professions. In fact, all your argument points to, l
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by throwaway_374 10y ago
It can't be just me that's thinking... what do execs like this actually even do in terms of adding value to the business? Not just skills wise, but also how is his compensation worth more than an SRE being called out 3x a night to
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by throwaway_374 10y ago
Not quite. This was merely a simple deployment mishap due to repurposing a flag which triggered deprecated code paths that should have been gutted out.
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by throwaway_374 10y ago
If you simply cannot afford him, don't bother with wasting 6 months on a PIP. Give him an extremely generous severance (at least 6 months). If possible also offer him some kind of training course options on exit to assist him as these
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by throwaway_374 10y ago
I always thought this was simply nothing more than an overpriced step counter and nothing changed the perception for me - if anything, the glorified marketing felt quite deceptive. Strangely, on the contrary, I find myself addicted to the &
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by throwaway_374 10y ago
http://www.investopedia.com/updates/purchasing-power-parity-...
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by throwaway_374 10y ago
" increasing costs to consumers by protecting high-wage American workers from foreign competition?" Sorry I have to disagree, I am the most vehement loather of Trump and his fan base but fundamentally this just encourages a race t
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by throwaway_374 10y ago
I'm just not sure what a taxi protest achieves. In practice the protesters and distressed relatives probably need to get to the airport and back in the emergency circumstances. Boycotting political buildings would be more understandabl
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by throwaway_374 10y ago
Actually he was American born but don't let the facts get in the way: "Mateen was born Omar Mir Seddique[6] on November 16, 1986,[7] in New Hyde Park, New York, to Afghan parents."
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by throwaway_374 10y ago
"It means that there is no way to solve them deterministically in reasonable amount of time." On the contrary, the systematic method to hack these seems to be pattern matching and shoehorning into similar problems rather than reas
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by throwaway_374 10y ago
Well pardon me for my over-sensitive reductionism and not contemplating the geopolitical subtleties of the situation while my town, family, children and everything I can see around me is being flattened by your tax payer funded bombs. Is it
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by throwaway_374 10y ago
The rise in terror is not caused by radical religious zealots. It's caused by bombs raining down everyday on your life from foreign occupation.
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Codility. Application of Olympiad-Style Code Assessment of Programmers (2011) [pdf](ioinformatics.org)
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by throwaway_374 10y ago
Agree with this 100%. It's soul sucking and destroying but unfortunately coding interviews today are entirely about competitive programming and not about what you create. So you're best off knowing how to derive an O(N) dynamic pr
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by throwaway_374 10y ago
WARNING: Autoplay video half way down the page. These should be banned.
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by throwaway_374 10y ago
What's worse is Codility/HackerRank tests which expect you to come up with a dynamic programming based O(N) algorithm in order to prove your technical skills. This is just becoming ridiculous - I now ask in advance whether any of
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Ask HN: What is the point of “hands off” managers?
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by throwaway_374 10y ago
I think the closest I experienced to this was when I first discovered Second Life. My dreams after an evening on Second Life were insanely realistic. That thrill of addiction sounds familiar, almost like a dopamine chasing rat.
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by throwaway_374 10y ago
It irks me tremendously when we take this attitude. I think the problem is that developers have no spine or backbone and are used to bending over too easily - largely because of the personalities we tend to be "nice people". As de
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by throwaway_374 10y ago
YMMV but if you're willing to experiment I'd recommend looking into nootropics, specifically Noopept and Pramiracetam helped me.
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by throwaway_374 10y ago
>"yet he's somehow been able to parlay his way into positions of influence by guilt tripping white liberals into giving him power". So this is what HN has deteriorated into? Really? Might want to check your blood pressure
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by throwaway_374 10y ago
Equally I hate it when tech C-execs have never written a line of code, but you come across as politically charged with personal attacks rather than recognising his suitability for the role based on direct and relevant experience. And if we&
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Head of Japan's top ad firm to quit after new recruit's death from overwork(theguardian.com)
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by throwaway_374 10y ago
As it happens I have a poor temporal memory so the most important tool I have is I always carry my notebook and jot down everything that gets said, particularly as my previous role involved coordinating and managing teams and projects.

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