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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
"And if you're very lucky, I may even read you some of my poetry first."
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Not the original article, but more discussion is happening over here: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=4225291
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Of course it's ethical. Companies don't even blink about firing you (or umm, "laying you off") just after you bought a house, found out you need to put your remaining parent in an assisted living facility, or about your child's expensive le
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Nothing at all like reddit. Way too overdesigned and glitzy.
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
It cuts both ways, of course. A zombie employer (or manager) can also be a big hit to your wallet -- not to mention your health and sanity.
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Hangs while "geo-locating your position..."
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
I thought Detroit itself was already supposed to be something like a zombie theme park.
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
About as objective and useful as the filters most startups use in selecting candidates, actually.
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Reminds me of joke I heard at cocktail party recently, told by a rather attractive female scientist: "So, what do mathematicians and physicists use for birth control? Their personalities."
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
>the "rich" are "evil" and need to be punished in some sort or another That's not what the article is saying. Also: >Not only is PG an existence disproof of the belief, No, a sample size of one (or two) is not make a valid counterar
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Taking care of (1) is easy - you just have to: - chill the f* out - act natural - lower your standards It's that simple. Alcohol is known to help with the last step, btw.
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Research suggests that more money makes people act less human. (nymag.com)
25 points by toomuchcoffee 14y ago|15 comments
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
OK, but how many acme.* packages does PyPI have, compared with the number of CPAN modules under Acme::? How very many? I await your answer.
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
>To be a little more specific, we can point to a single retail customer and paint a meaningful portrait with his data: How much he’ll spend, how often he'll make purchases, what types of products he's inclined to buy, his predicted like
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A Database of Folly(crookedtimber.org)
1 points by toomuchcoffee 14y ago|0 comments
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Wow. Do recruiters really get bonuses just for shoehorning a candidate and hiring manager into agreeing to meet each other for an interview? Even if that interview ends up being not only a waste of time, but a pointless exercise in awkwar
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Indeed, that he could.
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Am I the only one who, midway through that rant, couldn't help but to sing it along to an extended version of a certain Suicidal Tendencies song?
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
There is no One True Path. But there's probably a great deal more value to be had to knowing just one of the big three scripting languages (Perl|Python|Ruby) deeply than in knowing just a smattering of each.
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Or they're just throwing up their hands, being completely lacking in imagination and/or basic knowledge about the particular labor market they're trying to hire in. Which is another reason to avoid companies that use recruiters altogether.
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
The sad fact is that at large companies at least, not only is it often perfectly OK to slip into perpetual mediocrity mode, but also, far too often -- given the way these companies treat their employees -- downright necessary, in order to m
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
A little pad of paper you keep in some drawer somewhere that no one is likely to stumble upon. Satisfies all 3 corners of the CAP theorem and is infinitely scalable!
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
This I know: both of those men will be remembered long after the world has forgotten about Malcolm Gladwell.
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Don't think of yourself as a "dude." But rather, as a professional.
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
What do you call it when the crank accuses the crank?
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
s/bigdata/tulipmania/g