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by variety 16y ago
Are you hiring?
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by variety 16y ago
Why would you go through the process of switching the language? Well, if you want to know the truth of it: If that language just so happens to be PHP, then they might have a whole bunch of reasons. A lot of people just don't like PHP;
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by variety 16y ago
I see peers (coworkers who eventually moved on to other places) who make these strange leaps from Sr. Engineer to Director or CTO and I don't understand how they did it. Really, the only thing you're lacking -- and I do not say this light
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by variety 16y ago
"rewriting systems" != "stopping the train" (if done properly).
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by variety 16y ago
It's relevant, but he didn't really mean it to be taken at face value. Because of course it just isn't true (even though people keep repeating it a lot, for some reason). The world is full of tons and tons of successful, large-scale softwa
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by variety 16y ago
This was rather disconcerting, actually. Is anyone keeping long-term stats on GitHub availability, somewhere?
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by variety 16y ago
No need to back to the 70s, either: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulbuddin_Hekmatyar
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by variety 16y ago
If you need NYC/London/LA/Moscow/Mexico City/etc -style megacity sense of scale and/or civilized drinking hours to stay sane then you'll never be happy in SF. But if you can deal with its boutique dimensions (and the cold), then the prob
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by variety 16y ago
Or, it should be seen more as a tool for filtering people out rather than for selecting people in . And if they are used, these tests should be (1) done at the very earliest stages in the process and (2) be conducted in a manner that's a
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by variety 16y ago
http://grindr.com/
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by variety 16y ago
K&R. It's like the C language itself: it just can't be improved upon. It was already meant for our time, when it was written.
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by variety 16y ago
"Assuming that's true" is a big caveat, there. People have been bandying the 10x-100x saying for years, ignoring the fact that perceived productivity differences between employees are hugely subjective, and nearly impossible to quantify
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by variety 16y ago
Could you define what you mean by a great engineer, please?
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by variety 16y ago
Pros and cons aside, something in your gut is telling you that he's just not "up to snuff." These kinds of relationship just suck all around (in work as in romance and friendships, etc). So it sounds like you've already made a decision. A
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by variety 16y ago
From the very beginning I could never see the point of that company.
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Google Street View helps capture drug ring suspects(nypost.com)
1 points by variety 16y ago|0 comments
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by variety 16y ago
The real questions should be: "...and yet, so blighted, and so plain ugly to look at in most places? And why, despite all this wealth, are the standards of living and general education levels so shockingly low?"
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by variety 16y ago
Actually I was thinking more in terms of aesthetics (and long-term durability) than things like fire safety. Also, the survival rates of older buildings has to do with a zillion different factors -- from changes in taste (and ideology) to f
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by variety 16y ago
Also, the fact that they didn't hide their tracks indicates that they most likely aware completely unaware that they might be causing any harm to the company. A lapse in judgement, maybe -- but if so, the appropriate response would be a p
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by variety 16y ago
So your point is that it's ok to leak internal memos or commit other acts of sabotage, as long as you don't get caught?
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by variety 16y ago
Talk about carrots on a stick. What underscores the utter ruthlessness of Google's actions is that it's impossible to imagine that the leaker meant any harm at all coming to Google from their what they did. If anything, they were probably
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by variety 16y ago
I'd love to hire that person.
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Google fires employee who leaked memo on raises(huffingtonpost.com)
63 points by variety 16y ago|102 comments
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by variety 16y ago
Forget about what other people think: you're probably in a far more dangerous situation than you realize, with respect to your financial instability. Get a job NOW and don't think about quitting until you have a reasonable savings buffer (
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by variety 16y ago
Actually we don't even "know" how to build buildings anymore -- if you compare the standards of modern, throwaway buildings (as in, generic commercial or residential buildings; not skyscrapers or luxury condos) with those of the 1850s-1940s
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by variety 16y ago
The (attempted) use of indenting and whitespace as a form of expressiveness is so passé. As demonstrated by the transcendent rise of Python. It's the wave of the future. Get used to it, man.
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by variety 16y ago
Just the facts, ma'am. Unless the gig was very short (and so can be safely omitted), there's no reason to be coy about simply listing, in objective terms, where you worked and what you did. If you like, you can simply go into more detail (
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by variety 16y ago
Attempting to communicate a distance (or in a context lacking suitable bandwidth, otherwise: in an overly hurried fashion, in a noisy cafe instead of a quiet office, etc) in regard to a matter that really required an unhurried, face-to-fac
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by variety 16y ago
I think the president, the VP, every senator, every representative, every supreme court judge and their wives/husbands should be required to go through this. ...and their sons and daughters as well, of course.
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by variety 16y ago
It is mostly accepted among economists that poor people are better off today than they were in the 1970s. I'm not going to task with providing a source for that (mostly because you aren't defining what you mean by "poor.") But I'll submi

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