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Ask HN: How do you deal with performance anxiety during interviews?
23 points by wavesounds 10y ago|27 comments
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Why whiteboard interviews are a terrible way to judge people(youtube.com)
1 points by wavesounds 10y ago|0 comments
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by wavesounds 10y ago
"One of those tests, a blood-coagulation test known as prothrombin time, measures how long it takes blood to clot and is often used by doctors to determine which dosage of the blood thinner warfarin to give patients. Wrong prothrombin
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by wavesounds 11y ago
The biggest sham is that Wall Street has convinced us all that they deserve to paid in percentages! Sure %0.2 doesn't sound like much until you realize its $200 million dollars a year. Why is everyone so afraid of just hiring a few sma
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by wavesounds 12y ago
Why don't we run a water pipeline down from Oregon? In Portland they have so much water that their drinking fountains literally do not have an off switch. We run pipelines for oil all over the country, would it be that hard to run one
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by wavesounds 12y ago
It totally depends on the work sample they ask you to do. If no thought went into it then you are correct. If, however, a company devises an interesting project to work on it show they also put some energy into this. Most importantly though
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by wavesounds 12y ago
That would be great. Do you know any efficient way of finding these positions in SF? I just searched the handful of European companies I know of and they don't have any listings in SF. Also I don't necessarily need as much vacatio
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Ask HN: What kind of jobs only work 40 hours a week?
5 points by wavesounds 12y ago|6 comments
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by wavesounds 12y ago
1. Being asked to code things on a white board or shared online doc that the interviewer knows are hard just so they can watch you sweat. It's just testing how well you perform under pressure, not if you know how to program well or not
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by wavesounds 12y ago
When this happened to my friend in Berkeley CA we called the police and after waiting almost an hour the officer that came didn't even get out of his car, he told us to file a report online. There was a security camera pointed at the l
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by wavesounds 12y ago
Independent artists need to stop being independent and form up into groups that collectively have a large audience and then higher a lawyer to represent them, its the only smaller bands can have any leverage with streaming services. This is
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by wavesounds 12y ago
As someone who has routinely ridden a bike along the rivers of Los Angeles I can tell you there is nothing being done to stop the flow of trash from streets, through storm drains, to rivers straight into the ocean. Targeting rivers like the
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by wavesounds 12y ago
The whole Bay Area really needs leadership that is serious about investing in growth, both in transportation infrastructure and housing. It's frustrating that a world class city is consistently held back by NIMBYism that stops progress
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by wavesounds 12y ago
"That means the main way to build more is to build denser projects, with taller buildings and smaller units. Doing that can be very difficult politically" I will vote for anyone who runs on a campaign vowing to do this, and you sh
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by wavesounds 12y ago
My friend at Orange Coast College just signed up with her .edu email address and it didn't work. I think its a scam to get people's email addresses. I don't think I'll ever refer anyone to Coinbase again now and I'm
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by wavesounds 12y ago
"It came in the form of philanthropic donations, which, unlike government funding, required no public review of priorities or spending." This is why we should raise taxes on Billionaires. A lot of them are willing to give away a l
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Silicon Valley Billionaire Battles Surfers Over Beach Access(blogs.kqed.org)
169 points by wavesounds 12y ago|144 comments
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by wavesounds 12y ago
I wonder how long someone could survive in this hypothermic state? Days? Months? Years? Decades? Imagine you were terminally ill could you hoist yourself in a weather balloon to 40k feet with an iv of nutrition and float around until they
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by wavesounds 12y ago
So the Government can't limit the amount of money corporations can spend on influencing political campaigns but, when it feels like it, it can silence them without even explaining why. Yeah that makes sense.
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by wavesounds 12y ago
What is physically stopping us from actually seeing this planet with visible light? Is it that we can't build a big enough telescope? Also would it be possible start broadcasting radio waves or maybe some kind of laser towards this pl
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by wavesounds 12y ago
They should ditch Bing and get back to their core business of building a search engine. Google isn't perfect, just look at Wolfram Alpha and Duck Duck Go, there's room for improvement and people like options. Yahoo should be one
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by wavesounds 12y ago
Can you copyright a license plate frame? I'd love to make a bunch of these things and go hand them out to low income minorities, those people deserve a break from the cops for once.
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by wavesounds 12y ago
I like the set in this article: http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/algorave-is-the-future-of-dan...
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by wavesounds 12y ago
Someone with a bar in SF/Oakland start booking live coding please.
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by wavesounds 13y ago
We're talking about different things, actually responding quickly to information is not the problem, gaining access to it before other people can is, which is what Michael Lewis's book was all about. Nobody is saying Algorithmic T
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by wavesounds 13y ago
You could pay Bill Gates a lot of money to wear a wire for you and perhaps if the number was high enough he would do it and you could then argue that anyone could have paid Bill Gates to wear a wire and therefore everything the wire records
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by wavesounds 13y ago
I think you are confusing "analyzing public information in a new way" with "getting access to non-public information". The former is what all smart traders do, the latter is illegal.
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by wavesounds 13y ago
My point is these traders get to know things before other traders, thats not fair, everyone should see Bob's purchase order at the same time and arguing that Bob has an unfair advantage because he knows what he's going to do befor
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by wavesounds 13y ago
Your saying you should be able to front run the market because otherwise its unfair that I know what decision I'm going to make before you know what decision I'm going to make?
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by wavesounds 13y ago
I'm not buying it. Healthy markets are markets where everyone has access to the same information. HFT by definition means some traders have more access to information than others. This is fundamentally unfair and bad for markets and th

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