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by who_is_firing 8y ago
We actually have no idea. It is entirely possible but its unclear at this point: "To our knowledge, there are no relevant study in humans on carcinogenic effects from pure nicotine including products, such as NRT and e-cigarettes.&quot
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by who_is_firing 8y ago
I think my overall argument was that we have barely studied studied e-cigarettes so OP's assertion "Vaping has been pretty well studied (except for the flavorings" is false. You are correct that it's entirely possible th
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by who_is_firing 8y ago
Doing a review of the current research isn't valuable for the reasons I outlined: overall research is immutare so an overall review isn't going to be that insightful right now. Here's an example of a gaping gap in research on
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by who_is_firing 8y ago
This is incorrect. E cigarettes are still in a very early stage of research. My partner works at one of the leading institutes in tobacco research and they are literally just kicking off most of their research on e-cigs. Most of the researc
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by who_is_firing 8y ago
I think your job is to put money in companies with low valuations that EXIT with high valuations. Your investors won't give a crap if you do a good job of finding unicorns that eventually fissle out.
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by who_is_firing 9y ago
I think the basics of it (i.e. recognizing n vs n^2 vs exponential) is important for back end developers. After a few years of doing back end I've definitely had to have awareness in how I design things like my loops to optimize. It&#x
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by who_is_firing 9y ago
I am a bootcamp grad with several years of experience now. I agree with the article that the two of the weakest areas for bootcamp grads are data structures and algorithms. However, my advice would be to interview at places that have focus
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by who_is_firing 9y ago
I don't think this is true; I come from a caste that is known for being scholars and hence had much better knowledge of imperialist languages (English, French, Urdu, etc.) than Brahmins since they traditional study Sanskrit and the Ve
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by who_is_firing 9y ago
Thanks for answering the previous person's questions; your answers were very helpful. Can you talk about how long it takes most people to reach staff level (or how long it took you)? At what level do most engineers plateau at Google (
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by who_is_firing 9y ago
This kind of behavior is why I recently steered a friend to a Roku. With any of the streaming devices (Amazon, Google, Apple) you risk losing out due to dueling between the major tech companies.. The major players tend to leave Roku alone s
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by who_is_firing 9y ago
If people cared about affordable housing, why are there protests again projects which are 100% affordable housing? You can see the hypocrisy here: https://sf.curbed.com/2016/10/6/13189882/1296-shotwell-af
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by who_is_firing 9y ago
Even 100% affordable housing gets objected to: https://sf.curbed.com/2016/10/6/13189882/1296-shotwell-affor... To be honest, people like to extol the virtues of Bay Area liberalism, but to me the housing
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by who_is_firing 9y ago
Avoid saying the words "changing the world" or any other bullshit buzzword that deceptively gives your work a nobler, tone than it deserves. Trust me, if you are changing the world, people will figure it out from what you are doin
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by who_is_firing 9y ago
I find this to be very helpful. Any chance you can keep historical records so we can see trends?
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by who_is_firing 9y ago
Yes agreed. dang can we get a comment at the top of the "Who is hiring thread?" to please avoid these kind of comments?
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by who_is_firing 9y ago
cool model! is the salary half of a normal job or less than that?
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by who_is_firing 9y ago
A startup, let's say company A, I used to work at did something very similar. I told the CEO that I knew another startup was shutting down, let's call it company B. Company A decided to something really smart: they organized an in
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by who_is_firing 9y ago
This is not a special purpose account. You can see that I've used it to comment on many threads.
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by who_is_firing 9y ago
Most discussions are best as one-offs and there isn't much substance in the Who's is Hiring threads either. Maybe the team should think of a small UI change to distinguish official threads from non official ones instead of restric
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by who_is_firing 9y ago
It's sad that we are losing the monthly tag from dang. Also I tried making this a monthly thing but then one of my aliases got shadow banned. So we will probably have to organically submit each time.
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by who_is_firing 9y ago
I'm pretty confused on the location info on the 1st line. Are engineering roles in Santa Clara, San Francisco, Toronto, Sacramento, or Baltimore?
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by who_is_firing 9y ago
can you elaborate more?
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Ask HN: What is the best alternative now that Wunderlist will be gone?
2 points by who_is_firing 9y ago|2 comments
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by who_is_firing 10y ago
Every HN hiring thread has someone comment on how low salaries sound for a specific country they are not from. Can we stop dis-incentivizing employers to be transparent about their salaries with negative comments?
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by who_is_firing 10y ago
As an FYI, I started a who is firing thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13528301 Please feel free to contribute if you know any companies involved in layoffs or want to find out who is conducting layoffs.
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by who_is_firing 10y ago
The following companies had layoffs receiving press in January: * Fitbit: http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/30/14439028/fibit-layoffs-q4-... * Medium: https://techcrunch.com/2017/01&#x2
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Who is firing? (February 2017)
32 points by who_is_firing 10y ago|5 comments
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by who_is_firing 10y ago
I guess I would sacrifice the look of my city so that normal middle class people like teachers, policemen, firemen, artists, and minorities could live beside myself and fellow engineers and doctors. The whole "we need to preserve the a
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by who_is_firing 10y ago
This is awesome. I'd like to support yimby efforts. Do you have a link where I can see how I can contribute as developer?
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by who_is_firing 10y ago
Yes we need to petition the large tech companies to be more supportive of remote work and invest more in their satellite offices.

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