yalurker

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by yalurker 14y ago
As long as we're talking incentives, your plan gives a huge incentive to fire someone just before the end of their first year of employment. At the end of the year you're faced with paying a recruiter 2 years of salary, but if you fire the
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by yalurker 14y ago
The article mentions "arrested for a felony" not "convicted". Obviously these are very different things, and it shouldn't be too hard to see why some people have a problem with people found innocent still having their privacy invaded, not
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by yalurker 14y ago
"weeding out the people who aren't smart, driven and dedicated enough to get into and graduate from a top-tier school." Wow. Since the rest of your post seems to equate "top-tier school" with the Ivy's (plus maybe MIT/stanford or whatever)
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by yalurker 14y ago
I'd be more excited if they gave me the option to disable the annoying "spin the map when you try to pinch-zoom" feature. I've never wanted my phone to give me a map where north is some arbitrary direction spun with my fingers and it's dif
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by yalurker 14y ago
Account created 45 minutes ago, to post a wildly unlikely and almost certainly embellished if not entirely fictitious anecdote. What is it about sexism on HN that brings out every troll, sock puppet, white knight, astroturfer, and any other
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by yalurker 14y ago
How? Because parents, teachers and mass media said to 'do what you love and the money will follow' or some variant, so kids picked majors with no demand in the labor market. Because affluent, well-connected kids got humanities degrees at I
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by yalurker 15y ago
To play devil's advocate, the moment the government gets involved, so do politics. Contraception and sexually transmitted diseases - will the religious right / moral majority voters turn against a representative who supports medical researc
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by yalurker 15y ago
Does anyone have experience with cost of living in the bay area vs Austin, TX? According to the cost of living calculator on CNN Money, $120,000 in San Francisco is equivalent to $70,000 in Austin. Has anyone here moved from Austin to Sili
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by yalurker 15y ago
Google says the group of major players colluding together in a joint bid for patents is anti-competitive. Google did not want to join this anti-competitive collusion. How is this inconsistent, shocking, or bad? Couldn't the simple explana
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by yalurker 15y ago
There is 'general public' and there is 'tech-savvy android users'. The former you have probably characterized correctly, but I suspect you are underestimating the size of the latter. As the grandparent mentions, if people are posting on f
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by yalurker 15y ago
I down-modded this comment, but since the user probably made it in good-faith I'm going to explain why. This would be a good comment on reddit - short, opinionated and easy for people who share the sentiment to upvote to show their agreemen
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by yalurker 15y ago
I'll reply here though it's more of a general response to all the people who replied. First, I'm not sure why I got so many downvotes, I believe my response was quite civil and appropriate, my intention was to be helpful. Clearly many peop
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by yalurker 15y ago
As an aside, using "USAians" in your writing is probably not what you want here. Intentionally mangling the name of a group/nationality because you don't like the standard naming convention or because you want to get a little jab in to sho
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by yalurker 15y ago
The opportunity is that they could have more customers. Many people are canceling their cable subscriptions because the price is too high for the value it offers. If cable companies allowed customers to have only a few channels that they
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by yalurker 16y ago
This comment is so absurdly wrong and offensive I had to read it several times fearing I was missing some sarcasm or satire. I'm sure you didn't mean it as such, so here is some information from someone who went to school in the midwest. S
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by yalurker 16y ago
As a counter anecdote, there is a CS lecturer at my alma mater who actually did get a job directly due to taking code (a physics simulator I believe) from some company's server. He was careful to end the story by reminding students that thi
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by yalurker 16y ago
Unless I'm missing something, I don't see how your twitter influence is important to any job except for paid endorsements. If I'm hiring an engineer, a project manager, or a designer, I care about their ability to do the job, not about how
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by yalurker 16y ago
Income for Fight Club fans is interesting, apparently correlating with both very low (<25k) and very high (>200k) incomes. I suppose a couple themes make sense with that data, the low income group presumably agrees with the anti-ma
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by yalurker 16y ago
I think something must have changed since that post. As displayed to me, I'm at 495 karma as of the writing of this post, but I don't currently have the ability to down-vote comments.
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by yalurker 16y ago
Actually, they don't specify who gets quoted a higher price initially, they just say it was different. Based on the dealer's quote, it seems he starts higher if he expects more negotiation from the other party... are men or women more likel
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by yalurker 16y ago
Guys, he's a troll. Stop feeding the troll. His profile claims he's 13 years old, whether that's true or just part of the trolling I don't know or care, just beware you're getting pulled into someone who is trying to have an argument for
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by yalurker 16y ago
"I don't see why being too sensitive is seen as somehow worse in the startup/developer community than being too insensitive." I'll venture a guess: because many of us find it incredibly tiring and annoying to have to constantly stop and thi
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by yalurker 16y ago
There was a time when people thought the primary purpose of an mp3 player was to play pirated music, would you claim that an article about a new mp3 player was "advocating piracy"? Stating that a piece of software exists is hardly "advocati
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by yalurker 16y ago
What if you are moving from a low cost area to a high cost area? I just checked out an online cost-of-living calculator and my salary in Austin would have to increase by 2.6x to have the same quality of life in Palo Alto. How many HR types
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by yalurker 16y ago
Wow, reading this didn't give me any sympathy for her at all. I'm reminded of the episode of South Park where Cartman feels bad only about getting punished, no actual guilt or remorse for his crime, and fails to understand how the other ki
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by yalurker 16y ago
While you are correct that almost everyone believes themselves to be "above average", the HN demographic likely is mostly above average individuals. Also, not everyone claiming high intelligence is just arrogant or deluded. I'd estimate my
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by yalurker 16y ago
The whole gender wage gap issue tends to set me off, as it is filled with "lies, damned lies and statistics" and half the arguments seem to exist in a fairy tale world, so this may get a little ranty, but I'll try to keep it on the level: O
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by yalurker 16y ago
I don't think eating out is really "conspicuous consumption" (unless maybe you're dealing with very-high end, trendy "see and be seen" destinations). What you've presented seems like a perfectly rational choice: by moving to a lower-rent ap
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by yalurker 16y ago
If it's in a roth account, isn't your investment horizon decades away (assuming you're not already in your 50's)? Why is "a 5 year investment to see a decent return" a negative?
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by yalurker 16y ago
Interesting read, a couple things come to mind though: how does "the people who have ok cupid profiles" vary against "the general population". Several things I suspect are skewed because of the population bias. Also, they say most of their

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