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   by zht 12y ago

   there was quite a bit of negative propaganda that implied that he was a secret socialist muslim antichrist non-American from Kenya. obviously you shouldn't pay attention to the worst of what's levied against someone, but where do
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   by zht 13y ago

   I work for a Bay Area company that has a very conservative interpretation of this "extra perks as compensation which is taxable thing". Yes, gym memberships and lunch are counted as taxable compensation. And no, our company does n
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   by zht 13y ago

   Please don't put your engineers (or any one else in your company) on death marches.
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   by zht 13y ago

   [4] was a post written by a QA intern on a different team. His post was thoroughly debunked by Dianne. I know the guy in person and he is a general loud mouth who never hesitates to spew nonsense about topics that he knows nothing about.
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   by zht 13y ago

   have you tried using brew?
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   by zht 13y ago

   the equivalent in the Bay Area is WebPass.
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   by zht 13y ago

   don't you think that Facebook has tried this already? Facebook Messenger/Messages has a non trivial number of engineers working on it, but it still doesn't have the usage that WhatsApp does.
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   by zht 13y ago

   interesting that CSA was separate from Software Engineer. I'd have thought that they'd be lumped in since in my experience Computer Systems Analyst were just job titles created for Canadians and Mexicans in the states on TN.
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   by zht 13y ago

   "Let me recap: I no longer have iPhone"
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    by zht 13y ago

    in business school (or any Marketing 101 class) marketing doesn't actually mean strictly promotion/advertisement. one of the traditional four ps is product, but I guess the term marketing has been overloaded
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    by zht 13y ago

    where in the world can you find a hotel where you are not charged for what you take from the minibar?
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    by zht 13y ago

    have you guys heard of this great thing called myspace? None of my relatives on there, and I hear Justin Timberlake owns a stake in it. it's super cool!
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    by zht 13y ago

    what slurs did Google levy against Bing?
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    by zht 13y ago

    has your daughter gone outside, watched a movie, watched a tv show, took the bus, went to a sporting event, etc?
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    by zht 13y ago

    ... 2 years after the fact?
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    by zht 13y ago

    division by zero is undefined. c/x as x approaches 0 from the right is infinity.
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    by zht 13y ago

    Kim Lee and Park only make up half the population. You may just have falsely categorized Koreans with other last names.
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    by zht 13y ago

    were you compiling with optimizations on?
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    by zht 13y ago

    they may feel that they could get a better TV experience that the xbox has been trying to tout.
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    by zht 13y ago

    this is blogspam of a reddit post. link to original reddit post here: http://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1fv4r6/i_belie...
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    by zht 13y ago

    yup
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    by zht 13y ago

    It has been replaced entirely [1] https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/inside-f...
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    by zht 13y ago

    is this what stands for journalism now? taking random anonymous reader email, googling it casually, and then writing a story on it behind the facade of "oh please don't hold us responsible, we're just quoting random anonymous
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    by zht 13y ago

    this is really really really bad reporting on the level of Glenn Beck's chalkboard ramblings. And it's all okay, because we're "just asking questions" "Can we say for sure that Palantir's product, Prism, i
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    by zht 13y ago

    but in this case it's about the written language and less about verbal dialects. Chinese and Cantonese are representable by the same written language.
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    by zht 13y ago

    you should see the mini flare-ups of criticism Square gets on their Facebook posts after they recently banned using the service to sell gun parts.
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    by zht 14y ago

    so in other words, a prettier looking phpMyAdmin
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    by zht 14y ago

    "The Amazon finance card doesn’t interest me and I’m not going to buy a camera today—or one from Amazon, because of they charge sales tax and most online retailers don’t. But I’m simultaneously impressed and creeped out by the company’s nud
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    Google Maps - Treasure maps view (early April Fools?)(maps.google.com)

    2 points by zht 14y ago|1 comments
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    by zht 14y ago

    Another thing that I found extremely strange while living in the States. Seeing Walgreen's advertisements for flu shots (I think it was $19.99).