SqMafia

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by SqMafia 13y ago
Former Floridian who've lived all over the country and couldn't agree with you more. It's not just it's in the South. Texans are far better and nicer than the average Floridian. There's something very, very wrong
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by SqMafia 13y ago
You also have to account for both cultures placing a very strong emphasis on education. Judaism is defined by the Torah and Rabbis are scholars. Chinese and other East Asians are strongly influenced by Confucianism which places scholars a
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by SqMafia 13y ago
I would be careful with "even in China there is now an elite that dresses in suits and engages in trade unencumbered by rules and regulations that protect the millions that are pressed into working in their factories under appalling co
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by SqMafia 13y ago
This might shock the HN community but from my years of mentoring poor performing and under privileged high school students in the Bay Area (i.e. mostly from East Palo Alto), education is not valued by all cultures. I was shocked when I saw
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by SqMafia 13y ago
I would be very skeptical since the same would apply to Chinese Americans too among others.
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by SqMafia 13y ago
Unless they can control for all other factors or at least most of them, any explanation is going to look pretty silly.
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by SqMafia 13y ago
Wow. Whoever put the list of Muslim Nobel Laureates in the article is a bit of a prick. Let's pit one group of people vs. the other.
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by SqMafia 13y ago
"Martin Luther King didn't live in a world where we imprison innocent men in legal limbo without trial or habeas corpus, or where we officially sanctioned torture and the oubliette. He could trust that he would be vindicated by th
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by SqMafia 13y ago
In other news, VMware has announced plans to accept only Square payments for all $4 billion of its revenue.
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by SqMafia 14y ago
Can people stop taking one data point and using that to extrapolate to a large group? This is pretty bad journalism. Sure, OK story telling but it's not exactly the truth.
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by SqMafia 14y ago
Yale CS alum here (DC 04). Yale unfortunately tends to be on the extreme side of theories and fundamentals. Having some more practical experience helps those theories and fundamentals sink in. For example, I didn't appreciate closures un
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by SqMafia 14y ago
That would be his point if he said "Ivy Leagues don't matter". But if we agree that someone from Waterloo stands out then credentials do matter. If I was looking for candidates, I would search first for "Waterloo" or other schools with pro
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by SqMafia 14y ago
Haha! Nice. Yeah this is just pandering to the HN crowd. Also, come on, put some effort into that article. Say something that hasn't been said already.
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by SqMafia 14y ago
"Yale teaches computer science quite well (I'm a graduate!)" Same here (DC' 04) but from my experience places like Waterloo produce graduates that are phenomenal compared to Yale. They leave Waterloo with such a wealth of actual working ex
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by SqMafia 14y ago
"Big companies don't try to copy unsuccessful ideas, it never happens." Have you ever worked at a big company? Big companies are so dysfunctional. It's not that the individuals are stupid but the broken dynamics of people working together
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by SqMafia 14y ago
The post is narrowly focused. Unless the author plans to make no friends with anyone at a place where most people spend more than half of his awake hours, his plan is insufficient to make it easier to leave a job. At this point, I would s
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by SqMafia 14y ago
You know what the irony of the situation is? Cabbies have argued against companies like Uber and advocated the more regulated method of doing business because they say that cabs can be ordered into service in times of emergency. Not sure
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by SqMafia 14y ago
Cabbies can also get paid more if Uber takes a smaller cut for the time being. That would have been a good PR move too. This is a bit of a wasted opportunity to get good PR.
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by SqMafia 14y ago
Knock 1.3 billion off that number because FB is blocked in China.
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by SqMafia 14y ago
The thing is that had he actually did that, I would have a more positive view of working for FB. I would be impressed by the caliber of people who work there -- people who're capable of parsing out the nuances of a given situation and take
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by SqMafia 14y ago
A not-so-subtle pretend recruiting/bragging piece, except perhaps it had the reverse effect on me. #1 reason I won't want to work at Facebook so I can avoid smug, not-so-witty, immature douchebags like the author. With the stock price wher
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by SqMafia 15y ago
The number of Asians (East and South) registered with the registry is quite low in the US. When it comes to bone marrow matches, race/ethnicity actually matters a lot. Please consider registering with the registry ( http://marrow.org/Join
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by SqMafia 15y ago
Yuck. I know you meant that with the best intentions but your comment came out really snobby. Are finance and consulting valuable fields or should they just be abolished altogether? Given how some of these people are paid, one can at leas
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by SqMafia 16y ago
That's pretty much what I am doing now but it seems like a waste of time. Essentially I'm trading my time for some extra money and benefits while distracting me from where I really want to be. My main worry is the so call "resume hole". W
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Ask HN: Going Unemployed?
2 points by SqMafia 16y ago|3 comments