gain_sky

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by gain_sky 8y ago
I know how often I interact with such people precisely: 0.17% of the people I interact with have this, whether online or in real life.
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by gain_sky 8y ago
0.17% of the population have DSPS.
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How to respond to recruiter's spam emails? (After GDPR?)
4 points by gain_sky 8y ago|1 comments
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by gain_sky 8y ago
Its 2018, normal people do not have money to blow. The "normals" are the ones delivering your food, driving you around, doing your laundry, walking your dog, cleaning your house etc.
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by gain_sky 8y ago
I'm sure it is an interesting problem, but what happens when the majority of our technical talent goes towards solving useless but "interesting" problems? Look at the engineers credited at the bottom of the article: "gra
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by gain_sky 8y ago
Reminds me a lot of the show Silicon Valley, where one of the characters has something like a Phd in artificial intelligence but ends up writing code for an app which dynamically turns your face into a smiley face (i.e. snapchat)..
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by gain_sky 8y ago
Use a thing called google? Most uk job sites let you specify remote only in the search options anyway. You could really find this out in like 2min.
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by gain_sky 8y ago
I'm unaware of the Johnson & Johnson example you mention, but to me a company with a "good" culture code (are they ever bad? or even different?), is like Kim Jong Un saying that North Korea is free and fair. I'm not
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by gain_sky 8y ago
Sounds like another obnoxious silicon-valley wannabe company. The kind of place that is "changing the world" one internet search at a time. "Define your company values and mission" 90% of these are tautological marketing
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by gain_sky 8y ago
Maybe you need to focus on what you are building rather than how? Programming is a means to an end and not a means itself. I think this is a trap many of us fall into and you see it play out when people end up trying to learn as many differ
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by gain_sky 8y ago
> Web developers are a dime a dozen, so I doubt if companies would really want to pay for a remote worker when they could easily get a handful just round the corner. What exactly do you consider a web developer? If you're talking ab
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by gain_sky 8y ago
Computer Science. Always choose CS over a specialisation when it comes to degrees. The reason is that nobody expects you to really learn the tricks of the trade at university, those are learnt on your own time and on the job. Universities a
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by gain_sky 8y ago
Are you still lonely though?
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by gain_sky 8y ago
This article is weird. His resume looks impressive and it looks like he has done some solid work but from the article he sounds like he feels entitled because of it. Also I find it annoying how little he mentions about the kind of companies