sportanova

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by sportanova 4y ago
People in a few hundred years are going to laugh about the laws created in late stage liberalism. The frenzy and idiocy makes things like beard taxes seem reasonable
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by sportanova 4y ago
America + Europe have been getting Democracy! good and hard for quite a while, time to shake things up
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by sportanova 5y ago
The only one I know of in Spain is Andasol, which is small scale and enormously expensive
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by sportanova 5y ago
Compared to Florida / Arizona, yes
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by sportanova 5y ago
Molten salt storage doesn't work well in practice. https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/storage/nevadas-crescen... Even if you're somewhere where the wind could give you 90% of your energy, you'll still
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by sportanova 7y ago
Also 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019. They'll be right at some point, but it still won't be profitable
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Open Source Culture at Artsy(fulljoin.io)
1 points by sportanova 7y ago|0 comments
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by sportanova 7y ago
> Most companies are open about the expectations for the role being interviewed for, the interview process, and preparation tips When did this happen? I haven't interviewed for a few years, but nothing was open or clear then
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by sportanova 7y ago
Multiple hour coding assessments will work for people who are motivated for a new job. But every company wants "passive" candidates that are already working somewhere. If they're already (moderately) happy somewhere, they&#x2
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by sportanova 7y ago
I haven’t seen that too often, but I do get a lot of slight variations on my “impressive background” compelling them to reach out
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by sportanova 7y ago
Full on programming as a mechanic seems overwhelming, but I like the idea of automation in strategy games I’ll give your game a try, maybe I’ll be proved wrong
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by sportanova 7y ago
We want to be a full fledged talent agency for software engineers, and the first thing we're making better for engineers is the interview process. We help you design your own interview process to best show off your skills. One of the t
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Show HN: Talent Agency Platform for Software Engineers(fulljoin.io)
8 points by sportanova 7y ago|1 comments
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by sportanova 7y ago
Everything's a bubble, and that's ok. Wouldn't want every city / region to be the same
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by sportanova 7y ago
Good design, but i wasn't able to get very far without having to signup, so i bounced
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by sportanova 7y ago
(In my experience) in SF for programmers as long as you're there for standard / scheduled meetings you can come and go as you need. But that won't be as true for other locations or jobs that are less in demand
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by sportanova 7y ago
It's another distribution channel for your job, with a highly concentrated audience. It's like you want to advertise to parents, so you put your ad on the park bench at the playground
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by sportanova 9y ago
It's like the dihydrogen monoxide scare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrogen_monoxide_hoax - you start using words like "chemicals", "industrial", "process" and people get worried
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by sportanova 9y ago
The difference is leverage + tax benefits
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by sportanova 10y ago
It should be only for legislators. Turn the tables and make them live in fear of what they do to other people
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by sportanova 10y ago
So I'm sure that you would agree that the current alleged russian interference is a misrepresentation and not due to putin
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by sportanova 10y ago
No worries - i didn't think so. I was focusing on the quote
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by sportanova 10y ago
No ethical shadiness? Domestic spying, civilian casualties through the drone program, IRS interference in an election against political opponents...
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by sportanova 10y ago
The opposite: "Quite frankly, I don't believe you. I work in a very conservative area, in a very alt-right company, have had encountered nothing racist or sexist, whether at my present employer or any previous one."
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by sportanova 10y ago
Unless you're actually building a database or something like Kafka it's way more useful to have someone that knows how to use a debugger and a profiler
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by sportanova 10y ago
6500 data engineers on all of Linkedin, but 6600 job openings in the bay area. so there are more job openings in one area than all data engineers on linkedin
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by sportanova 10y ago
"Racist" is the new "fascist", it doesn't mean anything, other than "I don't like it".
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by sportanova 10y ago
> Minimum 5 years of Haskell experience in Industry, academia and open source > Candidates with direct industrial Haskell experience, significant authorship (ICFP, etc.) record, or a long history of open source contributions will be p
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by sportanova 10y ago
Yeah it's just another perspective I don't think it validates it - if their not as central why not make them an employee with less equity / control
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by sportanova 10y ago
It might originally have been a misunderstanding, but like how "literally", now also means "not literally" it's the meaning of "culture".

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