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16y ago
I'm with you. I'm younger but still, the idea of sitting at WORK at 8pm eating dinner next to a billionaire and countless early employee millionaires while making them all even richer sort of turns my god damn stomach.
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16y ago
> However that's how things are in reality. No, that's how things are in your reality, which is not necessarily anyone else's reality. You've just perfectly described under-skilled, over-worked, under-paid H1b-style immigrants who get
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16y ago
LOL Anyone who's ever worked with a Chinese PhD's, grad students or serious developers (such as in finance) knows this is complete horseshit... But you're right, this thread is the perfect place for some casual racism to vent your frustrati
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16y ago
If I were 20 again I'd be doing the exact same shit I was doing the first time around, finishing school, drinking with my friends and trying to get laid. I learned how to code and build UNIX systems before I went to college. So did most of
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16y ago
An aside: a lot of Korean companies have offices in LA that help with their US market activities. These aren't always publicized so always ask!
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16y ago
Clearly apple does the design and value-add but these are the people actually pushing the boundaries of machining: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn
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16y ago
> It isn't a legal record, but people treat it that way No they don't. It's evidence and is treated as such, including all the proper oversight regarding chain of custody and regulatory capture/compliance. All evidence can be faked or
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16y ago
> lie about it Nothing in those answers is a lie or not true. It's just an answer that conveniently avoids getting insulted at a table full of people higher than you in the social hierarchy. Maybe you just don't give a shit about walki
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16y ago
> falsely Nothing about those answers are false. It's a truthful answer designed to promote good will, not a lie. It's called having social skills. His inability to play this game got him a stinging insult in front of a bunch of the e
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16y ago
> asked me where I went to college Political protip: Answer his question. "I went to X University". Because... you did, didn't you? And if he asks you what you majored in: "I studied Y. But somehow I ended up in this job! hearty la
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16y ago
LOL, don't ask me, you're the one who were complaining about not being recognized by the NY Times for your achievements.
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16y ago
Your style of writing is awful. I had no idea whether you were the developer or the boss or what until the last two sentences. Try defining the variables first, not last. And most people need an experience like that to learn to not be a d
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16y ago
Get used to it. You aren't a founder - or at least haven't been presented as one (hmmm...) To the rest of the world you are no better than the guy who empties the trash. This is also what your boss Ben thinks but he's probably smart en
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16y ago
> suicide-inducing > mildest winter climate in Canada I'm confused, these two things aren't mutually exclusive.
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16y ago
> If the Chinese do not behave as the United States wants on those stretches of highway, the highways will cease to be accessible to the Chinese. China never "behaves" as the US wants. Where have you been for the past 50 years? Further
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16y ago
It works by taking (mostly) off the shelf indexing software and attaching it to former executives of enterprise search and e-discovery companies. You could reproduce the whole thing from scratch and not get a dollar's worth of sales because