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by zainny 13y ago
He was interviewing at a startup dude. They probably didn't have a hiring manager and have no clue about how saying stuff like this can backfire.
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by zainny 13y ago
Which, incidentally, Android does.
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by zainny 13y ago
Can anyone explain the interrelation between sports players and college for me? We don't really have such a concept in Australia as far as I'm aware. Am I understanding correctly that to play a sport professionally a person must f
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by zainny 13y ago
We're creating an environment now in which it is practically impossible to discuss this topic in tech. Our general irrationality and desire to completely and utterly jump down the throat of anyone who even remotely touches on this topi
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by zainny 13y ago
Honestly I don't think any part of the question is genuine. It's all basically a setup for complaining about his coworkers.
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by zainny 13y ago
Pretty wild. I opened your first link maybe 20 minutes ago and the price was $650. And now it's $750. The volatility is just crazy.
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by zainny 13y ago
A great deal of intent is telegraphed by how you say things and the words you choose to use. Starting out with something like "[the agreement] could help all of our economies and strengthen relations between the United States and sever
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by zainny 13y ago
Accessing this from Australia it still shows as available and you can order it. Must be geography specific (presumably, while inventory still lasts).
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by zainny 13y ago
This article is from August. About a week ago, the situation got much much worse. S4BB, the offending company, submitted another 138,792 apps: http://crackberry.com/s4bb-submits-additional-138792-apps-bl... BlackBerry is an
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by zainny 13y ago
I don't think "making out like bandits" is accurate at all. Tenured academics don't seem like they make all that much money and I think most would make more in corporate.
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by zainny 13y ago
This entire post is absurd. It's almost entirely analogous in my mind to the idea that because there are books that perhaps feature words like "sex" and "miniskirts" that this is offensive, the entire author communi
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by zainny 13y ago
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Android yet. When you add in the Android factor, Java is probably still one of the most widely used programming languages today. It's funny the article straight away brings up the verbosity argum
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by zainny 13y ago
I wonder if people will look back at this period and shake their heads or if things are only going to get worse from here on out? Is our obsession with these gizmos a temporary aberration caused by their newness and the fact that we haven&#
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by zainny 13y ago
I think maybe only two or so years ago BlackBerry had over 17,000 employees so in total we're talking about more than half of the company being cut in the space of a few years. Huge when you think about it like that.
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by zainny 13y ago
I live in Australia and use Whatsapp and so do lots of other people I know.
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by zainny 13y ago
And at the same time as releasing this, they've just laid off 40% of the company. The tried and true PR tactic of trying to hide bad news: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732380820457908... Alternativ
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by zainny 13y ago
Your post is the one that's hard to take seriously given that you continuously to refer to the poster as "he". Near the end of the article, she writes: "I'm a single mother working in tech publishing — believe me,
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by zainny 13y ago
I think the difference here though is conferences like this are intentionally positioned at being more casual and less formal/professional. I doubt lawyers even have similarly casual conferences of this nature. In the tech world, we&#x
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by zainny 13y ago
I wonder if the biggest reason why things like this keep happening is because we're all on a state of "high alert" in the tech community. Hear me out. Right now in the tech world we've got ourselves in a big damn tizzy o
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by zainny 13y ago
In case anyone is wondering, what motivated me to submit this was simply the fact that while I've known about this section forever, a quick poll of people I know who visit HN revealed that it wasn't common knowledge. I have no ide
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by zainny 13y ago
What really annoys me about Dark Souls is the shitty PC port. They're still selling tons of copies of the game for PC because of all the silly hype around it, and yet the game is virtually unplayable - even with all the mouse fixes, mo
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by zainny 13y ago
One thing that really annoys me about HN is how damn contrarian everyone always tries to be. Responses typically take the most absolute narrow and unforgiving interpretation of any point you are trying to make and subsequently use that to s
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by zainny 13y ago
Ridiculous. Good engineers solve engineering problems. The huge number of successful engineers out there in the world solving problems without remembering their CS course notes tells you everything you need to know about how important much
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by zainny 13y ago
I once worked with an individual with a PhD in Mathematics who wrote some of the most god-awful code you could possibly imagine. In an algorithmic test, he would have bested anybody I can think of. Intelligence and usefulness at tasks are i
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by zainny 13y ago
I am actually pretty decently ranked on Interviewstreet because I do have a personal interest in algorithmic stuff (I was top in Australia for a little while :)). I used to do your codesprints just for fun. My feedback to you would be that
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by zainny 13y ago
I would argue that, say, a recent graduate who can absolutely nail algorithmic questions would be the most likely to screw up on the big ticket items that matter (infrastructure, taste, independent thought) precisely because they have zer
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by zainny 13y ago
This exact topic came up yesterday in the HN post "Bullshit Interviews": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6304911 ( https://coderwall.com/p/yn9g2a ) I repeat now what I said then: I think t
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by zainny 13y ago
I think there's a very simple rule anyone can and should follow to not fuck up interviews: Don't ask people to do things in the interview you wouldn't expect them to do in the job. Examples: (1) Do people in this job regularl
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by zainny 13y ago
Just as with all the other such articles, there are probably going to be comments on this one talking about how interviews like this are the exception. That you just got crappy interviewers and as the article itself notes, you probably didn

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