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Re:How China Fooled the World [video] on Sunday March 09, 2014 @10:01PM (#7370937)
The aspect ratio on that link seems a bit off. This one showed up in the suggested videos and has the correct aspect ratio. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUSjMnmS5lI
Re:Show HN: I redesigned the Microsoft employee badge on Monday February 17, 2014 @05:37PM (#7254993)
On the note of minimalism the actually Apple badge looks like this. http://cdn-static.cnet.co.uk/i/c/blg/cat/mobiles/jordan-id.j...
Re:Saying goodbye to Python on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @05:21PM (#7227774)
If I may ask, how should I find Go jobs?
Re:Okay, Google, you officially beat Siri on Monday November 25, 2013 @12:41AM (#6792704)
Somebody wrote the following but it is gone now. (Still had it in my other tab.)

It's actually just plain old web search. Search this on Google (https://www.google.com/search?q=vidyarthi+bhavan) or Bing (http://www.bing.com/search?q=vidyarthi+bhavan) or DuckDuckGo (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=vidyarthi+bhavan) or Blekko (http://blekko.com/#?q=vidyarthi%20bhavan) or Yandex (http://www.yandex.com/yandsearch?text=vidyarthi%20bhavan) or Baidu (http://www.baidu.com/s?wd=vidyarthi+bhavan). Baidu is the only place where I saw it being the second result and not the first.

Or their marketshare becomes irrelevant. Could happen if there are competitors with big marketing budgets, valuable screen estate and packaging deals.
I tried to get people to code review before merge and nobody cares. Nobody cares about clean code either. Everyone is worried about getting something working somehow even if it's bug-ridden and slow.
So is this a common thing at big corporations? For instance, I was mid-process at Google but was not in a position to go wait to see where it goes. Then you hear about a story on HN about how the dl.google.com server was shitty and would take 24 hours to boot and was full of bugs.

Ask HN: Not enjoying working at my 1st large company, are there any good ones?

I was working at a startup before that had to fold. Luckily in the Bay Area you have many companies that need engineers. I had multiple offers from big corporations. I took up one of them. The code here sucks. There are some talented people but barring them most are "Java developers".Do all big companies suck? By suck I mean any two out of three of the following are true: 1. Shitty code and a...

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