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Re:Why a $154B CEO just endorsed stripping most Americans of voting ri...
on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @11:01AM (#49084997)
Journalism is terrible nowadays - Tobi was commenting on the Canadian political system, not American.
Re:Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and...
on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @12:52AM (#42385174)
Yes, the nice thing about it being a desktop app is that all interview platforms are supported - browsers are unable to detect these desktop apps due to inherent limitations. There's a bunch of competing services so it's likely your candidates were running something.
Re:Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and...
on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @09:04PM (#42383928)
I was laid off at the start of 2024 and built https://interviewsolver.com which is an AI copilot for helping you with your leetcode interviews. Doing about 6k/month, though the space is becoming fairly crowded.
Re:Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs?
on Wednesday September 11, 2024 @02:25AM (#41508553)
https://interviewsolver.com
Interview Copilot for helping you ace your live coding interviews. Desktop app + companion web mode so it's truly undetectable by interview platforms, controlled by global hotkeys.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2024)
on Thursday April 04, 2024 @02:45PM (#39934296)
What's the recommended way to apply for the roles not listed on the career page?
Re:Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued (2012)
on Sunday September 27, 2020 @09:15AM (#24606391)
US company, but that's just my point that there are more US companies willing to hire Canadians remotely.
Re:Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued (2012)
on Saturday September 26, 2020 @12:27PM (#24599966)
Canadian here, just signed an offer (Not FAANG) for ~360k TC, 30k of that was negotiated up based on advice from this patio11 article. The opportunities are out there, especially now that companies are going remote.
Re:Ending at-will employment: a better remedy for cancel culture?
on Thursday July 16, 2020 @09:44AM (#23858880)
It doesn't even have to be a political disagreement - could be something as simple as appearing to have fallen asleep in a zoom call:
https://www.newsweek.com/petition-fire-nyc-professor-accused...
Some others:
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/white-fragility-raci...
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/nov/14/rosetta-come...
https://www.thefire.org/research/disinvitation-database/#hom...
https://reason.com/2019/05/05/teen-fiction-twitter-is-eating...
Plenty more instances that have happened in the past 5 years.
Re:You Probably Should Be Wearing a Face Mask If You Can
on Monday March 30, 2020 @08:19PM (#22733686)
By all means donate your n95 and surgical masks, but many studies show that DIY masks are nearly as effective in stopping asymptomatic spread so the messaging should be around asking everyone to wear a (DIY) mask when they go out.
Re:On holy wars, and a plea for peace
on Monday September 24, 2018 @04:22PM (#18061072)
Re:New FreeBSD Code of Conduct
on Sunday February 18, 2018 @07:55PM (#16409962)
Your local HAM radio group isn't being infiltrated by social justice activists. Tech orgs don't need a CoC and have functioned mostly fine since the beginning without them. CoCs are pure entryism (the most famous example being Opalgate).
Consider this line from the CoC:
>Comments that reinforce systemic oppression related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neurodiversity, physical appearance, body size, age, race, or religion.
Why even include the line 'reinforce systemic oppression' ? I guarantee that the CoC won't be enforced against someone saying stuff like "Kill all men" or "white men are garbage". They're a tool for expelling anyone who doesn't kowtow to social justice ideology.
One of the most widely used CoCs - Open Code of Conduct -specifically has a section about not accepting complaints regarding ‘Reverse’ -isms, including ‘reverse racism,’ ‘reverse sexism,’ and ‘cisphobia’
Re:Netflix announces Cloverfield Paradox to be available right after t...
on Sunday February 04, 2018 @10:44PM (#16306456)
I think this IS Cloverfield 4
Re:Silicon Valley Struggles to Add Conservatives to Its Ranks
on Friday December 01, 2017 @04:02PM (#15827441)
This reminds me of when the James Damore news first broke out and multiple Google hiring managers were openly bragging on G+ about maintaining blacklists of everyone who didn't denounce the diversity memo.
Re:What I Heard from Trump Supporters
on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @02:13PM (#13698606)
>zero widespread cultural support. Violence is not glorified by any prominent voices on the left.
This is just not true.[1] Even in our tech community it's pretty commonplace to see 'it's okay to punch a nazi' is a well supported position.[2]
[1] https://heatst.com/culture-wars/prominent-leftists-celebrate... [2] http://reason.com/blog/2017/02/15/now-its-okay-to-punch-nazi...
Re:China won't be luring foreign tech talent any time soon
on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @12:15PM (#13168457)
mattmcknight's comment addresses one of the reasons.
I think another part of it is a lack of understanding of what developers actually do - people perceive developers as manual laborers that just type stuff into a computer based on what a higher-up has designed/created. They attribute the actual creative/engineering output to the manager.
It's also a low-paying job in a materialistic society. There's a feedback loop of Low pay -> no respect -> low pay that's hard to break out of.
Re:China won't be luring foreign tech talent any time soon
on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @10:59AM (#13167729)
One cultural factor is the fact that developers have a low social standing in China (sometimes referred to as 马工). This leads to low pay, reduced dating pool, lack of respect from people you meet etc.
Re:The Far Right Has a New Digital Safe Space
on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @03:32PM (#13074439)
I signed up to the waitlist and received an invite within a week. There's no evidence that they're not inviting from the waitlist.
Re:“No, I'm the ex-CEO of Reddit because eventually there was too much...
on Monday October 24, 2016 @11:56AM (#12779958)
Through the magic of money and super PACs
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/21/hillary-pac...
Re:Peter Thiel: The Online Privacy Debate Won’t End With Gawker
on Monday August 15, 2016 @04:53PM (#12293336)
Consider the way things were before Thiel showed up. Gawker destroyed lives[1] with impunity because their victims didn't have deep enough pockets to fight back in court. Thiel is just leveling the playing field.
[1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3488027/Gawker-edito...
Re:Riot uses League of Legends chatlogs to weed out toxic employees
on Friday June 10, 2016 @04:10PM (#11879615)
I don't think Blizzard is a stranger to the esports scene. Every single one of their current game offerings has a competitive scene with the exception of diablo 3.
Re:iPhone Sales Drop, and Apple’s 13-Year Surge Ebbs
on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @06:18PM (#11576207)
I'm in the same boat and bought a Moto G, but one major issue is the lack of gyroscope for google cardboard/vr use.
Re:Wrestling With Inclusion at LambdaConf
on Thursday March 24, 2016 @11:26AM (#11353532)
How right you are! Let's ostracize and noplatform all the wrongthinkers. How about we start by banning those horrendous muslims whose beliefs are homophobic, sexist, calls for the death of apostates and atheists etc. Or maybe those sexist homophobic christians?
Re:Wrestling With Inclusion at LambdaConf
on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @05:17PM (#11348324)
Mostly likely referring to Steve Klabnik https://archive.is/BtDaA
Re:The 1980s Media Panic Over Dungeons and Dragons
on Friday March 04, 2016 @03:57PM (#11226802)
That was just one recent example. A simple google search of '{network name} + gamergate' will turn up multiple articles from every single major news network.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/14/arts/video-games/why-2014-... http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2565116360 http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/15/living/gamergate-explainer/ fox news: https://archive.is/dycHE
Re:The 1980s Media Panic Over Dungeons and Dragons
on Friday March 04, 2016 @02:17PM (#11226168)
That's simply not true at all. See recent BBC video on 'Dark side of gaming'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZMjGwjCAuQ
Three women who were interviewed all commented in the video about how BBC misrepresented their views and cherry picked quotes to fit the narrative
YOGSCAST Hannah: I pointed this out during my interview, and said online gaming companies need to step up and help support reporting and banning like DOTA 2/Valve did - looks like that didn't get through, they just kept the bit where I said abuse happens to everyone :(
0Apes0: 3 days ago Being the manager of the HoG (shooting the shot gun) I am very disappointed at the finished edit of this. This was supposed to be a film about women in gaming but 'sorry we had to change direction) in the last couple of weeks. It's only purpose is to make women feel like victims when we're not. MEN and women experience a use everyday online, the bet thing to do is to ignore it and ban the stupid people on Twitter, live, psn and twitch. Not worth the worry. I said this but clearly this was deemed too logical to show and we must all remain victims. Not happy with the finish product only that it's appeared on YouTube and not real TV. Also lol good job at bringing KSI in.
Ms 5ooo Watts: 1 day ago I'm honestly disappointed with how this turned out. I was approached to speak about women in gaming as a whole not to only talk about the negative side. Even during the interview I was asked to give my positive experiences with being a gamer as they didn't want this to be a one sided thing. None of my positive comments about my community and the gaming community as a whole were included at all. The initial email that I received asking for an interview said, and I quote "I’m working on a BBC3 documentary looking at the experiences of female gamers, how experiences are changing (and how the games themselves are changing)" No where in there does it say that the program will be about "the dark side of gaming" I never signed up to be some kind of warrior against sexism online, I was asked to talk about the experiences of women in gaming, how things are changing and how games themselves are changing to reflect women in gaming now being more represented. Not happy at all.
Re:Apple Safari users suffer crashes
on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @01:35PM (#10981935)
The aesthetics of the FF addon marketplace are the way they are because Mozilla neglected that property for many years. There's currently a new initiative to redesign and build out an updated version of the marketplace, so expect the design to look like the chrome one soon.
Re:Chinese cities use “mist cannon” to shoot pollution from the sky
on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @05:03PM (#10780673)
As a counterpoint I visited in October this year and used ExpressVPN, which worked fine and was fast. No 6 layers of VPN required.
Re:The New Intolerance of Student Activism
on Monday November 09, 2015 @03:58PM (#10535801)
>The code of conduct doesn't say it (though at least one version did) but the atmosphere currently is that it's impossible for a woman or ethnic minority to be the perpetrator.
It's funny you mention that - the code of conduct Github tried to adopt actually did specifically say it through their 'reverse racism/sexism' clause, aka It doesn't count as racism or sexism if your target is a straight white guy.
Re:SXSW Cancels Gamer Panels After Threats
on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @12:42AM (#10456348)
Threatening violence to noplatform your ideological opponents is a pretty standard tactic out of the SJW playbook.
See: http://www.polygon.com/2015/5/3/8539733/gamergate-bomb-threa...
http://www.polygon.com/2015/8/16/9161311/bomb-threat-shuts-d...