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Re:Ask HN: Have you ever been demoted months after being hired?
on Thursday April 08, 2021 @05:06PM (#26743751)
That's odd they would ask you to resign although 2 levels lower is weird.
I had something similar happen to me last year. When receiving an offer, I was told I would be at L6 but found out after I was hired at L5 (both levels are considered Senior Engineer). The title is the same and the comp was as agreed, just that I thought the level would be higher.
Lesson learned for next time. Always get something like that in writing.
Re:Ask HN: Would you like a debugger for your mind?
on Saturday April 03, 2021 @12:04PM (#26682103)
Yes definitely. What's the prototype?
Re:Female Founder Secrets: Men Clamming Up
on Sunday March 28, 2021 @04:19PM (#26614071)
One of the toughest things about discrimination is being able to prove it. I'm a white man, but I spent time living in Japan where I was an obvious minority.
Some situations were clear to me that I was being treated a particular way because of my race. But then others were not so clear cut.
For example, one time I was talking in Japanese with a group and someone kept repeating what I said like "He said...". I was getting angry at that as I took it to mean that they were basically "translating" my Japanese for others. But then later, I was watching a Japanese TV drama and the same thing happened on there (with only Japanese speaking). That made me think that maybe this was just a cultural thing that people do and didn't have any reflection on me personally.
Having mentored a female engineer, I've seen that if you are constantly on the lookout for signs of discrimination against you, you will find so much of it. You'll go crazy thinking the whole world is out to get you because of your sex, race, etc. It's tough because there are no doubt situations where that does happen. But there are also situations where a white man would have been given the same feedback or treated in the same way. As a minority though, you only have your own experience to go on. It becomes tough to recognize what is legitimate discrimination vs what is just ordinarily communication.
Re:Female Founder Secrets: Men Clamming Up
on Sunday March 28, 2021 @03:51PM (#26613734)
It's ambiguous because white men don't all act the same way. There are plenty of non confident, hesitant white men.
Re:Reddit’s most popular subreddits go private in protest against ‘cen...
on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @01:33PM (#26570379)
It'd be interesting to see demographics on moderators. My perception is that they must skew young because who else has time to do all that work for free?
Volunteer moderation is one of those things that must baffle economists. Here you have people putting in a lot of work for free for a profit seeking enterprise.
Re:Has Y Combinator lost its way when the latest company is a Mac only...
on Friday March 12, 2021 @10:46AM (#26436994)
This was a marketing myth put out by Apple in the early days of the app store. It's not true.
Re:Ask HN: Am I blowing an acquihire offer?
on Saturday February 27, 2021 @11:26PM (#26290661)
IME it's a bad sign when someone is trying to shame you. If that's their last bargaining chip then they know they don't have much of a position.
Re:My Life in E-Ink
on Saturday February 20, 2021 @10:10AM (#26204633)
https://youtu.be/ObtjXO_hEPw
This was a pretty thorough traffic analysis of their Max Lumi device. I think it would be pretty similar with the Note Air. I bought a Max Lumi after this as there didn't seem to be much concern.
Re:There’s no such thing as “a startup within a big company”
on Thursday February 18, 2021 @10:49AM (#26181220)
I can't stress the the "ideally successful" part enough. I've worked at a couple startups where the entrepreneur was serial but this was their first "success". I felt I learned very little. Both companies reached a comfortable point and then the founder didn't know what to do beyond that.
I came to understand why there's a lot of stories of VCs forcing out the founder and bringing in a new CEO who had experience in growing a company.
Re:My platonic ideal for how engineering hiring should work
on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @05:13AM (#24846070)
How come when I login to my interviewing.io account I don't see Twitter but it's shown in the screenshot? Is that an accurate representation? I do see the other companies from the screenshot but with fewer jobs.
Re:My platonic ideal for how engineering hiring should work
on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @05:10AM (#24846057)
Harvard Business Review?
Re:The 2020 census is being ‘sabotaged,’ says leading U.S. statistician
on Saturday October 17, 2020 @10:43AM (#24810294)
> liberal states have more [illegal immigrants]
I was skeptical about this so I looked it up. Nevada and Texas are the top 2 states on a per capita basis. I'd hardly call those liberal states.
https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/interactives/u-s-unauth...
Re:The 2020 census is being ‘sabotaged,’ says leading U.S. statistician
on Saturday October 17, 2020 @10:35AM (#24810244)
Only citizens can vote.
Re:How I generated incomes as a web developer without working as a fre...
on Saturday October 17, 2020 @10:24AM (#24810174)
Paraphrasing an Elton John quote: "People think it's easy for me to know what will be a hit because I've had so many. The truth is I've written songs I was sure would be a hit and nobody ended up listening to. I've also written songs that I didn't think would do anything and I even hesitated to include on the album and they turned out to be my biggest hits."
Re:I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and st...
on Saturday October 10, 2020 @06:09PM (#24742232)
TN visa will not be affected. It's in place due to the NAFTA trade agreement between Canada, US and Mexico. Despite all the rhetoric from Trump about cancelling it, it was renewed a few years ago without any, or possibly only minor, changes to the TN visa. So that category should be fine for the foreseeable future.