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Re:Ask HN: I want to be a programmer on Tuesday December 15, 2015 @12:29PM (#10739038)
"Any good books or screencasts or anything to get my feet wet on become a web developer? I like udacity but it costs money and don't have money for it."

Did you read what the OP asked for? Even though OP said he does not have the money to pay for web training,you still went ahead to suggest this paying site to him.Too bad.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2015) on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @10:06PM (#10660633)
Really,I cant make head or tail on what you saying here.You are just dithering.To me,I will warn developers about your company.We need to start speaking out about disrespectful potential employers.There are quite a lot of tech companies that are treating potential employee badly.Asking candidates to do many hours of take-home code interview and simply ignore them thereafter;passive-aggressively interview candidates;And your comments here are not helpful.

Ask HN: How to turn down a job interview

Posted by pma on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @05:32PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I applied to 5 companies about 6-7 weeks ago.I got an interview in all but one.To cut the story short,I got offers from all of the four companies.I am thinking to myself which to pick among them.Now,today the last company emailed me for an interview(after 7 weeks or so).I am not interested in the company anymore.How do i decline the interview in a decent way?.

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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2015) on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @03:48PM (#10658631)
I concur.It is time we let the whole world knows some of these companies that treat potential employees shabbily.
Re:Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented ... on Sunday November 29, 2015 @02:14PM (#10645654)
He does not need to apologize on his donation.Apologize over what?.It is folks like you that are creating problem where none exits.
Re:Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented ... on Sunday November 29, 2015 @02:08PM (#10645624)
Most open source project teams are decent except Mozilla,which is vindictive at best.
Re:Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented ... on Sunday November 29, 2015 @02:05PM (#10645608)
Agree 100%. It is shameful the way they treated the man.I wont encourage anyone to participate in open source work in Mozilla.
Re:Confessions of a Paywall Journalist on Monday November 09, 2015 @11:05AM (#10533777)
Too many articles are duplicated in Hacker News recently.eg. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10532349
Re:Free night time electricity in Texas on Monday November 09, 2015 @11:03AM (#10533768)
I think this is a duplicate post as this article is already posted and discussed here.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10529716.
Re:Madam C.J. Walker, an early 20th-century black woman who built a ha... on Friday October 23, 2015 @10:56PM (#10442247)
magda_wang, God bless you for bringing this piece to HN.Keep it up.
Re:Jack Dorsey Gives One-Third of Twitter Stake to Employees on Friday October 23, 2015 @12:31AM (#10436810)
Nice.Let all other CEOs follow.
Re:Bloomberg Runs on 25M lines of Fortran (2006) on Thursday September 10, 2015 @08:21AM (#10197581)
There is no such thing as "incumbent advantages" for market this is based on technology that could be duplicated.The same is applicable to payment system that paypal,stripe and others take on now.Same with car industry that Telsa is working on.Did you read the linked article about MONEY.NET.The thing is that developers have not been paying much attention to nuts and bolts of these terminals,until lately.http://fortune.com/2014/03/20/can-the-bloomberg-terminal-be-...
Re:Bloomberg Runs on 25M lines of Fortran (2006) on Thursday September 10, 2015 @07:21AM (#10197349)
Bloomberg terminal and Thomson Reuters are certainly ripe for strong competitors.They are basically operated as monopoly for decades.Yc,developers and others should take on this challenge. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/10/business/dealbook/the-bloo...
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2015) on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @11:23PM (#10157253)
Hey, I notice that you have been technically posting the same positions since March,this year.Are you guys doing something wrong or what that folks dont wanna work there? How about offer some of these positions remotely?
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2015) on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @06:26PM (#10156222)
Location:Midwest,United States

Remote:Yes

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