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Re:Planetary Protection Officer on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @02:48AM (#14908470)
Positions are available: https://careers.orkin.com/
FTFY: The guy you go to lunch with during your on-site interview @Google is most likely the one who hasn't completed interview training yet.
Re:Scientists Have Found Another Species of Crow That Uses Tools on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @04:51PM (#12501099)
Pigeons and bats were both used in separate projects. You're thinking of the bat one.

Incendiaries were attached to bats, who were dropped from planes. And then expected to fly into buildings. Incendiaries go off. Building burns down.

Pigeons were used as the guidance system in an early smart bomb. Rather than tracking a target with a laser or GPS, trained pigeons would steer the bomb.

Re:Otto joins Uber on Thursday August 18, 2016 @03:19PM (#12315556)
This is how harbors work. Ports employee pilots, who board ships, get them through busy waterways, and dock them. The regular crew on a large ship just sits back when coming into port.
Re:Birchbox Cuts About 12% of Staff on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @10:25PM (#11999108)
I've always been impressed that Dollar Shave Club was able to build a business around selling a single product available on Amazon for a higher price.
Re:The Lack of Options for Startup Employees’ Options on Thursday June 23, 2016 @09:32PM (#11965638)
A reasonable argument for a 90-day exercise window could have been: employees are told upfront that they need to remain with the company through a liquidity event for their options to be worth anything. The incentive to stay is both transparent and explicit. And aligns everyone's incentives, e.g. long-tenured employees perform better, making the startup's equity worth more, enriching the employee who stayed through the IPO.

The arguments in this article however were wholly incoherent.

Re:An Expensive Law Degree, and No Place to Use It on Saturday June 18, 2016 @05:18AM (#11927705)
This is exactly what most companies do. They hire in house counsel for their baseline, routine legal needs. And then outsource to biglaw for peak law stuff (litigation, big transactions).

In house counsel salaries are way less than those at a top law firm and you don't have to pay the difference between the firm's billings and what an associate--who's actually do the work-- gets paid.

To qualify their leads
Re:How to win the coding interview on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @03:00AM (#11805122)
In a whiteboard interview, comments can/should just be said out loud to the interviewer.
Re:All-electric trainer aircraft, cheaper than Cessna on Sunday May 29, 2016 @07:05PM (#11798644)
I would gladly pay for 5 hours of training for a combustion endorsement, if I could avoid fuel costs for 40+ hours of training to get my private certificate.