toomuchcoffee
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Some of my favorite posts (sadly, not my own):
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Comment · 13 years ago
The CEO leaned across the table, got in my face, and said, "this is a MONUMENTAL fuck up."
It certainly was -- on multiple levels, but ultimately up at the C-level. Blaming a single person (let a lone a junior engineer) for it just perpetuates the inbred culture of clusterfuckitude and cover-ass-ery which no doubt was the true root cause of the fuck-up in the first place.
Comment · 13 years ago
>For us, if we didn't make an offer it's either because the applicant is a jerk, a liar, or incompetent.
What an incredibly cocky and pretentious view of the world.
Comment · 14 years ago
Not to try to temper your frustration (which is quite legitimate), but in this context, "we're looking for a different skill set" is almost certainly a foil. Quite often companies will say things like that when really they mean they were just fundamentally disappointed in you for reasons X or Y they would find too awkward or risky to disclose to you.
Comment · 14 years ago
Awesome point there.
Almost by definition, anyone who really is a badass, rockstar, ninja, etc. at what they do is viscerally repelled by the cockiness exuding from job ads seeking people who describe themselves as such... and would never dream of applying for such jobs.
Comment · 14 years ago
Or as they say in Eurasia, "behaving abnormally":
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4464298Comment · 14 years ago
We've asked Amazon why the ads are US-only, and whether customers can pay to turn them off. If there is such an option, it doesn't seem to be mentioned in the Kindle Fire announcements or the Amazon sales pages. The prices are quite good, though, beating or matching the prices of tablets of comparable sizes.
...and pretty soon, before you know it in fact, we won't be able to power them down, either. Or disconnect the cameras or mikes.
"But hey, they're only $40 now, and the retina displays are just fantastic..."
Comment · 14 years ago
"It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself--anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face...; was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime..."
1984, Book 1, Chapter V
Comment · 14 years ago
Sweet.
Now you just need to grab a few more more domains, e.g. "EscapeMyDate.com", etc.
Comment · 14 years ago
Apparently the auto-kill filtering is source-, rather than pattern-based. For example this article seems to have made it through:
http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=4487658
Even though its title also mentions the Unnameable Politician.
Comment · 14 years ago
Really now? Let's try a little experiment: