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I interviewed at a small company. I came in, talked to several people, cruised through some coding problems, and left with smiles and handshakes. Sent the usual thank-you email, too.

About three months later, after I'd long written them off, I got a call from them. They'd "been busy" and asked if I could come by the next day. This time, I met with several people working on the projects I'd be helping them with (mostly porting code to platforms I had a ton of experience on). Everything was looking good. Then the HR guy said something like, "you don't seem very excited." Since no talk of an offer of any kind had come up yet, I was severely tempted to remind him that, after the last time I came in, I didn't hear from them again for months.

The last thing said to me upon exiting the interview, again, all smiles and handshakes, was, "I'll give you a call tomorrow. But if you don't hear from me, give me a call."

Fuck that. From the moment I left their building, I never gave them another thought. As expected, I didn't hear a peep from them.

Employers like to complain about how hard it is to find talent, but then they behave like this. It's as much our evaluation of them as it is their evaluation of us.

I've been on the other side of it, too. Being made to interview candidates when we have absolutely no need for additional people, or for groups wildly unrelated to anything I do in the company. I wanted to tell the people, "look, you're probably never going to hear from us again because, frankly, we don't need anybody, and nobody in engineering has any idea why we're interviewing you."
No way, I'm a co-founder too! Were you at that office on 2nd street? We should totally have hung out :P
That's the app was trying think of! Cheers :) what I want to see, is a way of building those work flows in sourcetree, and pushing that out to developers. Would be awesome... And I think I might try and hack on it perhaps.
California exchange site sucked big time at the start and still sucks, but I've heard stories of people I know that actually signed up there. So compared to healthcare.gov it works better. Compared to normal proper site it's a disaster (or at least was couple of months ago when I last checked) but I guess good enough for government work.
I find the blue headlights annoying because they're blue, not because they're bright.
Well that's for the Supreme Court to decide now but logically speaking, it's not an unlicensed duplication. It's not duplicated at all. The broadcast is recorded once, played back by the original recorder, and is not distributed as it's not being transferred from one entity to another.

The whole argument obviously relies on the premise that Areo is renting you the antenna, so you're the one doing the recording using rented equipment far away.
Well, yeah.

It's used to disarm and unmask someone's defense by asserting that they are

a certain kind of guy with certain views of women
who acts in a particularly bizarre fashion towards
them [...] who defend[s] and act[s] nice towards
women in the vague belief it will get them laid,
if indirectly, through being the type of man they
believe women will have sex with [...] who
usually tries being too nice for a couple of
years, gets frustrated, then gets into the PUA
community.

That's the point.
> When I feel that the oncoming vehicle's lights are too bright, they get my high beams, which stay on them, despite their frantic high beam flashing. If more people did this, perhaps these people would switch back to their OEM lights.

Sounds like you're really endangering other people's lives in response to an annoyance.
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My latest complaint is LED brake lights. Many models seem to be making them very bright -- to the point where they blind me when I am behind such a car. At stops, I sometimes find I have to look away from the car in front of me and the road, both due to discomfort and to having my night vision -- despite their being largely "red" -- destroyed.

I thought there were regulations for such things -- for headlights, as well -- but either they are too lax or no one is enforcing them.

Also, it seems typical of today's trends. Brighten up e.g. one's headlights for one's own convenience, even if and as to an excess that inconveniences everyone else or even puts them at risk.

P.S. Also, many "modern" headlights have a very small and bright core source of light, as opposed to the larger reflector of "older" designs that does not create such an intense, localized spot.

And the "blue-er" light -- harder on one's night vision.
> it's expected to have payroll your largest expense - there was no surprise

Only when you are small haven't marketed the service and your subscriber numbers are still small. You could probably support 10x the subscribers with only 2x (or less) of an increase in staff.
White knight: someone who defends another person without understanding the issues, or defending them regardless of their bad behavior. It's gender neutral.
The more blue the lights are, the greater the chance they are not factory; some schmuck stuck HID bulbs in halogen housings. This means no auto-leveling, no proper beam focusing, etc. It is already widely known that doing so is a Very Bad Idea (tm), but some people have absolutely no deference to their fellow drivers on the road.
I've always had mixed feelings about personal questions. As a candidate I appreciate the questions. I'm evaluating the employees and their attitude towards my family, my religion and personal history. I usually make a point to volunteer this information because I know they won't bring it it.

Honestly, I would rather find out that being Mormon and having 2 kids at age 25 is a problem sooner rather than later. In my last job, the fact that I don't drink came up in the interview. It want because they had a problem with it. Rather, they wanted to ask me if I was comfortable with the somewhat alcohol focused culture of the company. These are important parts of the recruiting process, at least to me.
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It's unpalatable. PG says nothing more in this post than he did in last one where he really didn't need to explain himself anyways. The more he writes about this, the more he'll have to write about this to defend himself.
Fluff and I could really use some meat and potatoes.
My message to all startups out there: despite Valley folklore, it is ok to have a marketing budget and spend money to advertise to users - especially initially. Not every successful company or service grows "organically".
I guess the term "personalized" (to use quotes of my own) infers using your personal data to tailor results. People who are opponents of that practice are huge advocates for DDG.
Doesn't using the bang syntax invalidate any privacy or surveillance related reasons to use DDG?
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> One of the classic phenomena of witch hunts is when the hunt comes back to bag an original instigator.

Like Robespierre?
Depends on what you mean by intentional. I'm not sure if the guys that call the shots are Machiavellian enough for such things - given how incompetent they are in everything else, hard to imagine they would be super-competent in long-reaching plots. If they had been able to execute long-running plans of such magnitude with such certainty, they wouldn't screw up so many things so badly as they had.

However, the resulting vector of their efforts and failures may very well point into that direction, and not without their cooperation and help, since once they beat insurance industry into full dependency and make the population rely on subsidized care, the next logical step would be to eliminate the middlemen - there would be no point for them to exist anymore, at least not as independent entities - given that they would have no independence as such and serve no useful function in such setup.
AWS costs seem reasonable to me and it is definitely the smart way to build a service like this. Saves a ton on time early and services like this can optimize later when they are much larger.
Not in response to an "annoyance". I feel that they are selfishly endangering me and the other drivers on the road.
Just out of pure morbid curiosity; would that be a criminal/illegal offence?
Not to sound flippant, but so are you and everybody else. I have yet to read anywhere on the Internet that someone is looking for a boring town that's dedicated solely to cars with cheap housing and crap for jobs. What you seek is in very high demand, especially with the nascent trend of moving back into cities so it will be quite expensive relative to what you get.

NIMBYism accounts for a lot because people hate change and people moved somewhere for a specific aesthetic but simple market demand accomplishes a lot.
That is what I thought as well, but details on the Target hack suggests they managed to get hold of the cards' entire track data (I'm on my phone so can't link to the article directly, but it's on the same website as OP's link) I'm guessing NM has the same data policy.
We had already very efficient image optimization for full-resolution photos using 4X to 5X less space than competitors. Without that our AWS bill would have been insane. So as far as it goes for pure storage on S3, we were as low as possible.

However, on the database side of things, there was a lot of room for optimization (and we only got to some of it).
That's an interesting factor that I never thought about in admissions of universities. Location and ethnic makeup of a state might have impact on the enrollment of minorities, though I don't think it's substantive it might have an impact.
They (used to, at least) physically design the actual server-boards used in their DCs - the same way that FB started to copy them on.

While they may have the actual physical manufacture contracted to a fab - they certainly were "building" their own google-specific designs.
It's a tax that goes nowhere

Much like Bitcoin and electricity! Your housing is cheap until someone else wants it; then the two of you bid to tie up wealth :)
Neat project, but isn't this kind of a confusing name, given the existence of the R statistical programming language? I mean, just google for "r stats"...
> The last thing said to me upon exiting the interview, again, all smiles and handshakes, was, "I'll give you a call tomorrow. But if you don't hear from me, give me a call."

I might have been inclined to respond, "you don't seem very excited." :D
90%? Wow. It's less for me. But still, they got better, I now usually (60-70% I guess) get a result I want on the first page (compared to google where there are several useful results on the first page) and that together with the !keywords is enough for me. Now the only thing left I need to replace is google calendar and I'll be google free :)
"Some of America's most productive cities for medium- and low-income families—Boston, Honolulu, San Jose, New York—are also the most expensive. This is often due to (or at least, exacerbated by) exclusionary zoning and housing regulations that limit the number of available units, which drives up the price of housing, ensuring that low-income families can't afford to live there."

Bingo.

Real estate right now is basically Satan. Anything that can be done to break real estate markets is good.
It's never been about equality of opportunity. It's always been about equality of outcome which in itself is a very un-capitalist view.

I understand:
Maybe we can give women a shot at this and see if they can do really well. It might work, or it might not. It's a market that's un-tapped and we might end up with great results. Let's try this out.

I don't understand:
More women need to do this because.
The page doesn't say who is behind it, but the wiki is edited by user "vbuterin".

So maybe it's Vitalik Buterin, one of the more interesting cryptocurrency thinkers out there. Hmm.

http://about.me/vitalik_buterin
Funding tip for failing startups: when all the domestic investors have cottoned on to the fact that you're full of shit, just go abroad to find someone who's gullible and has a lot of money.
Definitely. It is just a handy multiplexer - I have a habit at this point to append every query with a bang.

On the occasions I forget, the DDG results seem to be improving. However, ~90% of my Google queries are computer related, and DDG (and even the !so bang) are not as relevant as Google yet for me. As soon as this use case improves enough, I will break my bang habit and use DDG directly for most of my queries.
Nice troll :D
Maybe they could spin it as a pivot.
The OP said, "The real problem is that, at least in the US, no one seems to care about keeping their headlights aimed properly..." I'm only pointing out that proper adjustment isn't the issue.

The matter of HID headlight annoyance is well-trodden territory in automotive circles. Owning a car with them equipped, I appreciate the additional visibility. On the flip side, living in an area where they are common, I appreciate that they can be blinding if you're caught in the beam.
There hasn't been a large-scale violent uprising in the United States for almost 150 years. The US and state governments of today have continuity from that point.

In that time period legitimate democratic processes have brought about the 40-hour work week; the abolition of child labor; substantial improvements in the legal rights and protection of women, racial minorities, and sexual minorities; regulatory systems to protect the purity and wholesomeness of food and the efficacy and safety of medication; programs like Social Security and Medicare which have virtually eliminated the kind of wide-scale destitution of the elderly that previous generations had seen; environmental protections for water and air; and a host of other reforms enacted for the popular interest and by popular demand.

Many other democratic nations in the world can tell the same story about the 20th century as well.

These achievements are all incomplete and flawed, and obviously there have been many outrages, but modern democracies are by and large the most humane, least violent, and most responsive governments in human history.
For the specific type of man the phrase "white knight" applies to, the motivation isn't infantilization but rather objectification. The men engaging in that behaviour don't do so because they think the woman is in need of protection, but rather because they think being protectors in that sense is what will make women have sex with them.

Again, it's not a criticism of, or term describing, men who defend women. It's a criticism of a particular kind of man who defends women in a particular way with an expectation of a sleazy reward.

That's not to say the term isn't abused; it is. I'm not arguing with tptacek's assertion that use of the term tends to lower quality of discourse, but rather with the implied assertion that the term itself is invalid or in some way offensive. As I said in my original comment, it fairly specifically describes a particular phenomenon, and if it didn't exist some other term would be invented to take its place.
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I'm continually amazed at how people can't understand this. You have a right to not have your free speech stifled by the government, but that has nothing to do with what a private corporation decides to let you do with their product.
Is there something a candidate can do to get out of the lunch interview? It seems like it might be one of those things that both sides put up with in order to seem polite, but neither is actually interested in. I've been in the lunch interviewer situation before and would have been ecstatic if the candidate said, "I'm actually unable to go to lunch due to [some plausible excuse], can we reschedule for 1pm?" but generally, the schedule was already set at that point.
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This article shouldn't have been? I think the one previous to this one was going to far. ("What I didn't say") It's not PG's fault people lie and have reading comprehension problems. By writing even more on this he's just giving more to feed SJW trolls.
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I think the wording he used in the announcement was bad. I think it's fairly universally agreed upon that neutrality and avoidance of conflict of interest are key tenants of Wikipedia, and are certainly things that an administrator of Wikipedia and employee of Wikimedia would be expected to uphold.
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It isn't the HID lights themselves. All proper HID lights on new cars come with auto-leveling systems which will keep them from throwing light at your rear view mirror. You actually wind up with less light in your rear view than with traditional headlights. When you look at them, they'll look like projector lights and you can see them move up and down as a car goes over a hill, for instance.

The problem is that aftermarket kits are used to install HID lights into standard headlight enclosures. This is base-level idiocy on the part of tinkerers to 'improve' their cars and make them look more modern. There may be a corresponding 'Type R' badge on the back to make the car go faster as well. These will throw a TON of light at your rear view and blind you. These are illegal in most states and I wish this law were enforced without exception everywhere in the world.
They aren't broadcasting, they are transmitting the recording (that you directed them to make) to you. It still should be considered a private performance since the recording was made at your direction and is visible to only you. They aren't taking any control of the equipment, just giving you access to a remote DVR.
I think the all-or-nothing attitude is an attempt by many people to play against their own psychology.

For many people, "I'll just do whatever I feel like each day" is problematic, because the moment right before lunch isn't their brain's best time to make that decision. In that moment, the task at hand looms large in their attention, so they are disproportionately tempted to submit to it and keep working. The benefits of taking the break are somewhere out in the future, they're abstract, and even if you intellectually believe in the benefits, it can be easy to discount them, right there, in that moment. The task at hand is right there, right then, very concrete, no discount.

For such people, all-or-nothing is a way for them to make a decision ahead of time, in a moment of less stress and greater foresight, and perhaps commit themselves to it in a way that takes the decision out of their hands in their weaker moments. They may not come out ahead every day, but if the strategy works, they should come out ahead in the long run.
True! they're called the "public airwaves" for a reason: we the public own them and networks just license the use. I frown upon the behavior of the networks and hope Aereo will prevail.
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I agree it's certainly abused, and misused for precisely the purpose you state. I merely contend that it describes a real phenomenon, and as such is not an inherently bad term. The misuse of it might indeed be more prevalent than its use to accurately describe what it was coined for, but I don't see how the term itself is to blame.

It's kind of like the words "hipster" and "emo": their use as derogations are far more prevalent than their use to describe the particular subcultures they was originally intended for, yet if you didn't have those terms you'd still need something else to fill the void.
So it sounds like you don't have to push your code since your workstation is already being backed up then? We agree that you don't need to push your feature branches in that situation? I'm not sure, I feel like you just pulled some weird conversational jiu-jitsu where all of a sudden you're making my point back to me.
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I see tons of "I interviewed 5 times and didn't get the job" comments on this thread. Why is it so hard to get a job in Silicon Valley?

I hear that it's tough to find talent, and I also hear that it's tough to find a gig. Something doesn't add up.
Even if that's the case, the correct response is not to endanger them right back. That's like people who tailgate because they think the person in front of them is going too slow, or the ones who slow down because they think the person behind them is going too fast. Two wrongs don't make a right; they just make things twice as bad, or worse.
Exactly! I feel like I need a drink after looking at that.
Aren't there low-reflectivity glossy screens now? For example, on my Nexus 4, I can barely see my reflection when the screen is dark, although a lamp or window in the right direction is visible (but not so much that it overpowers the backlight).
That's why you start with Amazon. And then once you reach scale you slowly start building your own private cloud. Its much more efficient and costs a lot less. We have been doing the same in our startup.
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But then what of the people that have antennas at home, record shows for later playback (which is legal)? This is the same concept, just remote.
Pretty solid reason for an investor there to take on risk. I imagine they're users themselves then too.
Fantastic.

I went through an exercise to recast the numbers as a bootstrapped company here in New Zealand. we don't, for example, have any healthcare costs, and items like legal fees, rent and salaries (including taxes) are substantially lower.

I have 3 Questions for the founders, if possible:

How much did you play with pricing to try to drive revenue per customer up? e.g. Did you consider/test no free customers, higher pricing and gold tiers?

The consultants cost of $272k seems very high - what sort of consultants was this spent on?

If you did it again as a bootstrap (i.e. founders are in control), what are the to 3 things that you would you do differently that would impact on costs and revenue?
White knighting is probably a big reason women don't get into tech. Being turned off by the desperate geeks they meet from the time they're 14 to 22 probably has an impact on their decisions on what to do in life.
If you're going to bother using TOR, then you may as well just use Google Search then.
Dunno if this a seperated by common punctuation thing, but to me, a Brit, I dont even know the term "scare quotes". To me, its just emphasis.
Send me an email (address in my HN profile)...also working working on something in the vinyl space (http://waxlimited.com)

Looking forward to checking out your app!
The problem with it is it ends up being just as denigrating to the woman involved, who you are after all accusing of being a 'damsel in distress'.

I'm not sure there needs to be a term to describe quite that frame of reference. If the guys involved are creepily harassing the woman (even through 'kindness'), than the term for that is harassment.

Otherwise, I don't think a special term is needed to describe when you (especially male 'you's) believe a woman is only being defended because of sex appeal, so what. Why does there 'definitely' need to be a term to describe that?
My first thought was why would one want their currency to be Turing-complete? It's actually a cool concept though. Being able to have your money make decisions opens all kinds of possibilities.
Thank you for all of your replies.

A significant portion of the business lies directly in my control. Mainly the mathematical model which I brought to them to show the proof of concept.

It will be interesting to see what the legal council has to say.
In the last six months, my spouse interview in 20+ places and in 10+ places, they were silent after the in-person interview. We concluded that its just the way SV works...inspite of all the hype.