bking | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Reject/ghost on all job applications with 8 YoE, what am I doing wrong?
Need the full context around your resume/linked-in/personal site to be able to give you better info, but throwaway892238 covers the main bases.
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bking | 8 years ago | on: Bay Area hammered by loss of jobs: Lack of affordable housing strangles hiring
Yeah, ATL is adding a number of tech jobs (hopefully Amazon too). Cost of living is increasing, but relative to everywhere else it is cheap to live in the city center. Developments of apartments and condos has exploded, which is making for a nice urban feel.
bking | 11 years ago | on: Why I took on building a better way to frame any poster, print or photo
when entering dimensions the warning box for it being too high or too low will not close. I can't figure out how to do it?
I am using Chrome.
Possibly check for if the cursor is in the box as well as if the value is outside of the range. If the range changes or goes back to 0 and the cursor is not in the text field, have the warning go away?
bking | 11 years ago | on: Facebook is down
Yes US, East Coast is down.
bking | 11 years ago | on: Livingsocial's new CEO, Gautam Thakar
My 2 cents is that all the talent in LS is fleeing and no matter how good the CEO is, they will have to completely up-end their internal culture and fire their skill-less work force
bking | 11 years ago | on: How top apps will take advantage of iOS 8 (Mockups)
Not bad, but it doesn't mention anything about apps being able to send data to each other. That is HUGE and will open the door for companies to partner up and share features.
bking | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: My ios game for WC 2014
That is a pretty funny spin. I would hope you have a metric in there to show who is the current leader and what team they are on.
bking | 12 years ago | on: 4-week old company got YC interview, here's our application
I do have to say, that is a unique way to bring a consistent message across urls
bking | 12 years ago | on: .Guru, .Bike, .Singles And 4 Other Domains Will Open For Business Tomorrow
The best question now is:
What registrar will allow me to register on day 1 for the cheapest?
I just looked at GoDaddy (yes I know they suck), and they are charging a premium to pre-register.
bking | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Resources to learn JavaScript in 2014?
www.codeacademy.com is a pretty good fundamentals. They also have a community of "advanced" developers with user generated problems to solve once you get past the fundamentals.
bking | 12 years ago | on: A magic bullet for hiring quality devs
I like the concept because it is only a means to a conversation. The only issue I can see is people abusing the friends aspect. Is there a way to qualify their friends to make sure they know what they are talking about and can be trusted?
bking | 12 years ago | on: Thanks a lot, Healthcare.gov
I work in fed technology, and I agree wholeheartedly that the acquisition process for technology is horrible.
bking | 12 years ago | on: The Dirty Secret Behind the Salesforce $1M Hackathon
Everything I have seen about the Salesforce Hackathon screams foul play. I also agree that it looks like companies are abusing hackathons for project ideas and code.
At this point I don't trust any hackathon that is created by a company that wants you to use their technology specifically.
bking | 12 years ago | on: Gravity Powered Engine
Does it not bother anyone that the same machine is "built" in 2 different buildings?
bking | 12 years ago | on: Hacker Bar - Hacker News at your fingertips
That looks nice, but I will never download it for fear of wasting too much time on HN.
bking | 12 years ago | on: Github is down
And I am trying to push my edits to my team repo... worst timing ever
bking | 12 years ago | on: How D.C. could look if the height restriction changes
I don't understand why a city needs to keep "growing" to keep it alive. Keep the height restrictions because it keeps the city beautiful. Why don't we develop the parts that are run down before we screw up the view.
bking | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's the difference between an engineer and a developer?
An excerpt from David Mosher's Presentation "So You Want to be a Front-End Engineer":
A hacker can come up with solutions, but maybe they can’t look back after they’ve finished and realize how they came up with the solution. They just kinda poke at things until they get something that works. … At some point, you level up and become a developer and a developer understands best practices. They’ve heard other developers say things like “you should put your scripts at the bottom of the webpage” … and you use those best practices to craft solutions but you don’t really understand beneath the best practices, beneath the abstractions. … An engineer is someone who can get things done, craft a solution — they understand the best practices, but they also understand why they’re using the best practices that they are … [they] move into an understanding of the platform as a whole.
This was pulled from a nifty little blog:
bking | 12 years ago | on: Oculus Rift co-founder killed by gang trying to escape police
This is horrible. The Oculus is just gearing up to be something great.
It is kind of morbid, but This is going to turn into an interesting case study on how a company stays afloat when a major influence is removed from the picture.
RIP Andrew Reisse
bking | 13 years ago | on: Got fired, told I was going to be vested and now they want to rescind the offer
I would go back to them and state that you have a recording with their promise of vesting. Make sure to read all the verbiage that you signed previously. Don't make it public at all. It is good you haven't yet. Make sure that the person who gave the comment about having your vesting cliff had the authority to make that comment. If there is law where you are that makes verbal agreements legitimate and the one who gave the agreement has authority to make that arrangement, then you have a pretty solid case.
I wouldn't threaten to go public and all that nonsense because it makes both parties look bad and even if you are in the right, future companies might see you as a trouble maker.
cross the "T"s and dot the "I"s, and if that pans out and they don't respond to your initial statement, lawyer up.
Good luck.
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