gedaxiang's comments

gedaxiang | 3 years ago | on: Spotify reducing employee base by about 6%

> companies have to take a longer term view when hiring because they can't get rid of employees on a whim

that would make it harder to find a new job, right? tradeoffs to consider

gedaxiang | 4 years ago | on: Amazon Sidewalk

Weird, I don't even see the Sidewalk option in Account Settings

EDIT: looks like my Echo is too old to be compatible. Lucky I guess!

gedaxiang | 4 years ago | on: “About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today”

Granted that the severance will cover it, but COBRA is not cheap (you pay the same your employer + you payed)

gedaxiang | 5 years ago | on: East Coast Internet Outage

Same! Also FIOS in BK

gedaxiang | 6 years ago | on: We ran the numbers, and there really is a pipeline problem in engineering hiring

So much this. I don’t mind running interviews, but I don’t think I’m particularly good at running them, especially in the “making the candidate feel comfortable” angle. With engineering having such an outsized proportion of introverts and, for the lack of a better term, oddballs, we could take a better look at who _should_ be interviewing.

gedaxiang | 6 years ago | on: We ran the numbers, and there really is a pipeline problem in engineering hiring

That could be true, but communication has to be a point of evaluation for most jobs.

gedaxiang | 8 years ago | on: Zuckerberg on Cambridge Analytica situation

Of course not - Democrats can do no wrong in Silicon Valley. But seriously, there has been a pretty big lack of mentions of the Obama campaign in the coverage of this story. Maybe the story wouldn't have been a story if it weren't tied to Trump 2016.

gedaxiang | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: git self-blame – Blame yourself for others' mistakes

I realize this is a bit of a joke, but does anyone else think "blameless" culture has gone a bit too far? I think it's important to stress that everyone makes mistakes, and that it's okay to make mistakes, but at the end of the day, if someone broke something or caused a bug, they should know about it so it doesn't happen again.

gedaxiang | 8 years ago | on: How I snatched 153k Ether after a bad Tinder date

lol at this guy putting a tip jar at the bottom of the post

gedaxiang | 13 years ago | on: Don't like iOS6's (lack of) transit directions? You need this.

Make a paid version so I can get rid of the ads!

gedaxiang | 15 years ago | on: news:yc (iPhone HN client) finally accepted into the App Store

There is a button for readability view when you are browsing a link. Click the R.

gedaxiang | 15 years ago | on: Google provides the addresses of 35,513,445 Google Profiles. (May crash Chrome.)

Challenge accepted.

gedaxiang | 15 years ago | on: My Experience as a Female CS Major

Actually, I've noticed that there's a lot of arrogant assholes in the collegiate Computer Science atmosphere, maybe more so than in other fields.

But it has nothing to do with the gender issue. These "jerks" will be jerks to anyone who isn't at their level, male or female - I even caught myself sounding a little condescending today during a group study session.

gedaxiang | 15 years ago | on: Sony: All personal data stolen from PSN

Isn't Comodo the CA that was compromised recently?