wooshy
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6 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Faking your resume to acquire projects
This happened to me when I worked at TCS right out of college. I did the same thing as you and brought my case to HR and they didn't seem to care. When the client interviewed me I was very open about my actual skills and told them when something was just not true when they'd reference a lie on my resume that the company fabricated. Nothing negative ever happened to me during my employment there but I immediately started looking for another job.
wooshy
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7 years ago
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on: The #1 Office Perk? Natural Light
I'm not a game dev, but a dev in a different industry and I am like your coworkers. I yearn for an office with no light but I am stuck in this awful open office with tons of light everywhere. My coworkers refuse to close the blinds and my desk looks right at the window. I hate it.
wooshy
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7 years ago
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on: Locals reportedly frustrated with Waymo's self-driving cars
Agreed. I say this to people I am riding with all the time that are speeding.
wooshy
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8 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit?
Just use 4chan
wooshy
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8 years ago
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on: A billion reasons never to buy IBM services
I'd imagine this is common with all large IT consultancy services. I had bad experiences with IBM as well as TCS.
wooshy
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8 years ago
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on: Why We Don’t Employ Female Developers
So you want to lower your standards based on someone's gender alone just to check a box? Seems like a bad idea to me.
wooshy
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8 years ago
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on: Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange hacked, losing $530M: NHK
Loopring as well
wooshy
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8 years ago
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on: Men Resist Green Behavior as Un-Manly
It may not be the case for all men but I'd say that the article is accurate when it comes to me.
wooshy
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8 years ago
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on: Machine Learning for Dummies
I was one of those people tasked with investigating Watson and I had the exact experience you described. It was a huge joke. Tried out Bluemix as well, it wasn't a huge joke but it wasn't great either.
wooshy
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8 years ago
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on: Machine Learning 101 slidedeck: 2 years of headbanging, so you don't have to
Agreed, I couldn't get past the first few slides without getting annoyed by the animated backgrounds and closing the presentation out.
wooshy
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8 years ago
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on: Amazon Key is a new service that lets couriers unlock your front door
Then you probably aren't the target for this service.
wooshy
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8 years ago
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on: The Depression Thing
I recently had a similar encounter where I was slipping back into a bag routine and then looked in the mirror and freaked out. I'm back on track to being healthier and happier. It ends up taking way more of my time to prep my food in a healthy manner, go to the gym, and shower again but I think it is all worth it for both my mental and physical health to be in a good place.
wooshy
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8 years ago
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on: How Social Media is Built for Addiction
I also stopped at this point. Seems like an absurd assertion with no evidence.
wooshy
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9 years ago
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on: Y combinator, X chromosomes
I agree that an equally qualified woman should be compensated the same as a man. What I fail to understand is why anyone cares that the tech industry has more males than females. If more males are interested in working with technology than females are then of course there will be more males in the industry. Why do people see this as some kind of problem that needs to be fixed? I understand that having a diverse team brings different viewpoints that might allow for solutions to be found that may not have been found without that other viewpoint. Is that all that this is about? (besides pay differences)
wooshy
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9 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Current Crypto Best Practices
That was pretty comical. I don't know if it is just my connection but it seems to take a pretty long time to load a page with a relatively small amount of content.
wooshy
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9 years ago
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on: Scientists sent a rocket to Mars for less than it cost to make “The Martian”
"And they happen to be women." I don't know about you but I count three men in that picture. Not even counting the rest of the people that undoubtedly worked on this project who were a mix of men and women.
wooshy
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9 years ago
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on: An 85-year old millionaire hides $1M treasure in the Rocky Mountains (2016)
I actually had the same thoughts about ready player one when I read this article. It was such a interested book and being able to be part of something like that in real life sounds like it would take over my life.
wooshy
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9 years ago
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on: World War Meme
4chan still has a very active community.
wooshy
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9 years ago
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on: CodinGame – Practice coding with fun programming challenges
This seems like a much more interesting alternative to things like codewars. I'll definitely check it out.
wooshy
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9 years ago
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on: A century ago, a recording of “Livery Stable Blues” helped launch a new genre
I don't know if this was planned out by the author of this article by right as I read this sentence "At 1:19, 1:37, 2:30 and 2:48, you can hear, in quick succession, the clarinet crowing like a rooster, the cornet whinnying like a horse, and the trombone braying like a donkey." I was at 2:48 in the video and heard what the sentence was describing. If it was planned out then it was a very cool effect and a good way for me to feel more connected to the article.
