Readit Newsprisionif commented on Ask HN: Over 60 = no engineering jobs? · Posted by u/anonOver60
Why aren't you running your own business, maybe as a consultant? You shouldn't be selling your services but your knowledge.
> it was ultimately Netscape's failure to respond to Internet Explorer 4, 5, and 6's speed, relative stability, and superior (though still poor) standards compliance that won the browser war
The monoploist practice of bundling the browser with the OS isn't to blame at all?!
exactly, the USA had a case of antitrust against Microsoft for doing that. The whole world is aware of that except that "journalist".
> standards compliance that won the browser war, not Microsoft's extensions
OMG, what about the whole antitrust case of the USA against Microsoft in the 2000ies?
I can't read any other paragraph written by "journalists" like those.
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prisionif commented on Hired – Technical Interview Score refdash.com/hired... · Posted by u/guessmyname
> This is one reason why most interviewing is a subjective clusterfuck (not just software, I suspect).
This is why I get a laugh out of people complaining about whiteboard-style interviews. Far and away tech still has one of the most intensely meritocratic hiring processes. Not perfect, sure, but better than almost every other industry. The majority of high-skilled jobs rely heavily on pedigree, education, social standing, references, sociability, etc. I'd much rather reject Linus for flubbing a BFS traversal than hire him for attending my Alma Matter and knowing a lot about golf.
Suppose you have a job for a Kernel hacker. You have John, who has zillions of non-trivial patches applied upstream available, but "flubbed a BFS traversal". And you have Joe, who you haven't heard before but took a whole year doing nothing but traversing graphs and trees to pass your interview. Who would you reject?
prisionif commented on Ask HN: Why do you hire H1-B workers instead of natives? · Posted by u/KnowNothings
if you answer why there are american companies milking till the last drop of our natural resources I can answer why we get your jobs.
prisionif commented on Parody O'Reilly book covers imgur.com/gallery/vqUQ5... · Posted by u/tobyjsullivan
'code written by some stranger on the internet is always perfect' - AWESOME! :D