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b20000

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  1. comment
    Comment #42231352

    posting jobs without the intention of hiring or having the headcount available should be illegal under CA law with a 1MM$ fine per occurence

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    Comment #42184947

    recently i was given 72 hours for a take home. they required me to keep the “challenge” confidential and assign the rights to the code to them. i’m wondering what you all think of …

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    Ask HN: Automate Collection of Financial Statements

    How do you all deal with downloading and archiving your bank, credit card, investment account and other statements? I find myself constantly logging in everywhere and downloading t…

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    Comment #42067566

    Something to consider... it does sound more like a small business / small time user type situation and not an enterprise arrangement.

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    Ask HN: Use after license expiration protection schemes

    What are some good solutions to prevent businesses from using your software past termination of a licensing agreement or past a trial date? Specifically, this is in the context of …

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    Comment #41716862

    the device is worth $3,000 but listed for $300 because it is used and likely has problems

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    Comment #41684696

    the last 1% of a project takes as much time as the first 99% of a project

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    Comment #41684314

    why do you think a subassembly cannot cost $250 if you picked up the device for $300? just go buy another device then? what is your point? you want to buy a porsche for 20k and the…

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    Comment #41684234

    these models are search engines with some interpolation thrown in

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    Comment #41610616

    so what happens if you get these RSUs and you can’t sell them but you still get a huge tax bill because you got them??? do they sell some off themselves to pay your tax bill?

  12. comment
    Comment #41607078

    these samplers used to cost $3000-5000 if you are concerned about $200 for a replacement kit you should probably sell them to someone else

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    Ask HN: How to determine RSU value for offer for non-public company?

    I have been offered a certain number of RSUs as part of a compensation package and need to determine what the realistic value is of these RSUs. The company is not public yet but ha…

  14. comment
    Comment #41552836

    nobody will care unless you can do leetcode

  15. comment
    Comment #41549329

    No need to venture into personal attacks. If you can't productively contribute to this post then please refrain from commenting.

  16. story
    Ask HN: Rights to receive copies of / delete past job interview data

    These are questions for those with a law school background who have some experience with hiring processes in larger tech companies. 1) Do you have the right in California to demand…

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    Comment #41528226

    ask them how much money is at stake then charge them a fraction of that

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    Comment #41496429

    background in FAANG means nothing

  20. comment
    Comment #41484571

    what cheap place did you move to?

  21. comment
    Comment #41478365

    don’t require coding interviews and hire based on experience

  22. comment
    Comment #41414274

    financial freedom

  23. comment
    Comment #41414272

    solve this coding problem which has nothing to do with the job you will be doing

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    Comment #41349019

    optimizing for people who do competitive programming means you optimize for education culture where repetitive practicing of a routine is important in contrast to education culture…

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    Comment #41348948

    PRIVATE universities maybe. I graduated at a public university. companies need to educate you on the job. that will never change and it is unreasonable to demand you already have a…