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throwaway2019Z

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    Comment #20243681

    For their battery replacement program, my serial # did not come up as affected and they refused to service it over the phone. They quickly changed their minds when I showed up at t…

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    Ask HN: Have tech interviews gotten harder?

    I just started job searching again for the first time in a few years and it seems like every problem has been "bumped down" one degree. So medium/difficult questions like the class…

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    Comment #20172517

    There was no "stealing" whatsoever, OP got tilted by his slacker partner (understandable) and undersold his shares of the company. As a general rule, I never do business with frien…

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    Comment #20156388

    Seems like the study is largely inconclusive because creativity is difficult to measure. I will say from my personal experience that I am far more creative when I am unmedicated ve…

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    Comment #20153174

    Kudos to you for sticking to something for (at least) 8 years - it's very very easy to become discouraged, so it's inspiring to someone continue to press forward after so many year…

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    Comment #20144993

    Most people who go to Harvard have to get very high scores on the SAT/ACT, which include math sections that are of, at least, remedial math difficulty.

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    Comment #20133535

    The American Dream is the polar opposite of relying multiple generations to achieve stability. The general interpretation of the American Dream is the notion that any one person ca…

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    Comment #20085689

    If you are an engineer and the company primarily makes money through cold calls by salespeople, then the salespeople are a revenue generating center and you are a cost center. A co…

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    Comment #19696932

    Nice work. Completely ignore the most relevant part of the comment. Great job contributing a negative amount of value to the discussion then following up with a childish "sue me."

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    Comment #19694394

    "So you think a CS chitty is automatically the best possible career in development no wonder you used a throwaway handle. I would have said having a good grounding in physics or en…

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    Comment #19693122

    This has been my experience within teams as well, but it was clear to me that we were hired in spite of our degrees rather than because of them. I do not regret my physics educatio…

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    Comment #19692879

    From my experience both interviewing and hiring, a physics degree absolutely will not help you in tech. You will have more credibility than any non-STEM graduate, but employers wil…

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    Comment #19569421

    Did you sign a contract promising a certain level of work? Do you have documented communications between the two of you whereby you stated that the job "was outside of my knowledge…

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    Comment #19536820

    Any chance you're working for a legal "AI" platform?

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    Comment #19519951

    Your own link says otherwise. How are people upvoting this?

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    Comment #19505080

    What? In his current situation, even if he doesn't zone out, he can still produce erroneously transcribed data too. Why even go to work?

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    Comment #19501538

    In his current situation, if he zones out, he produces nothing. In the situation where he's aided by the potentially faulty described system, if he zones out, he produces erroneous…

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    Comment #19494865

    The constant stress can definitely wear someone down if they don't have any proper outlets. I had clear skin my entire life until I started to develop severe cystic acne as a 32 ye…

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    Comment #19485486

    Just message the mods for approval first.