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The CEO leaned across the table, got in my face, and said, "this is a MONUMENTAL fuck up." It certainly was -- on multiple levels, but ultimately up at the C-level. Blaming a singl…

>For us, if we didn't make an offer it's either because the applicant is a jerk, a liar, or incompetent. What an incredibly cocky and pretentious view of the world.

Not to try to temper your frustration (which is quite legitimate), but in this context, "we're looking for a different skill set" is almost certainly a foil. Quite often companies …

Awesome point there. Almost by definition, anyone who really is a badass, rockstar, ninja, etc. at what they do is viscerally repelled by the cockiness exuding from job ads seeking…

Or as they say in Eurasia, "behaving abnormally": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4464298

We've asked Amazon why the ads are US-only, and whether customers can pay to turn them off. If there is such an option, it doesn't seem to be mentioned in the Kindle Fire announcem…

"It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an …

Sweet. Now you just need to grab a few more more domains, e.g. "EscapeMyDate.com", etc.

Apparently the auto-kill filtering is source-, rather than pattern-based. For example this article seems to have made it through: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=4487658 Even t…

Really now? Let's try a little experiment: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=4487628

Umm, so you're saying vi is "new wave"?

Interesting article, but the title should probably be "How stock market decimalization killed IPOs and saved our economy." That is, whatever the cause-and-effect relationship betwe…

Umm, "broken" isn't what the title says. Nor is it what the content of the article implies.

It's always that way, with creative types. The more they try to just fade back into the woodwork... the more intently people try to grab a little piece of them. Till pretty soon, e…

You're probably right, and I've had to apologize to Python a number of times in the past. So let this be another. I'm still a bit scarred from a certain 2.7-era experience, so pres…

In order to keep my costs down, I stayed with a friend the whole week... I cooked all my own food. That's not "travel." That's "staying with friends." Completely useless to compare…

Yesss but there's lots of apps like that do similar / overlapping things that you'll sort of have to steal/borrow from. In particular, some form of social bookmarking/tagging would…

Thanks; I'll give it a whirl.

Something that auto-retires tabs after some egregiously long delay, with some kind of latent tagging functionality (based on tags for similar pages I've bookmarked) might be useful…