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xerophtye
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Comment #9172482
Well ofcourse there ARE benefits to them, but I would just like to see you present it to them as awesomely as you presented to us devs
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Comment #9172312
Btw, Wouldn't a good anti-recruiter mechanism be that you only allow employer accounts when you verify that the user represents an actual company etc?
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Comment #9172294
I understand that this is your MVP and you are simply gauging the developer interest at the moment, but I would love to see what you are pitching to the employers. No, this is not …
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Comment #8141425
I remember once the screen in front of me crashed and clearly booted up some flavour of linux. (it even displayed the penguin!) Oh and i think it did end up on a console... though …
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Comment #8135978
One developer did something like that. She'd use subtitiles to create .gif's of movie quotes. made a utility for it! will post if i can find the link
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Comment #8135969
Interesting case: i searched "screw you" and it als turned up results like "are you screwing with me?" , "we would have been screwed..." etc
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Comment #8100295
I tried using Sublime text 3 for markdown but there was no significant syntax highlighting.
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Comment #8084410
Does Facebook count in this? I mean they did start with Eduardo Saverin's $10k as bootstrap money no?
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Comment #8084401
Already doing this in Trello =)
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Comment #8078347
Totally viable. Riot Games is pulling it off with League of Legends. Exact same case: money is just for skins etc. All the money in the world won't give you any unfair advantage. O…
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Comment #8063139
well yes, but they pieces aren't just bricks now. They have all sorts of special shape pieces, not to mention the Lego character accessories like flippers, swords, mugs etc etc.
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Comment #8046552
Identifying different behavior in genders doesn't exactly make him sexist. Not in the bad sense anyway. Personally i think the notion that both genders behave identically (on avera…
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Comment #8035688
Wo, the evidence truly is compelling. Even if Nick isn't Satoshi "Himself". he's at least one of the main collaborators. I mean if you were creating something complex and advanced …
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Comment #8035424
as someone else pointed out, the portal seems to be hosted on the squink it self. so the portal is jut a way to access the squinkk like u access ur linksys router
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Comment #8035309
I don't really think working in the industry makes you a generalist. If you have been working on the same product for a couple of years, your experience is limited mostly to that f…
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Comment #8035300
Because you don't need PhD for those jobs. But as a PhD you would be asking a higher salary than a BS(CS). So its simply more efficient for the company to hire an experienced BS(CS…
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Comment #8035281
Yeah that pretty much sums it up. Having a PhD doesn't magically make you more eligible. You have to demonstrate how you make a value-addition to the team.
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Comment #8035269
I am a little confused, i thought the current industry placed projects > places you have worked, hence the entire fuss about github profiles
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Comment #8035262
see "Imagine that you just finished working your ass off for a half decade, and are finally looking to reap the rewards." suggests "I worked hard" vs "imagine you are a porsche" ex…
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Comment #8023747
He also said that he was wanted to talk to her and sort things out in private. Sure, you can see that as an opportunity to pay her off/silence her etc, but at this point anything h…
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Comment #8008685
> I can't get them to condemn terrorist behaviour. Wait what? You really need to hang out with different Muslims. >When it comes to the obvious religious extermination policies tha…
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Comment #8008385
My personal favorite is Pixel Dungeon, which was the best rogue-like on mobile i could find
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Comment #8003646
I am confused. The fund is set up by the company itself right? So if things get so bad that the company has to shut down, BUT they have a fund big enough to keep running the compan…
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Comment #8003130
Perhaps it needs to be coupled with some sentiment analysis, so that only get instant emails for more urgent cases, where a user is unhappy 9 or severely unhappy, depending on your…
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Comment #7997523
Halo 1 actually does that. The Covenant Elites have neregy swords that dissipate once you kill them, and the grunts had plasma cannons that would just explode when the grunt was ki…