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Re: Ask HN: What annoys you?

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Post by adamta »

cryptoz wrote: post #216
ojbyrne wrote: post #153

ageism. It's so common today that people who would never exclude women or minorities or the handicapped or whoever have no problem excluding people over forty.

When a male turns 18 in the USA, he is allowed to sign up for the Army, get a gun, go kill human beings in the Middle East and perhaps die for his country. BUT if that man dares drink a single beer with his dad before being shipped off to war, he will be treated like a criminal. His dad may be taken to court and punished for letting a minor have alcohol. The 18 year old could face severe punishments, including not be…

"BUT if that man dares drink a single beer with his dad before being shipped off to war, he will be treated like a criminal. His dad may be taken to court and punished for letting a minor have alcohol. The 18 year old could face severe punishments, including not being allowed in the army."

That is not true in most states: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Minimum_Drinking_Age_A...

(still a bad law, I agree)

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Post by cromulent »

mrduncan wrote: post #11

Airlines - They are nearly all just a pain in the ass to deal with. When was the last time you heard someone tell you how they had a great experience with an airline?

There was an Aussie guy who ran British Airways for a while and then left to do other things. I remember an interview with him and they asked why he left the airline industry. The answer was something like: "The entire industry, from the Wright brothers until today, has made a net loss. I'd like to try something that makes a profit".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Eddington

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Post by lovskogen »

liedra wrote: post #182
mrduncan wrote: post #11

Airlines - They are nearly all just a pain in the ass to deal with. When was the last time you heard someone tell you how they had a great experience with an airline?

I had a great experience with Brussels Airlines during the volcanic ash thing - unlike a lot of crappy airlines, they put me (and the rest of my flight) up in a hotel in Barcelona for 2 nights, then organised a coach for everyone to drive back to Brussels. The only slight quibble was the dropping us at the destination airport at 2am with no other transport connections (apart from taxis) running, but that was small po…

The lesser of two evils.

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Post by CoryMathews »

rdouble wrote: post #149
agentultra wrote: post #144

1. Seeing a traffic jam where every car has exactly one person in it. This is just a tragedy. 2. Job interviews that require quizzes and an "intensive" multi-stage interview process. As a candidate, I've just sent you a bunch of links to open repositories where you can review my code and offered to give you other code examples from my private repositories on request. I give you links to my previous work and letters o…

This mythical "programmer that can't program" myth has disrupted the hiring process... It's not a myth.

So many of the programmers I graduated college with were only book smart. They couldn't problem solve or do anything a book did not tell them how to do. They even had extremely high GPAs because they would memorize so much information for each test. It was only the project classes that hurt their GPA, sadly my college didn't have enough of those.

Its those kind of "programmers" that these tests are designed to find. A lot of companies seem to take it to far, as if to brag that their entry tests are harder, possibly even deterring the people they want.

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Post by paylesworth »

terra_t wrote: post #92
mynameishere wrote: post #66

The fact that 100s of years of art and music are available, but people still gravitate towards whatever is being promoted--typically something recent and inferior. This is partly a function of marketing, partly of herding--both poor selectors of quality.

Personally, I'm offended by the popularity of "Classic Rock" and the fact that marketing channels have broken down to the point where there's no connection between great music being made today and many listeners. I grew up listening to "Classic Rock" in the 1980s, and it took years for me to realize that this had deprived me of the authentic music of my youth... It was the music of somebody else's youth, which makes…

I'd recommend streaming 89.3 The Current from Minnesota Public Radio.

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/radio/services/the_current/

It's fully independent music radio station that's publicly funded. They don't play commercials, and they play a wide variety of known and unknown music. I first discovered it when I moved up here (the Twin Cities) away from the Clear Channel dominated airwaves and I haven't turned back since.

Re: Ask HN: What annoys you?

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Post by lovskogen »

Colleges getting sponsored by Microsoft, Sun and corporations using those technologies. Churns out developers not having a choice of languages, and ends up working for the corporations sponsoring the college.

A circle destroying innovation.

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