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Why is a YC company not held to a better standard? This is poor form.
I've emailed them. I'm sure it's unintentional but yeah it's bad and should be fixed pronto.
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Part of the DMCA takedown process is: > A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed. Has this penalty ever been enforced?
It has resulted in a settlement, and withdrawn complaints as far as I can tell: https://www.techdirt.com/2018/08/01/universal-retracts-dmca-... And there seems to this case that is worth keeping an eye on: https://www.techdirt.com/2021/03/11/court-allows-lawsuit-ove...
[1] https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17353586/enttech-media-...
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You don't have to insult people to get your argument across. Could just say, for example, you don't think it's a disrespect to oneself to attend Hacker Rank tests and explain why.
it's fairly simple, at some point you have to evaluate somone technical skills to make sure they are suitble for the job, and well designed tests do that. There is an abundance of bad tests out there, but blanket statements that you won't use a tool that is used for assessing candiates is just as rediculas as saying you won't give apply to jobs that ask for your cv to apply.
I'd rather not work with people selected this way. There are plenty of companies using much better filtering processes.
You can call me whatever you'd like, but I'm a service provider and I have no obligation to offer my service to anyone.
If the "external service" wins some money or closes down some competition, do they give it back and say "look that was an external service, nothing to do with us"?
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You don't become a billionaire by writing too many checks. Hence why they outsourced their goon squad to Pakistan.
that is not what i asked. why did YC fund hackerrank? sounds like a shitty idea and bad for our industry.
Hello again, Vivek, founder/CEO here. In the interest of moving swiftly, here are the actions we are going to take: (1) We have withdrawn the DMCA notice for sympy; Sent a note to senior leadership in Github to act on this quickly. (2) We have stopped the whole DMCA process for now and working on internal guidelines of what constitutes a real violation so that these kind of incidents don't happen. We are going to do…
So you are taking action only after news spilled all over the internet? So I can assume that if no one(in internet terms) known about it (as described in links pointing to other DMCA cases), you would do nothing to remedy your illegal (from moral stand point of view, no real one) actions.
It's only illegal if you get caught and find someone willing to prosecute you. Also if penalty for breaking law is a fine, then this law only applies to poor people.
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You don't have to insult people to get your argument across. Could just say, for example, you don't think it's a disrespect to oneself to attend Hacker Rank tests and explain why.
it's fairly simple, at some point you have to evaluate somone technical skills to make sure they are suitble for the job, and well designed tests do that. There is an abundance of bad tests out there, but blanket statements that you won't use a tool that is used for assessing candiates is just as rediculas as saying you won't give apply to jobs that ask for your cv to apply.
There is employment contract for a trial period, because you only know how good coder is when they face real problems/code. Writing sort algorithms on white board might look cool, but in real world you will search internet for best algorithms for your case, look up generic one, so you will not make a trivial error writing it from memory, or just use equivalent of std::sort.
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You don't become a billionaire by writing too many checks. Hence why they outsourced their goon squad to Pakistan.
that is not what i asked. why did YC fund hackerrank? sounds like a shitty idea and bad for our industry.
Idea of assigning number to a person and then judging that person based on that number? How it could happen in real world... Also if people are willing to pay for it (even if they don't know about it yet)in capitalism it is a good argument to pump money into it.