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jiggliemon

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jiggliemon··on U.S. sues Oracle, alleges salary and hiring discrimination
I feel that I can provide a small yet worthy piece of context. We have a difficult time interviewing ANYBODY for our open reqs. And like every other technology company I've ever worked at; a majority of resume's I've reviewed had Indian names. This seems especially weighted given how the Oracle brand and database are still desirable properties and tech in India.

Your average white dude in Silicon Valley may have a fair to negative view of Oracle. While (from my experience) your average Indian dude's opinion of Oracle is more favorable.

jiggliemon··on Waymo: Google's self-driving car company
They're not selling a car. They're selling a driver. They're presumably going to partner with auto manufacturers.
jiggliemon··on Vote.org (YC S16 Nonprofit) wants to use cell phones to increase voter turnout
This is really the meat and potatos of the electorate. The system depends on knowing what giant swaths of the country are going to vote for. The people that run for office (the parties, not the candidates) have a vested interest in refining a race down to a few targeted areas. In presidential elections that's only a dozen or so counties per swing state.

I can't speak for this specific effort; but most 'get out the vote' campaigns are designed to fill one a single parties rosters. E.g. Rock the Vote concerts put on by MTV with the Democratic Party pre-checked.

If you don't generate new apathetic and uninformed voters who will do what Kim K tells them to do; attrition will turn your once very predictable race into a much more expensive coin toss.

jiggliemon··on Ask HN: How to get out of Tech and still make a decent living?
- Owner Operator Truck Driver - Owner Operator Plumbing Business Owner Operator Mobile Welding - Owner Operator Concrete Pumping

It's relatively easy to make over $100k as an owner of a small business.

It's an order of magnitude more difficult to find a company that will pay you a software engineers salary without a decade or so of experience in that field and associated education.

jiggliemon··on Testing Backbone.js Best Practices
Why did you specifically not want to use BDD?
jiggliemon··on A Case Against Using CoffeeScript
Show me anything, and I'll show you some fanboys.
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