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vfxGeron Show HN: I put employees inside S&P 500 market-cap bubbles

No one is calling this journalism especially not me.

vfxGeron Show HN: I put employees inside S&P 500 market-cap bubbles

Berkshire reports employees across its consolidated subsidiaries, while Welltower's 335,000+ operating-partner employees work for separate companies. I'm using reported employee counts consistently, but you're right that different corporate structures make comparisons imperfect.

vfxGeron Show HN: I put employees inside S&P 500 market-cap bubbles

Fair point, I was aware of that and mention it in the accompanying blog https://bigwhalehunting.com/blog/workforce/

vfxGeron Ask HN: Are most of us developers lying about how much work we do?

"When I arrived there were these gentle giants smelling of fcking gold and milk. They could do anything. Now look at them. Fat as fck, scrawny on meth or yoga." - Logan Roy

vfxGeron How Banks Could Control Gun Sales If Washington Won’t

I do not want my credit card to offer moral guidance, I want it to buy stuff were it is convenient. Where will it end, my bank telling me I have bought too much alcohol this month?

vfxGeron Sad reality: It's cheaper to get hacked than build strong IT defenses

I am sick of seeing headlines about teenager hacker being put in jail. It's not because they are geniuses it's because of poor IT defense. The companies should be severely fined for criminal negligence.

vfxGeron Inside the Mirrortocracy

I agree, I wouldn't hire anyone just because they have my degree either BUT we need some qualifications to fill this gap otherwise the interview process will get more and more unwieldy.

vfxGeron Inside the Mirrortocracy

What I find infuriating is how all these companies think they are so unique with their interviewing process then ask the same inane questions. This is worse when the same questions are asked by different people at the same company.

College qualifications or any real qualifications are being dismissed by more and more people but the vacuum that has been left is being filled with crap like 15+ rounds of interviews and/or 12 hour interviews.

The hiring process is currently broken. I think the only fix is to have proper, trusted qualifications (again?).

vfxGeron (Why) I quit Hacker News (2010)

My main issue with Hacker News at the moment is that it is NOT NEWS! An article from 2010 about quitting hn is not news. I used to kid myself that I go here "to keep up-to-date" or find out what is happening. I used to think this was a valid news source but it is not. It's got some interesting articles that suck up my time but I've stopped kidding myself that it is news.

vfxGeron Sacked Google worker awarded €110,000 for unfair dismissal

More details in an earlier article http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/sacked-google-ma...

vfxGeron Poll: Where are you currently living?

Dublin, Ireland

vfxGeron Where the Jobs Are in “Who Is Hiring” (June 2013)

Anyone know where Ireland fits on this chart?