| 1. | | A Redditor's insightful message for discouraged students (reddit.com) |
| 414 points by jimmyjim on Jan 5, 2012 | 103 comments |
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| 2. | | Nokia Maps 3D (WebGL) (nokia.com) |
| 271 points by jasondavies on Jan 5, 2012 | 90 comments |
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| 3. | | Spain threatened with trade blacklist for not passing SOPA style law (torrentfreak.com) |
| 239 points by Hates_ on Jan 5, 2012 | 38 comments |
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| 4. | | Reddit traffic doubles in less than a year, to 2 billion monthly pageviews (reddit.com) |
| 251 points by raldi on Jan 5, 2012 | 159 comments |
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| 5. | | The Future of CouchDB (damienkatz.net) |
| 247 points by badcarl on Jan 5, 2012 | 91 comments |
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| 6. | | Why Don’t Smartphones Have A “Guest Mode”? (techcrunch.com) |
| 245 points by jnuss on Jan 5, 2012 | 203 comments |
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| 7. | | California State Senator Proposes Funding Open-Source Textbooks (slashdot.org) |
| 235 points by llambda on Jan 5, 2012 | 49 comments |
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| 8. | | App Engine charges $6,500 to update a ListProperty on 14.1 million entities (groups.google.com) |
| 221 points by branola on Jan 5, 2012 | 141 comments |
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| 9. | | Web Giants Consider 'Nuclear Option' Blackout to Fight SOPA (talkincloud.com) |
| 205 points by SRSimko on Jan 5, 2012 | 60 comments |
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| 10. | | Vint Cerf: Internet Access Is Not a Human Right (nytimes.com) |
| 176 points by rdp on Jan 5, 2012 | 96 comments |
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| 11. | | It Is Time To Stop Pretending To Endorse The Copyright Monopoly (techdirt.com) |
| 171 points by GBiT on Jan 5, 2012 | 106 comments |
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| 12. | | Stephen Hawking to turn 70, defying disease (heraldonline.com) |
| 164 points by edw519 on Jan 5, 2012 | 88 comments |
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| 14. | | Ask HN: Oops, I just sold my startup to a piano company. Now what? |
| 151 points by dangrover on Jan 5, 2012 | 72 comments |
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| 15. | | Sweden recognises new file-sharing religion Kopimism (bbc.co.uk) |
| 141 points by antoviaque on Jan 5, 2012 | 44 comments |
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| 16. | | The Future of Apache CouchDB (cloudant.com) |
| 137 points by jashkenas on Jan 5, 2012 | 18 comments |
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| 17. | | Our first app: One month on the iOS App Store (burningrobot.com) |
| 135 points by jwhelan on Jan 5, 2012 | 60 comments |
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| 18. | | What's new in Linux 3.2 (h-online.com) |
| 130 points by codepope on Jan 5, 2012 | 20 comments |
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| 19. | | Rackspace Open Sources Dreadnot (rackspace.com) |
| 120 points by pors on Jan 5, 2012 | 6 comments |
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| 20. | | Why I Won't Hire You (golemtechnologies.com) |
| 111 points by lovelyLaney on Jan 5, 2012 | 124 comments |
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| 21. | | Strace - The Sysadmin's Microscope (oracle.com) |
| 109 points by epenn on Jan 5, 2012 | 24 comments |
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| 22. | | E-books Are Not That Easy (whattofix.com) |
| 106 points by DanielBMarkham on Jan 5, 2012 | 82 comments |
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| 23. | | NASA’s open source projects (nasa.gov) |
| 102 points by rohitarondekar on Jan 5, 2012 | 18 comments |
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| 25. | | Interview Programming Problems Done Right (cforcoding.com) |
| 92 points by cletus on Jan 5, 2012 | 79 comments |
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| 26. | | Ask HN: What's your experience with remote working? as employees/employers? |
| 89 points by fgblanch on Jan 5, 2012 | 99 comments |
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| 27. | | What Scientific Concept Would Improve Everybody's Cognitive Toolkit? (edge.org) |
| 87 points by diego on Jan 5, 2012 | 53 comments |
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| 29. | | Want a Job? Go to College, and Don’t Major in Architecture (nytimes.com) |
| 86 points by zwieback on Jan 5, 2012 | 63 comments |
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| 30. | | SPDY of the Future Might Blow Your Mind Today (belshe.com) |
| 82 points by silvio on Jan 5, 2012 | 27 comments |
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If you can't narrow down resumes and phone interviews to candidates with better than a 1% chance of being accepted, then your interviewing pre-screening process is flawed. What other processes in our everyday work will also be flawed?
You send me a stupidly long resume
90% of all written correspondence (from customers, users, collaborators, vendors, etc.) is too long. Do you think they're all stupid, too?
You have annoyed me.
You're a manager. Your job is to properly deal with issues that would annoy others. Why would anyone want to work for someone so easily annoyed?
...do I really want to look forward to your rambling emails every day?
Do I really want to look forward to your sour attitude every day?
You can’t tell me why you like your current job
If I liked my current job, I wouldn't be here.
I don’t hire awesome people who don’t have the right skill mix.
Here's a clue: technologies change. By definition, anyone with the "right skill mix" won't have the "right skill mix" for long. Amesome people adapt. But how would you even know that if you don't hire them?
No career plans or vision
I've been programming for 33 years and still have no idea what I want to do when I grow up. This is an interview for an open job, not Dr. Phil.
If you don’t think well on your feet, spend some time reading through and practicing situational interview questions.
Are you serious? I'm a programmer, not an Americas Got Talent contestant. What you see is what you get.
If you are missing even one, I’m probably going to pass you up for someone who doesn’t.
Wait a minute. You want to hire perfect people, but you also want them to have "career plans or vision"?
I have a super BS detector
Obviously not, since so many of your questions can only be answered with BS.
The End
That's just about the only thing you've said that I agree with.
You sound like you have a serious attitude problem. I can't imagine working for someone like you. But thanks for writing this. You've solved many problems in advance. I won't be applying. And I don't imagine many people like me will be either.