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LaurenceW1

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LaurenceW1··on Ask HN: Not offered, asked why, then offered a position?
I've never heard of this... seems toxic.
LaurenceW1··on Twitter won't act against Alex Jones after agreeing tweets violated rules
They cant afford to loose users. Like him or not Alex has appeal to a demographic that uses twitter alot.
LaurenceW1··on Career Post-Mortem, or: How flashing teenager girls can ruin your life
This! It is incredible that no one else so far has commented on this. I read the post and it seems that there is no accountability. What of your victims? The emotional toll of being sexually harassed can follow someone for the rest of their lives.
LaurenceW1··on Systemic Age Discrimination in Tech, Even as Tech Workers Get Better with Age
Lets also remember that as you progress in your career it takes longer to shift between levels.
LaurenceW1··on Turn Data into an API with FaunaDB and GraphQL
Any idea when this will be released?
LaurenceW1··on Google Hire
is it a place for candidates or a service for companies to hire?
LaurenceW1··on Hadoop Has Failed Us
Kinda feels like a fluff piece for their platform...
LaurenceW1··on Ask HN: How did employees do after the Jet.com acquisition?
yep
LaurenceW1··on Ask HN: How did employees do after the Jet.com acquisition?
Just fine...

Disclaimer: I work there.

LaurenceW1··on Ask HN: Modern Web Dev on the JVM – How does the stack and tooling look like?
I use finatra and scala. I have however heard great things about java and spring. As well as play and scala.
LaurenceW1··on Docker not ready for primetime
google :)
LaurenceW1··on Introducing Tank, a very high performance log
Really? Safer? How about writing things in languages that are more mature instead of hoping on the newest bandwagon.
LaurenceW1··on [dead]
But then how will you have the latest new toy?
LaurenceW1··on Show HN: NewsAPI – A free API for live news headlines and images
I dont see it being a problem considering the big pushes that Microsoft has been making in to getting people into their language ecosystem.
LaurenceW1··on Show HN: NewsAPI – A free API for live news headlines and images
so thats a solid no to open sourcing it?
LaurenceW1··on Show HN: NewsAPI – A free API for live news headlines and images
is this open source?
LaurenceW1··on Ask HN: How many programmers out there keep a paper notebook for their projects?
I keep a notebook. I use it to take finer grain notes about tasks than can be expressed on a ticket. Also whenever I am going through an unfamiliar codebase I take hand written notes . I know there are a few iPad apps that are effectively an infinite whiteboard but I like to handwrite stuff.
LaurenceW1··on TrailDB – An Efficient Library for Storing and Processing Event Data
This shows incredible promise for being used as the basis for an Event Store type database system.
LaurenceW1··on Fizz Buzz in Tensorflow
I would have given him the job
LaurenceW1··on Show HN: Props, whats happening at your company on the office TVs
I'm just not understanding why a business would pay 200 bucks a month for this. Even at the cheaper price point this just seems a tad silly to me.
LaurenceW1··on Hiring Is Broken – My interview experience in the tech industry
You wrote that in 3 seconds huh
LaurenceW1··on BYOT: Bring your own team
But then how do you prevent your fate as an individual in the company from being tied to the others? Do you get put on the same team? Do you get promoted together?
LaurenceW1··on DigitalOcean Block Storage
How is this different from current storage options?
LaurenceW1··on Ask HN: What are the top 5 programming languages used in today's industry?
I think it depends on your definition of industry?
LaurenceW1··on High-Speed C++ MVC Framework for Web Application
Do many people use this?