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Right?

And its totally possible for a supposed 'A player' to suffer a dip in productivity (due to, y'know, LIFE) and its similarly possible for a B player to upgrade to an A given enough experience.

Overall the whole A/B/C boxing just smacks of 'humans as resources'.

It's a shame that those stories of the racial discrimination experienced at Yale haven't been the central point instead of this letter.

Without doubt an issue that needs reform (which I believe is coming - there's a lot of campaigning around it).

Would be surprised if many people outside the country knew about this problem though. Of course, its possible I'm wrong which is the reason I asked in the first place.

Curious as to why you "wouldn't have expected Ireland to be on this forefront".

Not trying to sound accusatory - just genuinely curious on the perception.

Dublin is a different animal than the rest of Ireland because the country is very centralised there (despite some efforts to combat this).

It would like measuring the average house price in the US by just measuring the BA.

I can buy a house in my hometown which is well serviced by schools and more than the essentials for about €150k.

The one thing that Ireland gets right is access to 3rd level education. I'm constantly floored by the amount of debt that students in North American and UK (or wherever else) pile up getting educated. I will concede that their standard of education is probably higher but, personal experience, I see very little difference in the average standard of graduate produced.

Coming from a working class background, I was lucky enough to be on the grant system so would have received about €3.5k a year to attend college - it wasn't huge and I obviously had to work part time but it certainly helped.

Anyway, the point I'm trying to arrive at is that the best way for a society to progress is via education and I think we're doing good (though it could be much better) at this right now.

Irishman here - living in Canada nearly two years now.

It's not very sudden to be honest - changes like the Marriage Equality Act have been wanted by a lot of people for a long time.

The criminalisation of drug use clearly doesnt work the entire world over. In Ireland, especially Dublin, it's not unusual to see a heroin addict shooting up on public transport.

I honestly feel that Irish people are in general a fairly liberal bunch. It can't be emphasised enough how much the Catholic Church held the country back. I don't think non-Irish people will understand just how high esteem (read: fear) that we held the institution in.

All we need now is to remove religion (not necessarily the teachings but rather the role the Church plays) from the eductation system and we'll really be getting somewhere.

If they're being specific on 'profiting' then in theory dealers could 'donate' their stashes to addicts and write it off against the tax man :D

I guess its important to make allowances - especially for non-native English speakers.

I worked on a portlet system a few years back (oh the horror!) with a Chinese dude. Super developer. It wasn't until the last day that I figured out what he meant when he said 'poorer led'. Should have figured it out sooner looking back :D

Haha, I'm a dev and I pronounced it like this for a while (knowing it was incorrect).

Someone like me probably set them down the wrong path!

If your API receives 1 spam request a day its no biggie.

If it receives a few million (eg. via LOIC or whatever), its disabling.

A recruiter once lost it with me when I was job hunting about 5 years ago. They has put me forward for a job which I'd already applied for (one of the biggest consulting co's in the world) and was convinced that I'd cut them out of the process completely (despite the fact I'd told them I'd applied).

Got offered the job in the end. Shitty salary (and not the most exciting of jobs as I gathered too).

Unsolicited I know but a good friend of mine runs a recruitment firm in NYC. He's a tech guy (I've worked with him for nearly 10 years) and the founder is an ex-Google dev too (I've only Skyped with him but he seems to know his stuff).

They mostly place for contract roles - but I could be wrong on that.

Happy to introduce you if you wish.

Top marks.

If you have people willing to pay for your product and a clear go to market strategy then why do you particularly need YC?

A little advice: state what you do in the first sentence. Lost my interest after one paragraph.

Couldn't care less about karma tbh.

I think the "A-Class" employee idea is a myth. Obviously I've come across individuals who are more talented than others but it's very, very difficult (maybe impossible) to put people in a box.

Would you prefer to work with a genius engineer who is an asshole to deal with or someone with a great personality who takes somewhat longer to learn?

I'm confused as to why this made the front page (and is still there).

The content isn't new or noteworthy.

I suspect some strategic upvoting but maybe I'm just paranoid.

Might be taking honesty to an extreme there :)

To respond to your point on being asked about weaknesses: I've always taken the honest route. I've given reasons like "hard to find motivation if I don't find the project interesting" and I've found they've gone done quite well (I think I've only been turned down for < 5% of interviews I've done in the past 10 years).

The caveat though: explain to the interviewer that you're being vulnerable. I always make it clear that I hate those "strengths presented as weaknesses" bullshit and then explained that I'm going to be 100% honest. People seem to connect with it.

This is a puff piece thinly veiled as a guest post.

In this scenario, I imagine it's the idea itself. The app shred has developed is reasonably within the market with which Smule operates.

Smule is likely arguing that the IP was created whilst the founders were under their employment and thus belongs to them as a company.

Its a shitty practise but its very much the norm and one of the advantages of consulting over employment.

You're either a troll or seriously hung up on an ex-girlfriend/ex-boyfriend.

It's strange - I've lived in several (Western) countries but have to witness this seemingly pervasive behaviour that men are driven mostly by physical attractiveness.

Anecdata I know but I've seen lots of good looking girls get minimum attention because of their shyness or insecurity. I've seen the opposite of this tons of times.

Is this your own personal experience?

Also: define "attractive".

Well they're not mutually exclusive but I can kind of see where you're coming from.

I think you're setting yourself up to miss out on a lot if you're only interested in dating someone who makes X dollars a year though.

You missed my point:

"If you think that its simply a case of not using your old employers code then you're naive".

A third-party code review would do little or nothing to prove whether Shred have "stolen" anything.

Suppose you and I both wrote our own authentication systems (the horror!) - I'm sure we'd create much the same functionality wise but our code would probably look vastly different.

The code base is not important here.

Golddiggers are probably the only ones who are influenced by your job title but whatever floats your boat.

"...increases my standing when being selected by partners."

What type of partners?

How can you declare their lack of interest in investigating - the Medium post is 2 hours old. If you think that its simply a case of not using your old employers code then you're naive (See: The Social Network).

FTR: I'm not on either side here but I'm unsure if this blog post was the wisest move.