useyourloaf

5 karma · joined September 25, 2013

useyourloaf··on Make ZIP files smaller with ZIP Shrinker

Thank you for the pointer!

useyourloaf··on America's Most-Spoken Languages After English and Spanish

Just not in the top 3. hindi, gujarati, urdu, punjabi and tamil all appear in the data.

useyourloaf··on America's Most-Spoken Languages After English and Spanish

Sure. But blame the U.S. Census: the languages tracked are "Chinese", "Mandarin Chinese", and "Yue Chinese". Can't map the data they don't have.

useyourloaf··on America's Most-Spoken Languages After English and Spanish

"Central Yupik" for Alaska, "Lakota" for S. Dakota

useyourloaf··on America's Most-Spoken Languages After English and Spanish

https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/language...

Top languages E.g. Alabama: English - 94% Spanish - 3% Korean - 0.22% German - 0.18%

useyourloaf··on I built RemoteCV | Reversing the job search model

"We helps you effortlessly hire world-class remote talents." -> We help you effortlessly hire world-class remote talent.

useyourloaf··on Ask HN: How do you *really* get a good Software Engineering job?

+1 for this. A caution: don't just "join" a project: you have to do something in the project and be able to point at the actual code contribution you made.

useyourloaf··on God complex of executive recruiters

This seems no different from "regular" recruiters. They: a. cannot evaluate candidates properly. b. focus only on placing bodies, appropriately or not. c. use a limited and inaccurate set of criteria to search for a fit (see a.)

The entire recruiting business seems bogus.

useyourloaf··on How not to write a job post

#1: Give me the actual location of the job, and on-site vs telecommute allowed.

Please go ahead and tell me about the culture, attitude, perks, etc: these are likely to be red flags that I need not apply!

useyourloaf··on Ask HN: How do you archive/cache full-page back-ups of your bookmarks

AFAIK, you'd have to do them one-by-one.

Automatically? As in periodically update your snapshots? Or scan through bookmarks.html and grab each page?

useyourloaf··on Ask HN: How do you archive/cache full-page back-ups of your bookmarks

EverNote w/ Web Clipper

useyourloaf··on Ask HN: I'm a burned-out developer. Who should I talk to?

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2013/04/so-you-dont-want-to...