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How offshoring affects you?


Leadership asks us if we have friends who are skilled looking for a change. We do. We hire those people. They do great work. They then get laid off 8 months later. Leadership then asks (the few we have…) skilled people in India if they have friends who are skilled looking for a change. They say to find the job postings for the laid off people to use verbatim for the India roles.


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How was that list compiled?


I understand how it was ranked, but how does one get into that CSV! :D


Laravel. But I also like Rails.

I don't really understand people who chooses to MVP a startup writing their own EVERYTHING


Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption Zamperini's life was a series of hard things. Going to the Olympics, surviving a plane crash, then 47 days at sea, then a Japanese concentration camp ...

Very well written as well


EB Sledge - With the Old Breed is the account of a combat infantryman in WWII in the Pacific. It's about the fear, misery, and despair soldiers faced as they struggled to survive the horrors of war. It was the basis for HBO's The Pacific (successor to Band of Brothers).


Where you guys hiring in the past?

I remember reading a pitch for this site and the layout also looks familiar


We haven't ever hired anyone; its just 2 of us, but I've shared on HN before, so maybe you saw it then?


This makes me want to learn music even though I'm not a musician


I learned math from a lady who would shout all the time, tell us we would amount to nothing and would throw a wooden chalkboard eraser at us.

How the hell can I teach myself to enjoy math?


I feel like Tolstoy and Dostoyevski have produced all the great insights we could possibly have on the human soul.


Go ahead and say Mein Kampf then. If people react in "bla bla bla" way you can go ahead and judge them for not taking the time to think you might actually be playing mind games and not being a total idiot. :D


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