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Put your e-mail in your profile and lets chat - I should be able to link you up with an IV.

Hey, I have some questions assuming you're a Google employee.

- In the selection process, how important is pedigree on the resume as bane mentioned? I graduated at the top of my class but from a mediocre university and with a B.S. in IT (not CS), and I've wondered if this has hurt me in the selection process. I've interviewed twice at Google, performed very well, but got rejected in the end both times. Last time I actually got rejected, then offered another position, and then rejected a second time, lol.

- Does a recommendation from an existing employee give you a boost in the selection process? Google claims the process is 100% anonymous but I've wondered about that. I made a contact with one of the interviewers last time and I'm wondering if it'd be smart or even kosher to ask the guy for a plug.

If you've gotten through to the interview stage then it doesn't matter what school you went to. Re-examine whether you did perform well in those interviews. :)

Recommendations from people you know and have worked with and who can vouch for how awesome you are are valuable. Recommendations from someone you spoke to once aren't.

Who makes up "Sent from my iPhone" messages, and why?

I like when people subtly tweak their iPhone messages. A friend for a while used "Sent from my iPhome"

You guys are my number one favorite. I hope you don't get shut down. <3

Thank you. Glad I posted this because of your comment.

Why does this need access to my browsing history? :(

It's a bit of an alarmist, though accurate, alert: anything which has access to your tabs (ie, anything which can observe / inject into a page) also has access to your "history" as it can see what you're browsing. I'm sure other permissions also trip this, but "tabs" is one of the most common, and I ran across it recently too: http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/tabs.html

edit: I'd assume "history" also trips the history alert: http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/history.html

edit again: the extension has "tabs" permission only. Very little to worry about, unless you're paranoid about your browsing history.

If you are paranoid, use incognito. Extensions are disabled in incognito mode by default.

Can we stop with the movie references please?

"""just as likely to be trying it a year from now than he is to be trying it the moment he captures it. """

Really?

Look, it's easy to muddy the waters here by talking about mechanized attacks by bot herders and the like, but when you're talking about people that care about passwords at all, yes, really: they're valuable and people hold on to them.

Neither do I. The problem is that you didn't present an alternate way of thinking about extra hours. You just posted a link to a product and a statement that it wasn't designed by people who don't work extra hours without much of a link between the two.

Unnecessary editorializing? Goofy language? Pick one.

You're right. I was just a bit excited that I found it. HN wouldn't be as good if everyone did this.