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by JJMcJ 3y ago
> a specific small favor And risk their reputation if you aren't that good. There is a gradation from people who will tell everyone they know that the most hire you if they can, to people who will finally cough up a name with the re
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
This is not customary. In fact I've never heard of it for placements. A broker for consulting work might take a finder's fee, but never for regular employment. Way back when, like in the 1950s and 60s, employment agencies might
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
I'm not disagreeing with you as I write this, but there are many people who act like Hawaii is some kind of obscure appendage instead of being a state just like the other 49 states. Puerto Rico is as close to a state as it's possi
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, also. Hardly cheating. They are part of the United States.
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
I've had zero severance or two weeks extra pay layoffs. Those are a lot less fun.
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
During Korean War, 1950-54, the was an alarming increase of inductees failing the reading tests. Was this real, or a new form of draft dodging? The Army had psychologists look into to this, and it was determined that it wasn't faking.
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
An analogy. In a dorm the week before finals, 90% of the students are urgently trying to prepare for finals. 10% are drunk and or high and playing frisbee in the halls 24 hours a day. From friends who have taught high school in poor neighbo
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
Enough technical debt and your project is on "technical payday loans". I've worked on such projects and it's no fun.
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
An atmosphere of confusion and hostility.
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
> burn them out right before they might've been fired anyway If you're offered the choice of PIP or severance, it's usually best to take the severance. > after bad financial quarters It's a typical way to lower sta
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
He certainly helped push the high rise isolated developments, mostly turning into the utterly despised high rise projects in Europe and America.
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
Agreed. I do that when possible.
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
> single website Many many projects host on readthedocs.com. So that's another major failure point.
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
It has been recorded from the earliest days of the Christian holiday. Maybe even before that with its predecessors.
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
Also malicious reviews by competitors.
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
I think 2004 is when the concept really gained currency.
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
Nothing worse than people who say "9 AM my time" I suppose it's OK if it's Pacific vs Mountain but even there Arizona doesn't observe Daylight, and parts of Eastern Oregon are Mountain, not Pacific. Never mind deali
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
The joke definition of Web 2.0: You make the content, we make the money. Well, don't piss off the content makers, or the content consumers.
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
> becoming a Chinese colony About 20 years ago SG required all Chinese language broadcasting to be in Mandarin, for example, following the party line in China.
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
A 50 year old physician or lawyer, if they are good, is at the absolute top of their profession and can 90% expect work another ten or twenty or more years still earning top dollar. A 50 year old non-management programmer? Look forward to
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
Candidate: "I honestly wonder how you plan to stay in business for more than three months." VP: "He kept asking questions we weren't prepared to answer." Recruiter: "I think I'll go work for my cousin&#x27
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
The famous UCLA basketball coach John Wooden used to say "be quick but never hurry".
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
> Madam, I'm Adam Brought to you by the Palindrome SocietyteicoS emordnilaP
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by JJMcJ 3y ago
HN has the better choice. If you don't want stark look of black on white, change the background color, not the font color. Not quite sure what the point of some comments being in lower contrast.
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
Elaborate setup: maybe some candidates will already have it. If it requires a gig of downloads, and a bunch of configuration files, it's over the top. Also, does it have business value? If so, it gets more suspicious.
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
That is absolutely the plan. The assets are now with a new bank that will be open for business on Monday. FDIC promises for the ordinary-people, everything will be uninterrupted. Checks from the older SVB accounts will clear, debit cards
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
That's true. The real risk was in imagining that the interest rates would stay super-low forever.
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
Their SVB Private subsidiary, which is an ordinary consumer bank (people deposit money, bank buys bonds and writes mortgages) is still in good shape and will probably be snapped up by a bigger bank in the next few dya. For the shareholders
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
It wasn't risky as long as prime rate stayed super low. But that rate has been creeping up for months now. SVB was too small to qualify for risk assessment under the revised banking rules. So they could get away with money in volatile
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
SVB has some ordinary people as depositors, with a regular commercial bank as their Boston Private subsidiary. It would be very disruptive and cruel if they lost all or much of their deposits. SVB's stockholders, on the other hand . .

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