JSavageReal

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by JSavageReal 7y ago
The article doesn't really answer the question other than stating that there's more competition for sandwiches in London. Would've been nice to at least see some data to support that.
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by JSavageReal 7y ago
The article mentions this in the beginning, what's your point? I love how every time there's talk of povery, some first world beneficiary jumps in to point out how much better poor people are compared to the past. Why they think t
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by JSavageReal 7y ago
> But for a long time I pretended it was fun. That I loved it. Because there is a lot of social pressure to portray yourself that way in the industry. People hiring you will run the other way as soon as they see a crack in that facade. Y
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by JSavageReal 7y ago
If you're going to make such outrageous claims, the least you can do is provide some evidence.
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by JSavageReal 7y ago
What do people use to read RSS feeds? I stopped following RSS feeds ever since Google Reader shut down, and wondering what a good free replacement is.
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by JSavageReal 7y ago
The problem with trying to find meaningful work is that 1. the pay is generally terrible, and hours will likely be long 2. if someone is paying you, it's still a "job", with all the implications, responsibilities, and power d
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by JSavageReal 7y ago
I don't disagree with you, but when you said "one should find a job they're good at", what you really saying is "find a job that pays a lot that you can also do well". I don't think working a boring high p
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by JSavageReal 7y ago
> "If you think paying $1 for every $8 in funding for housing is too much, just move to a different city?" What a useless, unconstructive comment. It's sad that when anyone wants to improve anything in this world, people l
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by JSavageReal 7y ago
> Congressmen are "experts at politics": the ability to make a decision WITHOUT being an expert in a subject. Congressmen are experts at getting people to vote for them. The problem is that the people who step up to the challen
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by JSavageReal 7y ago
Luddite. Electronic voting is inevitable, and far superior if done in a transparent untamperable way (eg. utilizing a publicly verifiable blockchain). I don't know why you guys have so much faith in paper voting when there are many ins
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by JSavageReal 7y ago
How anyone can do productive work developing software in an open office is beyond me
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by JSavageReal 7y ago
Well yea, that's why I eventually quit both jobs.
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by JSavageReal 7y ago
This has basically been the story of every job I've had, except instead of being 100% remote I was wfh once or twice per week. I'd join a company under the condition that they allowed flexible hours and wfh. Then 6 months later ma
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by JSavageReal 7y ago
Try working outside of your home, perhaps in a co-working space or coffee shop.
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by JSavageReal 7y ago
How is staring at a computer for 8 hours in an office any different from staring at a computer for 8 hours in a co-working space or coffee shop? I prefer the freedom to choose where I'll work from today.
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by JSavageReal 7y ago
Possible solutions: * Rent a co-working space * Work out of coffee shops * Make an effort to have a social life outside of your job.
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by JSavageReal 7y ago
Loved this article. Entertaining and informative (as someone not very informed on WeWork). > Ms. Neumann created controversy when she went on CNBC and said: “A big part of being a woman is to help men [like Adam] manifest their calling i
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by JSavageReal 7y ago
> not made for *common people If you're rich, it's never been a better time to be alive. Higher wealthy inequality than ever, financially desperate unattached workers to take advantage of. Increasing wealth inequality/conc
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by JSavageReal 7y ago
Blows my mind that non-compete clauses in these trivial instances are legal and actually enforced. Let's not forget that humans created these laws, and humans can change them.
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by JSavageReal 7y ago
This is the best explanation. As much as managers pretend like lead/senior engineers are on the same rung of the hierarchy, they're not. Engineers are seen as "resources", a cost center, an input that produces an output,
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by JSavageReal 7y ago
Was going to mention this as well. Vice deliberately misrepresenting the point of his memo and explicitly mentioning that it's "unscientific". Well no sh , it's a memo. I wonder if there's an agenda there?
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by JSavageReal 7y ago
You like being micromanaged and told what time you need to be in and out of the office everyday?
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by JSavageReal 7y ago
How is this even legal? Is there a movement to ban stacking ranking? If we don't voice our concerns as employees, then nobody will. Also the fact that "meets expectations" is concern for firing makes absolutely no sense. A pl