MCRed

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by MCRed 11y ago
Semantics. But then, this is hacker news, intelligent discussion gets downvoted or hellbanned.
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by MCRed 11y ago
Nope. I've been on hacker news since 2007. It's never been a tolerant community of people who have different viewpoints, no matter how well articulated. I've been harassed, doxxed, and was even once hellbanned for linking t
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by MCRed 11y ago
Ghosts are real and I can explain them completely rationally: The subconscious is trained to see patterns or anti-patterns that indicate danger. Thus the subconscious makes you "feel" thinks or see things that, historically in t
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by MCRed 11y ago
Evolution is a wedge issue. The whole point of this is to reinforce leftist smug sense of superiority. This is shown by the choice of countries-- largely socialist europe, the choice of yardsticks (GDP which is a false indicator of wealth
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by MCRed 11y ago
Correlations is not Causation, otherwise you could make the argument that Somali Pirates are the cause of Global Warming. The data here is poor in several ways- the selection is highly weighted towards european countries and excludes, for
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by MCRed 11y ago
I can't tell if this is an april fools prank. Honestly, none of those value added features do I want. Talking to my desk? No, I don't even talk to my mac (And it's been listening for over a decade.) I only talk to Siri in my
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by MCRed 11y ago
Sadly, tech journalism has only gotten worse in the past 20 years. As bad as it was then-- there was no surprise that reporters didn't understand technology-- now they think they do, which is worse.
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by MCRed 11y ago
No, it happened four years later with the iMac. At the time of the article, you had trouble getting a computer with a TCP/IP stack on it out of the box. The NeXT machines did, and Macs did, but most people had windows and didn't
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by MCRed 11y ago
STEVE JOBS is using the term apps.
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by MCRed 11y ago
He was an amazing man. All of the hate is because he dared to follow that vision where it went, instead of merely being a vendor of software for Microsoft, or subservient to Google (eg: Apple built the entire infrastructure to do maps merel
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by MCRed 11y ago
For instance, around the time this article was written, someone from Microsoft was sitting across the desk from me (this is in Seattle) and told me "you can re-engineer our product to use our technology, or we will bury you". Re-
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by MCRed 11y ago
In a way this is a feature not a bug-- when an HR person whose job was created primarily to boost the number of females and minorities in the company to meet quotas is reviewing resumes and rejects me, she saves me a lot of time working for
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by MCRed 11y ago
Some comments: -- If you're running a good company, then the resumes will be filtered by technical people, not HR. There really aren't too many of them (if you're big enough to be getting thousands of resumes, then you have
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by MCRed 11y ago
Basically, everyone not currently at amazon is admitting how much it sucks. People currently there are pretending it doesn't suck. The company does have a good reality distortion field and seems like a great place to work for the fir
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by MCRed 11y ago
Jobs was a good guy who, under it all, had engineering skill and design chops. He was compassionate and intelligent. Jobs built a great company that makes real profits by selling real products. Bezos is a psychopath, a hack who only cares
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by MCRed 11y ago
It's a lie. I knew him well enough when I worked there that I could have reached out to him personally and he would have known who I was. This is all by design. He couldn't care less about employees. He does care about the repu
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by MCRed 11y ago
When I worked at Amazon I felt it was very cultish. "Today is day one!" and the BS like door desks (which cost more than actual desks but give the "we're a startup!" mentality boost.) Looking on your list a surpris
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by MCRed 11y ago
Does 300 people count as more than "one or two" terrible anecdotes? Cause thats how many were in the group that were having a miserable time when I was at Amazon... it was a significant proportion of the engineers at HQ at that t
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by MCRed 11y ago
Yeah, one thing is, negative reviews on Glassdoor seem to get killed. I reviewed Amazon negatively, and of course it's no longer there. I don't know if Glassdoor is doing like Yelp is alleged to be doing, but I've seen this w
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by MCRed 11y ago
Escalate to HR? That's exactly what I did. Jeff is spinning his typical BS. My boss was abusive, drove off %70 of the team and was dealing drugs to other employees in the PacMed garage. He lied to me many times, and I started docume
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by MCRed 11y ago
Nobody has access to that data except executives at Amazon. However, I can say that when I was ready to go (and tried to transfer out of the group) we had lost %70 of the employees in the group. After I left, the group basically dissipated
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by MCRed 11y ago
Because it takes 5-7 months to realize how much you have screwed up. And by that point you want to stay a year so you don't look like a flake. If you are astute or experienced (or read these articles and realize they are painful trut
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by MCRed 11y ago
Amazon's culture, and this goes from the top and permeates the executive ranks and middle management, has absolutely zero respect for employees. Employees are seen as sheep to be herded and manipulated and as a cost center, not a valu
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by MCRed 11y ago
This happened to me: October, we notice an issue when our boss gives us bad specs. Boss insists it came "directly from Bezos." We push back because we know it's wrong. Boss is a wimp and knows nothing about technology. We t
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by MCRed 11y ago
When you have a toxic manager at Amazon-- and I did-- you can't change teams. I had an offer from the manager of another team, but was fired when I attempted to change teams. The idea that you can change teams is kinda a fallacy... su
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by MCRed 11y ago
It's a 9-5 job if you check out or are on the way out. Many people are on the way out and don't even realize it.
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by MCRed 11y ago
All teams do it, it's part of the stack ranking, my-team-vs-other-teams culture.
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by MCRed 11y ago
You really should look at the PE and grwoth of Amazon vs BH. Amazon is a shell game, it is not really growing. It's a boring retailer... yet it is using PR to pump up its stock. No way to know how long it can do this, except to know it
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by MCRed 11y ago
When you try to transfer, your boss puts in a report to HR about how you're such a bad employee (clearly the bosses are incentivized to do this, to keep employees from internally transferring.) Once that happens you're on the cloc
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by MCRed 11y ago
"only ones that matter financially" Who are you serving? Investors or yourself? The SV model is that this is all that matters but a 50M business is still a damn good business and not a "lifestyle" business. Also, read

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