_m96l

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by _m96l 8y ago
> As others have pointed out, it's not uncommon to get them (and other clauses) struck out of employment agreements during hiring. I've struck that one from all places I've worked, I've struck all patent and IP claim
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by _m96l 8y ago
Have you read the article? In many areas where non-competes are legal, all employers slap them on their contracts. So your choice is to sign one, or remain unemployed. Also, most employees aren't fully aware of what these non-competes
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by _m96l 8y ago
While this may all be true, the upshot is that as individual employees, we have zero leverage or bargaining power against these large employers. Even now, with the great shortage of tech talent - while is repeatedly used as a justification
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by _m96l 8y ago
I have the opposite experience. I refused to sign non-competes for all past offers that included them, and in all cases the potential employer then walked away. That happened after lengthy interview processes that lasted multiple days and c
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by _m96l 8y ago
> I’ve found these non-competes often have no teeth. Unless you possess exceptional knowledge or secrets, companies will not waste the resources going after you. You naively conflate "not biting" with "having no teeth&qu
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by _m96l 8y ago
I never said folks couldn't pick up a stack of books and in theory study well enough to get a good tech job. I said they generally don't because they don't have the stamina, discipline, and curiosity to do so. Some do. Th
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Ask HN: FAANG employees, how are the recent stock declines impacting you?
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by _m96l 8y ago
> It sounds a little draining to work with people you don't like, regardless of the reason of dislike. Absolutely! Which is why people do get fired all the time if they rub their managers or the rest of the team in the wrong way.
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by _m96l 8y ago
What are you talking about? Everyone knows corporations are owned by tiny white men wearing tuxedos and monocles.
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by _m96l 8y ago
I don't think there's one universal "dark side" to working at any successful startup, not anymore than there's one "dark side" to working at any other very broad category of projects. At best, you're
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by _m96l 8y ago
Curious how articles like these almost never give the most obvious advice to businesses, which is: pay developers more. Instead, this article for instance advises employers to "increase developer productivity" and "outsource&
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by _m96l 8y ago
Right or wrong, the sad reality is that if the US doesn't develop AI weaponry, its adversaries will, notably Russia and China.
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by _m96l 8y ago
Indeed. "Unicode" is an abstract character set, it doesn't "use" any bytes. A specific encoding does.
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by _m96l 8y ago
Engineers are typically intelligent, but most of them know very little about negotiation, especially straight out of college - which is a huge percentage of new hires every year. You may have graduated from MIT and done hard psets for 4 yea
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by _m96l 8y ago
This article is an example of "data-science gone wild": a simplistic model that only considers a tiny subset of easy-to-quantify features, skipping all hard-to-quantify features regardless of their likely impact. For example, the
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by _m96l 8y ago
Yeah, look at these people, expecting to be paid their market value! I mean, they're just engineers, right? They should be thankful for anything thrown their way, even if they'll never be able to afford a house or raise a family
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by _m96l 8y ago
Age discrimination most widely known illegal employment practice in the entire US technology industry. We have the top executive of a major Valley tech company, on the record, encouraging illegal discrimination against older people. We have
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by _m96l 8y ago
That's a good point: a big reason for job hoppings is that employers aren't diligent about raising comp and promoting existing employees. Obviously it's not good for the bottom line to raise pay for the same work. But trying
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by _m96l 8y ago
> Because Crystal is compiled, it is impossible to have a true REPL First of all, the problem isn't that it's "compiled" - Python is "compiled" too, but still has one of the best REPLs available. The problem
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by _m96l 8y ago
I loved your response. Just to add to it: early startup employees aren't working hard just because they selflessly want to contribute. They often hold the belief (typically mistaken nowadays) that their equity will be worth tens of mil
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by _m96l 8y ago
> There are only a handful of companies that pay $400k/yr for senior software engineers and MSFT ain't one of them (facebook, and google do however). None of the companies in top tier tech can afford to pay substantially less t
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by _m96l 8y ago
> Hours and days don’t capture the value. I have risked my house, every minute of spare time, I have put Heroku bills on my personal credit card, paid contractors out of my pocket and had to create something out of nothing within a diffi
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by _m96l 9y ago
Kaspersky has been known to collaborate with the Russian government and promote Russian interest. They've actively pursued state actors that are hostile to Russian interest, for example The Equation Group ( https://en.wikiped