angelbob

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by angelbob 11y ago
That's for their actual customers, the recruiters. Recruiters want to know when somebody updates because that's usually a sign they're about to start looking. It's a big deal. Sucks for you , but you're the product
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by angelbob 11y ago
You're a brave man, posting this here. Not least because if LinkedIn continues to add clearly-intentional dark patterns, people here are likely to remember you said it. So: I hope that's the optimistic sign it might be ;-)
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by angelbob 11y ago
Being good at programming is useful, but planning what happens if random changes in the business screw you is still useful. I've been a software engineer for going on 20 years now. Have a plan, just in case, even if you're good at
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by angelbob 11y ago
Microsoft is long past "nobody would ever be able to challenge them." Maybe on desktop, provided you exclude the server market. You didn't used to have to exclude the server market. They owned that too. Then Linux challenge
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by angelbob 11y ago
He's reasonably and appropriately worried about both the shaky unicorns and the seed funding bubble, neither of which seems terribly sustainable. There are other games in town, but those two games were seriously inflating salaries here
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by angelbob 11y ago
Ah! It looks like it also prevents additional "is this up to date?" requests for normal CDN resources. So you'll still load them on the first request, but you won't send a "hey, I'm using this" trackable r
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by angelbob 11y ago
Some of the things they mention, like the Google libs, are a CDN for a small, mostly-static set of stuff. So you could, say, hardcode most/all of the JavaScript libraries that Google hosts right into the plugin and never fetch them fro
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by angelbob 11y ago
The only problem with making this argument for Apple specifically is that their stock price seems to figure in revolutionizing an industry every few years. They could stay a major player for a long time and do just fine, but they'd go
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by angelbob 11y ago
I wish you were right. I'm in Fremont, a half hour from Mountain View and Google. Google Fiber's still not available.
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by angelbob 11y ago
Sure. You just have to be careful with the "make more money" mentality because it eventually leads you out of being a full-time software developer. You can go manager or freelancer, of course.
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by angelbob 11y ago
Sending in a paramilitary team against the will of the receiving country is often considered an act of war. We could do something that would be considered an act of war in order to kidnap somebody explicitly protected by the target countr
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by angelbob 11y ago
The really good and really bad places tend to exist and not get talked about. That is, a surprising number of "strawman" workplaces, good and bad, tend to actually exist.
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by angelbob 11y ago
Yeah, the article linked there is nicely specific. From the article (and these are median): Neurological surgeons had the highest median daily rate for providing on-call coverage, about $2,000 a day. Near the top of the pay scale were neuro
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by angelbob 11y ago
To agree with the article, you'd need to measure what you want, publish it and then reward it . Otherwise, most people skip doing it. I've worked at that company ;-)
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by angelbob 11y ago
In practice, you're generally fine if you're not in the office. This may be a harder distinction for remote employees, though. But in general, "salaried" has not been construed to mean "the company owns every minute
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by angelbob 11y ago
One thing that makes it feel more like a slap in the face is the current perception of openness. Folks like Fred Wilson and PG are doing their part to give the impression that everything is open and kinda-sorta known, which wasn't tr
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by angelbob 11y ago
In California, an employer specifically does not own your side work assuming you don't use any of their physical assets, protected know-how or paid-for time. In other words, if it's genuinely side work. There's a specific s
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by angelbob 11y ago
Don't know about Facebook in particular, and oh man is Google not cut out to do a good social site. But this kind of thing happens all the time, yeah. It's explicitly called out in a lot of business books -- as a small business
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by angelbob 11y ago
It is frequently believed to be preventable by those things. Systematic study is uncommon, I believe. Of course, this is at least a terrible summary article, not clear if it's a good study.
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by angelbob 11y ago
It's interesting that the article says "18 people" were cured. Was that a 100% yield? Or was it from a larger group? Overall, not a wonderfully written article, and I didn't see a link to the original study text :-/
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by angelbob 11y ago
Can do that through injected JS as well.
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by angelbob 11y ago
Nope. But the level of interest you'll draw is substantially lower. You can also declare yourself a celebrity of some other kind -- there is no Office of Celebrity Control. But similarly, it doesn't work as well.
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by angelbob 11y ago
I'm looking forward to that world.
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by angelbob 11y ago
I fear a centralized solution, if only because Credit Bureaus are the same idea for your money. The equivalent for jobs wouldn't be better.
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by angelbob 11y ago
The US has at-will employment in most states, but no explicit probationary period.
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by angelbob 11y ago
It's not different. And firing people regularly in their first three months gets you a bad reputation. GlassDoor makes it easy for that reputation to spread.
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by angelbob 11y ago
Absolutely. Since a good dev can get somebody a job, he can just set up a business gaming this system :-P
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by angelbob 11y ago
I love the idea of honestly acknowledging the tensions in a company, making it clear that they're there and talking openly about them. Companies basically never do that, I assume because if you then don't do anything about the t
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by angelbob 11y ago
Sure. But that's still a lousy title. "Python 3 is better than Python 2", for instance, while true, is completely failing to explain why the article is interesting.
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by angelbob 11y ago
When saying "the main bottom-line difference between X and Y is that Y is better", you're implying that you'll say something interesting and nuanced and then... not. I could say "the main difference between Ruby 1.8

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