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by anonreeeeplor 4y ago
Tech companies are a sort of talent Ponzi scheme. They rely on a constant influx of gullible, industrious and ambitious people willing to jump through hoops for a bit before they get averaged into the grey mass of middle management. Middle
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by anonreeeeplor 4y ago
I hate articles like this. They are part of an entire genre of pseudo intellectual nonsense that seems to be this genius insight but directly ignores obvious causes. They treat depression like it is some mystery of science when it is direct
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by anonreeeeplor 4y ago
This is a good place to remind tech workers that they should not get comfy in big tech. Older workers are a massive liability. They will try to get rid of you and they will prefer foreign replacements on the younger side. They will also cla
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by anonreeeeplor 4y ago
They have been working on Fuscia forever and no signs of shipping, one of many projects that seem to be designed to entertain very expensive talent to keep them busy. Part of me wonders if many of these projects really only exist to remove
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by anonreeeeplor 4y ago
Corruption was a massive problem in USA industry as well as slowdowns due to legal red tape. My guess is incompetent government is at the root of the problem. The more you scale red tape, the harder it is to do anything. Look at the Califor
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by anonreeeeplor 4y ago
Number one strategy for people with ADHD is migrate to jobs where there is a lot of variety and complexity and things are changing all the time and lots of new interesting things to look into. The maturity part which I struggle with is how
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by anonreeeeplor 4y ago
It was very hit and miss for me. I think you really need to have a primary gig or hobby or side project which exposes you to constant opportunities. My job now drives a lot of secondary value encounters which allows me to “spin off” differe
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by anonreeeeplor 4y ago
I made a very concerted effort to lose weight last year and it was such an overwhelming exercise in concentration. I did a lot of fasting and walking, fasts for 2 - 3 days once a week. I looked and felt fantastic. But the mental energy requ
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by anonreeeeplor 4y ago
Why are only google employees the ones who are so entitled they are demanding unions. Every other company laid off tens of thousands and you didn’t hear anything in the comments sections or twitter. But Google? Omg my union! Whiniest people
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by anonreeeeplor 4y ago
I resonate with this. I ran into a guy in the early part of my job at a company several years ago. We had a 30 minute discussion about how to collaborate. By the end he was screaming at me. I realized there was something deeply wrong. I rea
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by anonreeeeplor 4y ago
I have co founded a $100+ million valuation startup. I am not in the top 50%. I am not in the top 80%. I am in the very very very top 0.5%. If you have worked in most tech jobs, at large or medium sized companies, you have not met people li
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by anonreeeeplor 4y ago
Yes. I quit and then asked: “what if I stayed and do I regret leaving” on my last 4 companies. Universally the answer is no I don’t regret it. One imploded and laid off like 60% of people after turning into a nasty political hell hole. Anot
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by anonreeeeplor 4y ago
I believe that Jerome Powell wants to gaslight United States employers into shaking off excess and over hired workers. The strange thing is I believe the economy is better than it is being portrayed as. The unemployment rate indicates that
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by anonreeeeplor 4y ago
I took one course for programming in college and it was so awful. I stopped going. Then I did a two week project to build a little game. That little game taught me more in two weeks than the whole semester. I took the tests and passed them
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by anonreeeeplor 4y ago
I have an in-law who is the goofy, super lazy kid. Can’t be bothered to do anything. We sent him to school for like 1 semester and he didn’t go to class and just screwed around. His SAT scores off the charts. He just sort of codes and is a
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by anonreeeeplor 4y ago
Once you lose 100% of respect for the company it’s hard to work anymore. I did a bunch of work, hit a snag and asked my manager to remove it several times. They didn’t. So then I gave up and started cruising. I assumed they would surely not
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by anonreeeeplor 4y ago
This is close to what they did to me. Something close to it. They cut me out of everything related to my job. Then abused people I recruited to the company and cut them off also because they knew we were connected. It’s really hard to prove
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Ask HN: Angry at a former employer screwed me
9 points by anonreeeeplor 4y ago|8 comments
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by anonreeeeplor 4y ago
In my opinion if you are creative, imaginative and have ideas - You should choke up on it. Creative work, inventing things - it’s the most value able thing. Not the “management.” If you are in a non creative environment and you find you hav
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by anonreeeeplor 4y ago
The reward for success in most corporations is to be able to hire more people. I can’t think of many situations where being successful means you get to degrade the quality of what you are doing. The problem is peoples egos and signaling. I
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by anonreeeeplor 4y ago
I joined a really great (tm) super awesome tech company as a remote worker. They had zero understanding of my skills, I was never integrated into anything, most of them forgot I existed, left out of key meetings and my boss never advocated
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by anonreeeeplor 4y ago
I would love some of the journalists who write these article to volunteer to take these jobs by quitting and becoming plumbers. Why don’t they do it? Because sitting in a nice cozy chair and having opinions backed by nothing is much higher
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by anonreeeeplor 4y ago
They have had such an extreme stock price dive into the toilet. Their stock looks like Solana. This is probably not among the optimizations which will help anything.
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by anonreeeeplor 4y ago
This is called “having your cake and eating it too.” Simply don’t pay office rent and let them sue you and drag your feet forever until they negotiate for lower rent or go bankrupt. If you know commercial real estate are about to go bankrup
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by anonreeeeplor 4y ago
I am in the Ukrainian army. Sometimes, for fun, we shoot MANPADS at the tanks because we already took down all the jets. It’s super fun you should try enlisting.
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by anonreeeeplor 4y ago
I remember trying to learn Ruby on Rails. I read all the books and started playing around with scaffolding. It was giving me problems and I was talking to a senior developer from the community about it and he said: “Everyone knows you don’t
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by anonreeeeplor 4y ago
I believe that there is a power swing about to happen where talented individuals may get a lot more powerful and influential in relation to institutions and corporations. I liken it to how MANPADS allow individual soldiers to overpower tank
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by anonreeeeplor 4y ago
I have interviewed with Amazon several times. Every time I don’t make it through because I realized the people in many of the roles were (a) not the best people (b) I seemed to know way more than many of them about their domain (c) they kep
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by anonreeeeplor 4y ago
Hey, I have struggled with loss of motivation many times. I worked in boring medium to big sized companies to the point where I felt I had done it all, knew it all, wasn’t excited, wasn’t learning anything new. I think a lot about what Fran
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by anonreeeeplor 4y ago
I left a very high paying premium tier company for a startup. I got lucky. But if it didn’t work out I would probably regret it, badly. I don’t think people should go back to a prior employer. A lot of people have a cozy sort of path in lif

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