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by arachnids 9y ago
Less work for the company because the process is simpler, and allows them to "test the waters" and back out if response is cooler than they imagined it would be. https://www.inc.com/christine-lagorio/public-of
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by arachnids 9y ago
None of these things are true at Google, Facebook or half the other places on OP's list. These companies will not fire you at will. You will go through at least 2 cycles of poor reviews and a performance improvement plan, it should be
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by arachnids 9y ago
"Chief of Staff" is valley-speak for secretary.
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by arachnids 9y ago
> power bestowed upon Twitter employees Customer support agents need to take actions against people's accounts. This is literally their job description. This is true at every company. > you might not have any recourse. Free servi
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by arachnids 9y ago
> If you share and your amount is > the employers, you have no job. FWIW, I have never had this happen to me in the Valley. Companies will either make projections on what their stock will be worth in the future to make their offer loo
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by arachnids 9y ago
> They kind of lost the enterprise battle What is this based on? Not saying you're wrong, just looking for some evidence because that seems like a big claim.
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by arachnids 9y ago
You lose the chance to sell to everyone else that considers the adversary a threat, because you have made it easier for the adversary to attack or evade your product than those of your competitors.
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by arachnids 9y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Wikipedia
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by arachnids 10y ago
If she had turned Yahoo around, she would be making much more in equity.
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by arachnids 10y ago
They probably agreed on the bonus ahead of time. I doubt she would have taken the offer if it was conditional on Yahoo doing well.
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by arachnids 10y ago
The CEOs salary and bonus is negotiated by the board. What happened here is the board decided to not pay her, and she asked them to distribute it to the employees instead. It's not her pay to do anything with anymore.
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by arachnids 10y ago
Probably the "Infinite" extension [1] that lets you evict files from your disk while still storing them in Dropbox. It's an opt-in feature (and perhaps only available to Business customers?). [1] - https://blogs.dr
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by arachnids 10y ago
Nonsense. The power of an alternative employment offer is the leverage its gives you against your current salary. As a green card holder, my employer has twice matched competing offers resulting in significant raises. If I was still on an H
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by arachnids 10y ago
The Republicans don't want him gone at all. With him in the office, they can aggressively push the conservative agenda and have him be the fall guy if things don't work out.
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by arachnids 10y ago
Recently laid-off people whose continued legal status in the country depended on them finding another job quickly.
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by arachnids 10y ago
Haha. I liked one of the answers further down in the thread - it points out that there is a cost associated with making your service smoothly upgradable, probably in both engineering time and in hardware. It's possible a lot of these c
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by arachnids 10y ago
I'm not sure Clinton was a populist in any sense of the word.
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Why are websites sometimes “down for maintenance”?(softwareengineering.stackexchange.com)
57 points by arachnids 10y ago|47 comments
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by arachnids 10y ago
Creating a second class citizenship that can be taken away undermines democracy. Either give someone citizenship or do not. If we do and they fuck up, they're our problem.
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by arachnids 10y ago
You realize the alternative is jail time for everyone who participated in the cover up? No amount of my company's money is worth my freedom.
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by arachnids 10y ago
"not including “interest, taxes, and equity-based compensation for employees", so in terms of whether the company will survive / current employees will ever see payday, I don't think that means anything.
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by arachnids 10y ago
The target audience of these kind of emails is not the people who are fired, it's the people who are staying.
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by arachnids 10y ago
TitanDB is dead in the water. They have been unresponsive since getting acquired by Datastax, it looks like the team is now working on their commercial offering. Everyone I know is looking for alternatives.
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by arachnids 10y ago
That was probably a Ronald Reagan joke
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by arachnids 10y ago
This doesn't make sense to me, CS skills aren't a big fungible set that allow people to move around freely. I have a particular set of skills that I've honed over several years. These skills make me valuable at my specific jo
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by arachnids 11y ago
Big Booleans is the future, really nice.
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by arachnids 11y ago
He's known to be acerbic and extremely difficult to work with, but he has an indisputable history of getting shit done. I respect people who can back up talk.
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by arachnids 11y ago
Love the logos and the smooth transition animation. TIL Coca Cola is a unicorn :-)
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by arachnids 11y ago
Two things seem worth mentioning: 1. The usual suspects that petition Congress for more H1-B visas seem to be paying their employees at or above market. 2. Several Indian IT body shops are spamming the process, vastly reducing the effective
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by arachnids 11y ago
This is not true at all, there is a well-defined H1-B transfer process that I've used myself. Your new employer petitions USCIS for a transfer (similar to filing a new petition, but cheaper), and you can switch jobs once it's appr

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