bananaface

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by bananaface 6y ago
I think one source of tech churn people don't talk about is just growth. If you're 5x size you were last year, an entire system rewrite is relatively cheap, and if you expect to grow in the future, you can make riskier bets knowin
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by bananaface 6y ago
I think a lot of technical leadership is a side-effect of ability. People with a lot of technical experience are able to view projects at a high level (and judge other programmers accurately) as a side effect of being good. You want them cr
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by bananaface 6y ago
I really wonder whether this is a symptom of an industry that's bad at evaluating technical ability rather something that should be elevated. IME the best programmers by far are those who solve difficult technical problems quickly, w
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by bananaface 6y ago
I don't understand how having a wework near your restaurant would increase the value more than any other office. Either way the value add is a nearby space filled with professionals. Why would the wework brand increase that?
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by bananaface 6y ago
Unironically good advice I got a few years ago was to only ever read the 3-star reviews, because they're the most informative and balanced.
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by bananaface 6y ago
The FAANG interview process is designed to allow people who are bad at interviewing to assess candidates in a way that's replicable. It's designed to be a flowchart that you can't screw up. The point is to remove wiggle roo
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by bananaface 6y ago
a "track record" is biased toward those who inflate their resume Could you explain this a bit? I'd have thought this is the only real way to judge someone. People will lie but figuring that out is part of the process.
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by bananaface 6y ago
I agree, but it's still cheaper to counteroffer than to hire someone new if the demand is market price for that job. There's big overhead in replacing you. Fundamentally the operative variable is: "can they get your job done
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by bananaface 6y ago
I honestly think this is a myth propogated by managers to discourage negotiation They know the game, no employee ever is going to stay if they're being paid half their market value. "Commitment" my ass lol. But more to the po
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by bananaface 6y ago
OP said the objective was to create a critical mass of people refusing so companies would have to adapt. That's what wouldn't work. If it's just a niche job board then that's not an issue, but it also seems like one of t
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by bananaface 6y ago
Won't work because there's a giant incentive to defect and no way to effectively police it.
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by bananaface 6y ago
From a utilitarian perspective, probably not.
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by bananaface 6y ago
Do you have a link?
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by bananaface 6y ago
Is this true, legally? Can they not accept a demand for resignation and be legally immune from claims of discrimination? I assume they wanted her out and she accidentally gave them immunity, so they jumped on it.
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by bananaface 6y ago
Weirdness is good. If the market is weird, it means people don't know how to exploit it, i.e. you actually have a chance of finding an edge that hasn't been exhausted by someone else. There isn't a compendium of standard tact
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by bananaface 6y ago
Why can't you just replicate these features in C? Surely await/promise libraries exist?
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by bananaface 6y ago
I call it a bluff because the implication is it's non-negotiable. One of the reasons I say this is that if people weren't falling for it, they wouldn't tell you they're applying an adjustment at all, because it tells you
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by bananaface 6y ago
I think cost-of-living adjustments are mostly a bluff. If you demand more and you're better than someone in an expensive area, they're not going to hire the shittier candidate. They'll see what they can get away with given yo
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by bananaface 6y ago
Are you arguing that Indian employees should earn less because it's better for Indian employers?
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by bananaface 6y ago
As always: who funded the study
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by bananaface 6y ago
It's not surprising when you're wise enough to realise this, but I think it's a deceptive promise sold to incoming students. You hear so many horror stories from people who didn't realise they were signing their life awa
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by bananaface 6y ago
What I'm getting at is someone's reputation on a subject is not obvious in Reddit-style forums, so while this does allow the promotion of comments by outsider savants, the vast majority of non-expert comments end up being from peo
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by bananaface 6y ago
I'm not sure I like this. In practice it means people who don't know what they're talking about (but can bullshit) get promoted more than people who earn $500k/year understanding the subject, who can't be bothered t
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by bananaface 6y ago
Ryan Holiday's debut book was called Trust Me, I'm Lying and it pretty much outlines his early internet marketing career and all the nutty tactics they used. He's very blunt and the stories he tells should be required readi
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by bananaface 6y ago
Important is that the BBC isn't nationalised, at least not in the typical sense. The government is prohibited from direct intervention[0] and the safeguards (surprisingly) seem to work. It's much less nationalised than e.g. Russ
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by bananaface 6y ago
I would say the BBC is biased towards people holding long-term political office, i.e. the bureaucratic class, not the incumbent party. They're pretty good at bringing the hammer down on representatives. They were explicitly anti-Brex
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by bananaface 6y ago
Why is this kind of thing so common at conferences? What mechanism encourages it in that kind of environment?
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by bananaface 6y ago
If they do it without, they have to own the decision. The CoC provides plausible deniability that it was personal.
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by bananaface 6y ago
The guy founded Fast.ai. I'd argue he's head and shoulders above JupyterCon. It was stupid of them to pick this battle. I think they will lose.
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by bananaface 6y ago
Why do you need a Code of Conduct to prevent people acting like jerks? If someone acts like a jerk tell them to stop, and if they don't, take action. IMO you don't need it enshrined in a dodgy pseudo-contract. That's a recipe

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