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   Tesla tells customers it will not honor retroactive Full Self-Driving pricing(teslarati.com)

   73 points by baskethead 5y ago|45 comments
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   by baskethead 5y ago

   You’re the cto. Lean on your senior engineers and ask sanity questions. That’s your job as cto, not to come with all the answers. Save your design and coding for your home projects for fun.
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   by baskethead 5y ago

   It sounds like their systems design interviews aren’t rigorous enough.
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   by baskethead 5y ago

   If the US government had any sense of strategy, they would employ these maintainers en masse, not only to create good will but to make sure that other bad actors don’t get to them first.
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   by baskethead 5y ago

   You should also join Google as an IC. Sounds like you would be much happier.
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   by baskethead 5y ago

   I’m an old guy. I have 20+ years on me as an IC and am going through interviews. I have or have had a total of 20 interviews. I can honestly say I don’t feel any ageism. I do feel like the interview process is getting harder and harder thou
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   by baskethead 5y ago

   What is bad for morale is keeping someone around who is a bad fit. Netflix has solved this problem by paying everyone at the top of the scale and firing everyone who doesn’t meet their bar.
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   by baskethead 5y ago

   The question is whether or not your interviewing practices filter out bad candidates. If your entire company has no employees then maybe but I find that hard to believe.
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   by baskethead 5y ago

   Recruiters don’t care. I’ve had some of the rudest interviews recently and complained to the recruiter and they completely ignored me.
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    by baskethead 5y ago

    Is this why Ubiquiti quality has fallen over the last ~2 years? I went all-in on Ubiquiti almost 3 years ago and I’ve been less than thrilled with the quality and level of support. This chaos that you say happened seems to line up with what
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    by baskethead 5y ago

    If Google re-interviewed all their current programmers, what percentage of them would pass the phone screen and onsites and get another job offer?
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    by baskethead 5y ago

    I’m 50 in Silicon Valley and going through dozens of interviews right now. I decided to quit during COVID and now am trying to renter the workforce. I have 24 years experience and worked at companies you’ve all heard of and I honestly have
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    by baskethead 5y ago

    Very cool, but can someone’s hair or clothing get sucked into it?
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    by baskethead 5y ago

    As a Canadian, I’ve had maple syrup less than a dozen times in my life. It plays no part of my life, or my families or friends. So the fact that it’s tied to Canada is strictly a foreign marketing thing I think. I actually have less associa
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    by baskethead 5y ago

    Get a heritage turkey. They are free range, harvested at an older age, and they are hung for several day like pheasants after being killed as opposed to factory-style turkeys from the supermarkets. They way they are preserved it what contri
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    by baskethead 5y ago

    Once it leaves the confines of your property, you no longer own it. So you’re not stealing light that shine outside. If you care so much about the light you should close your shades. If you’re concerned about your neighbors freeloading off
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    by baskethead 5y ago

    Then, the restaurant should compensate anyone who doesn’t like the smell. Or the restaurant should be fined for letting it’s smell escape the confines of its kitchen.