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by batmaniam 6y ago
This is pretty alarming. While I knew that it's bad in the subways just from the smell alone, I didn't know it was actively harming my health to the degree that it is. This is a good heads up, thanks.
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by batmaniam 6y ago
I don't think the point of the article was to normalize this schedule for 'factory workers'. To me, it's trying to say that this is an unhealthy way of life, and should not be implemented or tolerated in the workplace. T
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by batmaniam 6y ago
> As other young men throughout the country swindle hedge funds by investing in video-game retail Hmm... Anyone else find it odd that a ton of news is reporting on the GME event with this false angle, on unrelated news events? Not just m
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by batmaniam 6y ago
Cool, I'm curious about the manufacturing part. Would you mind sharing that process? How did you find a manufacturer willing to build your product? Did you negotiate the price per unit? Do they require a minimum purchase amount (ie, li
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by batmaniam 6y ago
I wished I spent more time with friends. Early days I wanted to learn and make the next big thing, and spent a lot of my time after work reading up on design patterns, stacks, etc. Even launched a product, but it failed. Looking back, I saw
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by batmaniam 6y ago
Most everything is open source these days though, with some projects reducing support for the community tier, and pushing their proprietary tier. A more interesting question is what happens if you 'open source' everything with a f
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by batmaniam 6y ago
Government have always made a show of power when it comes to groups that stand up to the status quo. While this article (or the government for that matter) hasn't told us what groups are 'extremist', or what that even means,
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by batmaniam 6y ago
What happened with python support? Is it coming back or just dropped? > 2013 - First Python implementation, known as “Fuck Everything”. > Buttplug v1.0.0 is available in the following flavors: > Rust – Crates.io, Github > C# – N
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by batmaniam 6y ago
This is a really well-expressed comment. I actually felt it. You should write a novel, lol. Life priorities change, and it's precisely due to time commitments, as you said. I wish more people at my age understood that. Tech time is inf
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by batmaniam 6y ago
How did you find manufacturers for printing the physical cards/boxes? And why did you only price it at $100, doesn't most manufacturers require a base number of printing, like 1000 boxes?
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by batmaniam 6y ago
As others have said, it's a bad deal overall. There's many possibilities for the founders to screw you over: from vague milestone definitions, equity being worthless (most startups fail), adding to mental stress, etc. If you reall
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by batmaniam 6y ago
We should rid of the term 'poaching'. There's no such thing. We're not animals, we are free to accept a better offer it comes along. The CEO should have counter offered with something more substantial, but he couldn&#x27
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by batmaniam 6y ago
This is an extremely unfair evaluation of software engineers. There's no such thing as a company doing ethical work, they all answer to shareholders and generate profit solely to benefit that class of people. Everyone else is the worki
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by batmaniam 6y ago
Yea but what about 2-3 years down the line? You've basically set the baseline at which the recruiter will start from. Your next jump will be just maybe +5k instead of +20k since they know how much you made.
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by batmaniam 6y ago
How does this scale with increased inflation or demand? I'm betting it doesn't; it just feels like another way to keep wages down if the company refuses to update their pay 'algorithm' against the current labor market.
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by batmaniam 6y ago
Absolutely terrible. Corporate abuse doesn't just stop at lower-tiered jobs, it affects all levels of industry, including knowledge workers, like the article explains. I had no idea that workers at MS had unionized, only to be stomped
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by batmaniam 6y ago
Get active in lawmaking. That's the only way. You have to fight corporate political power with people political power. The details of the bill usually come later. Start with organizing and walkouts, done collectively would be a great f
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by batmaniam 6y ago
I don't think it's fear, ego, or whatever other answers here have suggested. It's pure profit motivated. If employees knew things were going to hell, would they keep working or start looking for new jobs? The latter case has
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by batmaniam 6y ago
Is there a way to download the raw data?
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by batmaniam 6y ago
Cool, was the drawing interaction a custom UX component, or is this using some library on github somewhere? I can't imagine how to even build something like this, and am really curious.
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by batmaniam 7y ago
I have a hard time believing that workload is reduced. In theory it makes sense, but companies are not charities, and unless the government makes it the rule that workload gets reduced, I think it's just gonna be a direct paycut.
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by batmaniam 7y ago
So where can one apply?
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by batmaniam 7y ago
But if it's a multibillion dollar industry similar to other multibillion dollar tech industries outside of gaming, why are game developers making so little in comparison to the rest of us? Something is not making sense here, and I don&
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by batmaniam 7y ago
Management isn't dumb. They understand the worker-employer balance at play. They're not going to come out directly and say they're doing this because they want ass-in-seats, they always have an official cover story. In this c
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by batmaniam 8y ago
I have 12.0.1 installed, I didn't see any privacy related description in the info area.
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Ask HN: How is FB Messenger on ios in terms of privacy?
1 points by batmaniam 8y ago|2 comments