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by bwestergard 8y ago
We were all fired in late January. I was the only worker to go on record with my real name before finding another job. I had several offers in February an was sitting at a new desk for a job that paid about $10k more by mid-March. Those who
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by bwestergard 8y ago
This is fantastic news. I'm one of the software engineers who was fired for organizing a union at a SF/DC based startup last year. The National Labor Relations Board found in our favor and we won a large cash settlement. But what
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by bwestergard 8y ago
Probably a reference to Frege, a founder of modern logic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Frege
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by bwestergard 8y ago
Even supposing this is an easier way to do without constraints, the effort to weaken static guarantees should be looked at askance. The great merit of Postgres' JSON types is that they <i>can</i> be used without losing
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by bwestergard 8y ago
It would be helpful to see a side by side comparison with Postgres JSON schemas/queries.
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by bwestergard 8y ago
A no-frills e-ink bash terminal machine would be a delight for working through a programming book in the park. If this were more portable and got longer battery life (24+ hours) I would pay a few hundred dollars for it.
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Ask HN: Low power programmable device?
3 points by bwestergard 8y ago|0 comments
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by bwestergard 8y ago
A more recent work, reflecting the latest scholarship in the field, is Priestley's "A Science of Operations".
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by bwestergard 8y ago
"These companies [large socially-important infrastructure companies] serve too important a role in society to allow themselves to be weilded as political tools by a loud and angry few." Isn't this an argument for increased re
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by bwestergard 8y ago
Does anyone care to guess how many of these will return the principal? How many will turn a profit? Of those that turn a profit, how many will be engaging in some form of regulatory arbitrage (i.e. Uber and labor/taxi regulation)?
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by bwestergard 8y ago
No. I don't believe in "salting" (taking jobs with an eye to certifying a union). I think I want what most devs want: a job where I spend most of my time writing code to solve interesting problems, to have opportunities to de
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by bwestergard 8y ago
When I and all of my coworkers were fired, and the office we worked in shut down, it came as an immense shock. I was terrified I'd never do the work I loved again, particularly after I became the de facto spokesperson for the group. As
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by bwestergard 8y ago
I'm quoted in the article as one of the engineers fired for unionizing and as an advocate of experimenting with a hiring hall model of organization. Happy to discuss either here.
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by bwestergard 8y ago
The Russian formalist school of literary criticism had terms for "story time" and "reader time": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabula_and_syuzhet
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Code Red: Organizing the Tech Sector(nplusonemag.com)
2 points by bwestergard 8y ago|1 comments
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by bwestergard 9y ago
The author of this piece mentions classical political economy, but not Marx, its most trenchant critic. Marx's most interesting and compelling contribution - until recently seldom understood in the English-language literature - was his
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S.F. Tech Workers Protest for the Right to Unionize(sfweekly.com)
2 points by bwestergard 9y ago|0 comments
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by bwestergard 9y ago
Step 2: bigger union.
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Sounds like a union hiring hall. Members can choose which fellow members they prefer to be placed with, as has often been the norm in other industries. The union certifies competence to do certain kinds of work, facilitates the training (&q
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by bwestergard 9y ago
ganonm said "The fact that intelligence is approximately normally distributed is an indicator that there are many individual effects at play." Intelligence test scores are normally distributed by construction: the weighting of que
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Nowhere to Go: Automation, Then and Now(brooklynrail.org)
2 points by bwestergard 10y ago|0 comments