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by candu 4y ago
If you sift through https://www.sec.gov/edgar/search/#/q=SVB&dateRange=custom&ca... , you can get a decent sense for which companies had loan, banking, or other arrangements with SVB. (There's a b
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by candu 4y ago
Meanwhile, in Denmark, I'm a member of an engineering / IT union called IDA. They offer detailed salary statistics, with breakdowns by role, experience, education, etc. - bringing these into negotiations have already paid for my u
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by candu 4y ago
Those are all highly worthwhile problems to work on... ...but I'm not convinced any of them are low-hanging fruit. Almost everything on this list would require sustained R&D across several fields of expertise, and many of them h
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by candu 4y ago
This isn't accurate: as the name suggests, Silicon Valley happened because hardware took off... ...which happened because, after WW2, the federal government was very interested in establishing a decisive lead in computing and simil
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by candu 4y ago
To validate your gut feeling here, it is very strange for a manager to stop having 1:1s with their reports just because the team has a new lead. As others have said, your best option is to do two things at once: look around, and voice you
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by candu 4y ago
For others replying here: looking through this user's comment history, pretty much all of their comments are equally snarky and troll-ish. For the parent: this is very much not appreciated here on HN. Take it elsewhere.
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by candu 4y ago
First: writing has other tangible benefits! Journaling can get difficult thoughts / stressors out of your head and on paper, helping you process and move past them. Taking notes improves comprehension, and is also (often) of higher v
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by candu 4y ago
More accurate comparison: you return a purchase to Walmart for a refund - which, unlike shoplifting, is entirely legal - and they then seize all your previous Walmart purchases and ban you from the premises. After all, disputing a charge on
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by candu 4y ago
To be fair: the reference to `node-gyp` gets at a general problem with most high-level languages. I've seen very similar issues in Python - once you start to deal with native bindings, your nice high-level language abstractions become
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by candu 4y ago
As someone who coaches a local amateur sports club: at our level, the main reason to learn proper biomechanics is to reduce risk of injury. (At a higher level, it's also useful for getting those small advantages in effective reaction
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by candu 4y ago
> But getting back to the thought experiment it may ultimately even be the case that widespread rehabilitation is impossible. And yet Norway manages a recidivism rate of 20% [1], by starting from the premise that rehabilitation is the po
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by candu 4y ago
Conversations around semantic HTML make me wonder: asking devs / product teams to use semantic tags, ARIA attributes, etc. doesn't seem to work; perhaps we should focus on making screen readers and other assistive tools smarter? P
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by candu 4y ago
Why assume? You can copy-paste the code and see how it works. Most pure CSS checkboxes make heavy use of pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements - but it is very possible to make these sliders without JS!
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by candu 4y ago
Meanwhile, Ireland manages to amend its constitution regularly [1] without exploding. I _very much disagree_ with the assertion that the US constitution's rigidity is its greatest strength. Similar to taking on too much technical debt
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by candu 4y ago
Auto-expiry of laws is an interesting idea, and one that gets floated here on HN with some regularity (possibly because it appeals to the refactoring mindset?) I wonder about "Chesterton's Fence" effects, though - maybe we&#x
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by candu 4y ago
I've done work in the public sector before. Here's what I told recruiters who asked for my salary history after that: "In my previous job, I deliberately took a below-market rate to work in the public sector, as a form of se
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by candu 4y ago
I'm glad you've had a positive experience: everyone deserves a respectful work environment, both because it's the Right Thing to do and because it improves productivity. That said, you're countering a researched article,
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by candu 4y ago
"I wouldn't call it _malice_. I make more money robbing travellers on the King's road than not doing so, and it's very unlikely I'll get caught!" Assuming a value system in which certain acts are wrong even if
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by candu 4y ago
Step N+1: advocate for better cycling infrastructure in your area / town / city. Places that are bike-friendly don't rely on driver or cyclist behaviour to prevent collisions; they build separated lanes, provide bike boxes i
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by candu 4y ago
Aside from other good techniques mentioned here (have a mediator who is empowered to force a "disagree and commit" resolution, use collective or impersonal language), one useful technique is to focus not on where you disagree, but
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by candu 5y ago
IANAL, but this depends on the jurisdiction. In some places (e.g. Ontario, Canada), e-signatures are fine; often this is because the law explicitly says they have the same effect as a "wet" signature. In this case, "looking
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by candu 5y ago
Well - that might be overstating the matter; after all, academia also has workshops focused on very small niches... ...but also: it's not uncommon to find industry conferences about a specific framework, because it's not just abou
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by candu 5y ago
Perhaps...you're just not aware of what managers do, or you've never been exposed to good management? 10 years ago, I probably would have agreed with you. After running my own consulting practice for a few years, being the techn
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by candu 5y ago
This is not a compelling argument against GitHub (and, as others note, it doesn't really have anything to do with the article, nor does it really add anything to the discussion.) Why does Linus hate "the way GitHub does things&quo
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by candu 5y ago
Another use case where this is potentially useful: relocation. I've been rejected for financial things before after international moves, since I have no credit history _in that place_. Income? Doesn't matter. Previous history
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by candu 5y ago
...except, really, when people use this argument, they're often not using that one data point in isolation. This is just one data point, true, but it's one _more_ data point on top of an increasingly long list of "freak&quot
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by candu 5y ago
Well: IMHO, "company bullshit" really has nothing to do with the word "company"; you could as easily substitute "interpersonal" / "human" / "team dynamics". People are the hardest
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by candu 5y ago
I'll choose instead to be amazed that Doom-capable computers are now inexpensive and ubiquitous enough that it makes total financial sense to use one in a light bulb! More seriously, I see this argument all the time: that we are just s
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by candu 5y ago
If you think pornography is somehow uniquely modern...well, you're ignoring a millennia-long history of erotic depictions there, on top of presenting absolutely no evidence to support your rather Puritanical claims.
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by candu 5y ago
To be clear: data model migrations should still be tested and scripted to the extent possible; there should still be backups in place; there should still be a way to roll back application code and data schema. Just because a team &#x2F

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