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by cbanek 6y ago
As someone who came from a similar environment (MSFT during the stack ranking days), the forced attrition and manager's arbitrarily blackballing employees are the ingredients of the toxic stew. If a manager hates your guts, there&#x27
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by cbanek 6y ago
Rebekah Jones said in an email to CBS12 News that her removal was "not voluntary" and that she was removed from her position because she was ordered to censor some data, but refused to "manually change data to drum up support
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by cbanek 6y ago
I cut down on my cell phone plan a long time ago. I used to pay about $70 a month, then I went to the AT&T prepaid service. It's $35/month ($30 if you do recurring billing) and you get unlimited calls and texts, and 2 GB of
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by cbanek 6y ago
I work at the Rubin Observatory and we're big into open source. We're thankfully highly encouraged to submit upstream, and we use lots of open source projects and try to fix them where we can. I don't know how to turn it int
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by cbanek 6y ago
While that's true, and I get the feeling this is coming from the perspective of someone already working at google and shopping around for new projects, this actually brings up another point I hate in particular about Google's proc
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by cbanek 6y ago
I rejected a Google offer in 2012, and they've been bothering me ever since. They seemed really surprised that I didn't feel all warm and fuzzy about their lowball offer. I ended up going to Blizzard and then SpaceX, and I don&#
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by cbanek 6y ago
Ah, the great "it's priced in" - but is it really? I guess nobody can really know, unless you're one of those that says the market is always correct. And yes, there's front running an individual trade, but I was th
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by cbanek 6y ago
I guess while the average passive investor doesn't care (in that this reshuffling will happen under them mostly without their knowledge), it seems like a great front-running opportunity for the banks and active managers. A lot of mone
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by cbanek 6y ago
I'm not sure which angle this question is asked from, but I can think of two: 1 - you're looking for great software engineering practices to model based on other companies, which is good. 2 - you're looking for a company to w
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by cbanek 6y ago
Well I think in good times, it's trickier to do a layoff. Like you said, it can appear like it's related to financial pressure. In good times, if you do a layoff, investors/shareholders will worry that you are doing it due
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by cbanek 6y ago
Since equity based compensation is a large part of many equity packages, if the stock price was falling or at least not rising, that would be a reduction in salary. Companies like equity based compensation because of tax benefits and it g
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by cbanek 6y ago
While the crime is done using computers, it seems like it could be fraud, if they are trying to use the access to spend money or steal information to do something with? Given the nature of the attack being aimed directly for one customer, i
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by cbanek 6y ago
If you're interested in mycology, I suggest you watch Fantastic Fungi from last year! It was really cool and had great time lapses! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8258074/
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by cbanek 6y ago
Agree. Usually when I write a document, it's usually centered around a few "hero" diagrams, with most of the text explaining it. Afterward it's always the pictures that are the most useful for me, but maybe we're
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by cbanek 6y ago
I like "from the archives." Or maybe "comments from past discussions"? Although maybe a bit too scifi, in my family we call these kinds of archival history factoids "the knowledge of the Krell" (from Forbidden
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by cbanek 6y ago
That doesn't seem true: https://labor.vermont.gov/unemployment-insurance/refusal-ret... I believe there was also an HN submission about a group of states doing these types of things to force people back to work ev
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by cbanek 6y ago
Maybe because people tend to reproduce fairly early in life (usually half of lifespan) so living an extra X years doesn't really allow you to have more children, and therefore the mutation of longer life doesn't get a huge enough
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by cbanek 6y ago
As someone who's done both, I agree with the article that basically the rocket isn't big enough. Or my feeling is that the cockpit part is actually too big in relation. But it still looks like a fun kit, as someone who also love
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by cbanek 6y ago
I think it depends on how you respond. Coming at it with my hiring manager hat on, sometimes at the end of the day, you ask "do you have any questions for me?" and it's obvious that the candidate has really asked all the ques
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by cbanek 6y ago
Yeah seriously, it seems like a lot of the questions revolve around the TCP stack. Maybe it was a more networking type job?
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by cbanek 6y ago
This, and it's not about DEFCON, or conventions in general. I stayed at TI a while ago, and didn't have housekeeping come in my room for 3 days (I honestly just don't like people in my room). Eventually they did send up a s
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by cbanek 6y ago
I'm not sure about complete series but there are definitely some episodes. One I would say is the ST:TNG episode "Relics" where they rescue Scotty from a ship crashed on a Dyson Sphere. They even had the original captain&#x
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by cbanek 7y ago
I concur with those saying keeping the 9-to-5 is probably the most stable. It sounds like you've done some thinking and had some life realizations (which is good), and now are valuing things different in your life. This is perfectly
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by cbanek 7y ago
I know it's not exactly a blog, but academic publishing in journals has been interesting! It can get you invites to publish all sorts of other things. I think in this way success begets success. I've also anonymously written a f
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by cbanek 7y ago
Totally agree and just to add to the list: complete inability to communicate or work with others.
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by cbanek 7y ago
I totally hoped this would be about whoever the real person that "The Carver" from HBO's Silicon Valley is based on: https://silicon-valley.fandom.com/wiki/The_Carver "The Carver" takes bankrup
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by cbanek 7y ago
Well, this aged well: "The story of how I came to own physical oil begins in late 2008, when fallout from the financial crisis spurred the crude market into severe contango—meaning the price of oil for future delivery was higher than t
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by cbanek 7y ago
Another interesting note about the FM frequencies is stations from 88 MHz to 92 MHz are the non-commercial part. That's why you'll find a lot of NPR and religious stations at that part of the dial rather than the other end. (Look
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by cbanek 7y ago
Take a year and do your company and apply again next year? It seems like the whole university system is kind of wondering what will happen in the fall right now due to the virus. You could have more time to prep and do the ACT over again,
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by cbanek 7y ago
These are just my personal thoughts, but my guess would be that we don't go back to having big chambers. Having more chambers and engines theoretically provides more fault tolerance. I think one of the things that has really improved

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