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by crusso 9y ago
At this point, the decision was already made that you need to go I've been a manager with HR in these kinds of conversations. At the point that we decide to put an employee on a PIP, it's because continuation of the current per
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by crusso 9y ago
Employers don't like letting people go. Hiring people is difficult and expensive. Typically, employers would be much happier to see marked improvement in the employee's performance rather than to have to follow through on letting
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by crusso 9y ago
if your work doesn't get better, they're going to fire you How is that completely out of the employee's control? Provided you haven't been phoning it in And maybe they have, which means they can do something about it
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by crusso 9y ago
There are no circumstances in which it will turn around Note that you used the passive voice, as though the circumstances are completely out of the employee's control.
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by crusso 9y ago
I read it as just a fact-of-life statement about how the iPhone has obviated his need to tinker. He may feel nostalgic about it, but I didn't read "upset" in there... certainly not that he's looking for ways to make his
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by crusso 9y ago
Why would he reference Linux? His point was that his needs are met without having to tinker. His needs drove his inner nerd. Introducing Linux into his environment so that he would be forced to tinker would be backwards.
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by crusso 9y ago
I'm not saying that this exact situation was all hard work. I'm saying that he created the opportunity for interactions and to be noticed through hard work and creativity. There are many notable ways he could have done something
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by crusso 9y ago
This was a great blog posted the other day in a totally different context. http://www.righto.com/2011/07/cells-are-very-fast-and-crowde... You could look at cellular activity as luck. Or you could realize that cr
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by crusso 9y ago
1. It wasn't lucky that he made a good game that people like, it was hard work. 2. Doing something cool when he saw an opportunity with Hamill was also not luck. It took creativity and initiative. Maybe he didn't do the fun littl
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by crusso 9y ago
But I’m a programmer, not a gardener. If I had a plant, I’d have to water it and check the plant’s health a few times per week. I decided it would be much easier if I just spent several hundred hours building a robot to do that for me. If
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by crusso 9y ago
It really depends on how you define "meaning". Is there meaning to treating a dog with love and respect even though it has no eternal future? How about the kindnesses we do for others - even though they may not notice and they c
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by crusso 9y ago
On the other hand, if we are simply existing in a cyclically eternal universe, then absolutely nothing matters So the only way that anything matters is if you personally live forever?
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by crusso 9y ago
I'd say that it's more that we're caught in the middle. We can't get the advantages of a free market because there's too much regulation and a competition-hostile legal framework. We can't get the advantages
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by crusso 9y ago
their life literally depends on it. That would only explain emergency procedure costs. Everyday healthcare costs that are not life-or-death are also extremely high. Almost all of the regulations in the medical industry are for ensuring p
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by crusso 9y ago
The "market" bears it because the regulatory structure of the market allows for no alternatives.
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by crusso 9y ago
If outrageous healthcare costs were only kicking in for life-or-death emergencies then you might have a point. Healthcare costs across the board - except in unregulated, uninsured spheres like plastic surgery, lasik, etc. - are extraordinar
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by crusso 9y ago
factor of 10 over what they would sell the same product for to non-health care areas That's a key statement. So these same people charge less for the same product in other fields. Why? The reason has to do with the construction of th
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by crusso 9y ago
What are elements in this Eternal set? I would posit that the Eternal set is composed of things we don't yet understand or are unnecessary entities. If you're wanting to look at this as a set problem, let's take the set U as
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by crusso 9y ago
This is unsurprising. My experience with the Edison: Cool little product with a lot of potential, but the stability problems, lack of timely releases of updates, lack of support for common libraries in their package management system, etc
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by crusso 9y ago
I haven't looked at the security of it yet, but the name alone is a winner for something you want to keep secret.
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by crusso 9y ago
Just flag it and move on.
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by crusso 9y ago
I'd imagine that the real catfish aren't posting to HN. They're coding.
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by crusso 9y ago
All human beings are morally innocent If you're a member of a society and you break the law, then you aren't innocent. If the laws of the society are unjust then that's a different argument entirely. Africans who were not
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by crusso 9y ago
Words can mean whatever the speaker and the listener agree upon. I'm not arguing with the dictionary definition. I'm arguing that here in the US, which is a very relevant context for a HN discussion on US/CA prisons, the ter
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by crusso 9y ago
I don't like the over-use of the word "slavery". Slavery was the capturing of innocent human beings and then forcing them and their progeny to do labor in perpetuity. It was utterly dehumanizing and undeserved treatment. We
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by crusso 9y ago
I didn't claim that Americans understand politics in other countries that well at all. I'd be more than happy to bet that they are typically a lot better informed than you'd guess And yet every person I've talked to wh
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by crusso 9y ago
utterly ridiculous in the eyes of a good chunk of the world I normally find that people outside of the US are not so nearly informed as they think they are about the driving dynamics of US politics, especially when it comes to things like
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by crusso 9y ago
Yeah, although my volume is down low and I opened the page in another tab while I was reading. By the time the sound permeated my consciousness, I thought that I had a hard drive going bad in my NAS next to my laptop.
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by crusso 9y ago
I would beg you to look for a much more nuanced understanding of the people whom you oppose politically. Attempting to reduce all the of the great Conservative/Libertarian arguments for not wanting top-down tyrannical centralized high-
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by crusso 9y ago
Yes.

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