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by cupscale 9y ago
Someone did the math on this, right? I thought the amount of revenue generated was a complete pittance. More likely, this is just something sites start doing on top of advertising.
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by cupscale 9y ago
For what it's worth, I enjoyed the article. Most start-ups aren't solving any huge problems, and sometimes market inefficiencies are there for a reason (see all the start-ups involving the field of law, for example). Even for the
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by cupscale 9y ago
To OP's credit, it's something that people forget semi-frequently. I can think of quite a few products that look nice and the workflows are quite easy, but at the end of the day they're just not solving a problem I'd be
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by cupscale 9y ago
No, but sometimes they need to be fired because the work situation is unrecoverable. Regardless of who’s fault it is. “Put down” here is an analogy for being fired. I don’t actually think Rick should be put down. I’d hoped that was obvious.
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by cupscale 9y ago
Eh, no it’s not like that at all. Again this is more like a dog that’s been abused over the years and then mauls a kid. No ones surprised that the dog is aggressive, and the owners are obviously guilty of abusing an animal - a horrible thin
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by cupscale 9y ago
> I’m sorry Good, I’m glad we agree that you insufficiently argued that people backed into a corner aren’t responsible for their actions.
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by cupscale 9y ago
Did you read the original article? That wasn’t the crux of why they fired him.
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by cupscale 9y ago
Sorry, it really really doesn’t. The court might take your emotional state into account when you murder someone, but if they’ve got you dead-to-rights you’re still going to prison. Does Rick deserve to get blacklisted? No. Would I have been
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by cupscale 9y ago
Uh, what? It absolutely does matter. There are appropriate reactions when you’re “backed into a corner”, and there are inappropriate reactions. I absolutely get to say what the arbitrary line is in this case because I’m the one making the s
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by cupscale 9y ago
None of that changes the fact that Rick became an awful co-worker and needed to be removed, whether temporarily or more permanently. Sorry, berating your co-workers repeatedly is a terminable offense in many places. To go back to my analogy
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by cupscale 9y ago
If you read my other comments, you’ll see that I agree with you completely. That doesn’t mean the dog shouldn’t be put down. It just means there are also other parties at fault.
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by cupscale 9y ago
Er, yeah, he is. You can be devoted, respected, and admired but still be an asshole. They’re not mutually exclusive traits. See also: Steve Jobs, famously.
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by cupscale 9y ago
Your reasons for being an asshole don’t change the end result though. It just changes the context around it. Similarly I can understand how an aggressive dog came to be (poor training, etc.). That won’t change my opinion that the dog should
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by cupscale 9y ago
Ehhh sorry, saying things like "I'm Albert Einstein and you're all just fucking monkeys scratching in the dirt" doesn't strike me as the speech of someone who's particularly nice. Most people (at least in my ex
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by cupscale 9y ago
I'll admit that I'm particularly touchy about bad people managers, but it really does seem like they just washed their hands of the problem without trying to really discern: * Why this became such a big problem (and wasn't re
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by cupscale 9y ago
This still reeks of CYA. > "He refused to take time off or allow any work to be delegated. He also repeatedly rejected attempts to introduce free open source frameworks to replace hard-to-maintain bespoke tools." Why did he hav
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by cupscale 9y ago
Yeah, wow. I mean, Rick's a dick, no doubt. But much like Frankenstein's monster, it's incredibly easy to see who had a hand in transforming Rick into what he became. It's hard to read the original article and not see se
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by cupscale 9y ago
Actually, does Harold ever agree with either party? Tammy and Roy both want low housing costs, and Harold doesn't. Sure, you can get to an armistice with Harold and Tammy: Housing costs are high but your salary is such that even spen
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by cupscale 9y ago
> A university spends less money on salaries by having a small number of professors with huge labs and armies of PhDs rather than a larger number of professors It's also worth pointing out that this is pretty necessary from the lab&
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by cupscale 9y ago
I guess. As someone who grew up near Evergreen (and knew a few classmates who attended), Evergreen's always kinda been this way. At least for the last 20+ years. I (and many others I grew up with) think of Evergreen in the same way I t