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by danjac 4y ago
A full-featured CMS includes editing workflow I think: so an intern writing a press release has to have the article checked by an editor and maybe the legal department before publication, with corrections or comments included. At a pinch yo
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You seem to lack reading comprehension skills. I pointed out that cities - taking London as an example - are unaffordable to people who do not have a high salary. Yet for some reason you are attacking me for...having a high salary?
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by danjac 4y ago
Um, where did I show disdain for the homeless? On the contrary, I pointed out that London has become unaffordable for all but the rich. One might say the same of San Francisco and other cities with gross wealth disparities and sky-high rent
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by danjac 4y ago
If you want to make money so that you can save up a nice nest egg rather than be broke at the end of every month, London is probably the worst place to move to, unless you are working in the City or some other very high paid job, or you are
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by danjac 4y ago
Protip: if you complain about being downvoted, you are guaranteed to get downvoted.
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So sucks to be you if you happen to be on the janitor tier, no? That's not really what a meritocracy is supposed to be.
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> The bloodiest wars were not religious, or I should say, not traditionally religious The bloodiest war fought on European soil, right up until World War One, was the Thirty Years' War. The world wars' higher death toll can be
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by danjac 4y ago
75K is a good salary in Germany, well above the average of 49K: https://housinganywhere.com/Germany/average-salaries-in-germ...
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by danjac 4y ago
As Kaplan-Moss pointed out in the original article, "incompetent" depends on the context and circumstances, and you may be able to remedy these in order to turn an incompetent employee into a competent one. To take a very straw-ma
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by danjac 4y ago
> supposed to "wipe your ass for you" by spraying water at your asshole Presumably the tech is called Google Wave?
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by danjac 4y ago
Sensible legislation would be a level playing field - better privacy laws and regulations that apply to all players. Instead you have hick senators asking if TikTok listens to your Wifi. It may be about competition, but it's more likel
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by danjac 4y ago
Europe (mostly, at least) does have a unified market on paper, but not culturally, which makes marketing, localization etc. harder - a commercial that sells well to Germans might go down like a lead balloon in Spain. The biggest advantage I
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That's the point though. Van Rossum, Stroustrup and Torvalds made their name early on in their careers or even at college, while still in Europe. Sure, later on they emigrated to the US for the money, but that was on the back of their
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by danjac 4y ago
Um...Python, C++, Linux, Erlang, mobile phones (Nokia), Spotify, HTML... Having worked for both European and US companies, I would say that a) innovation is mutual (we learn from each other) and talent/mediocrity are pretty much evenly
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by danjac 4y ago
There was a fear that nanotechnology could accidentally turn everything into gray goo. AI is that, but for intellectual output.
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3. Look forward to an awesome new job after your current one is made obsolete. You do realize that "awesome new job" will require years of training and experience? Enjoy working at the Amazon Fulfilment Center in the meantime (un
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by danjac 4y ago
It's not a reasoning I would agree with either. The core of my original comment is "avoid responsibility": people don't want to be held responsible for a bad hire (or a discrimination lawsuit), so adding multiple rounds
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by danjac 4y ago
To pull a quote from the article "No atheists in a foxhole. No libertarians in a bank run"
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Unless you count the UK as a banana republic (well maybe these days...a turnip monarchy perhaps?) they did manage to fleece the NHS quite successfully: https://www.digitalhealth.net/2021/05/nhs-digital-denies-con..
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by danjac 4y ago
How many are developers vs sales, HR etc?
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by danjac 4y ago
I'm not sure how well 37Signals is doing these days - Hey didn't make as big an impact as they had hoped and Basecamp probably has a core of loyal users but I don't think it's getting a ton of new customers. They're
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by danjac 4y ago
There's a lot of "I didn't expect the leopard to eat my face" around here at the moment.
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My guess is because of the opportunity cost. If you hire the wrong person you end up firing 3 months later, you likely missed your chance to hire a better candidate (who is unlikely to apply again to work for you) and you will need to resta
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by danjac 4y ago
From the point of view of the applicant, I wonder if I would prefer a long probation period over a long interview period. If I'm unemployed and I have bills to pay, a paid probation period is the better option - even if I get fired aft
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That's just it. They are willing to lose the occasional great hire in order to avoid the risk of a bad hire.
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If someone is that dedicated I don't think a rigorous hiring process is going to stop them. Perhaps just ask for a couple references?
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Oh good. Hopefully by the time it's available in my country I'll have a week to try it out before it goes into the Graveyard.
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by danjac 4y ago
The multiple rounds, take home test + online examination, followed by 3 interviews etc nonsense has been a part of tech interviews for the past few years. Perhaps more people are exposed to it now because they haven't been seriously jo
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A possible reason is that the layoffs are localized to the tech industry so far, but not all (perhaps even most?) tech workers don't work in the tech industry - they do tech work for other industries such as construction, finance, heal
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by danjac 4y ago
Sure, the concept of a social network wasn't novel, but Zuckerberg had some insights that led to FB becoming the dominant network within a few years - for example incubating inside US colleges to gain traction among younger demographic

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