darioush

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by darioush 4y ago
Usually this happens when I am bored or blocked at work or I am in a meeting where there is nothing for me to say or do 90% of the time. Slack creates a culture that is built around response time but often topics on slack are low urgency an
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by darioush 4y ago
The main privilege of tenure is job security and sabbaticals. Also gives you access to advisory positions (which pay well, and often in equity), and advantage to recruit very talented people into your own startup. Others may enjoy the privi
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by darioush 4y ago
In my experience most of the perf-review is a show. Promos typically have a "pecking order", determined by how long you have been asking for one (or performing at the next level if you have some meritocracy), the amount of budget
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by darioush 4y ago
I'm pretty sure we will see an appetite for transition to the 4 day work week. Most people will find some paycut (10-20%) acceptable in exchange for increasing their free time by 50% (2 day weekend -> 3 day weekend). Most companies
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by darioush 4y ago
Taxing income is also regressive because most rich people have trust funds (and pay a flat 15% tax) or push luxury purchases under the guise of business expenses (and pay no tax).
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by darioush 4y ago
The one hard truth about data intensive systems: There will be migrations and they will be bumpy.
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by darioush 4y ago
Right because money launderers prefer a permanent public record of all their TXs? Seriously I don't get the money laundering angle on chains. Maybe in early days it was assumed chain analysis would be difficult, these days many contrac
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by darioush 4y ago
What is insisting that Blockchain does nothing useful? It provides the following features which everyday financial institutions do not: - 24/7 operation. Did you ever try to start a transfer on the weekend? - Near instant results. No m
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by darioush 5y ago
I suppose the real question is what credibility is left for the government to demonstrate it no longer "dabbles", and/or what is the line?
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by darioush 5y ago
Which is why providers should not persist things about their users. This is the only acceptable direction now.
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by darioush 5y ago
:) There will be recognition if you perform tasks that continually uplevels your team. There is only so many buttons one can push in a day (doing more). What the author calls "Extra" is often called "Glue" work (think im
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by darioush 5y ago
Somehow, I find this a plausible and not entirely undesirable outcome for society. The less time humans spend interfacing with machines, the more points humanity gets anyway.
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by darioush 5y ago
> because people that know me know that I’m a very reasonable person who doesn’t hate anyone or any group That, and other aspects of reality may not interest the kind of people who would 'cancel' someone.
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by darioush 5y ago
Delivering completed work seems a clear form of communication to me. It has the added benefit of being hard to argue with.
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by darioush 5y ago
True. If you (or lots of other people) validate someone's emotional states that are not rooted in correctness (or reality), then they may believe them to be correct. This may be harmful to that individual in the long run, so we should
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by darioush 6y ago
finally, someone funny on the internet. haven't seen that since early 2000's
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by darioush 6y ago
Funny how a lot of "work" on large scale code bases boils down to de-coupling code from the datatypes they never needed to be dependent on (eg, function takes obj but only needs obj.foo)
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by darioush 6y ago
have you considered using "test_refresh__failure" instead? makes clear "refresh" is the component being tested and "failure" is a description of the behavior
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by darioush 6y ago
For example, "the collective lack of full faith and confidence of the people that the US Government will always act in their best interest"
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by darioush 6y ago
> Some places ... yeah you mean all (~ most) places :)
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by darioush 6y ago
:) Wanted to say this comment made me smile. You are not alone. Sending you good vibes
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by darioush 6y ago
The responses are telling of how controversial it is, as if people are trying to make excuses for why an EM should not be able to write code and how that's OK. It's not.
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by darioush 7y ago
> A lot of it involved mastering how to tell people they needed to up their game in communication before I was gonna do work they asked me to do. Any pointers?
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by darioush 7y ago
I enjoyed ^ this articulation a lot.
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by darioush 7y ago
Increasingly surprised how we need all these various ipads/terminals in businesses. Seems by now technology should be able to push something to the customer's phone when they walk into the store and have them complete their order
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by darioush 7y ago
Netflix used to be a great deal. I remember I wanted to watch a movie some top 100 IMDB movies, and checked their selection in 2015. There were most of the ones I wanted to watch, and the price was < $8. Now the price is going to $12-13,
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by darioush 8y ago
Lots of these companies create the fake assurance that you can be connected to customer support within minutes, but then go out of their way to hide it behind as many menus as possible and don't have a phone number to call. There needs
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by darioush 8y ago
Each time I hear something about breaking down tickets to things that can be done < 1 day you end up with an unorganized pile of tasks, that someone thought must be done in a short amount of time. Usually this happens in stark contrast t
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by darioush 8y ago
Actually it seems promising people this BS is a consistently reproducible way to make money on the internet. (just look at the number of options and amount of effort people put into all this) It's a tad bit below my moral standards.
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by darioush 8y ago
So for those of you who live in uninitiated bubbles, realize the same literal thing can happen to your bank accounts at any time.

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