ditonal

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by ditonal 9y ago
Step 1 would be to pardon Snowden. He was whistleblowing on an illegal and dangerous program that directly threatened our democracy and took steps to totalitarianism. But instead of honoring that, Obama and his DoJ instead go to SXSW and gi
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by ditonal 9y ago
> even Python Off topic, but it shouldn't be better than "even Python", because Python has a really, really broken dependency system. Far more so than Java, which has Maven/Gradle which are both infinitely better than
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by ditonal 9y ago
But poor grades indicate a lack of grit.
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by ditonal 9y ago
There was a recent thread in r/Bitcoin about someone missing a 200k deposit on Coinbase. With the quote "say what you will about the banks, at least you can get on the phone with them." These super anti banking activists want
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by ditonal 10y ago
O.1% of common shares with complicated tax options. Investors get preferred shares cause they invest money. But engineers get common shares even though they're asked to take paycuts. Startups insist this is "standard". Well I
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by ditonal 10y ago
After initial skepticism, I like Snapchat for reasons in the article (lower pressure). And I think they "get" the younger generation and have good product strategy, a lot like Facebook succeeded in a crowded space for similar reas
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by ditonal 10y ago
I've always been baffled that asking these questions are not incredibly obvious to anyone. I could not agree more that not knowing the outstanding shares, the liquidiation preference, etc with the "it's like getting paid with
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by ditonal 10y ago
>I don't get this at all. I've been at this over 20 years and the only times I get "angry" (or more realistically, frustrated), is when the powers that be are adamant that the team spend months building a feature that
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by ditonal 10y ago
Very unsurprising for me. You are measuring your ability to solve algorithm puzzles. Most engineers don't actually do many algorithm puzzles in day-to-day work, especially the types of algorithms that interviews tend to focus on like s
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by ditonal 10y ago
Amazon lost money for a long time and both private and public investors were fairly forgiving. More importantly, GCP is not "eating up" Amazon's revenue. Both are growing very fast because the entire market is growing very fa
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by ditonal 10y ago
Yes. We need to politicaly organize to make legal protection for tech workers scalable.
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by ditonal 10y ago
I'm very interested in this because it's a great first step towards politically organizing. PM my username on Reddit if youre interested in collaborating.
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by ditonal 10y ago
Yep, and don't call it a union. Barrier of entry is not a problem, we dont need an organization to limit entry into the field, we just need political representation. Now "tech" in politics means executives/VCs. We just n
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by ditonal 10y ago
Fired a friend right before vesting cliff. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12222622 Relentless PR pushes, rebrands, etc. http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by ditonal 10y ago
I could not agree more. The thing is I actually like drinking and socializing, but having it mixed up at the workplace led me to drink more than I should, which I didn't like. And a few times I had conversations I felt weird about th
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by ditonal 10y ago
Said the fox to the hen.
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by ditonal 10y ago
Depends on the rake system, in timed games this is the case but more common they take it from the pot so only the winner pays. But typically you win some pots even in a losing session so it's a pedantic point.
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by ditonal 10y ago
We noticed men consistently knew their market worth and women undervalued themselves, so we decided to use the hot button topic of diversity to make it seem like lowball offers are actually coming from a moral high ground.
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by ditonal 10y ago
Especially true for nurses. Very tough job, but there's more money in it than many realize. My friend who already does well for himself is now going to do 1 more year of school to get a CRNA and says he'll likely make 160k in Miam
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by ditonal 10y ago
Gusto (people being interviewed) formerly known as ZenPayroll, fired an acquaintance about a week before their options vested. Now they are trying to educate people on equity? You would need a full-semester class to explain the many ways in
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by ditonal 10y ago
Most of the positive things I read about company cultures, the "best places to work" lists, the glowing pieces on the founders, the TechCrunch articles, the phony Glassdoor reviews, are infinitely more self-aggrandizing fluff PR p
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by ditonal 10y ago
I've worked at several tech startups with sudden firing. The "norm" from my perspective tends to be a one month Performance Improvement Plan, usually just serving as a paper trail with very little hope of getting off of it, t
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by ditonal 10y ago
We venerate leaders like Churchill and Roosevelt because they inspired millions of individuals to act directly against their self-interest and in favor of the organizations that those leaders own and manage. "We will fight on the beach
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by ditonal 11y ago
Tech workers have it better than many, worse than some. But hardly the most spoiled ever. If you're the type of person who values kegerators and nerf wars more than salary, benefits, and professional status, then I can see how you woul
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by ditonal 11y ago
By what metrics are engineers the most babied in the world? Certainly by metrics of the Silicon Valley PR machine that pays them, would greatly prefer to pay them less, to blame them for the housing crisis, and to use as a debate piece for
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by ditonal 11y ago
If hypothetically, the entire industry collapsed, sure, the people who called it a bubble were right. But an "industry collapse" means something like Google or Facebook shutting down with no competitor to replace it, almost every
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by ditonal 11y ago
Correction: people haven't been calling a bubble for the last year, it's been for the last 5 years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2231352 So the majority of people called a tech bubble, unlike your claim th
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by ditonal 11y ago
Digital Ocean is really great for hobbyists and side project. I especially admire their community tutorials, which hosts tons of great content and I'm sure has been very valuable marketing for their products. With that said, I think t
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by ditonal 11y ago
The most insulting things companies do is offer 'vanity' perks while slashing real perks. My last gig had fancy parties, free dinner (no lunch interestingly), got itself ranked as a "best place to work" etc. It could mar
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by ditonal 11y ago
Sure, the primary objective is a huge IPO. It's the playbook in the sense of it was plan B to break even by cutting employees out. Investors might have not made out, but they broke even, and scratched the back of execs who can repay th

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