doktorhladnjak

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by doktorhladnjak 1y ago
A lot of employers who only pay cash have salaries similar to companies that pay cash salary plus equity. Perhaps the equity won't be worth anything, but often times it's extra on top of what's being offered. Those accepting
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by doktorhladnjak 1y ago
This is not true at all. It only has to do with if you have "substantial risk of forfeiture". If they are your shares to own forever, the IRS considers receiving them taxable. This is why double trigger RSUs have expiration dates.
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by doktorhladnjak 2y ago
> Today’s entrepreneurs would do well to note that Microsoft made minimal use of venture capital. Microsoft’s only VC only owned 6.2 percent of the company. Gates didn’t trust them. While the article touches on it here, Microsoft was abl
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by doktorhladnjak 2y ago
Isn't this based on letter frequency? In languages like German, Z is a fairly common letter. Y not so much. Whereas in English it's the opposite. They put the more commonly used letter in the center.
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by doktorhladnjak 2y ago
Is there a more Amazon word than "table stakes"?
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by doktorhladnjak 2y ago
I know several people that worked there back in the growth days of the company. They had all drunk the kool aid hard on the work connecting people and making the world a better place. Several of them became very disenchanted when scandals l
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by doktorhladnjak 2y ago
Leetcode performance isn’t going to be representative of 3am incident response though. If that matters, you’re probably better off asking a classic “tell me about a time you responded to a page in the middle of the night” type question.
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by doktorhladnjak 2y ago
It's a business, not a jobs program
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by doktorhladnjak 2y ago
I agree with you that most American cars are junk. I hate all these same features plus others like the weird headlight controls, parking break on the floor in non-trucks, not to mention the loose feeling brakes and steering. Traditionally,
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by doktorhladnjak 2y ago
You can more smoothly interpolate a function for points on a surface using hexagons than with squares. For Uber, think about things like surge pricing. If you compute a surge % for each hexagon, you can interpolate it for each rider locati
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by doktorhladnjak 2y ago
> Growing up, making friends was a breeze This is why I already feel doomed in my 40s. It was hard enough when I was younger and it was supposedly easier.
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by doktorhladnjak 2y ago
Nobody is checking their email on vacation in an internet cafe in 2024. Losing your phone is a real pain these days.
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by doktorhladnjak 2y ago
Also timing the media cycle with the Republican convention just finishing up. No time for much of a convention bounce
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by doktorhladnjak 2y ago
That’s because their “products” are internal but used to make all their revenue. They’re not selling products to customers in the traditional sense.
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by doktorhladnjak 2y ago
When I looked into it and talked to some hiring managers, the big names were offering cash comp similar to total comp for big tech, with stock (sometimes complicated arrangements that were not options or RSUs) on top of that. I’m talking $4
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by doktorhladnjak 3y ago
It's cheapest overall for an employer to pay market rate for new hires and give existing employees small, regular raises. If you need to hire someone, you're going to have to pay market rate for a particular hire. You can pay less
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by doktorhladnjak 3y ago
> Why should someone living in Indiana make less money than someone living in NYC for a remote tech job? Because on average they'll accept less money. Someone in NYC is more likely to have other options with higher pay. If a busines
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by doktorhladnjak 3y ago
Crazy reading about this here. I just had this problem. Spent a couple hundred bucks for the local mechanic to track it down to parasitic drain from the SOS module (“Starlink”). He just disconnected it since I don’t pay for the subscription
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by doktorhladnjak 3y ago
I feel like going into eBay, I expect it to be the bargain basement race to the bottom. There’s no veneer. It is what it purports to be. Meanwhile Amazon is full of fake reviews, counterfeits, sponsored listings, and other scams that are pa
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by doktorhladnjak 3y ago
Plenty of states don’t have a tipped minimum wage right now. It hasn’t changed tipping culture there at all.
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by doktorhladnjak 3y ago
It seems pretty revealing to how some people view work from home not being actual work
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by doktorhladnjak 3y ago
WARN requires certain employers in most circumstances to give 60 days notice or pay at least 60 days of severance when laying off
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by doktorhladnjak 3y ago
Companies absolutely take perf and years of service into account for layoffs. It’s not always the same process or formula but those are popular terms in such a formula, along with pay, location, role.
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by doktorhladnjak 3y ago
I agree the processes are almost random. There’s really very little correlation between a rating and value produced. I’m increasingly convinced the best systems are those that spend the least amount of everyone’s time. If they’re going to b
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by doktorhladnjak 3y ago
Reading this article brought back all the things I disliked about being manager. My anxiety shot up as I was reading it. I’m glad I prematurely ran out of text at the subscribe to keep reading button at the bottom.
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by doktorhladnjak 3y ago
> I don't understand what activists expect to achieve from blocking roads. The goal is to get attention for their cause. Seems to be working successfully considering this is in the news.
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by doktorhladnjak 3y ago
Everyone's not the same. They don't have the same motivations. For the first decade of my job, I worked a steady, stable job that paid decently. It wasn't bad, but I was bored. Bored as in counting down the hours until the en
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by doktorhladnjak 3y ago
Netflix's competition changed. They were one of the few players in streaming. Now, there are infinite streaming platforms, all angling for their cut of the pie. For Netflix to continue to be profitable, it decided it needed to spend mo
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by doktorhladnjak 3y ago
I agree the conspiracy theories don't add up. The potential benefits of WFH for employers are substantial. Lower real estate costs is direct money saved. Ability to recruit from a much larger candidate pool means they can hire faster a
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by doktorhladnjak 3y ago
The conditions aren't the same. When COVID caused many workplaces to go full WFH, most employees had nothing to do except work and hang out with those in their household. A lot of the increased productivity came from working instead of

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