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by doktorhladnjak 4y ago
> It’s none of my business, but nonetheless it angers me. Why does it anger you so much that different people have their own situations and preferences? What I dislike the most about the WFH vs RTO debate is how the strongest advocates o
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by doktorhladnjak 4y ago
I think it's a natural effect of the larger trend toward profitability over growth. Product and design hiring often coincide with a focus on growth. New features, new products, new product lines to grow the entire pie. Focusing on pro
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by doktorhladnjak 4y ago
They expect that the competition will do the same--raise wages below inflation. Then you've got nowhere to go to make more. Even if it doesn't work out that way, most employees complain a bit but don't leave.
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by doktorhladnjak 4y ago
There is absolutely moral hazard for depositors. If uninsured SVB depositors had gotten something like 90¢ on the dollar for deposits, every company with uninsured deposits would start thinking about how reliable their bank might be. More d
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by doktorhladnjak 4y ago
Real estate, timber interests, farming interests, and auto dealers got their industries exempted. Flat out political corruption.
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by doktorhladnjak 4y ago
In big companies, the decision of who to lay off is often handled farther up the management chain. It’s very common for upper management to decide on criteria to use then have HR execute the layoff by identifying individuals using that crit
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by doktorhladnjak 4y ago
It’s so predictable even ChatGPT can write this drivel now Prompt: Write a press release for a company who is laying off 15% of its workforce. It’s in the voice of the ceo. Mention that they are accountable for this decision. —- Dear valued
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by doktorhladnjak 4y ago
Yeah, and it was blown up when Facebook refused to play ball. They wanted to hire more engineers. They paid more and didn’t restrict where they recruited.
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by doktorhladnjak 4y ago
That area is completely unwalkable. It’s all just offices and lab buildings. No shops. Only a couple of restaurants in the airport hotels nearby. Public transport is not accessible. It’s really a world away from SF or anywhere interesting.
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by doktorhladnjak 4y ago
A couple of well-known ones are Automattic (WordPress.com) and Gitlab. Gitlab even has its employee handbook publicly available https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/
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by doktorhladnjak 4y ago
I don't know how well that works, but I can assure you what you've described is not at all a typical management arrangement in this industry
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by doktorhladnjak 4y ago
This can be a form collusion that runs into anti trust law. There’s even a court case about this involving public defenders who were hired as independent contractors being unable to unionize for this reason.
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by doktorhladnjak 4y ago
Maybe it’s just me, but I can’t think of anything in my job as a software engineer that I’d benefit from memorizing through flash cards. What are people memorizing exactly?
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by doktorhladnjak 4y ago
The UK has a “worker” [0] classification between employee and true independent contractor. It provides protections like minimum wage and time off while preserving freedom about when and how someone works. It seems like it would fit this cas
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by doktorhladnjak 4y ago
Paris is almost 49 degrees north. Even Ottawa is closer in latitude to Milan
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by doktorhladnjak 4y ago
There have been quite a few customer data breaches. I wouldn’t assume your email address was sold so much as stolen. https://firewalltimes.com/uber-data-breach-timeline/
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by doktorhladnjak 4y ago
Great person but he was unpopular as a president at the time because he failed to stop high inflation and to resolve the Iranian hostage crisis. The latter especially sunk his chances of re-election. So much of politics is about what happen
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by doktorhladnjak 4y ago
It just pushes the recycling onto the customer. It’s not like those containers disappear. They don’t give out bags and don’t guarantee a box anyways. I wouldn’t be surprised if they do it to save on labor and garbage pickup costs of breakin
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by doktorhladnjak 4y ago
RSU != Restricted Stock even though the names are quite similar
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by doktorhladnjak 4y ago
Do you have a source on business travel being back to 2019 levels? Everything I’ve seen about this shows it’s at only half to two thirds, but numbers seem to vary a lot.
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by doktorhladnjak 4y ago
> Now at a FAANG, obviously had layoffs recently. The emotional vibe is somewhere between the two above. Coworkers that came from tougher places (finance, Microsoft, Amazon) are holding it together fine. Others are not. This rings true t
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by doktorhladnjak 4y ago
Nowhere did I say Apple cares about privacy. I said they recognized that their customers cared about privacy.
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by doktorhladnjak 4y ago
The vendors want cars in that street because otherwise pedestrians would walk down it instead of on the narrow sidewalk which goes right by their businesses. They literally want the traffic so that people are more likely to go into their sh
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by doktorhladnjak 4y ago
> Apple tanked Facebooks valuation No, Facebook tanked their own valuation. They monetized user data without a care for how those users might eventually feel. They became entitled about having that data and the revenue streams attached.
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by doktorhladnjak 4y ago
> If it feels like goofing off, that’s probably play I find this article so strange because I don’t like goofing off. I don’t like sports. I occasionally play board games but am not that into them because I don’t have much interest in pu
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by doktorhladnjak 4y ago
I’m not saying it’s the right way to do sales. Only that some companies can skip calibrating employees in sales organizations by using objective criteria for evaluation.
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by doktorhladnjak 4y ago
The new app platform happened maybe a couple years before the Nokia acquisition. I don’t remember the whole timeline but don’t forget Steven Elop (who had been the business head of Office) left Microsoft to become the Nokia CEO, had the com
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by doktorhladnjak 4y ago
My observation is that this has already been happening for a long time. I’ve worked with a lot of ex Google people in startups, especially more established ones. They pretty much all found it unsatisfying working there. Too slow. Too little
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by doktorhladnjak 4y ago
There’s an assumption made often on HackerNews and elsewhere in tech circles that Google is special and not like other companies. These layoffs show that this is not true. Google is a large corporation, like many others. There’s no grand co
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by doktorhladnjak 4y ago
I worked at Microsoft during the Ballmer era. Profits and revenue continued to increase under his watch. They did invest in mobile from fairly early. Microsoft was selling smart phones (through third party manufacturers) in the early 2000s.

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