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by dunpeal 8y ago
Please do file issues for any problem you encountered, no matter how small. My experience with them has been positive.
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by dunpeal 8y ago
Uhm, no. Somewhere at the core it's BSD, but can I patch and recompile the DE? Not only is most of OS X closed source, it's also not particularly configurable.
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by dunpeal 8y ago
Your typical Linux stack is far more configurable and customizable than the Mac stack. You typically have far more configuration levers, as well as deeper customization access. The stack is built entirely from open, accessible source, so yo
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by dunpeal 8y ago
I converted several of my non-technical friends to Ubuntu, including various other people I know. Many of them are running Ubuntu on a laptop that would cover half the cost of a macbook. Not everyone can afford Jobs' prices. Even if Ap
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> One of the primary properties of the tech boom (and, lets face it, almost all industrialized capitalism) is that it doesn't account for nor take responsibility for side effects of their overwhelming wealth. How is the tech boom di
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by dunpeal 8y ago
My guess is that if we keep reporting SPAM, Google will eventually have to crack down on this.
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by dunpeal 8y ago
Nonsense. Look at the trends for enrollment in CS and engineering programs. They clearly follow monetary incentives.
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by dunpeal 8y ago
The wage gap exists outside of California, and California also happens to be the only state in which non-competes are strictly voided by the courts. Outside the Californian bubble, they're a big problem.
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by dunpeal 8y ago
And who decided that reducing the pay gap "would benefit all of us"? Different people put vastly different levels of effort into their careers. Who decides that they should now benefit equally?
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> Low salaries for low-skilled labor enable companies to delay modernization, automation and other increases in efficiency. I don't see that modernization or automation have been kept back in the US due to unequal wages. They are &q
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by dunpeal 8y ago
Sure, it was never my main point to begin with. I agree about the real solution, as I stated elsewhere in this comment thread: build more housing, especially efficient housing. Still, I find it amusing when people complain about "filth
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> This assumes that salary is all that motivates people. First of all, much of my argument is about the effects of one company paying more for the same work than its competitors. The company in my example pays its engineers better. So th
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> They make less than minimum wage in San Francisco. Minimum wage in SF would be $30k. I very much doubt a strong AI researcher would be making less than that, even in the Ukraine.
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by dunpeal 8y ago
"R&D" is what SWEs do. If you're developing anything new, such as a new software system, then you are doing R&D by definition. "Production" is something like building the same factory that was built thousand
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by dunpeal 8y ago
It's arguably Machiavellian: "Hey you, minimum-wage security guard, you know all these engineers you greet at the gate? Each one of them is making x5 your salary! Capitalistic pigs, eh?" (But let's not talk about the e
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by dunpeal 8y ago
There are many ways to suppress wages besides wage-fixing collusion. About 25% of American workers have non-compete clauses in their work agreements, for instance.
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> Nobody claims the solution is CEO-mandated "artificial" wage inflation, the report emphasizes the need for strong workers unions that can demand more equitable pay. The report suggested multiple policies to attain "wage
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> If high-skill talent is rare their wages should rise. I do not see that happening. Well, at least not here in Germany. Industry is crying about a skill shortage but the corresponding wages are stagnant. Businesses resist increasing pay
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by dunpeal 8y ago
This article is terrible: > Tech companies are spending a large portion of their capital toward paying a limited number of research and development staff to design new products and software, but not toward maintenance and service staff l
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> If middle class means the choice to own your own home, then the maybe tech workers stayed middle class The average tech worker has not been able to afford a house in SV for at least a decade now. So by this definition, the average tech
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by dunpeal 8y ago
Are you seeing any evidence of that? If anything, I'm seeing the opposite: non-"elite" tech pay is increasing to rival "elite" tech pay (since that's the only way you can hire a decent engineer in any of the ma
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by dunpeal 8y ago
Serious question: what do you consider "any other enterprise" in this context? Because the obvious comparison would be Amazon, Walmart's chief competitor, and I don't know how they could match that seeing how they don&#x
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> The article is not praiseworthy enough to be a PR plant, and it lacks any substance from insiders. Seems to be tea leaf reading more than anything. So par-the-course for "internet journalism".
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by dunpeal 8y ago
In addition to what Itaxpica said (which is very true), I believe I read somewhere that FB does have a lot of non-engineer employees. Can't provide a credible source or even a reason for why that is so.
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by dunpeal 8y ago
Can't it be explained simply by relative sizes? Most estimates I've heard are that Google has over x10 times the number of software engineers than Facebook.
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> I'd love to see a followup/update from Quartz addressing those issues. As if Quartz ever held itself to any standards of investigative journalism and wasn't just a glorified blog...
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Quickening Retreat from Tech Sinks Market(wsj.com)
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by dunpeal 8y ago
I don't know what people you know, but the folks I know in the US aren't particularly happy about banks. Occupy Wallstreet had a huge, lasting impact on the way much of the population views the banking and finance industry. > g
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> For comparison the banking sector managed to take down the entire economy and came out of it virtually unscathed by Washington. "Unscathed by Washington"? Sure. With a squeaky clean image...? Not so much. There was Occupy W
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> Getting bad commentary on geeky/nerdy HN is, almost by definition, bad communications/PR for a tech company. Except there's always going to be some critics, especially when you're talking about a corporation of Goog

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