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by erdojo 9y ago
I'm not sure what this story accomplished. Did it convince us that... ...Male VCs can act like jerks? Yes. ...Male VCs don't get the female market? This shouldn't surprise anyone. It's sad but this is why we need more fe
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by erdojo 9y ago
In all my 25+ years in the valley, I've seen office trends come and go. None have been more hated than the open floor plan. Especially when you don't have a wall behind you. It's why I now work from home. Why many work from h
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by erdojo 9y ago
I started off reading this with the expectation I'd be right in joining the fight with her. It is, after all, a pretty bad allegation, us ladies have to stick together, and I'm ready to take a side! But oh my gosh THE FEELS. This
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by erdojo 9y ago
It is your fault if you go out to bars that serve $13 drinks instead of staying home and making 20 of them. We all have choices.
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by erdojo 9y ago
I guess I'm too old. Have heard of Venmo but don't know of anyone who uses it. My friends and I trade off treating each other. It's fun, and no one is keeping score. I enjoy being generous. I also suspect this author writes o
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by erdojo 9y ago
Not everyone agrees that there was "no good reason". I'm sure the 160 people (on the flight the deadhead crew was headed for) who would have been without a flight crew would disagree.
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by erdojo 9y ago
In Japan the customers tend to behave far better as well. I'm sure that contributes.
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by erdojo 9y ago
He's claiming discrimination vs what his coworkers are being paid. What his agency bills his time at is a red herring that doesn't matter at all in his discrimination claim.
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by erdojo 9y ago
Talent and experience aren't the same thing, and they both affect compensation. Talent can produce a better result than experience, but experience is almost always more consistent. There's added value in consistency for companies.
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by erdojo 10y ago
Might be an ignorant question, but could individual websites do more to prevent an ISP from seeing your activity on the site? I know HTTPS should be able to help (?), but ISPs can still see the domain you're visiting and get metadata o
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by erdojo 10y ago
I haven't seen any comment or quotes yet from Baidu (please correct me if I'm wring!). Amicable high profile departures like this are almost always coordinated between the person leaving and the company, with joint statements. Not
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by erdojo 10y ago
Wholeheartedly agree - except with the start-p lottery/F-U money. What most startup employees don't understand that even if their start-up wins the lottery, they're not going to have F-U money. That's reserved for co-fou
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by erdojo 10y ago
All people who write code are programmers. But some programmers are also engineers. Most notably, those who architect systems and invent new technologies.
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by erdojo 10y ago
private office > cubicles > open office layouts.
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by erdojo 10y ago
Right person, wrong time, wrong approach. Kalanick was off the clock, clearly on his way home and in a social setting. The driver could have really capitalized on the moment. He could have opened a productive and respectful conversation by
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by erdojo 10y ago
Got it. I'm usually in San Francisco, LA or Reno, so that makes sense.
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by erdojo 10y ago
I used to use Lyft and Uber interchangebly depending on where I was, but since the Susan Fowler allegations I've defaulted to Lyft. And I love the in-app tipping :), so much less awkward and more convenient. However, I've had more
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by erdojo 10y ago
Unless Uber has that in its terms of service, that may be open to interpretation. Even if an Uber is considered a public space, that's not the sole determining factor in two-party consent cases. http://www.dmlp.org/lega
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by erdojo 10y ago
Are you sure they still do this? I haven't gotten a Black Car for an X fare in several years. Used to be fairly common, now never. Before the Susan Fowler allegations, I was a 2-3x per day rider (I'm now mostly using Lyft).
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by erdojo 10y ago
I believe the driver was itching for a confrontation (he stopped Kalanick as he was getting out of the car to start the conversation). It was only after being berated for a minute or two and interrupted that Kalanick's composure starte
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by erdojo 10y ago
Yes!
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by erdojo 10y ago
If you sit a MBP on a pillow, the fan circulation is significantly reduced, causing overheating. It also depends on your CPU usage...running with a few dozen tabs open while editing videos? Yikes, hot. One other thing: if you smoke, residue
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by erdojo 10y ago
Investors don't lose their right to an opinion. If anything, their opinion matters more because they've put their money on the line. Since it appears Uber only made token attempts to hear their feedback through past crises, it is
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by erdojo 10y ago
There's value in the blog above and beyond outing the occasional cheater. It makes people think twice. It prevents cheating from being normalized, like what happened in professional cycling. It also reminds society that a great number
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by erdojo 10y ago
The truth will only come out if a lawsuit is filed and it goes to trial and it's not settled before a verdict. Otherwise we'll get her side of the story as written and a statement from Uber that's been rubber stamped by lawye
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by erdojo 10y ago
One other important point: who knows what they might install during those brief minutes. Encryption backdoor? DO NOT BE COMPLACENT.
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by erdojo 10y ago
If a company hires you at SF HQ and you live in SF, then a year later you announce you're moving to Seattle, it is entirely unfair to ask an employer to float your travel expenses back to HQ. Your choice to leave, your financial burden
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by erdojo 10y ago
These trends are either evolutionary or entirely predictable. Several so predictable that they first made their debut in movies long before most of us were born. I think this is what he means. Working on any of these ideas doesn't make
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by erdojo 10y ago
This is only true if a large % of your employees are remote. Making exceptions for a few has no upside to hard costs. EDIT: And from my experience, 30% of people work more productively remote, 40% about the same, 30% are less productive. Th
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by erdojo 10y ago
If you work in City A at HQ, and then decide to work remote in City B (and the company approves it), the company is NOT on the hook to pay your travel expenses to City A. You chose to move, it's your responsibility to cover your travel

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