fnimick

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by fnimick 3y ago
How do you successfully advocate for that? These experiences blow my mind - I have managed to take 4-5 weeks of PTO, total, over the course of a decade in my career at "unlimited PTO" startups due to pretty much always being missi
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by fnimick 3y ago
This is not my experience, having worked at "unlimited PTO" companies for my entire career. You end up with people on the team able to take radically different amounts of vacation depending on the current projects, who is engaged
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by fnimick 3y ago
I think it's not possible to do big things at the pace a vicious capital market demands in a healthy balanced way. Would you say Monet didn't do great things because he only produced on average about 3 paintings per year?
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by fnimick 3y ago
The problem is when the tests let in "too many people" for big companies, they end up ramping them up to be unnecessarily hard to compensate. Then small companies feel that they need to copy what successful big cos do, so they end
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by fnimick 3y ago
I question your assertion that companies are looking to select ethical employees. In fact, I would argue they are looking to select unethical employees who know the game well enough to play along for the appearance of ethics (see: expectati
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by fnimick 3y ago
Not all of us have access to elite invite-only communities, nor the name recognition or clout to solicit invites to them.
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by fnimick 3y ago
That's exactly how you do it. Don't care about things the company doesn't measure and reward.
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by fnimick 3y ago
When have the smartest and hardest workers ever been the richest?
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by fnimick 3y ago
And therefore you are not an employee they want. These companies don't want an employee who starts to question "why" things should be done or why things are important. Demonstrating that you are willing to apply yourself at s
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by fnimick 3y ago
> people who have free time to work on side projects (usually young people have more free time than people with families) That's the whole point. Companies would always prefer someone with no responsibility who can be guilted and pr
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by fnimick 3y ago
Oh, I think it is very intentional, and the whole point is to not say it out loud. If you don't have time to code for "love", you won't have time to jump at unreasonable requests and pull tons of crunch time overtime eit
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by fnimick 3y ago
Does it? At one of my former jobs management would regularly pressure engineers into doing late nights at sprint end (every other week) if we were "behind". Then if we finished things a day into the next sprint, the PM would backd
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by fnimick 3y ago
I mean, not great to mean I can't call my parents up and talk to them, eh?
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by fnimick 3y ago
Sure, the ability to duplicate trusted voices and faces are just "new techniques" and will not lead to increased fraud whatsoever. I would like to live in your world.
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by fnimick 3y ago
To be fair, GW2 was able to do that by instancing the world per zone, with loading screens to switch server connections, rather than having a seamless open world.
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by fnimick 3y ago
We know exactly how to solve it, but nobody is willing to vote for collective action to give up any of their cushy lifestyle. Don't believe me? Try to get a bike lane installed in your city at the fraction of the cost of car infrastruc
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by fnimick 3y ago
I am hopeful that in the event of the resource wars, I live close enough to a juicy first strike target that I'll be dead before I have to inhabit the hell that will follow.
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by fnimick 3y ago
It's very true. Look at the way "urban" is used as a dog whistle for certain groups of people. A bit of local history from where I live: Boston rapid transit was intended to extend to the northwest a considerable distance, pu
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by fnimick 3y ago
You're right, the solution has been fixed as of this April (which I didn't realize until I went looking - thank you!) But up until then, Lexington had a huge housing shortage and skyrocketing prices, with strictly enforced zoning
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by fnimick 3y ago
Or worse, it rewards those that are "in demand" elsewhere, and harms those that due to some factors outside of their control (sexism, racism) would receive less interest elsewhere, so they can be paid less to keep them here. I onc
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by fnimick 3y ago
Actually I will disagree, regulations are very much blocking development of the type of housing that is needed, at least in my experience. Whenever a dense block of housing is proposed, people abuse zoning regulations here to shut it down.
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by fnimick 3y ago
Regulatory capture would be a better description. The point is, you can be frustrated about zoning laws being abused for protectionism by people who want to increase the value of their asset by limiting what can be done by their neighbors,
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by fnimick 3y ago
I didn't think I had to be explicit - to look at some regulations with negative effects (zoning protectionism for nimby homeowners) and then extrapolate from that that all regulation is bad, is farcical. There is a decent argument to
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by fnimick 3y ago
Insufficiently regulated, then. The parent comment looks at regulations on home building (zoning, etc) that are harmful, and extrapolates from that that all regulations are harmful and that the root cause of inequality is regulation preve
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by fnimick 3y ago
Agreed. We're in this mess because of unregulated capitalism, but sure, removing even more regulations will definitely solve it! (for the people who are fortunate enough to "have a venture" goes unsaid - the rest will be left
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by fnimick 3y ago
Building regulations yes, zoning regulations no. There's a community near me that has enormous housing shortages and yet they maintain a 1 acre minimum lot per single family house only to "preserve character". Does that sound
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by fnimick 3y ago
Or multiple women dating the same man, either knowingly, or thinking they are the only one.
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by fnimick 3y ago
This isn't what the parent comment is talking about, it's talking about how (generally) women's rating of men's attractiveness follows the Pareto principle. This is purely from pictures and profiles, before anyone intera
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by fnimick 3y ago
I honestly have zero problem with people having "unrealistic" standards. You can restrict your own pool as much as you like, as long as you don't complain about not finding any partners. I (and people in general) have no righ
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by fnimick 3y ago
And how exactly would you solve the root problem of _other cities_ sending their homeless populations to those areas? Make it more miserable to be homeless there so they are forced to go somewhere else?

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