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by fogetti 7y ago
I think you don't understand what I said. You can't climb the ladder if you disagree with management. And that's not because you have no talent and management has the talent. There is no such correlation. Is this clear now or
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by fogetti 7y ago
Saying that they can become managers is like saying they can become the president of the U.S. The point is that you cannot become a manager at all if you disagree with management in the first place (and that doesn't mean you don't
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by fogetti 7y ago
That's a good point. Everything, even the coronavirus has this narrative attached that prevention should be the utmost priority. At the same time the same narrative is completely missing in case of depression. I guess the difference is
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by fogetti 7y ago
But this idea is completely invalidated by the fact that many foreign companies (European and Chinese) are listed in U.S. exchanges, which means that the investors can only make informed decisions about the their investment if they are awak
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by fogetti 7y ago
Where was he criticizing the individual? I can't find it in the text
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by fogetti 7y ago
The reddit reply is neither condescending or arrogant. Why do you think so?
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by fogetti 7y ago
This is an extremely limited and uninformed view of the world. Especially considering what Boeing goes through right now, I would say the best aircraft engineers right now are located in Europe and they work in the Airbus headquarters. But
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by fogetti 7y ago
According to a government survey from 2017 or so, the number of single parent families was hovering around 1.2 million. This is almost exactly 1 percent of the population which doesn't seem much until you compare it to the number of ch
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by fogetti 7y ago
That's a fair point. My impression is that most hard startups are started by founders who come from academia.
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by fogetti 7y ago
Is it though? I worked in 4 different jobs across 2 different countries and this was unheard of. Not even a single one of my friends do this.
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by fogetti 7y ago
I am curious. Where do they work? What do they do?
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by fogetti 7y ago
It didn't happen in the US but back during the 2009 global financial crisis Nokia let about 15000 employees go. Many of those were employed in Germany (I am not one of those though) and I heard they were pretty well protected by their
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by fogetti 7y ago
I think you didnt fully understand the parent poster. The point is that in this thread many people are questioning the case for unions in software engineering and the parent comment responds to that. He just gave examples that unions protec
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by fogetti 7y ago
I on the other hand think that the comment as yours is why the rest of the United States thinks tech is full of a bunch of entitled pricks.
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by fogetti 7y ago
Sadly this is the case in our company. I worked as a dev team manager for the last 9 months and I was constantly wondering why do we work on these features... The more time I spent with our CEO though, it turned out that he wanted to decide
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by fogetti 7y ago
While I like the idea of traveling by train, and I even took a night train from Munich to Budapest in the past, but on that specific route I had to share my cabin with a guy who just got released from jail a day earlier so I was not pleasan
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by fogetti 7y ago
I am not sure anyone mentioned it before, but in many occupations you are required to take standardized tests which you are required to renew each X years. This way if you hold the credentials than you don't have to actually demonstrat
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by fogetti 7y ago
I think FAANG has too much money, so they try to solve all problems with money, which could otherwise be solved with better planning, allocating more time, changing the mindset and/or better understanding the problem at hand. That migh
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by fogetti 7y ago
You could make transatlantic calls in the 1920s. Sure, it was not that fast or capable as the internet, but the fundamental capability of connecting the world together has been around for a century or so. So it's not that strange as yo
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by fogetti 7y ago
This is right from the website: "Join the Global IT Burnout Index" And then there is a form to select my country. So even if HN is a US centric site, which I dispute actually, still the website in this post has nothing to do with
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by fogetti 7y ago
Except that this is not true. The average salary of a software engineer in Japan, Germany and other highly developed nations is only slightly better than let's say an accountant's. If we take the amortized hourly wage by consideri
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by fogetti 7y ago
> completely lost momentum I am sorry but you are really talking about 2 days of time interval and projecting predictions based on that? Unbelievable... So what's to stop the competitors to do the same thing that your friend did to
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by fogetti 7y ago
I think you are conflating the seller and buyer side. In Google's case the CPC is actually a revenue and they do not see it as cost as the marketers you described. So from marketers' POV, yes, conversion makes more sense. From Goo
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by fogetti 7y ago
I would be interested to know if they are actually using SAP. These companies are so much better at software development and they are swimming in so much money that they could even implement something by themselves.
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by fogetti 7y ago
I have to ask. Does this mean that maintenance is always someone else's responsibility and never someone's responsibility directly?
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by fogetti 7y ago
Because of OKRs. Management is setting it so that no-one can reach the objectives. Then there is some speech that OKRs are not really meant to be completed fully but they will still hold it against you if it's not 100%
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by fogetti 7y ago
Nope. I think if two CEOs are not enough to make one business strategy that's incompetence. Is there any reason to think otherwise? They failed at what they were supposed to do and now they can't take any blame???? WTF?
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by fogetti 7y ago
Exactly, this is a recurring theme regarding Revolut which hits the media headlines frequently, how Revolut also sucks when the shit hits the fan. I guess there are also similar stories in case of Stripe too.
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by fogetti 7y ago
The point is the same cost can be sunken and future cost too. It's not binary, and your implied false dichotomy (either a future cost or a sunken cost) is wrong
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by fogetti 7y ago
You are basically just playing with the words, but you also seem to contradict yourself: > you're just using the lessons your learnt while making this investment That's exactly what honoring sunk costs mean. Making the investme

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