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by freyr 10y ago
I remember when Singhal's hiring was discussed here on HN last month. People wondered what would attract Singhal to Uber. Now we know: the company culture.
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by freyr 10y ago
Huh? The guy with the 10 year post history called Subverter a shill. Subverter has a 43 day post history, three anti-net neutrality comments, and two anti-net neutrality submissions. You can't see one, because it was flagged: https:&#
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by freyr 10y ago
I'll try it. I expect that would be an actionable case of false advertising.
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by freyr 10y ago
"Inside Enron... the prevailing corporate culture was to push every thing to its limits: business practices, laws, personal behavior." (WSJ) Sounds familiar. Enron's financial problems were deeply entwined with its cultural p
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by freyr 10y ago
Facebook seems bent on taking the wind out of Snapchat's sales before their IPO, even if it means adding bloat to their apps. At the moment, Snap is their only serious competitor.
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by freyr 10y ago
> I'm paying 15-20% more for groceries just on line-item price. In San Francisco at least, almost every store is listed as "Prices are same as in-store." Target and Whole Foods have "Everyday store prices," whi
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by freyr 10y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but sexual harassment is usually a civil offense, not a criminal offense.
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by freyr 10y ago
> That Holder? Right, the Holder who cut his teeth representing banks, became U.S. attorney general and refused to prosecute banks, and then went back to work representing banks. The Holder who has advocated on Uber's behalf in th
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by freyr 10y ago
So they chose an Uber lobbyist, an Uber director, and the head of the department under investigation to lead their "independent investigation"? This company really has some audacity.
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by freyr 10y ago
Some journalists have written trashy gossip articles, and I wouldn't defend that. But if that's his mindset, "Other people have done bad things, so why shouldn't I?", that's not great. That leads to a culture o
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by freyr 10y ago
They went from 600 to 1900 employees in 2016. It's not clear what all people are doing, but Snapchat has to manage a lot of relationships with advertisers and their content partners. It would be interesting to see a breakdown of techni
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by freyr 10y ago
> why it's wrong to write the 4 most awful true things about Sarah Lacy, but it's perfectly fine to write the 4 most awful true facts about Travis Kalanick? The article highlighted four direct quotes from Kalanick's int
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by freyr 10y ago
The actual idea was to hire researchers and journalists to dig up dirt in the personal lives of critical journalists, not merely to respond to them.
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by freyr 10y ago
So Emil talks about spending millions on PR to discredit their critics, and then his journalist friend writes an article discrediting a critic and contradicting everything he said. Sorry if I'm a bit skeptical.
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by freyr 10y ago
> It is always a bit sad when one of the top characteristic of an engineer from organization X is their political ability to carve out an empire. When Organization X consistently scoops up the top graduates from the top schools, they e
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by freyr 10y ago
When they keep getting caught doing scummy things over and over again, people stop giving them the benefit of the doubt.
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by freyr 10y ago
> I wonder how much impact this will have. What were the consequences when Uber management was caught behaving badly in the past? In November 2014, Uber’s senior vice president Emil Michael suggested Uber hire a team of opposition res
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by freyr 10y ago
> Please try to get better at conceiving things, it's important. Snotty replies probably don't have the effect you intend. The author was brave to write this, and the article is important. My negative post was probably unwarr
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by freyr 10y ago
> "or (ii) I could stay on the team, but I would have to understand that he would most likely give me a poor performance review when review time came around, and there was nothing they could do about that." I fully believe th
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by freyr 10y ago
It looks like they're inferring the right 6-digit password about 20% of the time on their first try, presumably using the Xiaomi phone. But if they can try 20 candidates before getting locked out, they can guess the 6-digit password ab
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by freyr 10y ago
It seems like this would eventually lead to a codebase that's, at Facebook's size, unmaintainable garbage. How do they make it work?
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by freyr 10y ago
> "That just confirms the OPs first point, that TCS, Wipro and Infosys, with their 30,000 Visas avg. ~$70k, are massively abusing the system." No, that was the article's point. OP's contribution was that everybody i
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by freyr 10y ago
> That's why PhDs aren't lining up to spend $250,000, then take several years (if lucky) to get a $52,000 a year job with limited security. In many fields, often fields that don't pay well, the PhD students are mostly Am
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by freyr 10y ago
You're comparing the average salary of all H-1B jobs (developer, accountant, analyst, etc.) to the salary of a developer. Instead, look at the average salaries for H-1B software engineers in 2016: Facebook @ Menlo Park: $152k Google
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by freyr 10y ago
Average gross salary in Romania is $740/month, so $17k/month should be able to pay 6 salaries.
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by freyr 10y ago
We already have somebody looking at our naked body as we walk through mm-wave scanners, and that hasn't deterred anybody. I don't think a discreet scale would be that big a deal. It's not like their weight needs to be display
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by freyr 10y ago
> as a programmer, you are a part of tightly controlled agile/SCRUM team I see. I'm currently in a research lab, and programming is my main day-to-day activity. I have a high degree of autonomy, but have recently considered m
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by freyr 10y ago
Interesting. I have a statistics/data science background, but personally I find programming much more satisfying. Programming is a tool to create and synthesize. It leads to new products, companies, and solutions. Data science is analy
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by freyr 10y ago
My impression is they have an excess of technical talent. They have a huge engineering staff, and from n outside perspective, I'm not convinced their product demands it. Google, Apple, Amazon, etc., all have much more interesting pro
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by freyr 10y ago
> Uber's car ... blows stop lights and can't make a right turn. Just like my last few Uber drivers.

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