friedman23

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by friedman23 4y ago
As someone else has stated, you have not said anything of value here and are just vaguely screaming into the wind. Do you just find people being highly enthusiastic about something off putting? If so, do some introspection.
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by friedman23 4y ago
To all the specialists out there, if you value job security, become a specialist that can produce. When the company I'm in did layoffs, the area that had the biggest layoffs were in groups that did not actively produce the product we w
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by friedman23 4y ago
https://www.levels.fyi/companies/airtable/salaries/software-... Median engineer was making $370k (of course half of that is pre-ipo RSUs)
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by friedman23 4y ago
Chief people officer was repeated in the article before, they probably edited it.
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by friedman23 4y ago
I have an unfortunate theory that "fun" and "fulfillment" are tied significantly to variable reward. If it's consistent you wont find enjoyment from it.
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by friedman23 4y ago
I'm just saying people don't do it in practice.
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by friedman23 4y ago
People writing unit tests for internal tools? A lot of companies don't even having tests for production code.
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by friedman23 4y ago
America is a federal union. The policy and spending of the federal government can't and shouldn't be applied to these hyper local issues. San Franciscans are probably the highest taxed individuals on the planet and the San Francis
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by friedman23 4y ago
Can we talk about the fact that people are paying 10% of their income to live in this dirty crime ridden city? I don't think people comprehend how much money they are spending. If you manage to keep your salary (which some people are a
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by friedman23 4y ago
>You’re in control! Use your imagination and have some empathy. Some people are not in control. Like every human characteristic people exist on some part of the bell curve. Telling people they are in control is like telling someone that
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by friedman23 4y ago
My "coping strategy" if you could call it that, was extreme procrastination and putting myself under extreme stress to the point where if I wanted to accomplish anything I needed to procrastinate to the point where I needed to pul
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by friedman23 4y ago
Vyvanse was life changing for me. For all psychoactive medications your mileage may vary.
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by friedman23 4y ago
I had the same experience. Recently got put on vyvanse and have been on it for 2 months now. My life has changed over night. I used to struggle to wake up to the extent I needed to keep the window open at night and set multiple alarms. All
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by friedman23 4y ago
Only if you develop on safari. On good browsers you can do pretty much everything. Apple intentionally cripples safari so that it can't compete with their app store.
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by friedman23 4y ago
What about browsers? People are downloading and installing code from untrusted sources many million times per second.
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by friedman23 4y ago
> Once again we have a situation where the only person making that final claim is a known serial liar and shit poster. No, it's not just Elon. It is common knowledge that Apple uses this abusive behavior to censor and restrict app m
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by friedman23 4y ago
Apple is a deeply evil company.
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by friedman23 4y ago
Here comes the spin!
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by friedman23 4y ago
Why don't the employees just go and produce it on their own? That way they can capture 100% of the value they produce.
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by friedman23 4y ago
This is nice in theory. What do you think happens in practice? People have two primary motivations for starting businesses. Money and independence. For the half that value independence, they will not hire people and all their businesses wil
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by friedman23 4y ago
To expand the scale so they can provide their creation to more people. If the employees can gain control most creators will simply choose to keep their creations small in scale so they can maintain their freedom. Often the only way people a
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by friedman23 4y ago
> It's not their creation, it's their idea. Except in the cases where they literally create it? Every single idea and business started with a small group of people and often just a single person. Sometimes they create it, somet
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by friedman23 4y ago
At what point should someone's creation be confiscated and given to employees?
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by friedman23 4y ago
As someone that used to do exactly everything you describe I had undiagnosed ADHD which I've finally gotten diagnosed after 30 years. I somehow managed to get into tech (at some of the most prestigious companies) as a software engineer
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by friedman23 4y ago
I never implied you couldn't? I was just saying I'm not a javascript or typescript hater.
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by friedman23 4y ago
I code typescript every day. I don't really hate javascript. This is terrible.
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by friedman23 4y ago
I would but only for the right price. From what I understand he pays people less than industry standard and also asks them to work obscene hours? You have to be deep in the Elon Musk delusion to consider that when there are companies that p
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by friedman23 4y ago
He will likely end up in jail. If he's not in jail by the end of this there is just serious corruption.
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by friedman23 4y ago
No he doesn't. He hasn't worked in software like this since paypal and back then how complicated did things really get?
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by friedman23 4y ago
When you see these school shooters that look like they are manic do you think they have high testosterone or low testosterone? Low testosterone leads to severe anxiety and depression in men as others have stated. I would not associate eleva

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