goofy_goober

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by goofy_goober 3y ago
Some people don't even have dining rooms, guaranteed this is some upper-class snob (not that all "upper-class" people are snobs), related to one, or they were commissioned to write this piece by such a person
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by goofy_goober 3y ago
If they have non-negligible amounts of office space then staffing said office space to a certain level will end up in the local government granting some tax breaks to the company (for that property and possibly for other things). Companies
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by goofy_goober 3y ago
Heavily disagree with that first part; I have never worked at a company where the juniors learned by watching a senior do his job over his shoulder. They learned by absorbing information over time, doing work, going through code reviews, lo
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by goofy_goober 3y ago
Sometimes I just leave people on read for a bit because I have more important things to be dealing with. This happens to me too sometimes with people leaving me on read,and I understand because there is almost always something more importan
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by goofy_goober 3y ago
This point is moot, because those people would be out of office on PTO dealing with those contractors anyway. At least they can hop in and out of the meetings when working remotely, which is an upgrade from them not even being there to be h
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by goofy_goober 3y ago
Let us not forget DuckDuckGo, also a successful fully remote company (and it was that way before COVID-19). MatterMost as well. I am sure there are plenty of others
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by goofy_goober 3y ago
An interesting development as cloud services become increasingly more important (if they aren't critical already for businesses looking to get big) would be cloud services providers structured as mutual companies, like we see in some i
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by goofy_goober 3y ago
BTC isn't even a good comparison in this case. We can talk about its intentions endlessly, but the fact of the matter is that you can buy some actually useful stuff with it at the end of the day (pornography, VPN services, domain names