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by hourago 4y ago
That seems a little extreme. I have seen performance reviews used correctly to help engineers to improve on areas that they were lacking. And it works. Some people needs to improve communication skills, or have some blind technical spot. Do
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by hourago 4y ago
Bing chat never made sense as a product. It could be a really funny game/playground if developed correctly. But a let's-finish-your-sentence game is not a good tool. Everybody though that Google was behind and failing when their p
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by hourago 4y ago
This is one of the reasons so many people do not take management seriously. If your performance qualification depends on how many people the company wants to fire then your performance is not what is being evaluated. In good companies, jobs
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by hourago 4y ago
It is quite weird that "Build" and "Unit Test" are part of the Deployment Pipeline. For me the Deployment Pipeline starts with the Acceptance Tests that ensures business quality running over already created artifacts. Th
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by hourago 4y ago
This is the main reason that Western society is radicalizing. Workers are fish in a smaller and smaller pond. Long term it is unsustainable, but like bubbles it is very difficult to predict when it will melt down. A healthy society needs to
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by hourago 4y ago
> “We make some of the lowest wages in the U.S.,” Stackhouse, who has been a rater for nearly a decade, says. “I personally make $3 less per hour than my daughter working in fast food.” > Stackhouse has a serious heart condition requ
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by hourago 4y ago
> for capital to regain some leverage they lost and crack the whip. Which, to be fair, at least in the tech sector was probably warranted. Capital has way more, by a large margin, leverage than labor. Big technology companies were far f
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by hourago 4y ago
Copyright was created to incentivize creative work. It is what makes it profitable. Do we want millions of AI generated images generated from automatic prompts? If all AI generated images get protection, I see a nightmare of low effort cont
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by hourago 4y ago
This same thing happens to movie stars. Twenty years ago some actors moved masses just by appearing in a movie. Nowadays actors are dispensable and movie characters are performed by different people. Massive studios also kill opportunities
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by hourago 4y ago
> My personal meta-cynical view is that politics is all about relationships: nobody gets anything done using their own power alone, and nobody has enough broad and direct influence to even try. That is not cynical, that is the great powe
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by hourago 4y ago
"The goverment" is composed of many different people. I assure you that some people cares a lot about what is better for children, and fight to get this kind of policies implemented. Others vote in favor just because it looks good
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by hourago 4y ago
> The thing to remember in fact, (as I have emphasized many times) is that Chat has no idea of what it’s talking about. Let's see when the first lawsuits starts to roll in if that is a valid court excuse. From copyright infringement
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by hourago 4y ago
> The lion and its prey are in cooperation only... Lions cooperate with other lions, humans cooperate with dogs, symbiotic organisms are all over the planet. Humans are apex cooperators. Our civilization, from planes to schools, from the
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by hourago 4y ago
Except for that one guy: https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/goog...
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by hourago 4y ago
If there was competition companies would not be able to increase profit. What allow for this cutting cost and at the same time increase prices is that consumers do not have much of an option. When a market is just a couple or three companie
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by hourago 4y ago
If I got it correctly this is a push of investors in general to pressure developer salaries down. In the same way that much of the inflation is driven by opportunity to increase profits and not by costs. This is another example of what happ
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by hourago 4y ago
> I'm gladly reporting that he managed to do that and has indeed been promoted, and I still can't say what he does for a living apart from 'enable engineers to grow their careers.' And that is the kind of person that
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by hourago 4y ago
> Sundar Pichai's job is to make sure Google has enough revenue to keep paying all those $500k+ engineers. No, it is not. His job is to maximize profit, and his personal goal is to earn as much as possible. To say that the CEOs goal
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by hourago 4y ago
> A seemingly innocuous engineering change led to some drastic consequences. If you think that this is "drastic" you should read "Case Study 4: The $440 Million Software Error at Knight Capital". https://w
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by hourago 4y ago
> I know one union that was perfectly happy letting government workers make sox figures while "working" from home, while they produced objectively zero work over a period of months. "Companies save billions of dollars by g
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by hourago 4y ago
Miss-classifying employees, earnings or costs are great ways for companies to cheat taxes and labor laws. "Self employed" is used in the same way. Many people in the gig-economy are just employees that are not legally hired becaus
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by hourago 4y ago
> the alternative is violence or unionization, neither of which are optimal in resolving disputes like these in a civilized and efficient manner. Unionization is a great way of solving disputes. Many big corporations need to be counter-w
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by hourago 4y ago
> Messy and intrusive litigation will follow as creditors seize assets and obstruct access to capital markets. Spain’s creditworthiness will be downgraded and challenge any notion of Spain as a reliable destination for investment — echoi
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by hourago 4y ago
> both the buyer and seller are perfectly happy with fraud. Many people fully believe that they are making the world a better place, they are not "happy with being deceived" but they are just ignorant. This is like saying that
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by hourago 4y ago
> lifetime employment doing what you love should only go to those who are supremely dedicated Should people give their lives for a profession? That seems prone to create unhealthy societies prone to conflict and cheating. In my experienc
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by hourago 4y ago
> Those who chose an easier path, perhaps were less stressed but also didn't do or get as much. This is could be true assuming that the goal of society is maximum production and not maximum well-being. > But this is a luxury of b
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by hourago 4y ago
> It’s shocking, that there are millions of people picking various objects from the boxes every day all over the world. I just read the article and does not talk about automation. Did I miss something?
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by hourago 4y ago
> I think Amazon sees unionization activity as a critical risk for them. Not necessarily Amazon as a company, quite often to improve working conditions also improve productivity. But there is a risk for upper management that prefers obed
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by hourago 4y ago
> While it’s just a metaphor, the decision to move the clock’s hands closer to midnight reflects real-world risks. To have studies and experts is not enough to communicate the world situation. This seems a very visual and pedagogic way o
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by hourago 4y ago
> They own 0.5% which is nothing compared to other investors But it is still a signal to manipulate the job market. If many tech companies agree openly to fire employees that will have consequences, if many tech companies just happen to

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