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691.
by ido 4y ago
Because most of us don't work in anarchist co-ops?
692.
by ido 4y ago
I think the issue is that there's a pretty broad spectrum between "do just enough work to not get fired" and "do the best job you reasonably can". Employers (in tech at least) expect the latter. I wouldn't like
693.
by ido 4y ago
I meant the relationship is not symmetrical so it's not such an obvious gatcha that the people at the other end of the relationship aren't expecting to divulge their professional engagements to you but ask for the reverse. Your bo
694.
by ido 4y ago
You're not your execs' and owners' employer.
695.
by ido 4y ago
Ok, but that's an extreme case - that may have been bad whereas someone taking half a year off after working extremely high pressure job for a decade can be good.
696.
by ido 4y ago
You seem to think the “typical CEO” is running IBM or Oracle. I’ll bet the “typical CEO” is more like me - running a small business (single to double digit employees total) and paying themselves less than a senior developer would get. I hav
697.
by ido 4y ago
I explicitly said in my original comment way up thread that I didn’t think intelligence was the defining factor.
698.
by ido 4y ago
I honestly thought +/- the same before founding my own company! I suggest you do the same (you don’t need millions of $s) and find out.
699.
by ido 4y ago
Outside of work you’re usually only responsible for yourself and maybe (temporarily) a small number of children (usually shared with one other parent).
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by ido 4y ago
Handling uncertainty and risk is probably the number 1 challenge. There's a lot of stuff where it can take months/years to really be able to tell if it was the right decision or not (and often even then it's not obvious what
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by ido 4y ago
The actual article notwithstanding, upon reading it two thoughts occured to me: 1. I knew and know plenty of CEOs (some of them were my bosses at some point) and quite a few of them are...Not that impressive? I can think of at least a coupl
702.
by ido 4y ago
Your comment reminds me of this Dril quote: https://twitter.com/dril/status/473265809079693312 the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: "theres actually zero difference between good &
703.
by ido 4y ago
The Neolithic Revolution is most attributed to agriculture as far as I know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic_Revolution
704.
by ido 4y ago
I don’t know the situation in the US but in Germany a large part of basic benefits (your company might offer more on top) are explicitly a % if your salary, to the point where you can say the minimum legally required benefits (and often the
705.
by ido 4y ago
How much harder is it for an SFBA investor to keep up with what's going on in a Berlin or London startup vs, say, an Atlanta or Miami startup? As long as you need to board a flight to get there isn't it more or less the same, whet
706.
by ido 4y ago
If your team at a startup of <=10 people assumes you are lying or that you have no idea how someone performs (to the point of firing a good performer for bad performance) you've got much bigger problems than that employee.
707.
by ido 4y ago
Give them pro-rata equity. if the cliff was on 1 year and they were fired 11 months into it, give them 11/12th of the promised equity and fire them today.
708.
by ido 4y ago
Yes but it gives the remaining people a mark on what is acceptable or not acceptable. If you fired someone for bad performance they now know that bad performance will not be tolerated (or at least not forever). If you fired them for being u
709.
by ido 4y ago
If someone was a bad performer, they team knows it's because of bad performance, but reasons given will be "cost cutting", "personal matters", or "they've moved to a better project."
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by ido 4y ago
I always try to be pro-labor but i had such a situation in my own company. A person I tried to make work for months, the situation just got worse the OP describes (it wasn't performance issues but more attitude/social/soft-sk
711.
by ido 4y ago
Nexus was a mid/high-end model (google branded), budget android phones are usually from chinese manufacturers like ZTE.
712.
by ido 4y ago
I understand what you meant, i just disagree with your phrasing of it. You can simply call it the "best compensated/all the rest" divide. But other than that game development is not at all like Enterprise so I don't find
713.
by ido 4y ago
If that's what you meant ("c# is unpopular among the best paying tech companies") I can accept that. But what you originally wrote that I disagree with is: That unfortunately hasn’t helped C# become more popular outside
714.
by ido 4y ago
“My field” is a 20+ year MS ecosystem developer from C++/MFC, VB6, .Net Compact framework, .Net Framework, .Net Core, etc. Right, and in that field you might be correct (I don't know but I'll take your wor
715.
by ido 4y ago
C# is extremely popular, maybe just not in your particular field.
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by ido 4y ago
Sorted by last name but listed by first name means you can start typing the artist's name and get to the right place in the list...
717.
by ido 4y ago
And also the character is a robot.
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by ido 4y ago
It's highly suspect if he can mobilise 1-2 millions. The latest mobilisation sought 300k and is already causing civil unrest and hundreds of thousands of people fleeing Russia.
719.
by ido 4y ago
For Putin's regime, failing to win is basically losing.
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by ido 4y ago
Why was it so limited? Didn't the former East Block had relatively abundant fuel (coal, oil, gas, uranium)?

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