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by ineptech 5y ago
I said "employed via the same contract," not "a comparable contract." Meaning, the VP's hiring contract says "you get $X/yr to hire some staff".
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by ineptech 5y ago
At the risk of deflating this highly-charged discussion, I think the reason for the "executive staff" carve-out might be a little more ho-hum: they are often employed via the same contract as the executive they support.
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by ineptech 5y ago
InComm | Engineering Manager / Dev Manager| $140K-ish | Full time | US Remote Us : Large, stable, growing company that builds the software that makes gift cards work. About 2/3 of us are located in Portland OR, but we are now ful
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by ineptech 5y ago
You can't listen to someone's anecdote intended to convey one thing and assume they included sufficient detail for you to determine whether it also conveys some other thing.
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by ineptech 5y ago
This might be the right model if web media were an ideal marketplace, with a variety of competing options to choose from. That's clearly not the case. A better model is that Google has tried to limit your options to "either do bu
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by ineptech 5y ago
"Verboten" is a strong word; to my mind that refers to things that can't be discussed because they would challenge the power structure, like how you can't talk about Tank Guy in Chinese social media. That's not HN.
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by ineptech 5y ago
One more, though this is hard to explain analytically: shared language about and mental model of the codebase. If four people build a platform working separately, they will each come out of the project with subtly different ideas of what t
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by ineptech 5y ago
> I would assume almost all daily users of Wordle would consider having to have an account in exchange for persistent, cross-device statistics a worthy trade-off Not for me, absolute deal-breaker. My fingers would find ctrl-w before the
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by ineptech 5y ago
Counterpoint: if you shouldn't write a 'for fun' game without architecting it to withstand super-viral success, a lot of people won't write them at all.
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by ineptech 5y ago
You can measure a long term trend, even if it's overwhelmed in the short term by much larger changes, by tracking local maxima/minima. Suppose that a circuit's voltage is either increasing or decreasing by 1V per hour, and y
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by ineptech 5y ago
> It seems like this is a month to month number that fluctuates widely based on one-off events and things like when people typically pay their taxes. Even if it varies a lot over the short-term, reaching positive numbers after a long per
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by ineptech 5y ago
> if a defendant says some magic phrase they fall under the constitution's protection, otherwise they're in trouble This is not true. Every US citizen is protected by the constitution, all the time, and has the right to a lawy
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by ineptech 5y ago
> it's almost impossible to fairly convict a savvy criminal in the US without physical evidence or multiple witnesses. That is not true. I don't even think police or prosecutors think that. > The US system is such a mess th
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by ineptech 5y ago
I don't buy this for a second. "If you think I did it" is clearly a preliminary clause akin to "If that's the way it's going to be," not the beginning of an if-then clause. But the point here is that the
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by ineptech 5y ago
Because they relied on an nft marketplace for definitions: > For more information on NFTs and the terminology used in this article, the OpenSea NFT Bible is the current de-facto document for NFT knowledge
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by ineptech 5y ago
1. You've stopped learning things there 2. Some of the team is lousy but no one seems to be working on coaching/firing them 3. Management won't spend a dollar to save a dollar
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by ineptech 5y ago
Several thoughts: 1. The best way for a manager to tell who is/isn't doing good work is to ask their teammates. If you cover for someone lousy (which may sometimes be the reasonable thing to do, especially if it's a fairly b
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by ineptech 5y ago
Ditto. I work for a big company with several FT recruiters, and AFAICT the only thing they do to look for new candidates is spam people on linkedin.
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by ineptech 5y ago
I don't think that's true, people bitch about those services all the time. Everyone that uses FB has a gripe about it. Windows users have been complaining about Windows non-stop for thirty years. I'm not arguing that peopl
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by ineptech 5y ago
Why is there a graphical installer for the Minecraft client and not for the Minecraft server? Because of some fancy Law with Capital Letters, or because more work went in to the former than the latter?
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by ineptech 5y ago
I agree, except for the part about this being physical hardware rather than a cloud thing. I find it very difficult to imagine even 10% of America buying something like this; a likelier model is, imagine that your typical $50/mo wirel
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by ineptech 5y ago
Yes, this is the sort of thing I'm talking about, but I think it also demonstrates that there's a ways to go yet. I suspect that one part of the solution will be abandoning linux and windows. They were built for performance and
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by ineptech 5y ago
I'm sure some people would want to run one in their basement, but I was referring to virtual cloud servers, and assumed the last sentence would've made that clear.
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by ineptech 5y ago
> What is the benefit to the average user of running their own server? All the server-side use cases you can't do with a client alone. I think you misunderstood my comment; I'm not saying that running your own email server is
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by ineptech 5y ago
> People don’t want to run their own servers, and never will. Not really much related to web3/crypto topics, but I think this is an indictment of servers, not people. If managing a server were easy and secure, lots of people would
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by ineptech 5y ago
I always begin with PENIS. Maybe not optimal statistically, but emotionally.
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by ineptech 5y ago
Update: it's off the main page, actual elapsed time was about 90 minutes.
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by ineptech 5y ago
The main points of this article (roughly, that the supposedly-centrist-but-actually-left-wing media now cares more about wokeness than real news) have been made prominently and continuously since the days of Rush Limbaugh. The old joke abo
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by ineptech 5y ago
Long-time manager here. 1. Leave it blank on your CV. In discussion, say, "Then I took a break to help family during covid." That's all you need. Resist the urge to try to explain or justify it. 2. Explain what you did to &
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by ineptech 5y ago
They very reliably rise to the front page (because people like arguing about this stuff) and then sink off again (because, I believe, the HN algorithm penalizes a low upvote-to-comment-count ratio). I predict this'll be gone in two ho

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