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by j_baker 13y ago
I think both sides need to look in the mirror: The employer to figure out how their culture is causing people to get fired, and the employee to figure out how they ended up in such a poor work environment.
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by j_baker 13y ago
So then why don't you just fire them for being difficult to get along with? Why do we need codes that allow us to hide our true motivations? That's incredibly passive-aggressive.
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by j_baker 13y ago
Fair enough, but if you're firing someone, something is clearly wrong, right? And your point only reinforces mine: firing for cultural fit is a passive-aggressive way to fire someone without confrontation.
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by j_baker 13y ago
More likely is that the company simply hasn't figured out the whole hiring and firing bit yet and is making all the wrong mistakes. And that's fine, you should expect to make a few mistakes before getting it right. But that's
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by j_baker 13y ago
I don't think that should be controversial. The key is figuring out what you want from your employees and verify that you're getting that. That saves you from having to guess as to whether or not they're working out. You shou
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by j_baker 13y ago
I've been there before too. In the end, I was happy to get fired because it was a crap place to work. Shortly afterwords, the guy who fired me and the rest of the founders got fired themselves. I can only assume they were happier after
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by j_baker 13y ago
> From the start, it wasn’t a good cultural fit. It’s not that you aren’t a good programmer. "Not a good cultural fit" is such a passive-aggressive way to justify firing someone. It's basically saying "You can do the
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by j_baker 13y ago
In regard to #1, this goes back to Joe having not attended a great school. The MITs and Stanfords of the world have career fairs with all the top employers in attendance. If Joe went to a public university in his home town, chances are good
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by j_baker 13y ago
Oh no, I agree. Companies like Facebook probably aren't providing direct access to their servers. However, it does make me wonder if Facebook is cooperating with them in other ways. Perhaps maybe they've been sharing knowledge o
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by j_baker 13y ago
I'm curious, how much of this did the NSA learn from Facebook et al? There has to be some overlap between the analytics Facebook uses and what the NSA is doing. Did they learn anything from articles Facebook employees have written? Has
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by j_baker 13y ago
It sounds like you've only read in line-by-line files then. I mean, it doesn't make sense to read in a JSON or XML document line-by-line. Nor does it make sense to read in most binary files line-by-line. Some formats, such as csv
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by j_baker 13y ago
If you don't know how to slurp a file, you're not a professional Python programmer.
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by j_baker 13y ago
I like that you can slurp a file in two lines of Python. And for someone just learning Python, the author's solution is just unnecessarily complicated. How many people learning Python are going to have a need to optimize file reading t
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by j_baker 13y ago
I beg to differ. Do you think a single mother of 4 can easily afford to commute to somewhere in the South Bay to get a better paying job?
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by j_baker 13y ago
Please. I have yet to work in any environment that hasn't had a brown bag release or two, regardless of how well tested it is. Nice marketing attempt though.
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by j_baker 13y ago
Abuse is expensive for a cloud service provider. Being thorough about it helps keep prices down.
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by j_baker 13y ago
> And now after nearly 10 hours or so i still haven’t heart from DO. Also now that the HN topic is not on the front pages no one is getting updated about the situation. That’s why i wanted to write this post. I won't speak for every
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by j_baker 13y ago
I think it's worth noting the irony in that you seem to believe in solving everything rationally except for the value of rationality. One thing that scientific research has elucidated is that gut feelings aren't useless, and in
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by j_baker 13y ago
That's roughly the procedure I use to make sure people aren't slimeballs when I rent my house out to them on AirBNB. I imagine it would also be very useful for determining that someone's an actual human.
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by j_baker 13y ago
$20 says you're ignoring someone's robots.txt.
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by j_baker 13y ago
Notice that the author doesn't address the issue of whether they actually were violating the TOS and/or AUP, or what the alleged violations actually were. My interpretation is that the author likely was legitimately violating the
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by j_baker 13y ago
Do you have any empirical data to back your point up? Or are you basing your thoughts about gut feelings on gut feelings?
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Close the N.S.A.’s Back Doors(nytimes.com)
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by j_baker 13y ago
Out of curiosity, what examples are insecure?
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by j_baker 13y ago
It's worth re-reading the quote again: "Imperative languages offer no protection against data races" ...and this is true. An imperative language (in and of itself) has no protection against data races. That's not to say
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by j_baker 13y ago
You're strawmanning. The author clearly didn't say that C++ was the worst language he's ever heard of. He didn't necessarily even say C++ is a bad language. What I'm reading is more along the lines of "Ok sur
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by j_baker 13y ago
I don't see where Fred says that exit valuation is a metric. His blog post on the subject never includes the phrase "exit valuation". http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2013/09/maximizing-runway-can-minim
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by j_baker 13y ago
Not to mention that exit valuation is a dubious metric of startup success to begin with. It also excludes startups that don't exit. Airbnb, Dropbox, etc wouldn't be included.
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by j_baker 13y ago
Most of this sounds absolutely useless. I mean, we could spend all day coming up with statistical hypotheses like: "People who drink Folgers' coffee are more likely to be psychopaths" "People who drive red cars are more
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by j_baker 13y ago
I would imagine not. Not only is PG very influential at many of the companies these investors would want to invest in, but most of these investors are also going to be hesitant to out themselves as being a "contemptible subspecies of

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