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by jm4 6y ago
In my opinion, Microsoft became a much better company after their brush with antitrust. I don’t know how much had to do with the case and how much is just because of the quality leadership they have now, but I hope Google becomes a much bet
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by jm4 6y ago
What kind of business is that? That level of spending seems insane based on headcount. At least without knowing anything about the business. Are you running public facing services or something? What does that look like as a percentage of re
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by jm4 6y ago
Not really. Big email lists like that generate tons of spam. What Amazon is doing is presumably to block unionization efforts, but, frankly, what's surprising is that they didn't have a control like this in place already. I work f
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by jm4 6y ago
I don't find that to be an entirely realistic scenario, but we can talk hypotheticals. As a company owner, I would welcome the opportunity for employees to quit as an alternative to unionizing. Having your problem quit for another job
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by jm4 7y ago
It doesn’t have to do with public or private. It’s based on the number of employees affected as well as some other factors. Check out the WARN Act.
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by jm4 7y ago
You have some flexibility to take your hands off the wheel for a bit. It nags you after a little bit and then gives you some more time to hold the wheel. If you keep your hands off for too long it will disengage and you can’t put autopilot
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by jm4 7y ago
That’s the part I don’t get either. The only thing I can come up with is he wasn’t paying attention to the drive up to that point and didn’t notice he was in a problem area. I have a Tesla and there are definitely problem areas. You learn t
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by jm4 7y ago
That is so mistaken I’m not sure where to start. I agree there should be accountability, but to say it should be commensurate with compensation is absurd. What happens around here is the engineers are never to blame and it’s always manageme
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by jm4 7y ago
It’s funny. If an article mentions how much someone in management gets paid, it’s all about how they don’t deserve it, they’re profiting off someone else’s sweat, they’re useless, it’s unfair, etc. Then you see something like a data breach
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by jm4 7y ago
That stuff happens. It happens with other cars too. A few problems here and there, mediocre service and still being (subjectively) the best car in the world are not mutually exclusive. I had to take mine in for service twice - once for a fl
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by jm4 7y ago
There is usually some form of compensation attached to it that must be returned if the employee doesn’t satisfy their obligations or is deferred so that the employee is incentivized to stay at least that long. You can quit if you really wan
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by jm4 7y ago
I stand by my previous comment. I was like you once, thinking everyone else who isn’t on the bleeding edge is an out of touch idiot with an outdated, irrelevant skill set. There’s a time and a place. It really depends on your requirements.
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by jm4 7y ago
They use it to auto play all their shitty videos. That auto play nonsense is ruining so many things for me. I don’t want any movement or sound on a page that I’m trying to read. It’s insane that content producers think it’s a good idea.
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by jm4 7y ago
Not really. At least not always. No offense, but you sound like someone relatively new to IT (as in a few to several years). Stay in this field long enough and you see history repeating itself. After you witness a few cycles you will have a
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by jm4 7y ago
This is the answer. I run a shop where most systems are on a 1, 3 or 5 year upgrade cycle and all operating systems and applications get security patches within 30 days of release. It’s considered cutting edge in my industry. That includes
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by jm4 7y ago
Nope. It was a fork of WebKit which was a fork of KHTML, the engine powering Konqueror. KHTML was developed by the KDE team. Edit: It was widely speculated that Apple would use gecko for Safari and a shock when they announced they would use
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by jm4 7y ago
I don’t get it either. Google’s reputation has been lousy, there’s something weird going on among employees and the company isn’t clearly advancing in any particular area. Sundar strikes me as Google’s Ballmer. Satya, on the other hand, has
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by jm4 7y ago
The NFL is also the only successful employer of professional football players which makes that situation unique. There are several gigantic tech companies and millions of other jobs available that aren’t at Google. Do you have another examp
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by jm4 7y ago
I'm not a big fan of unions. Certainly not in this case. I think where they are more effective is where the workers are largely interchangeable and do not possess abilities that are unique from other workers - or at least an environmen
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by jm4 7y ago
And that's when you take it up with the real judicial system, not some quasi-judicial "jury of my peers" in the company.
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by jm4 7y ago
That’s a ridiculous idea. It’s a job, not a judicial system. I suspect our real disagreement is around your “disproportionate corporate power” remark. I believe that’s how it’s supposed to be. The people running the company have more power
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by jm4 7y ago
Work trucks are those plain white base model trucks with steel wheels and plastic interiors. You get them cheap and they will basically approve anyone for cheap financing of a few trucks through their business. Nobody is catering to those b
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by jm4 7y ago
They do if the plan is self funded. If it’s not, they still get anonymized usage reports from the carrier that list all the claims with basic demographic info like gender, age range and whether it was the employee, child or spouse who the c
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by jm4 7y ago
Not necessarily pursuit of money. Work. The world is built on work. If we stop working we go back to living in wilderness - literally and figuratively. Hobbies are fun, but they aren’t work. Work provides a different kind of satisfaction.
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by jm4 7y ago
Oh, get off your high horse. Which devices are you using from a company that isn’t similarly large and doesn’t do the same thing?
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by jm4 7y ago
How does that play out? The US and China would pass contradictory laws and then companies would have to choose which to follow. They will follow the money and we may not like the result.
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by jm4 7y ago
It’s huge in a corporate environment. Unpatched machines and clueless users are the biggest threats. Everyone has clueless users and they can be dealt with. If you have unpatched machines then you have no control over your environment and i
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by jm4 7y ago
The Taycan is DOA. If I want an electric car then I’m getting a Tesla because it’s the easiest to own, easiest to charge, the most proven and outperforms every other EV. If I want a Porsche then I’m getting a 911 turbo because it’s their mo
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by jm4 7y ago
A road trip where Porsche selected the route with one charge stop isn’t impressive. It’s not a long range car until the typical owner can drive the continental US - or at least most of it. I’ve never seen a fast charger anywhere besides a T
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by jm4 7y ago
And where the heck do you charge a Taycan or any other EV that’s not a Tesla? Never mind the fact that the Tesla beats every other EV on the road for a moment. The killer feature is the supercharger network. Are other manufacturers going to

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