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by jq-r 3y ago
I guess the company has to be really small. In my <200 company the CEO changed and the new one (despite being here for a year and change) I bet he cannot name 6 engineers in the company. He doesn't care.
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by jq-r 3y ago
Am too from Europe, and never heard about it until last year when visiting my colleagues in LA and was taken to a In-n-out. It was packed and I agree that it’s tastier than Mcdonald’s. My colleagues were very surprised that I didn’t hear ab
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by jq-r 3y ago
> Maybe you are living in IT centers like Amsterdam or Berlin, but anywhere in south or east Europe 100k USD annual salary is almost unreachable for local employment. 100K is indeed very high for S or E Europe, but in my experience there
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by jq-r 3y ago
Time to start another wave of layoffs in the tech industry I suppose. Not that the CEOs needed much of an excuse anyway in the last couple of quarters.
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by jq-r 3y ago
Also there are some things which are not enjoyable, and definitely not necessary. Standups are one of these in my honest opionion.
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by jq-r 3y ago
Nitpicking a bit, but Gell-Mann amnesia isn't that. Its about generally trusting newspapers/journalists and then reading an article about a theme you're familiar with. Then you realize that the journalist is full of it and go
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by jq-r 3y ago
Thank you for the article Alin! Writing this from Croatia and whatever you said in your article and here in the comments you can interchange Romania an Croatia without a second thought. Myself, I work for a US company and the taxman takes a
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by jq-r 3y ago
I think you've overlooked a quote from what bluetomcat wrote, so pasting it here: > Even now, this is the primary form of organisation in Bulgarian society. Knowing the right people, nurturing close relationships with them, calling
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by jq-r 3y ago
I'm in the same boat. A very long time user and I really liked everything about it. When they started pulling that subscription shit with tons of crapware I had enough. Cancelling subscription (even a short one) was also a terrible (I
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by jq-r 3y ago
Also when those very rich people start buying properties/coast/islands from people who "had different priorities" in couple of decades, the latter will have to rethink their strategy of letting go and not developing thei
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by jq-r 3y ago
As a citizen I hope not. In the last 10-15 years the whole coast and islands got overbuilt with local and foreign owned buildings. The construction prices multiplied because of the difference in buying power. Why would a construction compan
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by jq-r 3y ago
Speaking as someone from there. The judical system is actually very bad and very slow. We have 40 judges per 100K people, Ireland has 3. So if you have to litigate something good luck with that as it will take many years. If going after pub
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by jq-r 3y ago
I hope one day the whole group conversation gets published as a part of some trial/evidence. That would be spectacular.
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by jq-r 3y ago
To me it feels more like a cult. Wear this kind of shoes and clothing. Make these hand gestures, talk that way. They look and sound fake, over processed and living in their own bubble detached from the rest of the world.
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by jq-r 3y ago
I got at least a dozen on/off/dimmer switches and couple of sensors. They last months, and I would maybe say even a year. I do use those coin Duracell batteries most of the time, makes quite a difference.
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by jq-r 3y ago
That’s just a buzzword of the week devoid of any real meaning. If he would have written this years ago, it would’ve been “leveraging synergies”.
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by jq-r 3y ago
After Ballmer, competency can only be higher at Microsoft.
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by jq-r 3y ago
To be fair, we're on a geek website. Not many have default settings on any of their devices. It think the above is consequence of a "I can afford to write all lowercase/do unconventional thing X". And by "afford&quo
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by jq-r 3y ago
What also doesn't help is that Kant had a gigantic ego so never bothered to make his writing better with time.
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by jq-r 3y ago
That might be true, although some companies pretty much vanish overnight be it small or large (eg Nokia). If a private company is burning money slow or fast it doesn't really matter. It's their money, it's not my money. B
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by jq-r 3y ago
The big difference is that the private sector is burning their own money. If a private company burns their own or their investors money thats on them and they’ll probably go bankrupt sooner or later. Whomever was involved in this will natur
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by jq-r 3y ago
At least in the US, tech is currently in a wage supression war, and I’m afraid this will ripple out all the world. But for “a lot of people live with their parents” that’s actually a sign that things are not going well at all. This can be s
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by jq-r 3y ago
Please re-read my comment. Just to reiterate; I don't think it was a cover up. It just happened far enough from a major city that nobody bothered to report on it.
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by jq-r 3y ago
Oh don't get me wrong, I thought it was just a bit funny and/or ironic because the media will write about even the most mudane things if they are easy to write about. Something happens outside of a major city where nobody was seri
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by jq-r 3y ago
Interestingly there were no major (or minor) media articles about this at all (or at least what I usually follow). Which goes to say that it was either a cover-up or parts of Croatia don't exist outside of major cities. From my experie
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by jq-r 3y ago
The only iPhone I'm actually looking forward to. I'm sure they'll produce one, but will take a few years still.
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by jq-r 3y ago
Which is kind of ironic because in the last 3 years after the company was returned from Chinese ownership back to the States, pretty much all employees were new and all worked remotely. So the "Return" part is misleading a reader
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by jq-r 3y ago
It's a software tech company. They make the Grindr app. Nothing else.
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by jq-r 3y ago
Good advice if can make it. Probably a bit more difficult to pull off if you have a deep sitting/standing desk.
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by jq-r 3y ago
Just a caveat about the monitor arm. Purchase the strongest one you can find. There are few worse things in your working life than a constantly wobbly monitor.

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