jwestbury

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   by jwestbury 4y ago

   > in general it is far easier to get a job once you have a job. Furthermore, it's easier to negotiate, and you'll feel less desperate (and thus hopefully less stressed) about the process as a whole. Prospective employers know
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   by jwestbury 4y ago

   Has this surpassed a normal round of PIPs yet, though? Amazon effectively has a 7% layoff every single year.
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   by jwestbury 4y ago

   Fastmail supports subdomain addressing, such that instead of "user+service@domain.com" you would use "service@user.subdomain.com", which will forward the message to "user@subdomain.com" and even file it into a
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   by jwestbury 4y ago

   I worked at Dropbox for a couple of years, and it was functionally unlimited. I took two weeks off just a month in to help my wife recover from surgery. My org had a guideline of taking at least one week off per quarter, targeting six wee
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   by jwestbury 4y ago

   Google can buy companies, but when is the last time they acquired one which excelled after acquisition -- or even just didn't fail after acquisition?
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   by jwestbury 4y ago

   When language is tightly coupled to cultural identity, using this kind of fake is lying to voters, saying, "I'm one of you." It's a new use of technology to repeat an old lie. I think it's a bad thing, but it's
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   by jwestbury 4y ago

   Against a company which makes 6-7x that in yearly profits, that's still not an effective deterrent.