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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Yes, there are clearly some sexual harassment issues, I'm not sure it's systemic. You can bury your head in the sand (and think back on all the fun you had at those boozy meetups), but the brunt of evidence now made public so fa
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
That's the thing -- it's an entirely different ballgame on the ambiguity front when they've contacted you first (versus the other way around). In that case, at least presumably they've already mulled over the potential
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Or not, if they want to hire employees that won't give up easily when faced by challenging situations. Like incoherent, pretentious or otherwise detached-from-reality job description, you mean? Yeah, I happily give up on "challe
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Sounds like he's taking those requirements too seriously. "Taking them at face value" was how I read it. And if that's "taking things to seriously", well then -- that outlines a shortcoming on the company&#x2
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New 'disturbance map' shows damaging effects of forest loss in Brazilian Amazon(theguardian.com)
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
This language is slowly destroying my soul, one painful unit test at a time. At the end of the day, Python is just an abstraction. It isn't destroying your soul, or doing anything else to it. OTOH, your conscious decision to stick
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Once you've jumped the shark and play with introspection and internals, are you really going to make the point that metaprogramming should be banned ? "Banned", no. Just that's not simply this big trove of goodies tha
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Now you may as well just "call in sick" later in the year and exercise your remaining un-validated sick days. You gotta love policies like these. What a way to shore up morale.
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Africats to the Purr-ymids: DNA study reveals long tale of cat domestication(theguardian.com)
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Clearly they are providing a net benefit to the drivers life otherwise they just wouldn't do it. The logic in this statement is inherently flawed. The whole point of the article is that Uber appears , at first, to be providing a ne
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
These people are doing it to themselves, no-ones holding a gun to their head Wow. What an attitude to have toward the suffering of others. I really have a hard time understanding why people would intentionally do that to themselves. Be
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Many companies won't give that feedback purely for legal reasons. That's not the real reason. They like to think it's the reason. But it's not the real reason. The main reason they don't like to give feedback is
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
That's a perfectly reasonable question, actually. There's no reason you should have been downvoted. Being as the whole point to echo chambers (and the key to their magical powers of endurance and efficacy) is that, by definition,
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
This is getting old, folks. Not to the victim it ain't.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Right -- you don't need the "act like a buddy" part for this technique to work.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
It's been immensely successful at weeding out candidates within 5 minutes Indeed, it's amazing how quickly people reveal themselves in this way. No whiteboards, no quiz shows, no grilling of any kind needed. Just: "tell m
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Actually the person above specifically suggested it could also be mandatory , as this were an equally palatable option. So it was mostly that suggestion that I was responding to. As to the negative tradeoffs in that option -- I think they
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Not if you structure them properly.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
You know, at some point negative tradeoffs kick in when you try to go do far with this idea of "making everyone do the right and honorable thing, all the time." Such as, for example, the very, very negative implications of the id
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Chief Executive Travis Kalanick is likely to take a leave of absence from the troubled ride-hailing company, but no final decision has yet been made, according to a source familiar with the outcome of a Sunday board meeting. Where "i
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The Poverty of Entrepreneurship: The Silicon Valley Theory of History(thenewinquiry.com)
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Chelsea Manning on responsibility: owed it to public, accepts it for actions(theguardian.com)
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
The problem lies, in part, from the fact that they all think they soon will be (or are already) the next FB/Google/Uber. And hence, need to start "acting" accordingly.
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Uber embodies the toxicity of startup culture(theguardian.com)
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Facebook blocks Chechnya activist page in latest case of wrongful censorship(theguardian.com)
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
I wish more studies accounted for how drinking is done. Indeed. From what my own innards tell me, drinking almost any amount just before sleeping feels particularly disruptive to the various housekeeping activities said innards are entru
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Inside Trump's secretive immigration court: far from scrutiny and legal aid(theguardian.com)
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
This is repulsive conduct and it's unbelievable any of these people are still attached to the company. Unfortunately it's all too believable.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
The executive in question, Eric Alexander, the president of business in the Asia Pacific, then showed the medical records to Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and SVP Emil Michael. At least the article makes it clear who needs to be fired next --
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
The company/CTO made the huge mistakes. Indeed. To capitalize on a meme in current circulation, "One does not simply 'accidentally destroy' a production database." When things like this happen, they happen becaus

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