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by khazhou 9y ago
The language is very anti-ergonomic in terms of shift key. This plus emacs can destroy your tendons: with Text_IO; use Text_IO; procedure Hello is begin Put_Line("Hello, World!"); end Hello; I su
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by khazhou 9y ago
I find the notion of age discrimination at 30+ to be simply ludicrous. I’ve been at multiple top tech companies, and the very common age ranges were mid-20s to (estimated) late-40s.
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by khazhou 9y ago
Sure, these founders went too far, but the basic problem of Founders >>> Employees is there at every startup. When even employee #1 at typical SV startup signs on for 1% and employee #4 already for half that, why do “employees” st
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by khazhou 9y ago
Sheesh, why the hostility?
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by khazhou 9y ago
Hyperbole level: MAXIMUM You could also read all the great authors in your native language in that time, or “suffer” the translations.
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by khazhou 9y ago
I was recently out and heard a country song I’m sure is one of the most inane songs I’ve ever heard in my life. I Shazam’d this atrocity to discover it was a two year old song by American Idol contestant, Kellie Pickler. How do I feel now
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by khazhou 9y ago
Piling on... BigCo: constant criticism and "evaluation" of your performance. Emphasis on meeting whatever deadline was decided internally. Lots of people on your project who you don't know what they do.
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by khazhou 9y ago
They've set it up wrong. I use Gerrit in a large team and have never seen that problem. Force push is explicitly disabled in our config.
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by khazhou 9y ago
You wouldn't spend more than 10% of your wealth on a Da Vinci?
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by khazhou 9y ago
The shareholders, AKA people who bought stock online hoping to make money, hoping to not lose money because of others selling before them, and not contributing in any way whatsoever to the vision, execution, or success of the company, exc
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by khazhou 9y ago
Liars must be ruthlessly exposed, because they threaten our ability to trust each other.
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by khazhou 9y ago
The guy shared his personal issues in great detail. What's unfair about readers drawing some conclusions from it?
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by khazhou 9y ago
Your line of thinking is misplaced. The Authority is the US Govt and the mechanism is taxation. Explain to me how a drastic increase in taxes on a small number of individuals (effectively capping their income) brings us to a Totalitarian
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by khazhou 9y ago
Yes, taxes should effectively impose a cap on wealth, reaching 99% tax rate at some point (certainly, when you're in the billions). If a founder decides to move on because he can no longer earn a billion... well, we as a society will
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by khazhou 9y ago
On the other hand it WAS NOT Zuckerberg who built the company and hired 20000 people. Zuckerberg hired the first few, those all built the first stage and hired the next round of prople, who built and hired more. The success of FB or any
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by khazhou 9y ago
Totally agree and I shouldn’t invoke socialism because that introduces a huge number of other issues which I’m not referring to. My target is the outrageous inequality of wealth and ownership.
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by khazhou 9y ago
WHY do we have an economic system that allows an individual to own almost an entire Hawaiian island, by virtue of owning majority share of an advertising platform?? The employees certainly don’t get an island of their own, nor the owners o
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by khazhou 9y ago
Every time, that's the argument. "Well everyone should become a founder if they care so much!" Ad absurdum. The right answer is for employees to start calling bullshit on the standard Silicon Valley equity agreement, where
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by khazhou 9y ago
Can you clarify whether you're talking about Silicon Valley companies? Because here, founders don't usually put in any money themselves. Yes, they go unpaid while raising.
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by khazhou 9y ago
In Silicon Valley companies at least, founders are not pouring their life savings into companies, paying for employees out of pocket until they reach revenue. No, the only real difference between founders and early employees is: - The foun
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by khazhou 9y ago
Founders have the courage to sit on the risky and stressful side of the seesaw. Haven't you heard? Founders are not free to just walk away! The horror. </s>
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by khazhou 9y ago
Great, we'll ignore them and focus on companies like the author's: Ameritrade. Also, every Silicon Valley company. And the point isn't whether a company exits or not -- the point is that the potential rewards are so lopside
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by khazhou 9y ago
> That’s why the type of company that interests me is one where ownership and the employees are truly in it together, > Everyone at a company – owners and employees alike – need to be sitting on the same end of the seesaw Never mind t
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by khazhou 9y ago
This makes sense, actually. Dead people tend to be older, and have less stake in newer bandwidth-intensive applications.
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by khazhou 9y ago
Explain?
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by khazhou 9y ago
He has good and true advice: If you approach challenges with tenacity, always be curious to learn, and be open and thoughtful with your team, you too can be an early employee at the next FB and become a billionaire.
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by khazhou 9y ago
Neither. I had a typo.
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by khazhou 9y ago
This kind of drama is not healthy for technology. Do yourself a favor and don't waste time reading this, nor the original article it's responding to.
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by khazhou 9y ago
Because even a shitty company-destroying CEO has experience being a CEO. Not trying to be cynical.
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by khazhou 9y ago
The Thing was designed by Soviet Russian inventor Léon Theremin, best-known for his invention of the theremin, an electronic musical instrument.

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