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by lmartel 11y ago
Anecdotally, it's unheard-of to not take full advantage of paid family leave at a technology company, whether it's two months or four. There are issues around vacation, especially "unlimited PTO" as a perk, but no one
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The design of the Strict Haskell pragma(blog.johantibell.com)
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by lmartel 11y ago
But a million dollars at age 18/21/whatever isn't. Trust fund kids still get a head start of a couple decades.
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by lmartel 11y ago
It's clear that the author wants me to dislike Sprig and like Josephine, but after reading the entire article I honestly can't articulate a single reason why other than an abstract feeling of wholesomeness. This reads like satire.
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by lmartel 11y ago
It's a real contribution. The parent poster is (humorously) making the point that if we really wanted to, we could switch to e.g. goat's milk because farming cows is particularly damaging to the environment. I understand where the
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by lmartel 11y ago
I completely understand, but reading and signing a simple contract takes 5 minutes. Preventing (yes, rare!) cases like this is worth the small overhead, IMO.
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by lmartel 11y ago
Yeah, to be clear, I'm in favor of surrendering IP to the group for an event like this, because if you split everything up at the end it'll be worthless. BUT! Terms like this need (both legally and ethically) to be explicit, and s
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by lmartel 11y ago
I think SW's stance on contracts is hugely short-sighted. SW should require that teams sign a (written) contract laying out who owns what at the end of the weekend, and offer several templates to keep the process painless. You could
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by lmartel 11y ago
You've posted this all over the thread and I don't understand it. It doesn't matter what you or I think of 0.4%. They all agreed to 0.4%. Either that agreement is honored, or all IP remains with its creator--and Bobby takes
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by lmartel 11y ago
Entitled to what? Entitled to ownership of IP he produced? Entitled to the 0.4% equity stake that they agreed upon at the beginning ? The backlash in this thread is mindboggling. The author's "attitude" seems pretty appropri
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by lmartel 11y ago
They agreed on 40 basis points in advance. That's a contract. If 40 basis points was "way too much credit" then Billy-the-idea-guy shouldn't have accepted those terms. Also, saying that X% of something is "a lot&quo
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by lmartel 11y ago
That's because you signed a contract surrendering your IP to your company. If no contract is signed, then ownership of IP you create defaults to you, as it should.
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by lmartel 11y ago
It's too late to edit my post but let me clarify the point I was trying to make to the parent poster, who responded to "having a few beers and getting on a bike" with "driving under the influence can maim or kill people.
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by lmartel 11y ago
No matter how drunk you are, it's hard to maim someone else with a bicycle. You might knock someone over, but you're really only a danger to yourself.
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by lmartel 11y ago
Can't you just handle this with something like `Either ErrCode T`? (And if not, please do explain why!)
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by lmartel 11y ago
Most of those companies came out of Harvard and Stanford, though, so you're still not really addressing the issue of social mobility.
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by lmartel 11y ago
It doesn't matter for weight loss but it matters a lot for managing hunger, which for many people is a critical part of losing weight sustainably.
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by lmartel 11y ago
Whenever someone makes a point by listing groups of people, they always have to sneak in a pet issue. Looks like for you it's smoking! You say "non-smokers" but you mean "normal, default people." Smokers are the del
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by lmartel 11y ago
I often wonder how helpful messaging like this is. Although it's probably true that large-scale change is necessary, I suspect that there are a lot of potential allies out there that this kind of post turns away. Specifically, I think
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by lmartel 11y ago
This might be problematic but it isn't sexist, and the media's obsession with linking every tech story to the Pao case is getting old. If anything, this discriminates against older employees. When I was in college, there were alwa
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by lmartel 11y ago
Oh, then you're right, this is definitely less okay. I was under the impression that they just stopped delivering them from Walmart (or wherever) via Shopping Express, rather than special-casing the search results. I guess the argument
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by lmartel 11y ago
Didn't Google just remove the confederate flag from Shopping Express and ads, not from search results? They don't sell Nazi flags in their store or (afaik) let people advertise using them, so this doesn't seem as inconsistent
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by lmartel 11y ago
How do you have "multiple backups" of a full-time, paid staff position at a company you don't work for? Perhaps the AMA mods shouldn't have let Victoria take on so much work and responsibility, but she was explicitly put
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by lmartel 11y ago
You're right, I phrased that poorly. I'm aware that most posts are links to other sites, what I meant was: - Some of the "flagship" subreddits, and AMA in particular, only work because of constant effort from admins&#x2F
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by lmartel 11y ago
If you were the CEO of Reddit it would go the way of Digg. The community is what makes the site successful, and the moderators shape the community, in addition to being the chief content creators. Developing an adversarial relationship with
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by lmartel 11y ago
You're right, it's about more abstract prestige. I'm also a current CS student, and among my peers working for Google is "cooler" than working for Twitter, even though the latter is much younger.
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by lmartel 11y ago
No, it's important as a source of credibility. Imagine an article about how a career in software inspired a CEO to start his company, and it quoted him as saying "I got tired of writing all those PHPs for Googer." It's
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by lmartel 11y ago
Agreed, this jumped out at me as well. Charitably, he was giving the reporter a dumbed-down explanation, because he didn't want to explain what it means to "have raids on farm." Misquote is also certainly possible, but if he
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by lmartel 11y ago
The single best piece of advice I've been given is "in conversation, always wait two seconds before responding." It gives you time to think (and avoid saying something stupid), and also makes everything you say seem thoughtfu
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by lmartel 12y ago
That seemed like some pretty obvious exaggerated humor/sarcasm to me, given the rest of the site. If it wasn't then I agree, it comes on a little strong.

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