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by machinelabo 6y ago
I personally think that just the way the employer is required to document the reasons for firing, the person going off on media must also provide proof that they were being treated unfairly.
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by machinelabo 6y ago
Employers need solid documented reasons for firing someone. Fired person needs proper recourse for appealing it if they felt it was unfair. Going to NYTimes is OK if there is solid proof of racism, the company needs to face the consequences
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by machinelabo 6y ago
That's why I removed it. I am asking the questions in good faith. I want to know how the society will avoid having chilling effect of not being able to fire underperformers and making difficult choices when they need to be made. If we
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by machinelabo 6y ago
No one is questioning its legality. That's obvious and I agree, it is illegal. There are a lot of things that are illegal but people do it anyways.
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by machinelabo 6y ago
That's an insane accusation. You can check my comment history perhaps that will reveal some aspects of it. Also, I am kind of shocked you would accuse of me something like this. WTF. I am not trolling. I am asking a difficult question
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by machinelabo 6y ago
I think it is causing a reverse effect. It's going to create more racist behavior from employers - "If we cannot fire a PoC or some minority, let's not even bother hiring them in the first place." This is not good.
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by machinelabo 6y ago
I removed it. I know its going to be downvoted though. Because it is going against the grain on HN. But, I am being respectful. We've created an atmosphere of fear. I don't feel comfortable voicing my opinions even after being ano
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by machinelabo 6y ago
I have a genuine question: If a person of color (I am myself non-white) is not performing, what does it take to fire them without the entire world playing the race card on you? Are we creating a society that makes it impossible to fire a pe
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by machinelabo 6y ago
I wondered the same but their work output is evident. I can see the commit history and their responsiveness to issues. Not saying anything about whether this is a good idea or not. Just saying that I know people like this that I used to be
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by machinelabo 6y ago
I personally know people that work very hard 12 hours a day and their output is stellar. Not only are they creative, but they build some of the most amazing systems I've ever come across in record time. They're handsomely paid wit
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by machinelabo 6y ago
Sending humans to put a flag on the moon is an entirely different challenge than sending a robot to do the same.
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by machinelabo 6y ago
Definitely. Sports in a benign way and through wars in a catastrophic way. The internet has created other strongly bonded echo-chambers. Elon Musk lovers/haters for example.
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by machinelabo 6y ago
Just today, US/UK had a small exchange over who is best at vaccine approval process: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/12/03/world/covid-19-coron... Any time, any one who brings up their nation
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by machinelabo 6y ago
Once they vest, you can sell them in the market. Vesting period varies. The whole point of stock grants is that you have some what of a skin in the game.
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by machinelabo 6y ago
Any specific packages you recommend for setting up email? I would think there is some docker container I can run in a VM and go about my business.
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by machinelabo 6y ago
I get the compositional aspects of it. I've used similar utility css classes. They're pretty nifty because its instant gratification. No need to switch context and go to Sass. However, for production, I always come back and refact
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by machinelabo 6y ago
I am arguing that the speed is a delusion and the reason why people love it so much. It seems very attractive to design things super fast since you have instant control in the same context as HTML, but I question the maintainability, readab
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by machinelabo 6y ago
Agreed on the tokenization but you can do this via variables in Sass. And put constraints as well! Comment them! Write for loops to create a full spectrum of tokens! Then use those tokens to create a card class. Extend it for customer-suppo
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by machinelabo 6y ago
Agreed and that’s it’s only selling point. Fast is not always better. It makes spaghetti code with shit design that lacks an architect behind it. There are many threads on HN about Tailwind and it’s always very controversial. I wouldn’t cal
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by machinelabo 6y ago
Oh please. Tailwind’s entire premise stands on these pillars which are shaky at best: - Developers don’t want to write css so they add insane amounts of nuisance in templates. Impossible to read the design language. - The original author of
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by machinelabo 6y ago
We have RFCs, proper PEP proposals, committees and a proper academic + enterprise + indie developer communities beta testing it and providing inputs. Not haphazardly monkey patching anything you see, add emojis to make it look cute and get
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by machinelabo 6y ago
Wow. Thank you.
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by machinelabo 6y ago
I approve of this stack. No version control because we would just do this in one shot and the never add any features. The time saved will be spent with friends at the tea shop. An occasional bug fix for a customer that ordered over 32768 ru
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by machinelabo 6y ago
Ok, I am done with this. Anyone wanna start a tea shop in a small town in Asia? I am down. We can bootstrap it, live a simpler life and mingle with the locals. May be even create a little ordering system, postgres v9 in the backend, running
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by machinelabo 6y ago
The word "Trend" makes me shiver in bitterness. Why are there trends in software development? Are we trying to solve problems or we're trying to be trendy? Is this a clothing industry? I would have thought we should use matur
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by machinelabo 6y ago
Yikes, my bad. I didn't see a test folder. I am just learning JS coming from an enterprise Java background. We've got our own pile of shenanigans as well, probably just as bad as the JS world, don't worry!
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by machinelabo 6y ago
This is the epitome of a cliche JS project: Emojis in docs? Check Piles of abstraction layers? Check No tests? Check Already at version 2, but has breaking changes? Check Stacking up on yet-to-be-proven-framework (tailwind)? Check We just n
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by machinelabo 6y ago
I can understand the syntax highlighting, but why add a window around it and some buttons? What's the value proposition? Aesthetics?
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by machinelabo 6y ago
This is an extremely broad claim, do you have anything to back that up with? Saying that Google would snoop your personal phone (which doesn't have your Google work account) as a Google employee needs some hard facts to back that up.
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by machinelabo 6y ago
Then don't give your phone to Google. Don't use personal phone for work. Ask them for a phone if they want you to use it. Why is this difficult? Why complain about something that is 100% in your control? Employer that has thousand

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