marcinzm

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by marcinzm 3y ago
That would be defined in Washington's cyberstalking, telephone harassment, invasion of privacy, and "nuisance" laws that the defendant was found guilty of violating. So you'd want to look into those to see what they say.
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by marcinzm 3y ago
But the vast majority of companies referred to as "startups" versus "small businesses" fall into that category. We can discuss the other case but the person I replied to explicitly said "startups."
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by marcinzm 3y ago
Trust is like a line of credit. You build it up so you can use it to have someone feel supported even when you give them strong feedback. So they don't take it personally or get angry but understand that you're trying to help the
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by marcinzm 3y ago
I've been mostly in startups for the last 10+ years. Until recently the main thing you needed to be good at is getting more VC money. That is correlated to certain measures of success but having a ton of free money means you can patch
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by marcinzm 3y ago
In my experience promoting too much from within just means all the flaws the founders had will never get better since the people who put up with them (or don't see them) got promoted. And if you're one of the few external hires wh
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by marcinzm 3y ago
>After a while you merit your position by not running the company into the ground, but instead making it succeed. That's not merit for the position but not being a five alarm dumpster fire at the position. There is a difference. As
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by marcinzm 3y ago
And all that matters to the discussion how? We're talking about the long term economic impact on the US of supporting this war. By your own math each tax payer already pays $75k/year to support the federal budget. An extra 1.5% is
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by marcinzm 3y ago
The US economy alone is over 10x that of Russia. The US can fairly easily send enough military aid to Ukraine that matching it would eat more than all of Russia's yearly GDP growth. In other words they'd slowly strange Russia&#x27
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by marcinzm 3y ago
The US sent something like $100 billion to Ukraine last year which comes out to a grand total of 1.5% of the US budget and 0.4% of the US GDP. Large in absolute terms but not relative terms. That is also about how much the US spent on Afgha
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by marcinzm 3y ago
>The leaders in my company don't do any force multiplication. They just handle the shit we don't want to deal with, like talking to clients and being middle men. The goal of engineers at a company is not to write code but to ge
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by marcinzm 3y ago
>If you're a manager/director, you can take that with you anywhere and the comp bands will be more comparable. That is not my experience. FAANG pays significantly more for the same level of management.
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by marcinzm 3y ago
Not to mention there are very very few cases of a foreign forceful power changes in a country working out well for the people of that country. I'd argue it's utterly immoral based on historical examples to invade a country to chan
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by marcinzm 3y ago
>(It is notable, how quickly you abandoned your arguments about the risk of sanctions and moralily) Huh? I never made a statement about sanctions and morality. In fact I explicitly said it is not a moral question and questioned your stat
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by marcinzm 3y ago
A company does not need a reason to stop servicing a country. They just can.
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by marcinzm 3y ago
>Yes, punishing people that have nothing to do with the invasion is totally the moral way So companies now have a moral responsibility to provide their services to everyone across the world even if they may lose money in the process or g
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by marcinzm 3y ago
From what I read they pay low rates but have a certain group of people really wanting to work for them. So an involved process seems good at very cheaply filtering out people unlikely to fall into the latter category. I also suspect going t
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by marcinzm 3y ago
You can write crap code in any language. To avoid it you need to enforce some decent set of best practices for that specific language. That also means not using best practices from language X in language Y and then complaining that language
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by marcinzm 3y ago
>In my opinion, Gitlab is a primary example of feature-creep and it will be the demise of the company. Gitlab was VC funded which means it had little choice but to take on a high risk/high reward approach. It worked fairly well sinc
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by marcinzm 3y ago
Code Search seems a limited market so I would be surprised if their plan wasn't to go after deeper code tooling in the future. Otherwise I don't see how their $2.6 billion valuation made sense. They likely thought that an iterativ
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by marcinzm 3y ago
Based on the post it wasn't.
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by marcinzm 3y ago
You mean like the earlier section that explicitly says "License Grant to Us" which the court would somehow amazingly ignore reading according to you? Because clearly the exact legal rights you give Github to use your work is not r
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by marcinzm 3y ago
I agree however taking random pieces of a long agreement in isolation is not how you read terms of services. The section you highlight is NOT, for example, the one that talks about what legal rights you give Github regarding your code. Cons
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by marcinzm 3y ago
As I see it people are basically taking a single line of an agreement that explicitly references other agreements out of context: "If you enable data use for a private repository, we will continue to treat your private data, source cod
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by marcinzm 3y ago
>however this agreement does permit them to do so. How so? Assuming you read the whole agreement and not just take a single line out of context? "If you enable data use for a private repository, we will continue to treat your privat
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by marcinzm 3y ago
As I see it communities nowadays need a way to exclude a-holes or else the community will eventually evaporate since staying is not worth the cost of putting up with the a-holes. I say nowadays because as I see it the cost of creating a com
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by marcinzm 3y ago
I figure they’re making some type of long term embrace/extend/extinguish play against a potential competitor to their twitter plans.
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by marcinzm 3y ago
As a manager I love WFH for myself and based on feedback I love it more than many of the ICs at the company. No walking between meeting rooms, no taking notes on a tiny laptop screen, no forgetting someone's name (or role), no sitting
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by marcinzm 3y ago
The reason positive feedback loops don't exist is because it's very hard to properly measure impact and managers aren't trusted more than anyone else to do it. They act like they're trusted but the reason they can't
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by marcinzm 3y ago
That depends. Would you take a public forum where no one ever answers questions and fixes are never implemented and the contributors feel burned out, or a Discord where questions do get answered? The OP clearly said their project got signif
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by marcinzm 3y ago
My experience with semi-private chats in modern times is that it encourages more conversation that are visible to more people since everything people say is not going to be trivially searchable for all time by anyone. In the age where the m

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