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by marcinzm 4y ago
>The problem is management competence. Most managers are also unskilled, even managers with technical skill usually come into management after graduating not after working at a lower level. My observation is that in general managers are
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by marcinzm 4y ago
If I was them I wouldn't give out all the details on this.
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by marcinzm 4y ago
Presumably the access pattern (ie: how often, which regions, etc.) of a hack is very different than an antivirus.
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by marcinzm 4y ago
The problem with statically typed imho is that you often need to pre-define all your input data types ahead of time which is a massive pain and matrix operations don't work with the type system. As a result your language is only type s
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by marcinzm 4y ago
As the other comment said I'm simply noting the unfortunately reality that what matters is rarely actual delivery. Trying to avoid that reality won't make things more tied to delivery but simply more opaque as to what they're
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by marcinzm 4y ago
People care and should care about what they get rewarded for. If promotions/raises/bonuses are based on the manager's view of your personal work, as is the case at most companies, then that is exactly what a sane person shoul
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by marcinzm 4y ago
>"you just need to hire the /good/ PMs" No, you need to hire good EMs to provide checks and balances. Any system without checks and balances will go off the rails at any moderate scale no matter what you do.
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by marcinzm 4y ago
I agree but this brings up to me a broader question of what is a meritocracy. It is usually defined around wealth or social class. If someone lacking both cheats their way to the top through their own efforts and talent then to me that coun
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by marcinzm 4y ago
When you've got a private office, a couple executive assistants, a private driver, a company paid hotel if you need to stay late and a (possibly second) house close by it becomes a much easier thing to do. edit: And of course 24/7
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by marcinzm 4y ago
Exactly. If you on principle refuse to take any medication or vaccine due to the fact that they almost all have rare, unstudied or potential side effects then that's totally fair. The human body is a very complex thing and every single
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by marcinzm 4y ago
If you're that concerned about things doctor's don't know about medication side effects then you probably shouldn't take any medicine ever. Almost every single one of them has some random side effect or risk that no one
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by marcinzm 4y ago
>Is that relevant if most people who get the jab also later get covid? You do realize that the whole point of a vaccine is to either prevent or improve the symptoms of a disease right? So if you're nearly guaranteed to get covid the
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by marcinzm 4y ago
The big ones where Johnson & Johnson/Janssen had a risk of thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome to the point of being effectivelly discontinued. Pfizer and Moderna also have a risk of myocarditis. There's also plenty of o
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by marcinzm 4y ago
Based on other comments this isn't the actual limit (ie: it's much lower) or the current implementation is broken.
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by marcinzm 4y ago
If your criteria is excluding companies that have acted unethically then you're going to be left with very few companies.
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Money? Resume building?
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by marcinzm 4y ago
>but lets not kids ourselves this is going to space. Software is work, but it isn’t magic. Putting strawmen in people's mouths doesn't make for a good argument.
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by marcinzm 4y ago
This is not true. >U.S. law does not mention dual nationality or require a person to choose one nationality or another. A U.S. citizen may naturalize in a foreign state without any risk to his or her U.S. citizenship https://t
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by marcinzm 4y ago
After you read enough posts from crypto-bros the difference between a joke and seriousness in terms of crypto tends to no longer exist.
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by marcinzm 4y ago
Nothing comes for free. You compared the layoff conditions to Europe and I compared the compensation to Europe.
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by marcinzm 4y ago
>Even when the jobs can't be saved, employment rights are helpful. The Google? Microsoft? announcement basically said, we've already fired some of the American staff, but in other countries were are merely starting the statutor
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by marcinzm 4y ago
Based on LinkedIn they grew from 134 to 164 in the last 6 months. I get taking a bet in 2021 on the post-covid world being different but making that same bet in mid 2022 doesn't seem a good decision.
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by marcinzm 4y ago
LinkedIn indicates 40-50 in engineering out of 164 total.
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by marcinzm 4y ago
The blunt truth is that layoffs are not really failures from a business perspective. Employees and their employment don't really matter independent of other things. Could be the symptom of a mistake or could just be a failed bet but th
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by marcinzm 4y ago
>It's not unthinkable that artists will be paid licensing fees for AI-regurgitated copies of their art, too. Then companies will just clean-room the thing by getting tens of thousands of developing world artists to draw things and g
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by marcinzm 4y ago
As another comment notes, isn’t this how every popular language except Go, C and C++ functions?
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by marcinzm 4y ago
This level of layoffs only happens during major economic downturns. Last one was 2008 and before that was the dot-com crash. So once a decade or so.
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You mean you'll take the risk of having 50% of your comp be near worthless versus getting more liquid comp from an existing public company?
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by marcinzm 4y ago
>We need leaders who can make decisive actions on generational time scales. Which works right until their actions are to ensure their future generations have the most power and money while yours have the least power and money.

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