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by maxxxxx 8y ago
5% is pretty low to basically nothing. I agree.
962.
by maxxxxx 8y ago
Isn't that pretty common? "A rising tide lifts only the boats of a privileged few"?
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by maxxxxx 8y ago
It takes me around 4 weeks to figure out if someone can grow or not. There are exceptions though. Some people are almost traumatized by previous jobs so they need some time to learn that it's OK for them to grow.
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by maxxxxx 8y ago
Another factor is that by mentoring my own output goes down a lot. If I get interrupted several times a day to help then I get nothing done on my own stuff. I think on overall it's still a big gain for the team but I look worse.
965.
by maxxxxx 8y ago
You can't compare creation of a communist government to unionization. This makes no sense.
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by maxxxxx 8y ago
"The last senior dev who got internally promoted currently has an allowance of 50% of his time for helping more junior devs understand things. Fifty percent! The intention is to get his senior dev knowledge and experience out of his he
967.
by maxxxxx 8y ago
“Socialist” is a meaningless label by itself. In the US they call Sweden and Venezuela “socialist” although they are totally different countries. " Even if it's not a full-scale war, it's still a move toward it (and quickly).
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by maxxxxx 8y ago
There is also the story of Amazon mandating that all internal systems communicate with each other through APIs. I think leadership at Amazon has good technical knowledge so they can develop these strategies and see them through. In my compa
969.
by maxxxxx 8y ago
There was a time when nobility was complaining about peasants who wanted to have a say in how the country is run.
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by maxxxxx 8y ago
The worst is that with the secrecy about compensation you don’t have enough information to negotiate effectively whereas the employer has full information.
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by maxxxxx 8y ago
I hate this straight jump to warnings of socialism whenever somebody questions the current system. There is much more nuance. In Germany workers get a seat on the board of directors and from what I know these companies still make the owner
972.
by maxxxxx 8y ago
Nothing is stopping them from buying shares. What’s your point?
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by maxxxxx 8y ago
Employees share responsibility for the success of a company so they should also have stake in the company. This whole idea that a company exists exclusively for the owners doesn’t make sense to me. There is a bigger picture to make a societ
974.
by maxxxxx 8y ago
Agreed. If you don’t have the discipline to maintain libraries and their interfaces then you won’t have the discipline to maintain micro services either. I am sure there are good use cases for micro services but using them to compensate for
975.
by maxxxxx 8y ago
When I took my MacBook to France I noticed this too. It was enough to make me really nervous. Never noticed the tingly feeling in the US.
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by maxxxxx 8y ago
I have quite a few extrovert traits but I am also shy and socially awkward. Mixing shy and introvert into one category leads to a lot of confusion.
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by maxxxxx 8y ago
No. Absolutely not. They are totally different things.
978.
by maxxxxx 8y ago
Just looked up Dropbox stock price. Not exactly pretty. This is not the 90s when the retail investor could make money from tech stocks. SNAP is bad, Dropbox doesn't look good. Neither does Lyft.
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by maxxxxx 8y ago
Very funny. I also am often in a discussion where I develop some theory about something and only after a while start thinking "Huh? What am I talking about? This makes no sense.". Happens to the best of us.
980.
by maxxxxx 8y ago
"- Lyft now at $61/share, ouch, there just is no other way to put it. THey pulled a lot of financial engineering tricks to boost their IPO price and well the results speak for themselves:(" Seems they priced it perfectly, ext
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by maxxxxx 8y ago
"Every driver I've talked to basically drives for "all of them". Several told me they try to find whatever apps are local for driving and they setup those alone with Uber and Lyft and simply take whatever pays the most &
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by maxxxxx 8y ago
I wonder how it would be technically feasible to instead of copying data to other parties to just grant them access for a limited time and being able to revoke that access. This would be perfect for a lot of data sharing but I guess there
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by maxxxxx 8y ago
Don't get into wondering which one is better than others. Any large entity that can vacuum up large amounts of data is a problem. Be it Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon or whoever. Maybe one does better than the other at the
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by maxxxxx 8y ago
"quieter" doesn't mean "quiet". I am very doubtful that they can reduce it to bearable levels.
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by maxxxxx 8y ago
I am not really surprised as such but I am worried that my worst suspicions seem to always come true. If that trend continues then our future will be very bleak and very suppressive.
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by maxxxxx 8y ago
We really have to go back to a model where most computation is done on the client and data mainly goes from server to client and not the other way. They shouldn’t be using real conversations for training their models or at least only in a v
987.
by maxxxxx 8y ago
"Still, he took a $250k investment from his parents to help found the company." Seems he is another wealthy guy who "made it on his own". I couldn't raise even a 10th of that from my family.
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by maxxxxx 8y ago
I have heard that too. By raising an issue you may delay some deals so they may choose to pay you off just to get rid of you. But obviously there are no guarantees and hiring a lawyer may cost money.
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by maxxxxx 8y ago
My first job in the US was at a startup located in an incubator building. In the same building was another startup that wasn't doing so well after a lot of growth and management there made sure that they would make some serious money
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by maxxxxx 8y ago
I think it's the other way. If you pay a lot of money then you sort of can expect to get a degree at the end. When I went to school in Germany they made a lot of effort to weed out people. If it's for free you can't really co

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