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by melted 11y ago
Doesn't make it any less of a nightmare. I wonder what percentage of effort is wasted in the industry this way.
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by melted 11y ago
Leading a project where in order to just not fall behind on maintenance and user support you need 2 people, and 2 people is all you're gonna get for the foreseeable future, yet management demands forward progress out of you. Fucking de
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by melted 11y ago
You'll learn in time. :-)
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by melted 11y ago
Sequencing will only be truly "here" when companies like 23andme offer both sequencing and interpretation of human genome directly to consumers for $1k or less. Preferably much less.
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by melted 11y ago
Everyone keeps underestimating Azure, and yet they'll be the only ones making money when price wars erupt and margins evaporate. They're the only ones who have unique offerings (Office, Exchange, MS SQL, Sharepoint, Dynamics, AD&#
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by melted 11y ago
Looks like I've misread.
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by melted 11y ago
Mistake #2 is being loyal. That's a surefire way to never get anywhere. For me it's a learned skill to be sure. I learned it when I saw that people whom management is afraid to lose are promoted ahead of everybody else. So I make
338.
by melted 11y ago
Worked at such companies for the last 15 years or so. Took a full month of paid leave when my son was born. The same company now has a 3 month parental leave.
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by melted 11y ago
Then it's not unlimited and should not be billed as such.
340.
by melted 11y ago
I am astounded that you're astounded. Seems like common sense advice to me: put your family ahead of everything else. That's what I do, anyway. Once "everything else" starts to interfere, I make sure to change my circums
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by melted 11y ago
I'd take the entire year off just to fuck with their definition of "unlimited" vacation.
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by melted 11y ago
Here's my advice: don't work for them. You shouldn't tolerate such bullshit no matter how much they pay. This is your _wife and kid_ you're talking about. You will horribly regret prioritizing the unreasonable demands of
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by melted 11y ago
Yes, uBlock Origin, goes without saying.
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by melted 11y ago
This is basically why I only install a few extensions from trusted developers such as Google, EFF, and uBlock. Google tracks me anyway, EFF doesn't track me and it would destroy their reputation if they chose to start tracking, and uBl
345.
by melted 11y ago
There were at least two catastrophic failures that everyone knows about: Challenger and Columbia.
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by melted 11y ago
Once enough people like you consider moving over, Amazon will just rejigger the pricing to not make it happen. It's not like Google has some kind of insurmountable capex or opex advantage. They just don't worry about the margins a
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by melted 11y ago
I'd compare it to Windows Phone instead: third player coming in very late with a good product. We know how well that worked out. One thing people hate to do the most is learn something new. You have a bunch of engineers who already kno
348.
by melted 11y ago
I think you meant to say, "he put Vic in charge of execution so that he's safe when things inevitably go south".
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by melted 11y ago
This comes from the same guy who wrote the memo that started Google+. So I'd take it with a boulder sized grain of salt. 3 years in Google is still having trouble putting up the table stakes.
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by melted 11y ago
Polio, malaria, sanitation, nutrition should come first. A-la the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. On the priority list for those people getting showered with ads is somewhere towards the bottom. This whole situation very much reminds me
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by melted 11y ago
Very senior people are best used sparingly. Put too many of them on a real project and pit them against each other (as the old MSFT performance review process tended to do), and they start beating their chest and trying to backstab the othe
352.
by melted 11y ago
Easy: - some of those senior employees are senior for a good reason, and they could do a ton of damage if you piss them off and they go to a competitor - some of the stuff they fool around with may end up being useful elsewhere, which it di
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by melted 11y ago
Who gives a rat's ass about junior devs? And besides, that's not how things really work. You get an org, that org gets headcount to fill. No one is forcing anyone, those junior folks took the job on their own volition. Most of the
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by melted 11y ago
Sure, it's not like super senior people would actually want to do the more mundane work. You need junior devs for that.
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by melted 11y ago
No sources per se, other than a few people I know who worked there. Of course this wasn't the official party line, but it wasn't that hard to deduce.
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by melted 11y ago
Take it for what it is: a cheap way to score PR points. Most Google "moonshot" projects not related to ads fall into this category. Fucking internet in Africa from self driving robotic balloons.
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by melted 11y ago
Midori was Microsoft's version of DEC's "No output division". They basically shepherded all the super senior people there to fool around with shit and not impede progress elsewhere. No real product was ever expected.
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by melted 11y ago
Nice try, anonymous Google employee.
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by melted 11y ago
Looks like you didn't read the article. Its whole point is that much of that gravy train is financed by investors right now, and when investors bolt (as they do when things go sour), the whole rickety pyramid will collapse.
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by melted 11y ago
I've found that it's not "working remotely" that's hard per se, it's working remotely when the rest of the team works in the office somewhere. In that set up, you basically aren't a part of all those hallw

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