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by p4wnc6 11y ago
It also comes off a little entitled of the company. So what if you have some distribution? Maybe I don't agree with you about where I fall in the distribution. A policy to set salaries without considering how far above average the ca
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Yes, 4 years is the standard.
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Surveillance is the primary reason for its use. It's the only way organizations would tolerate the cost-ineffectiveness of that working style. Whether people can be conditioned for it is an interesting question. Naive young extroverts
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I used to buy System76 products, but never again. I bought a fairly expensive desktop system from them for a remote working situation. The motherboard experienced a failure in the first week, and their offer for support was that I pay for s
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I guess it depends on what you mean by upper tier. Goldman Sachs pays well. JP Morgan, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, BNP, Citi, Morgan Stanley, TD Bank, Standard Chartered, etc... These places absolutely don't pay well even compared to
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
It's hard to know when services are really wanted. One measure that absolutely does not capture information about the service being wanted is sales. Pure sales information fails to control for the neurological process that generated th
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
It's well-known that banks do not pay top dollar for engineering or IT talent. Further, for the less-than-top-dollar pay, you often work in horrible conditions. It's loud, relentlessly interactive even if your job function has not
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
It's not the least bit entitled to expect anyone to produce social value as a side effect of their living. Further, I don't think anyone is saying Silicon Valley has to produce this value. It's not mandatory. Folks are just
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
> to point out their hypocrisy. What hypocrisy? Since when does someone have to build a start-up top be entitled to opinions about what important start-up priorities ought to be, or what the social impact of current start-ups is, or whet
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Those comments have merit. Brushing comments off because you look down your nose at the choices or priorities of others ought to be called out. Besides, the bit about "people not building anything at all themselves" is at best a
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
> " popular criticism of Silicon Valley, usually levied by people not building anything at all themselves, is that no one is working on or funding “hard technology”." Wow. Passive aggressive much?
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I had two rounds of interviews with Uber. I asked how they provide productivity-enhancing space, space that is suitably quiet and private to enable bare minimum conditions for working on software, and there was no answer. I'm sad at ho
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Whether a class action is the right approach seems debatable to me. If parties possibly damaged by the externality are entitled to shares of any profit derived from that externality, it acts as an incentive for the company to derive profits
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
But to believe your choice to divest could predictably cause a sustained downward price movement means you believe that to whatever extent the market is inefficient, you can predict the effect of the inefficiency. If you can really do thi
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Scrum absolutely and unequivocally is all about micromanagement. It is a system, much like Six Sigma, intended to produce arbitrary metrics surface area for middle management to use in whatever way that changing political circumstances dict
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Actually, I worked in the defense industry for a while, so a lot of it is based on my understanding of that work. It's not fruitful to dump some 5000 word diatribe about it though. I'm not interested in convincing anyone about it
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
It's super easy to defeat this kind of constraint. Just claim that if we don't act immediately, the bad guys will kill freedom. There's no time for a GAO! You want to jeopardize the eternal fate of freedom and the triumph of
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
My understanding of many of the most recent military engagements by the US is that they are basically sandbox experiments for prototyping new warfare tech and tactics, especially to study things like asymmetric urban warfare in which the di
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
It is the case for me in a really small number of situations. I want to block most ads just like everyone else. I only bring this up to point out that the Platonic idea of an ad can be a good thing. The OP takes the untenable and extreme
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
> What you describe with searching would come down to pull advertising, because you are asking for it, not being shown it out of context. What determines the "context" for what you are "asking" to be advertised from?
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Here's one example. I like listening to comedy podcasts from Ear Wolf. I heard an ad for Leesa Mattresses, and happen to need a mattress. After buying mattresses in the past, one of the major pain points for me is actually physically h
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I dislike nearly all ads and want the ability to block any ads I dislike. But the fundamental question is: without advertising, how do you learn about products you might want to buy? Ad-funded search is not a good answer, and in the limit,
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
That's why to succeed you have to try!
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
So in Python, success is a regular expression that matches zero or one occurrences any character except newline? I've been doing it wrong!
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
It can vary a lot. I think $10k is a generous signing bonus if it comes in addition to relocation. $15k is around the smallest lump sum relocation I would consider reasonable though. Some firms offer > $30k signing bonuses (some more tha
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
> If I pay relocation expenses, I require receipts This might be a deal breaker for me if I was interviewing with someone. It's not that I care about the accountability part, it's more that a ton of relocation costs are unfores
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Start-ups rally around fashion signalling through open-plan offices, and create elaborate HR codewords to rationalize unhealthy cramming of people into intrinsically unproductive physical situations. The cost effectiveness of providing priv
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Why would anything ever be grossed up? Because the purpose of the payment is to give the recipient a particular amount of money, usually related to specific costs, not some amount less taxes. The costs of sustaining a job search after being
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
There are a lot of cool engineers with cool presentations. You can't watch them all, and filtering by properties of the company backing the work can sometimes be a useful way to find only the things more relevant for you. > Also F#
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Sorry if I wasn't clear ... I do write Haskell on Linux. I meant that F# would be enough to entice me away from Linux and overcome my activation barrier against using Windows. As long as it wasn't glorified C# with a thin function

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