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But it's unlikely for EU nations to significantly damage trading relationships with the UK. Germany, for example, exports a huge volume of cars to the UK and it comprises a significant portion of German GDP. Yes, there's volatilit
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
Amygdalin, also referred to as "Vitamin" B17 and Laetrile, has been a common medical con for a long time [0]. As a young teenager, after a relative had just passed away from cancer, I remember I engaged heavy confirmation bias and
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Or he was great at communicating and has just suffered extreme mental trauma from the circumstances he was unfairly placed into.
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Getting any tech job at this point in time is simply a matter of which bullet you will finally, defeatedly choose not to dodge. Every company wants your fealty, overt signals that you'll cower yourself to them, much, much more than any
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
Well, we make them do a really hard HackerRank test, and then write syntactically correct code to print a binary tree in raster order on a whiteboard. And then we don't hire them because their salary demands are too high so we get som
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I do not have the personal resources to sustain doing that -- whereas the other person absolutely does. Perhaps if I film myself sleeping with his wife, then someone with financial resources might help out.
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Yes, but if the company is treating you badly, you don't owe it to your coworkers to continue enduring that for their sake. If they really value their professional relationship with you and if they respect you, they will certainly unde
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This has been my experience in every job that I have had (4 in total). I've suffered severe career burnout basically wholly because my working experience leads me to believe there is no such thing as a company that treats employees wit
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Assuming there is a justifiable reason behind it, quitting on the spot is not at all unprofessional, and may even be the most professional thing you can do in a given circumstance. When I meet people who have quit on the spot, I always assu
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
There seem to continue to be some fallacious ways of thinking in your reply. It is very common for people to always think that more humanity-affirming ways will apply to "someone else" but never to them. I have actually heard peop
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Not that it applies to you, but in my experience, small companies with a single owner or a small group of founders are sometimes the very worst in regards to politics. They will always say (and may even believe ) they are doing things ou
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The recipe list lost all credibility with > Find the most productive employee you have which the author admitted you can't accurately do. This is a recipe for disaster, not because reducing people to cold, heartless quantitative met
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'software engineering' is a degree program in itself in many universities, and it is a curriculum more focused on pragmatic, often even specifically business-focused, project delivery, from coding in a wide range of business-heavy
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
How long of a take-home? In my current job search, I think I've finally hit my limit of overly burdensome take-home exams that significantly disrupt the childcare and exercise routines that I depend on. I think any take home that takes
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
Your anecdotal experience isn't very important though. I've gotten jobs with search times of 3 months, 1 month, 16 months, and my current search is 14 months. The salary weighted average would put it close to, but slightly less th
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
It's fine to disagree, but you're not making any points or arguments, only asserting the opposite with no supporting information apart from that you just happen to think the opposite. That's fine, but you've got to agree
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> I know if programmers making 100k find a new job in a week, and factory workers making 30k take 2 years to find a job. Yes, unrepresentative outliers exist. I don't see your point. This is a frequently cited rule of thumb by profe
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
Many companies, especially start-ups, do erratic things, like hire someone and then lay them off weeks or months later even if they are doing a good job, because of restructuring, funding failures, etc. I've seen it happen many times.
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
This would set off alarm bells for me about working for you, because in many areas and situations a flat rate of 3 months severance is not reasonable. You'd effectively be asking me to take a large risk, unwilling to negotiate about it
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
It's easy to Google this and it is a commonly discussed negotiation topic. From my personal experience, I just try to be very direct and straightforward with my understanding of the risks involved in taking a new position. If a positio
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I don't understand the link's final remark: > This doesn't mean that languages shouldn't include more complex type systems, but it does (or should) mean that the onus is on their designers to show that the complexity
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
> By tech standards, this is an extremely generous severance. And, in the Bay Area, 3 months would be more than enough time for a young (under 30) person to find a job. Wrong on both accounts. They say to factor about 1 months of job sea
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I wouldn't consider working for a company that offered only 3 months of severance when I first join them. I don't mind if severance increases by about 1 month of salary per year thereafter, but the initial amount has to be enough
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
In two cases such packages were with start-ups with less than 40 people, one with very little funding, one with a lot of funding. In another case it was a wealthy asset management company, and in another case it was a defense research lab.
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
It surprises me that you haven't heard of employers paying for extended benefits, since that is so commonly part of negotiated severance packages. Many employees never negotiate these things, sadly, because organizations try to create
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
3 months of severance, 6 months of COBRA, and "transition assistance" is not remotely "generous" as far as severance goes. Even when I was just coming out of a bachelor's program and had no work experience, I was ab
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> Most people are social creatures (including most programmers I've met), if asked they will tell you they like to share a room with several others. I think this is actually false, both anecdotally and when surveys have been collect
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I think psychological flow [0] is the more general framework for this -- even outside of programming. It's not that understanding is declining, it's that programmers don't do a good enough job of demanding healthy working con
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I appreciate that -- unfortunately I am focusing mostly on the Eastern US for family reasons and I doubt SF would work out for me. Glad to hear there are some good Scala companies out there though.
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My experience has been two-pronged with Scala. About half of companies using Scala are only doing so because it is a trendy way to trick people into continuing to maintain god-awful legacy Java (basically same for Clojure too) -- and in the

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