pauleastlund

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by pauleastlund 10y ago
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by pauleastlund 10y ago
> people who have family responsibilities through no fault of their own ... are ignored while companies fawn over people who (largely) choose to pop out more mouths to feed. This is really a regrettable choice of words. There is no &quot
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by pauleastlund 10y ago
Citation? From Wikipedia: "The alt-right has no formal ideology... 'Alt-right' is a recently coined umbrella term, with no clear criteria of membership yet agreed upon." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by pauleastlund 10y ago
Assuming your interpretation of your manager's motivations are correct, that's horrible and I'm sorry you had to go through it. With that said, would you have had any more protections at a smaller company? The process at thos
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by pauleastlund 11y ago
> ... a crutch that stifles people's success ... I'm not sure how that's a "crutch." Also, in the future utopia you're describing where no one has to work a shit job that "stifles [future] success"
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by pauleastlund 11y ago
I think it's partly a matter of priming the pump with a one or two fantastic initial hires. Go above and beyond to get a couple terrific people on board (offer a title, or an opportunity to earn a title, or a big piece of equity, etc.)
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by pauleastlund 11y ago
You need to look up "freedom." It doesn't mean "other people are required to meet all of your needs."
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by pauleastlund 11y ago
What is a page view on an article worth these days? A couple cents? Less? If the micropayments implementation was right, and if paying for content became a more mainstream idea, I don't think you'd feel that you "[could] read
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by pauleastlund 11y ago
I rarely take the time to comment on HN or submit content but I'm occasionally really tempted to earn enough karma that I can down-vote arrogant, condescending, asinine posts like this one. Neither side of the political spectrum has an
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by pauleastlund 11y ago
I mean, I take his point that some kinds of attention are really bad. I knew mchurch at Google and that whole debacle was a pretty up-close look at just how bad they can be. I just don't think this case is analogous. mchurch became ins
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by pauleastlund 11y ago
I hear where you're coming from, but if he had scrubbed all of that from this post and gone with "professional" -- "I am a self-taught web dev looking for work, I am familiar with Ruby and have recently been doing API wo
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by pauleastlund 11y ago
This makes intuitive sense to me but doesn't match up with what I've seen anecdotally. I lived in some very wealthy suburbs of NYC, and nearly every family was a two-earner family. My wife and I also homeschool, and have met a bun
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by pauleastlund 11y ago
I spent about 5 years at Google starting in 2006. When I arrived I was assigned to one manager, but I wasn't _super_ excited about the project. A week in, another manager offered me another opportunity and got me permission to transfer
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by pauleastlund 11y ago
It definitely happens. I don't think it makes sense for the buyer, but it definitely happens.
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by pauleastlund 11y ago
Was acqui-hired a couple years ago, and after that vetted several other acqui-hires on behalf of my new employer. A couple quick points: Few engineers understand that their interests != the founding team's interests and negotiate hard
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by pauleastlund 11y ago
I get that it didn't come across well, but I wasn't saying "whatever Donald Trump does in a campaign speech is good enough for me," I was saying, "this seems to be a defining characteristic of our political discours
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by pauleastlund 11y ago
Isn't this what every major political figure in America does, constantly? I don't know where you live but here I feel like not a single school shooting, natural disaster, high-profile murder, outbreak of sickness, etc. goes by wit
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by pauleastlund 11y ago
Silicon Valley might not be representative of the nation or the world, but (thankfully!) anonymous internet forums aren't, either.
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by pauleastlund 11y ago
Yeah, when I realized that Ravel accepted other answers it was like discovering Santa Clause wasn't real. "Regret" was the answer that made by far the most sense given TNO's narrative. Anyone who played and didn't c
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by pauleastlund 11y ago
It was for Lyme, and IIRC the justification for including it in my course of treatment was roughly what lisa_henderson describes below.
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by pauleastlund 11y ago
I dealt with Lyme Disease about a decade ago. Some of this sounds very familiar -- before I was diagnosed I went to the hospital multiple times sure I was having a heart attack, and each time was told it was just stress. The neurological sy
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by pauleastlund 11y ago
Background: I worked at Google for 5 years and did a bunch of interviewing for them. I don't support skipping interviews even for good candidates , but if you were going to it would work the other way around -- you'd value recent
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by pauleastlund 11y ago
Really? Parents offering to subsidize some activities, but not others, are "forcing their children into servitude?" Give me a break. If your parents attaching a few conditions to the $250k trust fund they hand over to you "so
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by pauleastlund 11y ago
When you become an utterly dependable one-party voter you really diminish your say in what your party stands for. More than that, though, if Rand Paul actually got the nomination -- which he almost certainly won't -- and went on to win
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by pauleastlund 11y ago
Everywhere I've worked and to my knowledge everywhere I've interviewed has considered culture fit. I don't think it's always as pernicious as you're describing. When done right, hiring for culture fit means some com
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by pauleastlund 11y ago
This is me reading between the lines -- so maybe not the parent commenter meant at all! -- but I think the point is that all sorts of grudges, prejudices, and regrets naturally expire through generational turnover, and in a world without ag
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by pauleastlund 11y ago
Speak for yourself. I've chosen all of my jobs based on a pretty robust combination of (a) income, (b) technical challenges, (c) project, (d) people -- the team + the management. I don't think I've ever taken a job where (c)
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by pauleastlund 11y ago
I get what you're saying, but there is a vast gulf between: - gender is not just a social construct, men and women in aggregate don't have the exact same strengths, and that diversity is beautiful rather than something we need to
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by pauleastlund 11y ago
Personally I'm of a like mind and I consider this progress. I have a bunch of (smart, curious) daughters and I feel a real struggle against gender role orthodoxy when I'm trying to nurture their interests in legos and science and
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by pauleastlund 11y ago
Father of four here. > It is worth it, and anybody without kids who says otherwise knows not of which they speak. Marriage and parenthood have both transformed my life in really amazing ways. Having a family relying on me has made me a b

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