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811.
by pc86 2y ago
This is smart if you work for a company that actually needs this level of robustness. The problem is that most don't, and a lot of people who work for these companies wish they were working someone "better"/"more
812.
by pc86 2y ago
A friend of mine - against my loud objections - hired some Pakistani offshore group to build an app for him around 2015 or so. $15k "estimate" but it was all time & materials not flat rate. They had an "office" with
813.
by pc86 2y ago
The title alone reeks of pro-RTO-at-all-costs "there's nothing wrong with driving an hour each way to your office because work should be the most important thing in your life here's $70k for the year thanks so much" bull
814.
by pc86 2y ago
I'd be curious how much of this $160 million is immediately allocated to bonuses, founders taking money off the table, increased salaries, employee option pools, etc.
815.
by pc86 2y ago
Not only the "expectation" but lots of VCs have preference built in that guarantees them huge returns on basically any liquidity event. It's probably not as likely in a Series C like this but 2-3x preference is not unheard of
816.
by pc86 2y ago
Isn't it better to 1.5x in 6 months on 40 million than 3x in 2 years on 160? By definition focusing on things that don't grow your business because you have way too much money in the bank is going to be worse for your business tha
817.
by pc86 2y ago
My point is 90% of companies have no specialized knowledge whatsoever and are staffed almost entirely by web developers. How many companies have an in-house tuned graph database? How many companies have custom Linux kernels? How many compan
818.
by pc86 2y ago
"Some portion of your time is reserved to work on whatever you want to work on with no input from outside your small team" does not work long term and it does not work at scale. Even among engineering software is somewhat unique i
819.
by pc86 2y ago
Functionally 0% of companies are working on things as important or impactful as the atom bomb, and I include FAANG et al in that. Maybe a small handful of AI companies will actually put out something that important? But even most of them wo
820.
by pc86 2y ago
C-suite executives are "management" only insofar as they are someone's direct supervisor and that person wants to make them happy. And if you've got brand new managers with single-digit years of experience reporting to t
821.
by pc86 2y ago
Have you never worked in an organization that survived off of outside sales and employed really, really good sales teams? Of all the departments listed, engineering included, sales would probably be the last one I would consider a commodi
822.
by pc86 2y ago
I can't think of a scenario where it's directly counterproductive, at least not to the point where its counterproductivity overshadows the degree to which the people who make decisions like you.
823.
by pc86 2y ago
I'm very clearly responding to the oversimplifying final sentence and I cited several instances where non-citizens can indeed be held for days without violating US laws. The GP frames this as the US doing something nobody else does, wh
824.
by pc86 2y ago
Everyone's rights are severely curtailed at border crossings.
825.
by pc86 2y ago
I'd like to provide a counterargument that it's not "iffy" to detain and question people who you're not sure sure should be allowed into the country at a point of entry, and that basically every country on the plane
826.
by pc86 2y ago
People use "startup" to mean "start up business" and not "business that is aiming for rapid, borderline-unsustainable growth and very likely requires hundreds of thousands, millions, tens of millions of dollar to ev
827.
by pc86 2y ago
Respectfully, I suggest you spend a bit more time actually making sure you're responding to what people have actually said and not just what you think they're getting at. > You are still condoning unauthorized computer access
828.
by pc86 2y ago
Can you explain how DOGE and deportations are related?
829.
by pc86 2y ago
This absolutely happens a lot , not at the individual level but security companies absolutely hire former criminals without violent convictions who know what they're talking about and have turned their life around.
830.
by pc86 2y ago
You seem to think that every government agency does highly specialized incredibly specific work that you couldn't possibly have any idea how to manage. That's absolutely not the case. Sure there are absolutely certain jobs etc. wh
831.
by pc86 2y ago
People commit crimes because they believe it's morally right all the time. That doesn't mean it's not a crime, and the fact that Swartz committed multiple series crimes has never been disputed. It's simply a question of
832.
by pc86 2y ago
The whole signal thing is an excellent example and I know several people who voted for Trump who agree that was a boneheaded move (having a signal chat at all let alone accidentally adding a journalist to it). What evidence do you have that
833.
by pc86 2y ago
There is clearly a difference between signing into some server just to see if you can, and breaking & entering into a building. Yes of course they're both wrong, you may even think they should both be serious federal crimes, but it
834.
by pc86 2y ago
In all current discourse, unironic use of the term "globalist" means jew. That's not a supposition or an overreaction. The terms are used interchangeably by the only group of people who actually says "globalist" wit
835.
by pc86 2y ago
The best thing about your comment is you could be referring to Trump, or the GP. 9 out of 10 people who read your comment will say "hell yeah" and think you agree with them whether you do or not. Brilliant.
836.
by pc86 2y ago
I can fully understand how people on both the left and the right could have ideological differences with Trump, how they can hate the way he interacts with people, think he's picking unqualified cronies for high level jobs, etc. I disa
837.
by pc86 2y ago
I'll be honest this "conservatives hate the government so they don't fund it then they point to how bad it is as an excuse to cut it further" seems tautological and pretty intellectually lazy. I've contracted onsite
838.
by pc86 2y ago
People in the military have normal jobs, not everyone is out in the field sending rounds downrange all the time. There is no reason that one of those jobs can't be "software engineer." There is nothing intrinsic about the mil
839.
by pc86 2y ago
The military could fix this internally if they wanted to. There are plenty of people who can write good code and don't mind doing push-ups and going to the range as well. Dotgov is a lot harder. Salaries are artificially capped very lo
840.
by pc86 2y ago
I think the "Why?" link on the warning not to edit library imports just goes to #

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