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by pcurve 4y ago
"The problem is, that's not what's happening. Instead, Amazon managers are hiring people they otherwise wouldn't, or shouldn't, just so they can later fire them to hit their goal. " Oh god, this is horrific. :-
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by pcurve 4y ago
looks like standard verbiage they used for press release that contain language financials.. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/10/apple-reports-fourth-...
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by pcurve 4y ago
So I guess it really has begun... Earnings were terrible and all techs are getting punished.
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by pcurve 4y ago
Depends on the size of org impacted within the large companies, but typically directors and up are involved. (unless they're the one being cut)
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by pcurve 4y ago
$1B out of?
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by pcurve 4y ago
I wonder if they should bring him back. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw4RrcPxBIk Though Cook had his reasons for firing. https://www.businessinsider.com/tim-cook-why-i-fired-scott-f... Clearly, Forestall
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by pcurve 4y ago
Agreed. It’s so bad you have other sites that contain Netflix catalog with much better experience
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by pcurve 4y ago
You are more savvy than most consumers. If you’ve been using Amazon for years you probably have sixth sense for navigating around site and content. How to interpret the reviews. All the meta data. I suspect many on HN can too. They are
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by pcurve 4y ago
That's a classic. Thanks for sharing.
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by pcurve 4y ago
It wasn't long ago when I felt 1.2% was a good CD rate. Now I'm canceling all of them to move to online savings account paying 2-2.5x that amount.
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by pcurve 4y ago
people have short memory, but that was pretty brutal.
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by pcurve 4y ago
slowly returning to normal salary, along with stagnation of pays for those who were brought on high. I suspect a lot of underqualified people were able to get jobs at high salary in the past 1 year. I know this has caused grief and concerns
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by pcurve 4y ago
My fear is, I see many 0.5x programmers / workers who are active drag on products and teams. :-/ The problem with these workers are, the more you have these people on the team, it has a multiplying effect instead of additive in t
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by pcurve 4y ago
You are a good programmer. Period.
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by pcurve 4y ago
"For Pablo Ruiz-Múzquiz, who heads up PenPot, an open-source competitor to Figma, the deal was a shock to the design community, since Figma had long marketed itself as the “anti-Adobe.” Didn't know PenPot exists. Hope it takes off
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by pcurve 4y ago
Tax usually ends up being 15 to 20 percent so it will probably be a wash. Online agent can tell you the exact price.
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by pcurve 4y ago
Phone only 2fa is horrible if you do oversea travel and too get local SIM cards. I can’t stand companies that do this
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by pcurve 4y ago
I gave my three week notice and went on a two week trip to Portugal. In fact I’m writing this at the Lisbon airport on my way back home. Having been at the same job for eighteen years I felt it was time. I don’t know if it was a burn out b
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by pcurve 4y ago
I’m sure some of that was done in collaboration with bean counters
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by pcurve 4y ago
Apple hasn’t made a decent mouse for more than twenty years starting with the hockey puck.
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by pcurve 4y ago
Many do die rich because they didn’t quite learn how to spend their wealth in ways other people would. (Which is what made them rich I the first place )
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by pcurve 4y ago
90 percent of my Google search now has “Reddit” appended. Otherwise the result utterly useless especially on mobile phone where there’s no Adblock
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by pcurve 4y ago
Cost of diesel in the US is hilariously out of control. It’s far cheaper to drive gasoline
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by pcurve 4y ago
Your story is wild it makes my head spin. It makes me wonder if the principal is targeting parents from the coasts.
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by pcurve 4y ago
I remember studying oil production 25 years ago in college and distinctly remember how oil production would peak in couple decades. Hilarious. It was right about one thing. Peak oil peaked.
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by pcurve 4y ago
Dumb question. Can they just move back the engine and make the landing gears longer by making them retractable?
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by pcurve 4y ago
Yep. Dslr and large sensors count when it comes to making every pixel count without introducing artifacts
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by pcurve 4y ago
Must be nice having presidents be your salesman
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by pcurve 4y ago
He does have a point. Are tweets considered content? Twitter makes money off of his tweets. Why wouldn’t they cut him a share?
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by pcurve 4y ago
“ By 2014, the app was fully operational, and featured Hangouts Messages, SMS, and Go” I had no idea the hangout was all that. I never opened it because I thought it was another social gathering thing. It’s a terrible name. It’s also more

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