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by pompino 3y ago
>you can just let teams and individuals decide what works best for them, then that can be communicated upwards so the company can plan office space/resource allocation Finding this many self-motivated conscientious employees is unco
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by pompino 3y ago
IMHO, each team does something poorly, and it doesn't mean you go on a fishing expedition to find everything else they're doing poorly. Rather, you focus on what they're doing great, and incentivize/reward them for that.
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by pompino 3y ago
But they exist, have jobs, and are producing things of value for other companies. You still have to deal with them. It is not realistic to fire people who don't align with someone's preferred management style.
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by pompino 3y ago
What someone is "entitled" to is an opinion. AFAIK, Courts do not adjudicate opinions, they decide if a law was broken in the context of the existing legal framework. These are arbitrary systems we set up to help us flourish as a
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by pompino 3y ago
Agreed, While there may be people who think they're defending Apple "on principle", I hope those folks also realize that there is no "principle" that is ingrained in nature. We're all just making up rules, laws
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by pompino 3y ago
That may be, but IMHO its impossible to be completely neutral on this issue. All analysis is somewhat compromised and biased based on subjective weightage to historical facts, etc.
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by pompino 3y ago
touche!
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by pompino 3y ago
>Why do you get to run a business off it for free? There isn't a divine commandment as to what rights we "should" have. We vote, fight, protest and get to make up our own rights. >They spend hundreds of millions on SWE
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by pompino 3y ago
It's understandable they don't want to pay the mafia.
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by pompino 3y ago
> We should discuss the points on their merits, not based on who's making them and how much money they have. Its not based on how much money they have. Its how they've managed to accumulate the money - by gouging devs.
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by pompino 3y ago
Okay, I see a lot of people discouraging you, so I'll try to be positive. I say go for it! However, your motivations don't seem very clear to me. What exactly are you trying to achieve with this venture?
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by pompino 3y ago
You need a plan to to execute at the policy level, and at the field/ground level - That is always the hard part. "Lets do X, its so much better than Y" - yeah, we know, but please also propose a practical plan of how to acco
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by pompino 3y ago
I've had this conversations with well meaning folks before. The manufacturer of a product is liable for product defects, not the distributor. The seller/distributor is usually liable for accurate descriptions, etc. Caveat - I&#x27
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by pompino 3y ago
>willfully ignores the likely intent of the questioner, >Subtle condescension and authoritative declarations Well maybe we shouldn't ignore the intent of the answer ;) >SO really does attract misanthropes. Wow, I think you&#x2
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by pompino 3y ago
Amazon does not enforce electrical standards, nor does any store anywhere in the world. Where do you guys come from making these extremist arguments? Just.... wow.
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by pompino 3y ago
Gasoline? clean water? Huh? We're talking about Amazon here. I find it hard to believe you're a real person. What a bizarre comment.
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by pompino 3y ago
I am not a person who would know what the biggest existential issues are, but I have always found it to be helpful to ask for product recommendations in the various group chats that I partake in. It also clamps down on consumerism, and I&#x
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by pompino 3y ago
In a democracy you have to make a case for it. I don't want the government spending tax dollars so they can recommend which sneakers or USB power adapter I can buy. Curation of a marketplace is not an essential service by any stretch o
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by pompino 3y ago
(1) Expand network of friends/family. (2) Buy only when you get a recommendation from friends/family. (3) profit? :) Asking the government to create regulations for product quality just means that the lobbyists who actually write
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by pompino 3y ago
Talk to friends and family, and only buy when someone has had a positive experience with a product before. Use outlets like consumer reports that do long-term reviews, etc.
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by pompino 3y ago
You can believe in your ideology, the problem is you have to convince others if you want to do anything democratic, and so far you haven't. I said I won't argue with you so I wont ;) Good luck.
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by pompino 3y ago
There will never be a single factor that drives outsourcing. That being said, I kinda agree that if everybody is remote, adding one more remote employee is a lot easier since your company is already setup as a remote-first org.
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by pompino 3y ago
Respectfully, I don't quite know or fully understand your unique situation, so I am not discussing it. My comment wasn't directed at you.
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by pompino 3y ago
You were kinda wishy washy in your response. I'm bringing the conversation back on track. Sorry, didn't know you were so sensitive to language. I'll try to calibrate my responses to you.
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by pompino 3y ago
Ultimately we need a cohesive strategy to convert your wishes and desires into actionable legislation and policies and consensus building around those - which is the hard part. It seems to me, few people want to take crack at that.
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by pompino 3y ago
>If your argument against income is that some people make a lot, so instead make everyone poorer, I find that a weak argument How did what I say in any way relate with making everyone poorer? You're just assuming what my position is
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by pompino 3y ago
The ones I think are top class are not really end-user oriented, it's core stuff like the search engine, their JS engine, etc. (IMO) The bloated ones are their webapps that suck up gigabytes and gigabytes of ram and CPU resources (clie
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by pompino 3y ago
You do make some very good points, but I disagree on one. >Now look at how few companies in the EU become worth 1B compared to the US. That low ratio also applies to smaller (and larger) companies. Money is power/control, and not ha
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by pompino 3y ago
> But the solution is not to argue that the notion of a union is useless. The intellectually honest solution is to seek achievable solution in the mess that is the real world. You can say that about any topic, but what specifically are y
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by pompino 3y ago
>It makes me worried about investing in GOOG. If you have a lot of money, you have their ear..

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