projectazorian

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by projectazorian 4y ago
The employees need to come from somewhere, and selling the dream helps with that. It’s also good investor storytime for the LPs, and great PR for prospective customers. Not to mention it boosts applications from the unconnected, from which
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by projectazorian 4y ago
Most VC’s don’t fund peasants. Founders tend to be the children of lesser nobles, with a few social climbers thrown in to add spice.
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by projectazorian 4y ago
I've heard this "therapists are just out to keep you hooked on therapy" trope many times and I don't think it is true. The demand for good therapists vastly outstrips the supply - they don't need to keep patients ho
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by projectazorian 4y ago
Not rare at all. The missing link is that FE roles are frequently lower paid and kind of boring, so there's a lot of turnover.
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by projectazorian 4y ago
Any hiring decision is a major risk for both parties. In many cases it's the employee who takes on the most risk, unless it's a very senior role or an early stage startup where every hire is business critical. The employee may hav
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by projectazorian 5y ago
Many people are attracted to this industry by the stories of Google/FB/etc early employees walking away with 8 figure sums and retiring after a few years of work. Thus the exit obsession.
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by projectazorian 5y ago
Here's an example of what I am talking about. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29706391 A particular user is aggressively confrontational towards every queer/POC person who makes a negative comment about the M
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by projectazorian 5y ago
In American capitalism the investors are the real customers, not the consumers.
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by projectazorian 5y ago
I don't think HN is stacked against me ideologically, quite the contrary, my views are fairly pedestrian and middle of the road for the West Coast tech industry. I do think that when it comes to politics and social justice HN is conten
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by projectazorian 5y ago
Yeah it's so easy to tell when people in my life have been back on that site. Not dissimilar to what you see from an addict who starts using again.
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by projectazorian 5y ago
Yeah, what a community tolerates in such discussions reveals a lot about its values, and I don't like what I've seen from HN.
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by projectazorian 5y ago
Maybe on the business side, but I've seen lots of undesirable grinding from engineers from all sorts of places, and wanting to prove they have hustle (ie. they are hard workers) is often at the root of it.
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by projectazorian 5y ago
Yeah, tons of exceptions, but the top tier of Midwestern startups are just as credential obsessed as their coastal counterparts in my experience. And overall I'd say pay, benefits, and labor practices are often worse as well. Even if y
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by projectazorian 5y ago
This is an issue with hustle culture and not Midwesterners, IMO. I see just as much of this sort of thing, if not more, at my current West Coast employer that mainly hires out of top-20 CS programs
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FB takes confidentiality very seriously. He crossed a major red line.
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by projectazorian 5y ago
I doubt WFH will be impacted by this - not an insider but seems unlikely that the relevant people were on-site at data centers before COVID
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by projectazorian 5y ago
I'm quite sure that most HN posters are aware that mental health services are available. Did you provide any helpful tips for making use of such services, or just make low IQ lazy generalizations about substance users?
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by projectazorian 5y ago
Most heavy cannabis users I know are either currently in therapy or have spent a lot of time in therapy. This kind of careless posting is a great way to discourage people from seeking therapy, though!
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by projectazorian 5y ago
Buzz Rickson's released a William Gibson-branded product line after Pattern Recognition came out. Art imitating life... https://www.historypreservation.com/products-page/buzz-ricks...
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by projectazorian 5y ago
Worth noting that this tactic is risky, especially at smaller companies. A lot of managers might get you the raise to avoid immediate disruption, while assuming you're out the door in a few months and acting accordingly. You might sudd
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by projectazorian 5y ago
This is true in many cases but internal transfers can still make sense. Searching costs are a lot lower internally (no leetcoding needed in most cases, hopefully) and you are more likely to be able to land something outside of your current
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by projectazorian 5y ago
I've seen teams that have a 30+ minute morning standup, and an end-of-day standup of unlimited duration based on how much the lead wants to rant that day.
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by projectazorian 5y ago
Might be relevant if the person's job is to answer interview questions all day, but in practice this is hardly ever the case.
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by projectazorian 5y ago
They may intend to take this all the way to the Supreme Court, and with the court's current composition, there's an excellent chance they win and even get the underlying statute neutered or struck down.
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Worth nothing here that both alcohol and cannabis can compromise sleep quality, and poor quality sleep is very well known to make people irritable and paranoid. I've definitely gotten in this trap before when using them as sleep aids.
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by projectazorian 5y ago
The reality is that many people in legal weed states consume cannabis via edibles these days. Manufacturing techniques have greatly improved in the past couple of years and they aren't nearly as gross tasting as they used to be, often