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by question_away 4y ago
From the post: > My hope is that this story will help people recognize toxic cultures in their own workplaces This is the part I'm commenting in reply to. I simply don't see the justification of "toxic" in the enviro
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by question_away 4y ago
I think every nihilist has the "epiphany" you're implying. My point is that any service job/Amazon warehouse/construction job is generally stressful, has unproductive meetings, and callous bosses but this is not my
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by question_away 4y ago
If you look up any articles about the Activision Blizzard saga you'll find the word toxic being used most often to describe their workplace. Is OP's situation comparable to Activision Blizzard?
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by question_away 4y ago
Are we really going to pretend that Xooglers struggle landing jobs in tech? Relative to what the average software engineer goes through, they are "handed jobs".
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by question_away 4y ago
> Based on your other comments, it seems your main complaint is the use of the word "toxic". Which I agree is overused and has been expanded to cover more ground than it used to, but the OP is far from the first to apply it mor
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by question_away 4y ago
Huh?
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by question_away 4y ago
My point is that adopting terms like "toxic" to describe this team's culture is over-selling and detracts from workplaces that are actually toxic. If we're dropping the bar of a toxic workplace to be: trouble sleeping, q
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by question_away 4y ago
No, but if we're lowering the bar for what constitutes "toxic" to something that is widely experienced then that is inherently dismissive of actually toxic work environments that are not widely experienced.
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by question_away 4y ago
From what I read, "toxic" is an exaggeration of the work environment and undermines the message that OP is trying to convey.
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by question_away 4y ago
If OP's description is what constitutes a "toxic workplace" then any service job/Amazon warehouse/construction job is also toxic. From what I read, I would describe OP's team as severely dysfunctional and the b
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by question_away 4y ago
If I'm reading this right, the crux of the issue was overworked engineers and unproductive meetings that got heated between experts? And the resultant stress led to brain damage? Personally, I don't know any software teams that ar
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by question_away 5y ago
Your drive link is locked and requires request to access - might attract more eyes if the restriction is lifted :)
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by question_away 5y ago
Facebook Earnings 2021 $46.75 B 2020 $32.67 B 2019 $24.83 B 2018 $25.37 B 2017 $20.59 B 2016 $12.52 B 2015 $6.21 B 2014 $4.93 B 2013 $2.81 B 2012 $0.54 B 2011 $1.73 B
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by question_away 5y ago
This isn't even remotely true. wav2vec alone is the most impactful model in speech recognition in a while and their subsequent work in low-resource languages makes it pretty obvious they're working with limited data...
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by question_away 7y ago
In what way does it not parallelize well? There are mounds of research in federated learning.
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by question_away 7y ago
I just started working out of a space in Boston last month and it's been sublime. There's always a WeWork in whatever city I'm traveling to and at 25$ per day (beyond my usual credits), it's really affordable to have an
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by question_away 7y ago
It didn't seem like the OP was making any kind of claim about those pet peeves being held by an average AirBnB user. In any case, it seems like a bold strategy to fight anecdata with anecdata. To that end, it doesn't look like boo
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Ask HN: Legality of using YouTube for training ML model
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