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by roflyear 3y ago
Some labor laws are pretty strict, where if you treat them like an employee, they are an employee. This is common in the US and companies have to be really careful, otherwise a contractor can come after them and impose a pretty big financia
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by roflyear 3y ago
Restricted to a specific country isn't a huge negative IMO. Sometimes hiring internationally is really complicated and untenable for a small company.
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by roflyear 3y ago
One thing that bothers me about a lot of the job posts lately is they are not including salaries, even when required by law in the states they are hiring in.
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by roflyear 3y ago
I don't think it's 10:1 volume, maybe weight. "Don't need to last more than a few days" well, maybe not, but they will be used for a while absolutely.
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by roflyear 3y ago
Yah this table is awful. But it is $14 I guess. Lol.
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by roflyear 3y ago
That's good for the top of it, what about the bottom, on the cement? If someone spills water, or mops the floor, it will get damaged very easily. Silly idea IMO - metal framed beds are extremely durable.
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by roflyear 3y ago
It's because if they get wet at all they are destroyed.
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by roflyear 3y ago
And any water on them instantly ruins them?
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by roflyear 3y ago
What you're saying is correct, but oh boy have I worked on Django apps that have had awful security issues because of this. "look, all my endpoints are there, user A must only be able to reset their own password... right? ;)"
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by roflyear 3y ago
Python apps using popular frameworks (not all frameworks) are generally (not always) easy to scale. The app itself is mostly just "spawn another instance somewhere" - storage and sessions and all that can be complex, but that&#x
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by roflyear 3y ago
Agreed, showing things on a non-log scale seems to skew it significantly.
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by roflyear 3y ago
I thought about just writing a text post but didn't figure I could add anything beyond the title. I am not sure what weight there is with including "Show HN" or not, apologies.
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Ask HN: Equity for Short-Term Contract?
1 points by roflyear 3y ago|2 comments
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by roflyear 3y ago
HN companies have a history of breaking labor laws - I have noticed several times that posts hiring in NYC for example do not include salary ranges, which is required by law. It is not surprising.
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by roflyear 3y ago
I encourage everyone to go on blind and check out the commentary there...!
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by roflyear 3y ago
The YC portfolio is full of unethical behavior like you said, but HN is full of "temporarily embarrassed founders" so you won't get much sympathy here with these types of comments. Good on you for bringing this up!
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by roflyear 3y ago
This is still the thing today for many people in trades. I know at least a handful of people who have been at their company for 10+ years, including my father, who works in the trades. Not an unheard of thing - tech is just immature, I thin
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by roflyear 3y ago
Ah. Maybe different posts.
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by roflyear 3y ago
I never said it was the norm, but I would think it would be a good sign here if they gave two months. I suspect they will give something like two weeks when this shakes out.
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by roflyear 3y ago
They backtracked, and are now offering some severance, but did not specify how much.
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by roflyear 3y ago
Yeah this is quite ridiculous. Even at very high salaries (no one makes these at Flexport, FYI) you're talking about a few million dollars to make this right (2 months severance).
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by roflyear 3y ago
Is this the same flexport.com that if you go to RIGHT NOW they have 107 job openings???
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by roflyear 3y ago
Oh, good luck with that. I'd make the bet you'll see a post from them by the end of the year. Didn't they remove commenting on those posts a year or so ago? I used to remember being able to comment on them, but I don't t
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by roflyear 3y ago
Well, in the US at least, you're not obligated to give notice, but yes you could (and will) burn bridges.
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by roflyear 3y ago
Well, I know of a few big tech companies on the east coast do this so that they can attract higher-level devs and then say after the super-long interview process "sorry, you're actually a mid-level dev" or even try and convin
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by roflyear 3y ago
Man I want to shake the hand of the person or AI that wrote that.
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by roflyear 3y ago
I've already outlined that: clear expectations & when someone does something wrong, but otherwise seems to behave in good faith, explanations.
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by roflyear 3y ago
Maintenance is more important than sharpening - and maintenance should be done almost every time you use the knife and should just take a minute.
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by roflyear 3y ago
What do you mean by 500 pages?
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by roflyear 3y ago
I think people with learning disabilities and people who do not understand the tone they are expressing over the internet can still contribute positively to conversations, they just need a little bit of grace.

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