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by s2g 8y ago
I think they see the problem, they are just dressing it up. It's a tough problem, since community moderation of this sort seems to almost inevitably lead to some individuals who take it on themselves to obsessively shape the site to th
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by s2g 8y ago
So will this cool the market and cause housing prices to become less incredibly insane, or will it just make things more expensive. I'm gonna guess the latter because god forbid something good happens to my generation.
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by s2g 8y ago
I had hopes based on the title, but... > Too many people experience Stack Overflow¹ as a hostile or elitist place, especially newer coders, women, people of color, and others in marginalized groups. Maybe that's a problem. I don&#x2
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by s2g 8y ago
I'm just wondering why this guy wanted to work for Google at all.
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by s2g 8y ago
That's the only one I've ever seen.
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by s2g 8y ago
My raise at Amazon was about 4.5% (total after two years). Of course they say it was 10% because of the way they take stock into account. Not totally unfair, but still a kick in the pants when the bonus runs out and you see a thousand dolla
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by s2g 8y ago
> 1) non-immigrants It's explicitly a dual intent visa. Contrast it to the TN status available to Canadians/Mexicans, which is not dual intent. Having the intent to immigrate when taking a TN position is reason to reject the ap
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by s2g 8y ago
> In most cases, if your application for permanent residency is approved, then you just immediately become a permanent resident Except that process takes another year or so. > So I think the upshot is that this will make things more d
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by s2g 8y ago
It's a dumb policy, but it's true. I was on a team with no one above SDE-I. That was bad.
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by s2g 8y ago
> If you have no expectations of career growth at work then big companies are fantastic. Pretty much. You can end up in a spot where you can grow fast. Or you can end up stagnating for years (me).
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by s2g 8y ago
Should be AMGAF right now. This seems hard to keep accurate.
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by s2g 8y ago
Microsoft stock is up 80% in the last 2 years. edit: and they are ahead of google in market cap again. Been going back and forth for the last little while.
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by s2g 8y ago
> since they never advanced to a more senior role like very-senior-principle engineer or management Not everyone makes principal, and you shouldn't go into management if you aren't suited for it. Oh but if you don't do eit
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by s2g 8y ago
Volume. Huge volume. Google has a completely broken interview process, to the point where they pretty much brag about how ridiculous their false negative rate is, but they make up for it on volume. When people will throw themselves at you t
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by s2g 8y ago
> it's there because we have no industry wide, respected entrance exam So you think the person with 30 years experience might be, whats the word... oh right. Lying. You think they are lying. Quit trying to dress it up. Coding tests
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by s2g 8y ago
> One party rule pretty well straight up dictatorship now.
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by s2g 8y ago
Pick a more biased source.
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by s2g 8y ago
> The Laffer Curve is a real thing. Parody account?
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by s2g 8y ago
Well for one thing, they aren't the primary source. For another, reinvesting into the business lowers your tax burden.
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by s2g 8y ago
Sure, start by taking a machete to military funding.
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by s2g 8y ago
Maybe you did, maybe you're just a greedy asshole who doesn't want to pay for society. Who knows. I certainly didn't need a tax cut. You say you needed a cut, so maybe you did and maybe we should cut your taxes, leave mine al
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by s2g 8y ago
Yeah, not nearly enough for that top few percentage points.
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by s2g 8y ago
Sweet, I barely write code at work now. So I should be setup well for this.
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by s2g 8y ago
> You and your wife chose to have five children, and chose for her to work as a childcare provider, which we know is a low-paid gig. They didn't choose to have their saving set back by however long because their child got sick.
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by s2g 8y ago
Probably not. Wish they would be, but probably not.
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by s2g 8y ago
> The motivation of the project is supposedly to protect Google's users Exposing competitors security bugs is only a nice marketing side effect.
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by s2g 8y ago
> Does the right extend to corporations Unfortunately it does, to some degree. Religious freedom too. The US is fucked.
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by s2g 8y ago
> they wasted it by simply asking advertisers like Google nicely if they'd like to stop tracking users or not This is pretty blatant re-writing of history. DNT was a piss poor standard that relied on advertisers respecting it. As so
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by s2g 8y ago
> It could be framed to laud them for employing so many who are poor Oh yes, so good of Jeff to become the worlds richest man by exploiting some of the most vulnerable people in our society.
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by s2g 8y ago
I'm very happy to see this type of thing getting more attention.

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