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by shafte 8y ago
Some of the comments here suggest that the Google's perks are bad because they corrode work/life balance and encourage employees to stay longer. Having worked at some of the FANGs, I can say that this effect of these perks on work
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by shafte 8y ago
You may be right. Although I'd claim that a trend piece + a modest change in demography aren't quite the same as a "mark of social status". I'm applying the following standard: if someone told me that their friend h
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by shafte 8y ago
It's not. I honestly can't even imagine where the author would get this idea. If anything, having fewer/no children is a mark of status, both globally (higher income countries tend to have lower birth rates) and in the US (va
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by shafte 8y ago
The author makes a false equivalence between the RSA in France and the typical UBI proposal. An individual's RSA benefit decreases as their work income increases. This has the effect of making an individual weakly indifferent to workin
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by shafte 8y ago
Things 3 is excellent. Any fan of well-designed and well-constructed software will appreciate it. I also like the philosophy behind Things: make it really easy to add items and make the core workflows fast. Additional complexity (tags, date
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by shafte 8y ago
Much of Instagram's application code is written in Python. Python also powers some service infrastructure. For example, FB's release automation system is written in Python.
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by shafte 8y ago
That rumor was thoroughly debunked (see the discussion in the original HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17216628 ). Please don't repeat and spread false rumors. It cheapens discussion about legitimate tec