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by smm2000 9y ago
Hotels routinely oversell capacity - when this happens they just walk customers to comparable hotel nearby. Not sure why hotel you worked in did not do it. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-j-jones/how-to-avoid-be...
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by smm2000 9y ago
Works well for most companies that hire exclusively from top tier universities. They definitely miss out on some talent but unless they need thousands of engineers, they can find all talent they need from just a few top universities. Probab
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by smm2000 9y ago
You build binaries and make sure SHA1 matches. Obviously malicious vendor can have custom compiler that inserts backdoor code during compilation and obfuscated stuff like that but it dramatically increases complexity and number of engineers
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by smm2000 9y ago
I doubt they are fearing for their life in Turkey. They definitely will make more money in Europe but it's not like Turkey is putting them in gas chamber or something.
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by smm2000 9y ago
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by smm2000 9y ago
You can see in advance what company operates each leg. It's not a secret.
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by smm2000 9y ago
I will give 1 star and zero tips to any driver that mention tips even once. Tips is one of the things I hate the most about US.
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by smm2000 10y ago
He was not screwed. He was contractor and contractors typically do not get any options at all. After one year, GitLab offered him options as an incentive or bonus with standard four year vesting - similar to how big companies award you stoc
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by smm2000 10y ago
"Even GitLab employees use GitHub to track project progress and contributions - look at this senior GitLab employee twitter post. GitHub is clearly superior product" - magazine article or competitor to potential client. CEO ask to
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by smm2000 10y ago
Outside of truly unique skills, it's basically true - engineers are interchangeable with sufficient time to ramp up. I learned this lesson pretty early in my career when most senior engineer on the team left. I and everyone else freake
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by smm2000 10y ago
If you are poor, you can ask USCIS to waive the replacement fee - agency is actually quite accommodating. Obviously it won't work for 99.99% software engineer who actually has money to pay. Also suing for $450 is ridiculous whether you
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by smm2000 10y ago
Performance reviews in most companies have stack ranking/curves so bonuses/career progression is as zero sum in most big companies as results in any sport.
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by smm2000 10y ago
I use UberEATS multiple times a week and every time experience is very good. They deliver fast, no tipping and so far all orders were correct.
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by smm2000 10y ago
Deleting comments is fine - the problem is that he edited comment without explicit or implicit user consent or even remark about it. This is as bad as it gets for any media company. If he was not CEO, he would have been gone by now with apo
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by smm2000 10y ago
And you will go to jail really fast for operating unlicensed money transfer service. They will also add something about facilitating terrorism to add a few more years to your sentence.
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by smm2000 10y ago
People making more than 76k/year (~20% of workers in US) subsidize Walmart workers. Most people making less than 76k are getting subsidized - as they should be. I would prefer people doing productive work in Walmart getting subsidized
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by smm2000 10y ago
If you tell Amazon that you did not get the package, they will resend it no extra question asked. If law in Nordic country means that you can get reimbursed for delivered package without lying that it was lost, it's a stupid law. All m
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by smm2000 10y ago
A few times we got "work from home" day when teams moved from one building to another. You would expect more emails that day than usual as you could not just talk in person. Well, both number of email and commits went down signifi
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by smm2000 10y ago
People use Uber Black over UberX - many people are ready to pay for comfort even for a few minutes. Another case are business trips - neither me no company I work for cares if I spend $40 or $80 for a taxi from airport.
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by smm2000 10y ago
Was new offer in Bay Area? For Bay Area $20k increase is inadequate if you currently live in Texas.
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by smm2000 10y ago
The only users of cobol left are large corporations - they can definitely pay more to programmers. Good software engineer can pick up Cobol skills in a couple of month, six month top. We are not talking about neuorsurgent.
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by smm2000 10y ago
Samsung or all other mobile companies now know 1. how much Google pays Apple. 2. How much profit Google makes on mobile search. It will make negotiations harder for Google.
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by smm2000 10y ago
The government can start with improving customer support at DMV Currently, it's 4 months wait to schedule a driving test and 2 months wait to schedule an office appointment. Of course, if you have an urgent issue you can just visit DM
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by smm2000 10y ago
How much did he loose in casinos? I am sure all those perks should cost significanlty less than casino's profit?
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by smm2000 10y ago
I am pretty sure British are OK with you (aka somebody paying 1K/week in taxes) staying in UK. At worst you will have to get work visa with minimal efforts no matter what. In contrast to US, UK has well functioning visa system for high
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by smm2000 10y ago
Even without border wall, if all those measures are implemented immigrating illegally to US will make less economic sense. Also a lot of immigrants will self-deport after they fail to get any job due to e-verify enforcement. * Triple the nu
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by smm2000 10y ago
Actually negative trade balance allows you to get better terms than reverse. The country that export more has more to lose from tariffs and benefits more from lower rates.
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by smm2000 10y ago
Cars are ultimate commodity - you can buy Lexus or BMW and they are mostly equivalent. I am sure Toyota or Honda will be happy to sell cars in UK. Import to UK from EU is almost 1.5x higher than reverse. Tariffs will cost EU more than UK.
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by smm2000 10y ago
And it's all on video camera (pretty much all hotel lobbies have them), whoever made a copy of a key remember it, etc. Many hotel corridors have cameras too. It's not as easy as you think to get copy of the key and enter the room
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by smm2000 10y ago
I do not think 8 years is even close to being reasonable for premeditated murder.

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