somsak2

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by somsak2 3y ago
I never understood the stuff of calling you on weekends or during vacation. Just don't pick up? If confronted, you can claim you didn't see it because unknown numbers are automatically silenced. I've never seen a business tha
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by somsak2 3y ago
How else can an employer decide who to give a raise to or not? What prevents everyone from asking for a raise? I think the employer-employee relationship, especially when it comes to salary, is inherently antagonistic because our interests
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by somsak2 3y ago
I think the first thing I struggle with in this worldview is that companies don't think about roles as "how much value" they bring to the business. If they did, most ICs would be paid far more highly. But since employees nego
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by somsak2 3y ago
"fantastic" is always going to depend on context -- you could also say $250k/yr is 80x the median global income. In this case, I'm sure the owner could easily make a FAANG income if he so desired, which is why I used it
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by somsak2 3y ago
i wouldn't really call $400k/year in total "heavily subsidized", that's around the all in cost of a single developer at one of these sponsoring companies
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by somsak2 3y ago
you could say the same thing about ad based businesses. how else is the company supposed to cover its costs if it has a free service?
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by somsak2 3y ago
is it really a fantastic income? tarsnap is well-known and we're seeing the value after 14 years of work. $250k/y is much less than what you would be making at a FAANG.
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by somsak2 3y ago
The thing is, for a junior engineer, this is not that bad of an idea. I don't think that it should be part of a formal performance process, but if you're green and aren't putting out enough PRs, it suggests you're either
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by somsak2 3y ago
Life expectancy of those in the bottom has gotten quite close to those at the top. Horowitz may have 100000x the amount of money, but he won't live even 2x as long as your average American (or global citizen). https://ourwor
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by somsak2 3y ago
get around pesky laws with this one weird wording trick!
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by somsak2 3y ago
...versus the tens of thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands by your latter definition) of such combinations for Android. I mean c'mon it's not even close.
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by somsak2 3y ago
so lack of awareness makes support of that behavior more acceptable?
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by somsak2 3y ago
We've had the ability to use a single language across both FE and BE for quite a while now. That's not the problem.
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by somsak2 3y ago
*Apple killing Flash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughts_on_Flash
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by somsak2 3y ago
They're way ahead of you! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
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by somsak2 3y ago
yeah zoom based hangouts are usually pretty cringe and I don't enjoy most myself. have felt similarly to you that on sites are really the only consistent way this kind of stuff happens, but it's been hard in my company to motivate
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by somsak2 3y ago
Do you know anyone from these states? I know a bunch of folks and your characterization is inaccurate -- the talent that you have accessible from non-"premium" US markets is generally also not as good as what you'd find in NY
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by somsak2 3y ago
Offshoring is nothing new, it's been happening for at least a decade in earnest, of course far more for manufacturing. Even if you just count since the start of the pandemic, companies have now had 3.5 years to figure this out. Where i
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by somsak2 3y ago
Take a peek at CUDA
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by somsak2 3y ago
Couldn't you see this just the same when screen-sharing over Zoom?
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by somsak2 3y ago
Not really accurate to say that other countries have "fixed" these with laws, many never had them in the first place. Car dependence in particular was never really a problem in Europe since the cities were already there way before
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by somsak2 3y ago
Who even uses Pirate Bay anymore?
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by somsak2 3y ago
Turns out, that's exactly what YT Premium and Twitch Turbo do.
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by somsak2 3y ago
That is crazy
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by somsak2 3y ago
It's not really a relative few, most estimates place ad blocking usage among web users between 25-45%. Since YT is somewhere around 10% of overall Google revenue, you're looking at up to a 5% increase in total revenue just based o
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by somsak2 3y ago
The party that is being inflicted damage are the creators who don't make any money from producing content for you.
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by somsak2 3y ago
not giving google money is quite an odd "principle"
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by somsak2 3y ago
Profit numbers for YT have never been broken out in financial reports.
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by somsak2 3y ago
> All of Google is AI. But you don’t see them bandying it around like a kid with new light up shoes. From a few months ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P-ein58laA
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by somsak2 3y ago
What's gotten worse in your experience?

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