spoonjim

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by spoonjim 4y ago
Jobs was a well-known sociopath but also people of the highest talent level fought to work for him because he was a great executive
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Are you claiming that only new grads and immigrants fearful of deportation worked at Pixar?
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Amazing that with all this drama it never made it to the customer facing side or had any impact on the success of the launch. Truly an outlier among high performing companies.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
The overwrought “startups are so hard” seems so ridiculous to me. Oh no, I have to sit in this Aeron and DoorDash my lunch and try to make money for investors who can afford to lose it. Woe is me.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
I suspect that the advantage of these perpetual stews is entirely in the marketing
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Omission of TikTok is because the CCP has Tesla by the short and curlies
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by spoonjim 4y ago
A full office only tells you about the revenue side of the business. Many businesses are popular with customers but go bankrupt
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by spoonjim 4y ago
I swapped the drive. The hardware + network card could be bugged though but unlikely.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
First one to flip usually wins.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
I was fired from a FAANG and was told to return my hardware. I didn't have a personal machine and didn't want to pay for one with no income so I just... didn't. I got one or two reminder emails and never heard from them again
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by spoonjim 4y ago
There is no punishment that I would not hand down as a juror for people who exploit the trust of good people and poison society. Very literally, no punishment I would veto as too harsh.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Google has no expectation to “support its employees” by employing them unnecessarily. It’s not a jobs program. Frankly the fact that Waze is a separate org NINE YEARS after acquisition is astonishing and would only be justified if there wer
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Are you top 20% attractiveness? This changes a lot for a man.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Why the heck are they trying to prevent creating original content?
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by spoonjim 4y ago
There wouldn’t be much science. It would definitely just vanish.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
I’ve seen one of these shredders in action. You can just throw in a handful of full 3.5 inch drives and they just fucking vanish.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
All words with bad connotations get overused and diluted: gaslighting, racism, bigot, etc.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
One of the few things I like about the Chinese government is that they execute serious white collar criminals.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
This will only work if the labor laws allow for easy firing. The 4-day week at a regular market salary will be very attractive and will attract top performers as long as the company has the flexibility to remove the underperformers.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
It’s not at all hard to enforce boycott prohibitions against companies. Above a handful of people, a company that wants to boycott X will need to communicate that, most likely in writing, to their employees.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
You don’t, that is an inaccurate conclusion because the ads business would not exist without the e-commerce business.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
This is done all the time when pieces of businesses are bought and sold. It gets a little complex when the businesses are related (like Amazon Advertising and e-commerce, as opposed to Amazon e-commerce and AWS which are more fully independ
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by spoonjim 4y ago
This doesn’t make any sense. Forgive me for being crude but for the vast majority of over 65’s… it just doesn’t matter what they do with their time. They’re waiting around to die. Children will grow up to build the future so what they do or
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by spoonjim 4y ago
https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/1594090808864608257
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by spoonjim 4y ago
“Digging 10 miles underground” is like “building a solar panel the size of California” — really useful if you can find a feasible way to do it
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Hopefully this is the end of this entire dumbfuck historical moment. Absolute fleecing of normal people disguised as some kind of technosocial revolution.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
In software, discontinued 10 years ago is like a language that’s been dead for 5,000.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
A deed is a piece of paper, plus big guys with big guns who enforce what the paper says. The paper is the least important part of the equation.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Venezuela didn’t ban crypto.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
VR is not yet and may never be at the place where you want to spend a full workday in it. It’s good in a pinch for traveling etc. but honestly it’s just not what it’s best at.

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