sportanova

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by sportanova 11y ago
Just because someone isn't interested in what you're interested in doesn't mean they hate learnig
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by sportanova 11y ago
So you're saying that everything not spent or invested into a private company (that you actively manage?) is subject to a wealth tax. Seems like a risky idea because you're putting enormous incentives on increasing riskier investm
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by sportanova 11y ago
What would a top 5% salary be?
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by sportanova 11y ago
> One received his wealth through inheritance and really isn’t doing much with it Seems very naive - what would doing a lot with it even mean? It's definitely not under their mattress and even if it's sitting in a bank at 0.1%
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by sportanova 11y ago
Changing / firing every year is insane! While over-specialization is risky, this goes way too far in the opposite direction. You'd want to avoid the negatives with less drastic measures
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by sportanova 11y ago
Mark zuckerberg is now emblematic of the Koch brothers, the nra, and the privatization of everything. Just throw in baby hitler so we can call it a day. No (potential) good deed goes unpunished!
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by sportanova 11y ago
I don't understand all the "culture" moralizing that's been going on for the last year or two. Here's an inverse culture code for Techinasia https://www.techinasia.com/culture/ : - We are obses
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by sportanova 11y ago
I feel genuinely terrible for people that derive their life's meaning from being a low-level employee of a corporation. Of course you want your time spent at work to be engaging, but this mission-driven-change-the-world-so-mo-lo drivel
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by sportanova 11y ago
This sounds better than whiteboarding, but I think you're right. There's a big Heisenberg effect going on that's going to cause a lot of false positives
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by sportanova 11y ago
I agree that the meaningless deadlines are evil, but this article falls into the false dichotomy of either Waterfall or Agile, and nothing else
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by sportanova 11y ago
He can keep his money. Widely used - yes. In vogue - no
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by sportanova 11y ago
i always enjoy the "x is essentially a <somewhat_obscure_financial_instrument>". I feel like it's moderately common in startup thought leader type posts
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by sportanova 11y ago
Ha ok.. care to actually challenge any of my points?
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by sportanova 11y ago
This article is worse than useless without taking into account the cost of living. Yeah, people in San Francisco + NYC make a lot more than people in Cedar Rapids - but it also costs a lot more. Take that into account, and then tell me if t
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by sportanova 11y ago
Agreed - 75% of those labels are management's perception - which is often wildly innacurate Maybe A,B,C players was an insightful distinction at one time, but now it's such a cliche that the only people you expect to say it are th
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by sportanova 11y ago
Exactly! This is a catastrophe in the same way that any public company missing earnings by 1 cent is - Oh my god they only grew by 4x instead of 5x, it's bubblegeddon ! Maybe it's a shit show behind the scenes, but from what I&#x
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by sportanova 11y ago
666 pages - definitely not a coincidence
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by sportanova 11y ago
With programming being a sexy job now, and all of the bootcamps pumping out people, supply is higher than it's ever been before. I haven't seen non-anecdotal evidence that salaries are inordinately high. "Silicon valley"
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by sportanova 11y ago
Oh then I misunderstood. And I disagree!
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by sportanova 11y ago
That's the hippocracy of it. You can't have the "money is so unimportant to us, we're changing the world!" attitude while simultaneously screwing over your employees and taking the vast majority of the rewards
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by sportanova 11y ago
You misunderstood me - I'm saying that it doesn't matter, and that it's dumb to worry about whether you're writing it's or its
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by sportanova 11y ago
The "tech worker shortage" is completely manufactured. The demand is high, but the supply is definitely not low. The problem is that every company with a bit of money thinks that it needs to hire an infinite number of 10xers. But
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by sportanova 11y ago
I don't think recruiters are terrible as a class of people (though I do love making fun of them), but I do want 99% of them out of the equation. It's insane that we're letting 15-25% of first year salary slip through our fing
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by sportanova 11y ago
Bravo on saying "let’s not be too hard on people who make the occasional its/it’s slip-up". I'd much rather understand (be understood) what some one is saying, than try to correct (be corrected) for such a small thing. E
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by sportanova 11y ago
The entire concept of 12 hour days working in front of a computer screen is a joke - the vast majority of people are going to spend 40-50% of that not working, and the remainder are going to be so unproductive from fatigue that they may as
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by sportanova 11y ago
It's idiotic how companies always want people who are "insanely passionatiate" about their mission. It makes (slightly) more sense when you have 1-2 employees, but good luck finding 20+ people who have the skills you need AND
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by sportanova 11y ago
Why would you take those terms (unless you had no choice, but you probably do if you have 3 months living expenses)? Seems like a crazy risk where you could end up working for 2 months and not getting paid. What about installments?
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by sportanova 11y ago
How is a $300/hr consultant a different job? I'd love to learn more about what people do to get those kinds of rates / contracts. Do you know of any links / good blogs?
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by sportanova 11y ago
> Criticism of "Agile"-as-practices are generally misplaced, because there is no coherent unity in the practices people implement and apply that label too 72% of Agile practitioners use some form of Scrum. 80% do standups, 71%
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by sportanova 11y ago
In the end it's impossible to criticize Agile because the way supporters frame it is that all good things are Agile, all bad things are not Agile and / or Waterfall. Goodness and Agile are inherently linked, so the presence of bad

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