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by thirdtruck 11y ago
Which is still greater than the ideal of 0%.
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by thirdtruck 11y ago
They believe (with good reason) that the more excited the candidate, the lower the compensation they'll take to snag that coveted position.
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by thirdtruck 11y ago
It's absolutely essential. Every new programmer's going to start off as "stupid" in the context of a company's unique selling proposition.
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by thirdtruck 11y ago
I'm amused by how "an exit" is frame as "traditional" when it's such a recent and still such a rare strategy among new (and not just startup) businesses.
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by thirdtruck 11y ago
Your Protestant work ethic is showing.
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by thirdtruck 11y ago
TheSquareFoot - New York, New York - FULL-TIME and INTERN - LOCAL == The Company == We're a technology-fueled commercial real estate brokerage bringing commercial leasing (a $30 billion/year industry) into the 21st century. You&#
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by thirdtruck 11y ago
Looking forward to reading that! I was only introduced to Docker on Monday, my first day at my new job, but I've already enjoyed the adventure of incorporating it into our deployment process.
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by thirdtruck 12y ago
Ah. That makes sense.
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by thirdtruck 12y ago
What's a "Silver Fox" in this context?
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by thirdtruck 12y ago
I propose "Poe's Pitch" as a label for this specific case.
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by thirdtruck 12y ago
What does it say about the IT industry that I first thought that the title referred to poaching employees?
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by thirdtruck 12y ago
Yes, that's a better description of the problem I was trying to capture.
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by thirdtruck 12y ago
Similar to how some families have to actively avoid making too much money, lest they jump into a higher tax bracket and end up losing more than they gained (while the next-next bracket remains a distant dream).
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by thirdtruck 12y ago
A YAML file, edited in vim and reported on by Ruby scripts. Seriously. Here's a sample: date: XXMar2015# IWT at gym:
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by thirdtruck 12y ago
Not to mention that the "67% more likely" figure is meaningless without knowing the base number. And that "involved in illegal or criminal activity" is a huge umbrella, covering even unintentional tax fraud.
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by thirdtruck 12y ago
Now I want to do a comparative study between that and joke-induced ROFLing. Then, a follow-up study on the gluteal benefits of ROFLMAOing.
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by thirdtruck 12y ago
Good point. We hear "HR's there for the company's sake, not yours" repeated so often (with good cause), that it's easy to forget that individual actors can still act with above average altruism.
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by thirdtruck 12y ago
What does it even mean for them to reject a notice? Were they going to insist on paying you even after you stopped showing up, otherwise?
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by thirdtruck 12y ago
One crucial difference is that your father did buy you that Amiga. A lot of girls couldn't get one at all.
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by thirdtruck 12y ago
I agree. Straight-up cash provides much more security. Case in point: Think of all the pensioners who discovered that their retirement income -- money taken out of their paycheck -- had vanished into smoke these last several years.
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by thirdtruck 12y ago
They're still a happy fantasy, given how easy it is to let go here in the States.
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by thirdtruck 12y ago
Almost certainly a factor of your environment and your work assignments. If someone came over and poked you every five minutes, would you expect to get several hours of focused work done every day? The same applies to all the many smaller
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by thirdtruck 12y ago
Exactly what I've seen have and experienced first-hand (as verified in recent salary negotiations). It's a systemic software industry issue, a peacock game we're expected to play in order to get ahead.
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by thirdtruck 12y ago
I agree. Based on the titles I've seen in my recent job searches, they're incredibly inconsistent between companies anyway.
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by thirdtruck 12y ago
My favorite line is "It depends on many factors, but I'm confident that you'll come up with a compelling offer." After all, the information disparity favors them by a wide margin, so the ball can stay in their court.
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by thirdtruck 12y ago
Then, with any luck, he'll leave the company that's apparently underpaying him for one that will value his services more. That's a good outcome for Bob. Compare with "What happens if engineer Bob finds out that his compa
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by thirdtruck 12y ago
As someone raised in the south, I picked a heck of a year to move up to Massachusetts, didn't I? What do you all do to avoid going stir-crazy when the snow leaves you stuck inside the house for days?
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by thirdtruck 12y ago
Without a doubt. Based on the horror stories, I excluded international shipping options from my own Kickstarter just to avoid all the headaches.
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by thirdtruck 12y ago
I'm glad that they finally broke out shipping from the pledge itself. A lot of smaller Kickstarter projects have been caught off-guard and hammered by the high costs of international shipping.
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by thirdtruck 12y ago
Sounds like you may really enjoy Fiasco ( http://www.bullypulpitgames.com/games/fiasco/ ), a GM-less storytelling game. There's a phase called "The Tilt" where things expressly go wrong in a random wa

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