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by vanusa 5y ago
This response applies both the above and its sibling comment, which are quite valid in asking that I should perhaps clarify further. So if I may: Yes, our current "operating mode" (with an apparently built-in expiration date at r
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by vanusa 5y ago
https://archive.md/TzQPJ
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San Francisco Restaurant Apologizes for Asking 3 Police Officers to Leave(nytimes.com)
5 points by vanusa 5y ago|2 comments
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by vanusa 5y ago
There's the issue of PySpark, as opposed to Spark itself. Whose demise I haven't yet heard specific reports of, but then again -- maybe the blush has come off a bit? That's what the original poster was trying to ferret out.
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by vanusa 5y ago
You don't know that -- and even if some of them do, that doesn't mean that interpretation is justified.
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by vanusa 5y ago
The bitterness is in your mind. Agreed - across this thread, there's been a lot of what imputation of bad or petty intent and/or of a disagreeable emotional state on the part of the blog author that just isn't called for.
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by vanusa 5y ago
In those cases, word about the layoffs travel much quicker than the layoffs, and people will spend all day with dread about whether they are laid off or not. Yes, it's a trade-off. But the upshot of the depersonalized mass firing rit
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by vanusa 5y ago
Drive to every employee's house to fire them in person? No, but like the sibling commenter said -- you can at least aim for a bare minimum, of, you know, class . Like an individual phone call. 10 minutes should do it. Really, it&#x
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by vanusa 5y ago
That's a perfectly reasonable assessment. Also, it's certainly a dream product compared to anything on the market 20 years ago. So yeah, it's fair to say the original blog post could have been more nuanced in its holistic a
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by vanusa 5y ago
What would stop them from trashing me as a new employer? Not giving people loads and loads of things to feel bitter about. And an eggshell-strewn environment where it's basically impossible to air these concerns with anyone upstream
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by vanusa 5y ago
There’s definitely a lot of “our users are sheep” and “everyone else is dumb” going on in this post. Well, we disagree then. I see his post as making some definitely very harsh critiques -- but still short of the threshold of outright in
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by vanusa 5y ago
He's not saying, or even insinuating, that they're "idiots". Really, look at the dictionary definition of the term, please.
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by vanusa 5y ago
People can talk about it whenever they want, I'm only speaking in support of the very narrow point that it is unprofessional. Stop mincing words, please. If it's deemed "unprofessional" to talk about it, then to all in
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by vanusa 5y ago
Well I didn't mean "conditions" like having to work in a windowless basement, with a pile phonebooks to sit on instead of a chair. But rather: being asked to work on products we just can't really believe in, to be silent
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by vanusa 5y ago
"More jarring were the people who insisted everything was OK" I read this as simply being honest (in the "Dutch" sense). It wasn't like he was shit-talking his former co-workers, per se. He's just saying he
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by vanusa 5y ago
Why is it seen as "acting in ways actively hostile" to one's previous employer to... simply speak the truth, as one sees it, about the nuts and bolts the work that one actually did there -- and the quality of the products tha
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by vanusa 5y ago
It reads more like "i left because the code sucks, everyone around me is dumb, and our users are sheep" Not in the least. The fact that he doesn't say what you're saying he says ("everyone around me is dumb, an
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by vanusa 5y ago
Most of that time is spent executing poorly crafted Oracle SQL queries drawing millions of rows into the analytical run-time for, sorting, aggregation, discarding, merging, and spliting tasks. Depending on what goes on in between the line
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by vanusa 5y ago
Rare, and utterly refreshing for its frankness. Let's hope this person does well wherever he goes in his career.
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by vanusa 5y ago
Well, he is basically old news by now.
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by vanusa 5y ago
Not only that - the most noxious and tragic consequence of the whole Woke movement is that it has positively energized the right (and caused many moderates to tilt more strongly right), by basically validating every negative trope and ste
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by vanusa 5y ago
https://archive.md/yrnCn
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by vanusa 5y ago
You're right I am, basically. I offer no insight as to whether the finiteness of our lifespans is "right" or "desirable". And I certainly am not saying that fighting aging is wrong or undesirable. Just that there&#
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by vanusa 5y ago
I just mean that "societal contribution" (that is, towards group fitness) peaks in the age window, on average. After age 50 or so many of us may be living perfectly well, but by and large, we're coasting (or at least slowing
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by vanusa 5y ago
You'd be saying the precise same thing if our natural span was 30 years, or 200. Well, yeah. That is, you're using our current state, to explain why our current state exists. Woah there, that's a big misread of what I was
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by vanusa 5y ago
It's a pretty big, and terrifying, mindset change to go from "death from old age is natural and to be accepted" to "death from old age is preventable and tragic." But arguably it is natural because .. it's
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by vanusa 5y ago
Maybe she doesn't ... need to learn coding at that age? Really - it's an incredibly over-hyped and overrated skill - especially for the pre-teen set. As in, really, really incredibly over-hyped and overrated. Meanwhile, you could
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Hundreds of military families sickened by contaminated Pearl Harbor water(theguardian.com)
10 points by vanusa 5y ago|0 comments
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by vanusa 5y ago
"at least as relates to"
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The Saga of Highleyman's Data(argmin.net)
1 points by vanusa 5y ago|0 comments

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