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by wootland 4y ago
Shareholders are not dumb, but they have created a rigged game of castles in the sky paid for by greater fools. They look for execs that will successfully con the next bag holder, not people who create innovation, great products, healthy te
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by wootland 4y ago
I think if you account for inflation, devs are basically one of the only roles that have been treading water to keep a middle class lifestyle while everything else has dropped through the floor. I do think it's debatable that even deve
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by wootland 4y ago
$300k a year will not buy you a 3bd house in the geographies that pay $300k a year. That's a middle (not upper) class life milestone. That others are paid even less is a travesty and a sign of a deeply broken society. Again, the prob
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by wootland 4y ago
Because the capital market is opaque and corrupt. Execs aren't selected based on their ability to perform, they're selected based on how acceptable they are to the upper classes that control the capital. Even for those (few) who w
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by wootland 4y ago
I don’t think you can make the argument that devs are extracting money from lower paid employees when: 1. Exec pay is 100-1000x that of dev pay. I’d also include huge war chests of cash and stock buy backs as evidence that devs aren’t the p
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by wootland 4y ago
> They (well, we) are not underpaid. Can a family of 4 purchase a home within walking distance of the office? Is the CEO of the company making 1000X more than those at the bottom? How much equity do the execs have and how much is it wo
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by wootland 4y ago
I have done that and it's a great management strategy. You can hire world class developers and talent if you just treat them as peers and don't jack your own compensation up to astronomical levels. It's like a "cheat&quo
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by wootland 4y ago
Developers are dramatically underpaid, just like all non-exec labor. It's ridiculous to complain about devs making 300k-500k a year when execs are pulling in millions or tens of millions a year with 10M-100B worth of equity under the
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by wootland 4y ago
It doesn't make sense because the biggest advantage to WFH is that people can live in a lower cost of living city (and companies can hire the best talent globally). Forcing people into the office even once a month means you're tie
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by wootland 4y ago
> it’s been known remote workers don’t perform as well for as long as I’ve been in the industry. It most certainly is not "known". I've managed remote teams, I've managed in-office teams and I've managed the sa
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by wootland 4y ago
His ideology and distrust is propagated down the managerial ranks. It's an entire culture built on distrust and exploitation.
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by wootland 4y ago
> our hypothesis is that it is still easier to build trust in person Nothing builds trust like callously laying off tens of thousands of people over multiple rounds of layoffs! Want a trustworthy environment? Earn it. Really though whe
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by wootland 4y ago
Most rural areas in the US are ravaged by meth and opioid abuse and the crime that comes along with them.
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by wootland 4y ago
Systemic racism most certainly exists in the US. Not only was slavery widespread, there were never any reparations to those enslaved (or Native Americans). There are Black people alive today who existed prior to having their civil rights le
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by wootland 4y ago
It’s not just about who’s funding the military, it’s about misuse of resources. If that same money was spent building out our public transit, food production or community improvement, we’d see an improvement in the lives of US citizens up a
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Twitter engineer says company 'like a building where all the pieces are on fire'(businessinsider.com)
15 points by wootland 4y ago|5 comments
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by wootland 4y ago
I'm not sure if you replied to the right comment or not since I didn't say anything about firing engineers (or anyone). My point is that over-hiring and layoffs aren't "good for the company" as the post I was respon
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by wootland 4y ago
> Where is this magical "elsewhere" part where there would be no layoffs? Any company with competent management. That includes not cargo culting layoffs while turning a blind eye to the damage they cause to a company. > I
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by wootland 4y ago
If you've ever worked somewhere where there's been layoffs, you'll know that of the remaining employees, all of the best people immediately start looking for jobs elsewhere. If management is so incompetent that they overhired
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by wootland 4y ago
It's actually unclear as to whether or not they have done all of the layoffs. From your article: > The company has been reducing its workforce since November, when it cut hundreds of salespeople. In January, the company announced r
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by wootland 4y ago
> The layoffs they are referring to happened in early January. They are not laying off another 8000 employees. That's not true. They announced 8,000 layoffs in January but they haven't executed all of that yet. As per the quo
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by wootland 4y ago
I don't need people to enjoy watching me play. I'd still play even if it was just for myself. That said, I imagine IRL people will always enjoy a demonstration of skill. That's a bit orthogonal to just enjoying the music on i
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by wootland 4y ago
I've never made music as relevant as renaissance or classical music, but that's not my goal. I play for my own enjoyment, turns out some people also like watching me play which is pretty cool. I think it's easy as an artist t
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by wootland 4y ago
> I loathe the vision of a future where anyone can ask a neural network to create music just by describing what they, the user, want to hear, without them necessarily having any musical chops at all As a musician I have to say I don&#x
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Searching for 'Telegram' on Twitter is blocked(twitter.com)
19 points by wootland 4y ago|3 comments
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Living Through the Revenge of Capital(charleshudson.net)
2 points by wootland 4y ago|0 comments
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Snap is ordering employees back to the office 4 days a week(fortune.com)
33 points by wootland 4y ago|39 comments