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1441.
by yibg 7y ago
Not sure I agree with that. The two choices are not just change the threshold or fudge the score. Ideally it would be to provide the right conditions so that neither is needed. Of course real world is more complex than that, and that condit
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by yibg 7y ago
Fundamentally I think pretty much everyone agrees on the concept of equal opportunity. But what people don't seem to agree on is the definition of equal opportunity. Or even I guess what is opportunity? If we have 2 people, A and B. A
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by yibg 7y ago
I had a friend working on contract for the local city government. The contract was I believe for 2 years. A year in the project got cancelled but since his contract has already been signed they just kept paying him with no work for him to d
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by yibg 8y ago
Interesting moral implications. Should e.g. child porn still be illegal if no child is harmed? I think most people's natural reaction would be of course it should be illegal, it's child porn!
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by yibg 8y ago
I agree and it's similar for me. The closest work friends I have are from this company and formed during this period. 5+ years later and we still have regular gatherings. Of course the topic of conversation inevitably drift back to whe
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by yibg 8y ago
Many years ago I was working for a small consulting firm and had a stretch of time with a lot of overtime; aka "crunch time". Since these were billable hours, time was tracked daily, even if they weren't all actually billed.
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by yibg 8y ago
Probably a combination of a few things: 1) Western audience of HN that have only witnessed the dominance of Amazon so have a hard time imagining a better competitor. 2) Ongoing negativity towards china in this area. Put the two together, an
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by yibg 8y ago
I remember having this debate many years ago. Would it be better to introduce a team with no source control knowledge to something like svn first or straight to git? Svn is easier to understand and use, but then you’d have to break some exi
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by yibg 8y ago
I’ve sort of done the move. If you are not ethnically Chinese and speak the language, there will be a few things to get used to. The degree will depend a bit on where you end up. For example: - pollution can be a big problem. - if Chinese c
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by yibg 8y ago
Nepotism and complacency both exist in non-union work places sure. Just from my own experience, and hearing stories from those around me, they seem to be both more prevalent and more severe with unions. Of course this is anecdotal and I don
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by yibg 8y ago
I'm not against unions in general or in principle, but some implementations are not great. I suspect like some folks here, my personal (negative) interactions with unions have turned me off of unions in general. I worked at an unionize
1452.
by yibg 8y ago
Interesting. This implies work gets the remaining variable mental energy. I’m all for having side projects, but given enough time, but not enough mental energy, which should get the leftover and presumably less productive bits?
1453.
by yibg 8y ago
I had the same mentality in my 20s, even though I made a fairly average young engineer salary (in Canada). But comparing myself to others around me I felt poor(er) and made me both limit myself and more risk averse. Looking back now that wa
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by yibg 8y ago
Growing up in a poor immigrant family was a weird version of this. Most of us were poor and certainly provided emotional support in this regard. However from what I could see as a child there wasn’t a lot of material support. Maybe somethin
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by yibg 8y ago
Senior director at apple is considered a very senior executive? Isn’t the director level the entry point for what would be considered an executive?
1456.
by yibg 10y ago
The salary growth also tend to be different, at least in the tech centers. More senior engineers at one of the larger tech companies can make several times this all in.
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by yibg 10y ago
Having been in the hiring and compensation path at a few companies both north and south of the boarder, this seems to only apply to the US, and in particular silicon valley. Up in Canada, the compensation seems to be more of a normal distri