blsapologist42

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Measuring productivity impact with Diff Authoring Time(engineering.fb.com)
3 points by blsapologist42 2y ago|0 comments
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by blsapologist42 2y ago
You might be confused by the CPI. The GDP is actually adjusted using a different measure of inflation (the "GDP deflator"), which looks at the actual purchases made in the country over that period. There's not really any &quo
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by blsapologist42 2y ago
They used to have a higher bar before 2020, but since then it's been a bit soft. I think this is mostly a return to that earlier time.
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by blsapologist42 2y ago
Why wouldn't you wait until the vest?
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by blsapologist42 2y ago
I think most companies would be jealous of this sort of "downfall".
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by blsapologist42 2y ago
You're absolutely right. However, 5% is so low that it's hard to believe that there isn't at least that many underperoformers.
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by blsapologist42 2y ago
The 80s were a reaction to the "liberal" 70s. It's just the natural cycle of history, the majority of people are in the center so when culture shifts too far to one side they start pushing it back.
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by blsapologist42 2y ago
The majority of people are in the center. That's kind of how distributions work.
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by blsapologist42 2y ago
The goal is to replace that 5% with new hires, resulting in higher average performance. It has nothing to do with total hiring amount.
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by blsapologist42 2y ago
It's not like the firing is random. "Low performers" get a lot of warnings throughout the year. Most people are average or above so they will be completely unaffected, it's not likely you would drop from 50th percentile
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by blsapologist42 2y ago
As a former interviewer at Meta who did hundreds of technical interviews, I can tell you that the people that I hardly expected "Djikstra or Knuth". Honestly I gave pretty reasonable questions that were similar to the types of thi
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by blsapologist42 3y ago
It does support dynamic values.
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Google's Brilliant Productivity-Boosting Benefit Is Also Banishing Burnout(inc.com)
2 points by blsapologist42 3y ago|1 comments
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by blsapologist42 3y ago
Bondholders get the $$ first when a company goes under. And typically businesses don't completely disappear and lose all their assets. They usually have a slow decay then get acquired by someone else who takes over the debt. In any cas
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by blsapologist42 3y ago
I do think it's odd that the FTC is going so heavy on one company. Shouldn't we have laws that apply broadly to the industry? It's not as if Meta is the only social media company anymore (is it even the most popular?) > Pa
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by blsapologist42 4y ago
I just close it immediately when there is a preroll.
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by blsapologist42 4y ago
The founders were pretty mercantilist so it's not surprising. Would be better if there was a Constitutional right to International trade :).
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by blsapologist42 4y ago
Current SCOTUS makeup is very pro free speech. However it's really hard to say for this case since it doesn't seem like Americans are really that burdened if they have to use, say, YouTube instead of TikTok.
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by blsapologist42 4y ago
What reason do we have to believe that TikTok would follow those laws? Are they going to allow US auditors to visit them in China and make sure?
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by blsapologist42 4y ago
TikTok itself doesn't produce any content. They host the content of others. So shutting down TikTok cannot infringe on TikTok's own first amendment rights. Compare to last year when the FCC's ban on chinese telecom companies
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by blsapologist42 4y ago
Given all the leaks it seems reasonable that these layoffs have mostly been priced in already.
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by blsapologist42 4y ago
From what I've heard attrition is very low right now. Which makes sense... why leave when you might get paid four months of salary if you are laid off instead.
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by blsapologist42 4y ago
Inflation is another way that salaries get cut without officially getting cut.
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by blsapologist42 4y ago
Being a "senior dev" is a lot more than just language familiarity.
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by blsapologist42 4y ago
But it might be better to move those "A Players" to a critical project (ads? lol)
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by blsapologist42 4y ago
What was their revenue though?
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by blsapologist42 4y ago
Why did none of those succeed then? You are basically defeating your own argument.
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by blsapologist42 4y ago
While some people do get 1M/yr, it's hardly every E7+. I don't know the exact % obviously, but anecdotally it's <30% (though more get the smaller grants--around 250k or 500k).
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by blsapologist42 4y ago
I'm sure Zuck really appreciates the advice of a random HN commenter. It's not like he has experience running one of the world's largest companies or anything.
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by blsapologist42 4y ago
Interest in human-played Chess is (arguably) at all time high, so I would say it bodes well based on that.

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