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by bobbytherobot 3y ago
My decades of working in very capitalistic companies has taught me two things: 1. Emotions are bigger factor than logic when it comes to business decisions. 2. We often assume wrong on what a “rational” economic choice should be. We believe
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by bobbytherobot 4y ago
In my personal experience, companies turn to these tools when there are organizational problems because it places the burden on the individuals instead of the system. Who has a large influence on the system, those at the top.
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by bobbytherobot 5y ago
Pros The environmental initiatives are wonderful and they've got a surprising amount of market traction. Cons Grove is a place where meritocracy-espousing libertarian men get together to talk about diversity and inclusion in between th
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A review of too many startups: Little boys playing tanks in the sand(glassdoor.com)
1 points by bobbytherobot 5y ago|2 comments
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by bobbytherobot 6y ago
The government doesn't tax anyone who dies. They tax the estate of the wealthy. Few people will be affected by it. There is plenty more you can read on the topic. The general idea is that it helps create a meritocratic society.
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by bobbytherobot 6y ago
You pay taxes on the gains. (Unless you purchases them through a Roth 401K/IRA where you don't, but those have tight limits on it.)
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by bobbytherobot 6y ago
"you probably won't have to work as hard" For me, it was a question of: do I put in 40% to get 90% completed, or do I put in 150% to get 99% completed?
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by bobbytherobot 6y ago
Sure, I'm all for teaching it. It would still face the same issues as other education topics. Use science as an example. It is taught in schools. And yet, we still have a strong anti-science culture in the U.S.
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by bobbytherobot 6y ago
The other factor I'm not hearing in this conversation is that there is a third-party in why the Bay Area has so many high paid tech jobs: the VCs. I know of multiple startups orignally based elsewhere who were pressured to move their c
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by bobbytherobot 6y ago
> Look at this instead as a problem of knowledge distribution I personally found this to be helpful. I find it more comfortable to document and present internally to my companies than to the public at large. I've tried blogging, but
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by bobbytherobot 6y ago
The plagues of Europe didn’t stay in Europe. They eventually came to the Americas where they wiped out most of the native populations. If globally connected people are so bad, then why has the Catholic Church been so big on extending their
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by bobbytherobot 6y ago
There are studies that found that companies earn more when their boards and management are 50/50 men and women. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-08/more-women-means-more... https://www.cnbc.com&
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Ask HN: What’s the deal with executives having a “not” personal office?
5 points by bobbytherobot 6y ago|1 comments
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by bobbytherobot 6y ago
I'm sick of tech being more scared of a man playing sound effects on CNBC than their thousands of paying customers.
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by bobbytherobot 6y ago
I learned a lesson about opportunity costs while worked at an IT company. When I started, the company managed the IT for small companies, most being three to five people companies. We had full control of decisions so we kept them up-to-date
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by bobbytherobot 6y ago
It will also help with SEO
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by bobbytherobot 6y ago
I don't see "retention" of talent in here but "recruiting" is. Is your team rapidly growing, or do you have high turnover? Recuriting is a costly activity compared to retention.
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by bobbytherobot 6y ago
Jumping on here as this is a widespread issue in tech writing. "The first time you use an initialism or acronym in your document, the words should be written out with the short form placed in parentheses immediately after."
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by bobbytherobot 7y ago
The next question is, will they. I know of a town in Indiana where a surprising number of people don't get medical help. Some of it is money, but a big part is cultural. Indianapolis scares them. I dare say, for too many Indianapolis i
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by bobbytherobot 7y ago
No. You misunderstood the OPs premise. Everyone will come in contact with the virus. People under 50 years old (as recent reports have stated) have a high chance of survival. The deaths from it will mostly be from those 50 years and old. Vo
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by bobbytherobot 7y ago
Now that you mention it, I use the second person of "you."
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by bobbytherobot 7y ago
Assuming an older dev is also a higher level, they are likely to be dealing with many non-technical problems like project management and politics. As such, their big problems to solve are less the tech and all the other issues around the te
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by bobbytherobot 7y ago
Much of the money is pre-allocated by propositions
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by bobbytherobot 7y ago
What would you do with multi-threading in JS? I/O is already non-blocking which is a big reason for using multi-threading.
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by bobbytherobot 7y ago
Only if they approve it and assuming the doctor takes your insurance. They may not approve it because you are out of network, they deem it not medically required or a drug that they will not pay for because there is a generic.
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by bobbytherobot 7y ago
> they will be forced to take on weaker hires What I have seen in my experience is not a lowering of the bar for more diverse hires, but a lowering of the bar when a company wants to drastically increase its number of engineers. Yet the
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by bobbytherobot 7y ago
How do you handle other language - including JavaScript - updates for your team?
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by bobbytherobot 7y ago
A decade of working in Bay Area tech meant watching kids of rich parents get rich off dubious business plans by creating a startup in San Francisco while their parents buy them a house, pay their expenses and tap into their networks for see
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by bobbytherobot 7y ago
Not sure most managers and executives know how much hard work go into actual leadership either.
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by bobbytherobot 7y ago
Yes and no. There certainly is what you describe. They are what many people think as vegan because it is the most vocal subset of vegans. There are many who eat vegan but don't proclaim it. It is like my father-in-law who believes all

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