bugsy

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by bugsy 8y ago
> The incentive was that we would have a pizza party IF we hit the deadline. This same thing happened to me when I was a wee lad. I then personally ordered and paid for a few pizzas, breadsticks, root beer, a greek salad, about $50 all t
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by bugsy 15y ago
Yes, yes and yes. Absolutely. Key parts of the sordid, brutal and shameful history of american slavery in the 20th century. US slavery in the last 100 years, and the support and defense of that slavery by the certain groups of interest, sho
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by bugsy 15y ago
That's part of the edit after an extremely useful post with insight into the reality started getting downvoted because it didn't conform with the political or whatever beliefs of the downvoters. HN would be better without the pathetic react
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by bugsy 15y ago
I remember ComputerLand stores. Sounds like he was a hard working guy who earned his success. Saipan is one of the most corrupt backwards places on earth. As a US trust territory, for many years they had slave plantations that produced clot
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by bugsy 15y ago
It's a bit frustrating to see very insightful contributions like my comment here downvoted. Downvotes isn't meant to be for good points. Let me make it more explicit though for people who have difficulty understanding things. ENGINEERS THAT
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by bugsy 15y ago
It depends on a lot of things! We'll assume that whatever it is you are having people do is something that is intrinsically rewarding, benefits them, and is not taking up their entire life. We're not talking about having interns come in and
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by bugsy 15y ago
Myself I pretty much don't do jack shit in any given hour of the year, so I guess companies that would hire me at those rates are getting ripped off since they aren't getting anything for their money. On the other hand, over the period of a
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by bugsy 15y ago
Hm, well thanks for the clarification. I just reread it several times and it's not clear. I'll agree that it's ambiguous. It would be interesting to know more. Is this a fixed 25 day cut off then, or is it prorated? Kind of alarming is the
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by bugsy 15y ago
1. Respect 2. Autonomy 3. Control None of those cost money yet so few workplaces value them since disrespect, micromanagement, and industrial era style division of labor are addictions of the corporate management crowd. It's gospel to Ivy L
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by bugsy 15y ago
This is considerably better than others since he comes out and s ays it's 30 days off. But it leaves many questions unanswered. Is it paid holiday or not? I see there is a bonus for unused days, that seems to imply it is paid holiday. The b
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by bugsy 15y ago
Yeah Bob, what about the clearance? The crazy people are the ones that won't push back at a certain point of provocation. You hear about these women that stay with abusive spouses that beat them instead of leaving or killing the guy? They a
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by bugsy 15y ago
I used to say native applications were the only way to do a lot of things like photo editing. Since then I have been proven wrong in finding photo editing and even audio production tools running in web browsers. Not the highest end stuff, b
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by bugsy 15y ago
I appreciate your insightful and relevant comment. Pity it's getting downvotes.
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by bugsy 15y ago
Are you saying then the deadline is always "ASAP"?
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by bugsy 15y ago
"Only people whose sick leave exceeded 2 standard deviation were notified" I don't understand what notified means? Notified of termination? So each year the company measured which people had the most sick days, which would of course be thos
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by bugsy 15y ago
For those that work, they do go mad. Haven't you noticed that Americans are obese drug addicts with little knowledge of world culture, don't speak any other languages at all, and love to declare war or otherwise bully anyone they can while
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by bugsy 15y ago
I am a designer, engineer and entrepreneur, but I have also taught high school in the past. As an engineer, I would not consider working for a place that had a problem with less than 4 weeks vacation. It is absolutely necessary to have that
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by bugsy 15y ago
This is the exact reason why these policies claim there is no specific time. No allocated days legally means zero days. Companies use this "flexible vacation" policy specifically so they don't have to comply with pay out in jurisdictions su
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by bugsy 15y ago
Absolutely so. I've seen this policy many times and it always results in less vacation around. Not only that but in his very post linked to he makes clear that he considers a proper 6 week vacation (I take off August like most civilized peo
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by bugsy 15y ago
Hm. The thing is, tech firms are known for having amorphous and ill defined vacation policies that seem very open in print, but in practice, no one takes it because you're not really allowed to. So I want to know. 1. What is the average num
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by bugsy 15y ago
How cool. $20,000 per text is much more than most textbook authors are claiming they are getting from the publishers.
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by bugsy 15y ago
It's a very interesting question. I use yahoo a fair bit for email accounts and for reading the news. I am not sure how they monetize this activity if at all. Recently they forced me out of the old interface with email. Now I can no longer
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by bugsy 15y ago
I've learned about a lot more than physics from Feynman. I also see little evidence that classes are taught by experts in their subject matter except at the university level, and even then only rarely. But let's post a link to Khan's commen
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by bugsy 15y ago
It's obviously not true that 40% of Europeans are not mentally ill unless mentally ill is defined so loosely as to be meaningless. But let's play the game for a moment and assume it is true. We must then ask if it is a good idea to have Dem
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by bugsy 15y ago
Regarding legal liability, it's worth noting that Yahoo! has a panel you can access that shows the ip addresses you connected from during all your recent sign ins. It's only available to the account holder. They are a big company with many
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by bugsy 15y ago
> what would you do to convince this organization that the manager is the problem Nothing. It's over. Move on. They'll eventually figure it out on their own, and there's little you can and nothing you should do to expedite that process.
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by bugsy 15y ago
Amazon's book deliveries don't require a signature. They are waiting on the front porch or the mailbox depending on which carrier was used.
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by bugsy 15y ago
Warm and fuzzy, but I have to ask how many people can honestly say they would pay a cover charge or monthly membership fee to be allowed to enter a bookstore. I suspect the number is quite low.
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by bugsy 15y ago
Plenty of facts there that's why I gave specifics. I'm curious, how well do you know Yelp's CEO Jeremy Stoppelman? Do you guys meet for coffee, or are you guys just casual acquaintances from your visits to the Yelp offices?
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by bugsy 15y ago
#1 Yep, Yelp is still a total scam despite their claims of reform everytime they get publicity about their criminal behavior. For those who ask "What crimes?", among their crimes are extortion and fraud. Deleting genuine positive reviews if

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