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by codeonfire 10y ago
Yep, letters cost almost nothing to send. Almost all employees have nothing to worry about for one reason. The corp will not go ahead with a lawsuit because the employee will almost always have no money or assets to take. It's amazi
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by codeonfire 10y ago
Non-compete lawsuits are typically only worth it for VP level people who have strategic secrets. No one cares about or sues 99.9% of workers who go work somewhere else.
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by codeonfire 10y ago
Quit the company or get some cardboard to put around your workstation.
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by codeonfire 10y ago
The government defines certain classes of people and if you are not in that class the law will do nothing to stop discrimination against you. Many types of discrimination are legal. For instance movie studios can refuse to hire a black or
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by codeonfire 10y ago
Typical ageist bullshit. Your argument is if someone is good at something then they are probably not doing it anymore. Newsflash, you were moved out of dev because you have some issue. Most people avoid "architects" which is co
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by codeonfire 10y ago
Yeah, sounds like a good deal. I will apply to one of these blatant all asian shops that happen to have a government contract and file an EEOC claim. I will get back pay when I am predictably not hired as they have essentially zero non-as
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by codeonfire 10y ago
It doesn't even matter what Palantir's intentions are, the regulators argument doesn't pass the smell test. Under their standard 5 million foreign nationals could stuff the application box and US contractors would be forced
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by codeonfire 10y ago
I don't think the regulators have a case. The applicants failed the phone screens. Apparently U.S. regulators don't think Asians can fail to be qualified or that they are qualified simply for being Asian. They don't define
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by codeonfire 10y ago
Just a few questions. Are you doing this because of white guilt? Do you come from a wealthy white background? Do you/did you have a trust fund? What about the tens of millions of dirt poor non-minorities in the country? Do you thi
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by codeonfire 10y ago
Green card holders and those seeking permanent resident status have presumably announced their intent to become Americans. If they are trying to use their position in America to send jobs and offices back to India then that's their po
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by codeonfire 10y ago
Lots of Indians in tech work their way into management and then try to bring home the bacon back to India. They continue identifying as Indian nationals even after going through grad school, green card, etc. You may not have noticed but t
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by codeonfire 10y ago
Like it or not, that fee affects ability to negotiate compensation. Given a pool of equivalently skilled people, the one that doesn't come with a fee is going to be able to negotiate and get the job.
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by codeonfire 10y ago
In my experience it's recruiters who get the salary and level wrong. I have a lot of experience, but I still get tons of spam that read "mid-level Java programmer 2+ years of experience, must have J2EE." They don't eve
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by codeonfire 10y ago
Why use recruiters? They just submit your resume to an employer like you could have done in 5 minutes. For that five minute action they want to collect a $10-20k fee. That comes out of your pocket. Plus they do ridiculous things like wa
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by codeonfire 10y ago
Thats an odd place. Lots of natural fossil energy, low population, nearby wind capacity already exists. I guess they did the math though.
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by codeonfire 10y ago
In 50 years people will know what your degree is and your university will probably still be around. Udacity will be long gone and no one will know what a nanodegree is.
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by codeonfire 10y ago
Is the company making enough money to pay me at my experience level but not so much that it is runaway money politics. Are there lots of inexperienced people at the company that just want to be in charge. The scene in There Will Be Blood
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by codeonfire 10y ago
Google is just another big company at this point. They want early career people because everybody there thinks that he/she is the expert.
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by codeonfire 10y ago
Every article about apartment buildings complains that new buildings are simple, ugly boxes and should be more artistic flowing examples of the character of the neighborhood. In private homes everything is too complex, unbalanced and dispr
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by codeonfire 10y ago
You don't understand big company politics. Number of reports determines whether a person is a manager, senior manager, or director and makes $120k, $170k, or $350k. The main metric of how good a manager is is simply butts in seat. A
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by codeonfire 10y ago
Yeah, well maybe there is a lot of slack that could be taken up in those other industries. Air transportation does not seem like one that needs disrupted or should be disrupted. The fact that it works at all is amazing.
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by codeonfire 10y ago
Hubris. Amazon thinks they can do every other industry better than the status quo. Let's see what happens when Amazon tries to assign pilot scores and account for fuel by the liter. Amazon is going to have to deal with real unions n
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by codeonfire 10y ago
If there is a pattern, yes. Nothing I do comes remotely close to accidentally installing malware. If they install malware it is probably because they are using their work-owned computer as their personal computer. If they are doing that
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by codeonfire 10y ago
I think most developers would quit if not given sudo access to their machines. Don't use windows and fire people who manage to install malware. Most companies use some sort of remote management app no one except IT cares about. Yes,
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by codeonfire 10y ago
In the real world performance review is useless. Would you trust Trump's reviews of Hillary as a cabinet leader or Hillary's reviews of Trump as a businessman? In the real world people just go through the motions of performance
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by codeonfire 10y ago
A while back. It was fairly clear to me that they thought they were going to herd everyone into a walled garden with their surface/ windows 8 RT strategy which obviously did not work. They had planned to muddle the market so customer
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by codeonfire 10y ago
Maybe, IANAL but the article seems presumptuous since neither the executive branch nor legislature have or control courts. Warrants are not needed to search a car either, but a data center is not a car.
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by codeonfire 10y ago
How does extradition apply as there is no person to be extradited? The feds would also not be able to legally search because of this little thing called the fourth amendment and the fact that there is no court sanctioning the search.
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by codeonfire 10y ago
How are they going to 'serve' warrants when foreign governments have no police force in the U.S. Why wouldn't a company simply just ignore any warrants they receive as this scheme seems highly illegal. The Obama administrat
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by codeonfire 10y ago
I wouldn't call these companies "high tier." They are big and have a lot of money but mainly rely on interns to keep their decades old cash cows going.

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