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by codeonfire 10y ago
What tends to happen is an executive makes an offhand remark in a meeting about a technology and five mid-level people pick up on it. They each tell 2-3 low level managers to work on it. By the time the project gets to individual contribu
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by codeonfire 10y ago
I actually like this because it's probably challenging and ammo at review/promotion time. If it isn't appreciated monetarily then it will just be used as interview content for my next job.
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by codeonfire 10y ago
This is obvious in the workplace. Here are some of the things that lack of power/autonomy will lead to: - Being forced to do work assigned to someone else. - Being forced to do work for which someone else will receive credit or compen
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by codeonfire 11y ago
You get 100k per year or over 4 years?
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by codeonfire 11y ago
This new idea is old as time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boarding_house
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by codeonfire 11y ago
5. No technical interview. I understand there are lots of fakers and people that overestimate their abilities, but all my degrees and experience should be enough for you. So lets skip to the part about whether we like each other enough to
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by codeonfire 11y ago
It doesn't sound like you know very much about Amazon. First, Jeff Bezos is a libertarian and so is Amazon. What that means is if they can take your shit they will and they'll feel good about it and totally justified because aft
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by codeonfire 11y ago
Hard drives have a universal interface for reading out their contents without modification. Most jurors would understand that. Many jurors would equate drastically modifying a device as tampering. Chain of custody doesn't matter. W
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by codeonfire 11y ago
The device is evidence, so all of you saying they can just start desoldering things and such need to think about that. What is the first thing a defense attorney would say if the data were to be used in a criminal trial? That's right
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by codeonfire 11y ago
Probably wasting so much time trying to make languages work that weren't really necessary. I spent so much time messing with C++ and performance and it was pointless because CPU's went from 4.77 Mhz to 3 Ghz. Also I probably wou
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by codeonfire 11y ago
>is there a better way to convey the mental model of a software system? There is UML but that's mainly to explain stuff to non-engineers and turned out to be a total waste of time in 90% of cases. Documentation becomes rapidly outd
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by codeonfire 11y ago
I find the people that like lots of strictness and rules are usually managers or high level non-coding engineers. Usually these people are trying to limit development rate to something they can have control over. Usually by complaining ab
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by codeonfire 11y ago
Exactly. my current employer has a five year vesting schedule. Who cares about five years? I demanded more base. If you are at a company longer than one year you are in serious trouble. Sorry, but corporations and the scuzzy managers b
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by codeonfire 11y ago
I went to work and didn't have to deal with any weasles. No one tried to bullshit my manager or his manager at my expense. I didn't have to deal with stupid people trying to make themselves look smarter than they are, try to tak
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by codeonfire 11y ago
I'm speaking from first hand conversations with H1B's who go on about how their company is holding this or that over their head such as green card sponsorship. You are completely ignored my point that those employers can hire tho
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by codeonfire 11y ago
>look for talent wherever in the world it is available without having to open up offices there It's not. Most large companies already have offices over there and could hire those people tomorrow if they wanted to. They bring peopl
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by codeonfire 11y ago
http://www.design.caltech.edu/erik/Misc/Prepare_3_Envelopes.... Why is Yahoo so politicized and who cares? I think Yahoo is no different from any other large corporation. It's just that the players are enga
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by codeonfire 11y ago
Too bad. You got caught, and you probably are not as knowledgeable, valuable, or as skilled as you and your friends think you are. Kudos to Google for doing background checks. They should start doing retroactive background checks as all
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by codeonfire 11y ago
Ok, Canada.
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by codeonfire 11y ago
That does not compute. The US is already the most expensive place to move employees even with H1B scams factored in, so if employers were price sensitive they would just hire those people in Bangalore, Dublin, and Vancouver right now. Wha
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by codeonfire 11y ago
They don't need a backdoor. They take your phone and demand the key. If you don't give it you will never see your phone again. Do you think they just thumb through your emails or, being a government institution, plug it in and
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by codeonfire 11y ago
No it's not unproductive. It's better and more realistic. What will happen is that your hiring manager goes away after three months because managers are always trying to reorg and hire people beneath them to save their ass. You
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by codeonfire 11y ago
They took my iPhone as well and demanded the code a while back for no reason except that I was traveling alone. I imagine they wanted to dig for info on my employer because that's the question they strangely asked at the highway booth
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by codeonfire 11y ago
Well, there are some foolish companies out there that trust in 'social proof' as you put it, so it is possible to get jobs that way. By beholden I mean that if the only reason you able to keep a job is on the word of another low
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by codeonfire 11y ago
Do what you need to do to get a job, but this makes you beholden to your friends for a job. Plus you can only work where your connections work. Could you get a job without connections just based on qualifications?
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by codeonfire 11y ago
Not to be condescending, but I don't have a network and I think you're logic is wrong. Networking is a waste of time for rank and file workers in certain tech jobs. If you're not in a position of power or in a "social&
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by codeonfire 11y ago
SWF is a developer tar baby. Don't touch. It's incredibly complex for what little it does. At the service side, a simple queue server would replace it. Everything about the 'workflow' is implemented on the client usi
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by codeonfire 11y ago
What would be the result of that? You appeal and find, oh management really did make a mistake and is incompetent of it's primary purpose of evaluating employee performance correctly. AND, management did in fact discriminate and now
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by codeonfire 11y ago
There's nothing to say about HR corruption really except "No shit." Anybody who has had a non-management job has been subject to this type of corruption by corporate HR departments for their entire working lives. The only t
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by codeonfire 11y ago
In the workplace it's useful to follow counterintelligence strategies. Send yourself outlandish job offers from spoofed addresses, for example. The possibilities are endless.

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