dunpeal

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by dunpeal 8y ago
Do you also advocate for an embargo of China, which pollutes at over twice the rate of the US? How about embargo of the EU, which currently pollutes at roughly the same rate? Did you know that energy production in the US is overall more env
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> lots of of very smart, talented instructors take on these jobs to make ends meet while they look for something else that allows them to pursue their passions with their extensive educations. My point is that you can't attract an
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> Of course, they are compensated horribly Non-tenure track academic teaching positions that pay "horribly"... I can already imagine the kind of talent they attract.
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by dunpeal 8y ago
From what I know, it's not that "people lie to themselves" about those terrible jobs, but more like the article describes: concerted effort by the employer to flood their reviews pool with inaccurate positive reviews, and muz
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by dunpeal 8y ago
Some of the worst companies I ever encountered also had the best Glassdoor reviews and scores. Sounds ironic, but makes perfect sense when you consider: 1. When a system is so easy to game simply by acting dishonestly, score will correlate
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> The only time I've done a real take-home in less than 10 hours, it was rejected for not being polished enough. Because you were competing with folks who were unemployed and probably invested 30+ hours in it.
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by dunpeal 8y ago
Not sure what you're arguing. I'm fine going through tough technical interviews. I'm not fine spending 3-5+ hours on some trivial coding task that can be gamed and was issued to me by folks who may not have even thoroughly ch
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by dunpeal 8y ago
How do you get senior candidates to spend any time and effort on submitting "work samples"? I'm a senior engineer. Last time I interviewed, I received multiple offers from brand-name employers. None of them required any work
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> They also bought Strongloop[0] a while back, so the developers from aqui-hires have to go somewhere. That would be somewhere else . Strongloop is in SV, there's no shortage of opportunity for the devs who worked there. Unless t
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by dunpeal 8y ago
I only skimmed this rant, but if one interview is terrible, then the interviewing party might be an asshole. If every interview you ever took is terrible, then you are probably the asshole.
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by dunpeal 8y ago
You don't have to use a very large vocabulary to be a solid lyricist.
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> Yeah, and how well is that going to work out for them? They should have known better than to invest in this company in the first place; companies like that are cults of personality. So you are saying the investors (who are the curren
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by dunpeal 8y ago
Just something to remember the next time a startup CEO tells you that "we" have to "work hard and give up some of our compensation" to "make a positive change in the world".
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> But I think it's very important to remember that companies can have moral standards and follow them. Many companies don't sell-out in crucial ways, and throwing one's hands up and condemning them all is punishing the on
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by dunpeal 8y ago
Either way, the truth value can be deduced by taking a hard, penetrating, objective look at the commercial entity, its policies, actions, and impacts. It is not ascertained by buying into the shallowest outer layer of its marketing veneer.
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> Why would a WeWork object to paying Neumann's rent? WeWork is bascially Neumann anyway! Why would Tesla object to buying Musk's other companies? Tesla is basically Musk anyway! The shareholders do mind, because these action
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> The entire image and “vibe” of this guy / his team is supposed to be an egalitarian re-invention of the status quo. The kibbutz story. The “community adjusted EBITDA.” The rebranding to “We.” This is all just marketing. It'
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by dunpeal 8y ago
I apologize if I came across as overly harsh. I did look up your resume, and it does confirm my assertions. In fact, you are not directly contradicting any of them. I made three assertions: 1. You will not be able to negotiate away non-comp
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by dunpeal 8y ago
Respectfully, your comment makes no sense. > Yes, you have to be good at your job and hard to replace before you make demands. You are required to sign a non-compete before accepting the job. You cannot be "hard to replace" b
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by dunpeal 8y ago
What does "open source contributions" and "community work" have to do with non-compete clauses? Non-competes prevent you from working for your employer's commercial competitors. I.E. if you leave Uber, you can'
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by dunpeal 8y ago
Of course. It also encourages competition, especially from new startups. Imagine Facebook had to wait for a couple of years to be able to hire any senior engineers with the knowledge and skills to scale their services. They would lose momen
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by dunpeal 8y ago
I'm a senior engineer, and as I said, I was never able to bargain away a single non-compete clause. Even with a smaller employer, you will need some bargaining power.
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by dunpeal 8y ago
https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-sues-former-employee-after-... https://www.geekwire.com/2017/amazon-sues-former-aws-vp-non-... https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-lawsu
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by dunpeal 8y ago
There's research that credits the fact that SV is in California and not, for example, near Cambridge MA, to the fact that non-competes aren't enforceable in California.
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by dunpeal 8y ago
My bad, it was Skype, not LinkedIn: https://www.businessinsider.com/skype-scandal-silver-lake-20...
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> A nation that does not have either strong (and not hindered by law) unions or a minimum wage to support the most vulnerable (your mention of which in the context of your comment comes across as libertarian concern trolling) does not d
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> don't listen to them GP has replied elsewhere that all his employers were startups that paid him in "worthless options". Indeed, you won't ever see $400k or even $300k working for startups that "pay" you i
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> It was always worthless Options that could never be sold. One company's options I worked for 6 years, was worth about 4K after taxes, fully vested. There's your problem. Getting paid in options is the exact mistake I'v
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by dunpeal 8y ago
Exactly. The key factor in growth is the production of goods an services. To easily demonstrate: imagine everyone stopped producing goods and services tomorrow in the US. Everyone would still have the exact same amount of money, but you wil
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by dunpeal 8y ago
You take a person that could be producing goods and services in the private sector, and pay him to work in the public sector, where he produces no such goods or services, and often is tasked with creating and enforcing regulations that limi

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