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by learc83 5y ago
I worked for a start up that sourced truck drivers. One of the major factors is that sign on bonuses tend to be bigger than any kind of retention pay. So the 94% turnover is misleading. Truckers are generally leaving for a sign on bonus at
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by learc83 5y ago
The difference is that when you press enter I get an alert. Then you take 30 seconds or 2 minutes (or more) to think through and type out your question. Now I just have to sit there waiting for your question.
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by learc83 5y ago
You can say hi + ask a question in the same message. So I don’t really see how: Hi. <Press enter> <Ask Question> Is any more polite than: Hi. <Ask Question>
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by learc83 5y ago
He’s the vice chairman of the intelligence committee. He is one of 4 members of congress who have much more access to intelligence.
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by learc83 5y ago
The difference is China would likely cut off banks and countries who “hurt the feelings of the Chinese people”, i.e., refer to Taiwan as a country, or refuse to recognize the 9-dash line, or comment on their human rights abuses.
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by learc83 5y ago
That's a nice succinct way of putting it!
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by learc83 5y ago
Misunderstanding ECS is very common. Mostly because the name includes entity and component, so many people think that any architecture where you have an entity container with behavior defined in components is an ECS.
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by learc83 5y ago
Yes those discrepancies exist. But they are almost always a result of imperfect information at hiring. No one hired 2 people into the same role assuming that one would only be half as productive as the average and one would be 2x more produ
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by learc83 5y ago
>In the real world, companies can't go down to the local "Employee Store" and order up a 12 year engineer with a PhD whenever they want, even if that's what they would prefer. I have hired many employees throughout my
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by learc83 5y ago
Then you post 2 different job listings. It’s not hard. You’d write 2 very different descriptions for someone those 2 hypothetical candidates anyway. You also don’t need put $50k-$5,000,000 just in case John Carmack applies. If he does happe
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by learc83 5y ago
Companies do this all the time. There’s generally no problem with it. We have an opening for an staff engineer at work, but we’d settle for a senior engineer. We definitely wouldn’t hire an unqualified person as staff and just pay them less
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by learc83 5y ago
It’s also very easy to just give the higher paid person a different title. Surely if they are worth 50% more, you can give them a better title to go along with it.
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by learc83 5y ago
>2 years of experience vs PhD and 12 years of experience for a similar position Why would you hire those 2 people for the same position? If the PhD with 12 years of experience is worth 50% more, then why not give them a better title?
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by learc83 5y ago
Instead of having 1 role with such a huge gap. Why not multiple roles. If you find a candidate who you really think is worth 50% more than the average salary for Role X, then obviously that candidate is qualified for Role X + 1.
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by learc83 5y ago
Not sure how much cash those people think that ATM can hold.
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by learc83 5y ago
The difference being that lawyers generally need to pass the bar exam once. You need to brush up on your leetcode every few years.
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by learc83 5y ago
I’ve always been able to successfully negotiate those IP ownership clauses. Usually without any hassle at all.
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by learc83 5y ago
I’m not arguing about setting up your own infrastructure. Heroku launched when rails was 2 years old. What’s the point of this comparison if you arbitrarily handicap the most common rails deployment environment?
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by learc83 5y ago
I was around in the early 2000s, and you certainly didn’t need a 3.5 GPA from a top tier school for anything but a very small handful of companies. In the early 2000s, you could get decent work just knowing HTML.
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by learc83 5y ago
> As someone who leans frontend > I would second guess SaaS startups that start by building the infra/data models unless they’re going for a highly technical play Do you not see the problem with these 2 statements. Of course not
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by learc83 5y ago
When was this? Maybe If you’re talking exclusively about FAANG.
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by learc83 5y ago
Sorry I wasn’t clear. I got 6 weeks of paternity leave. I just didn’t take it until my wife finished her 12 weeks of (unpaid) maternity leave. Still super lucky to have that!
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by learc83 5y ago
It’s not really that bad for every baby. I have a 4 month old, and I’ve managed to get a few chapters of a technical book I’m writing and illustrating done during the last month on paternity leave. After a month or so he started mostly slee
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by learc83 5y ago
Michael Phelps directly says in one of his auto biographies that he was eating 8-10k calories a day. I don’t think you can call that a rumor. Of course he could be off a bit, but it seems unlikely that he’s off by a factor of 2. He lists th
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by learc83 5y ago
How do his results line up real world data like soldiers needing about 5k calories a day when active. Or athletes like Michael Phelps consuming 8k-10k calories a day while training?
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by learc83 5y ago
The surviving craftsman homes, which weren’t average for the time time due to survivorship bias, are more likely to be built in higher density walkable environments closer to urban cores. Real estate in those areas is more valuable in gener
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by learc83 5y ago
There’s probably some an element of fashion to it, but there’s also a technical element. Engineered lumber allows for cheaper, larger unsupported spans. Cooking is also less frequent, extraction fans are better/cheaper, we don’t use wo
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by learc83 5y ago
The average craftsman home built 100 years ago isn’t going for the same price as a 25 year old house. The craftsman homes that have survived for 100 years in good condition are. That’s a very different thing. Old houses also have tons of pr
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by learc83 5y ago
Many houses built 100 years ago were incredibly shoddily built / assembled. Have you ever looked at the foundations on old houses? Wooden piers that are lucky to last 40 years were very common. You’re seeing survivorship bias at work.
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by learc83 5y ago
This was a proposed RFC that wasn’t adopted. For another take on the Robustness Principal/Postel’s Law by a proponent see this blog post: https://apenwarr.ca/log/20090222

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