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by weej 3y ago
Netflix employee here, there are no "mass layoffs" that I'm aware of (would also have WARN act require issue of notice >75 employees). We have involuntary attrition when people do not meet "the keepers test" in
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by weej 4y ago
> This dramatically limits the levers that can be pulled. I don't disagree, but this feels like slapping a bandaid on a bullet wound. It's unclear to me how this will fundamentally make improvements at the source of the proble
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by weej 4y ago
>> "we are forced to own nothing and be happy. Bitcoin, Blockchain and crypto solves this." Serious question, what/where does this apply to? I get NFTs for digital authenticity, but PKI solves this too. How does one &q
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by weej 4y ago
Fair point. Out of sight out of mind and reduces ability for advancement up the corporate ladder. It plays a role in office politics and positioning for better or worse in organizational structures and accolades.
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by weej 4y ago
Laszlo Bock was recently interviewed on this topic via Fortune (article below), and I tend to agree with him. It will be a slow roll over time for most companies returning to work (see Apple taking harder stance) with some exceptions on hy
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by weej 4y ago
My time at Dell immediately brought this to mind. No coffee offered other than overpriced you had to purchase from the cafeteria. I brought in my own espresso and coffee maker, and got chastised by facilities as a fire hazard. We weren&#
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by weej 5y ago
>> saw it coming a mile away You're telling me. (not so humble brag) I developed a software solution and 3 patents granted over 10 years ago to stop these kind of shenanigans. Ahead of our time. *Unfortunately, matrix barcodes
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by weej 6y ago
"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." - Edsger Dijkstra
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by weej 6y ago
For those suffering from depression, anxiety, stress please consider meeting with a psychiatrist and psychologist. Some brains are neurologically misconfigured and prone to chemical depletion or lack receptors for it (ex: serotonin or dopam
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by weej 6y ago
But did you lower the price then raise it? That's the key differentiator in the customer/retailer relationship that I believe the parent comment made.
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by weej 6y ago
Yes, we're hiring in L.A. too. I'm the Director of the teams. We are hiring in L.A. The JD specific location has not been posted yet, but we are hiring in L.A. in addition to Los Gatos. If you're based out of L.A. and int
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by weej 6y ago
Netflix | Sr. Software Eng. | Full-time | Onsite | Los Angeles or Los Gatos, CA | https://jobs.netflix.com/jobs/870669 We're building the world's first global, digital studio. If you're interested in lea
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by weej 6y ago
A bit of the out of sight out of mind at play? Curious too as to how much visibility into efforts of remote employees (wins) were shared, celebrated and known across the company vs. folks in person that have a better platform to promote th
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by weej 6y ago
This. IMO it's very difficult to establish trust in new relationships especially when remote.
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by weej 6y ago
Thanks for sharing. This is great. I appreciate the additional insight in the comments on the software behind it for the guitar effects & tones. Kudos on the experimentation and iterations to meet your needs. Wish I would have seen
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by weej 6y ago
It also assumes malicious request have same or similar signature attributes (ex: IP addr, http hdrs), which is not always the case.
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by weej 6y ago
>"The bear population has quadrupled" Isn't this due to hibernation concluding and Spring arriving?
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by weej 6y ago
Nice find! Appreciate it.
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Ask HN: Must Read from ACM Library?
239 points by weej 6y ago|46 comments
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by weej 6y ago
Odd, overlays notification banner for me. Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/EVHdD8W
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by weej 6y ago
Dammit. I was hoping this wasn't the case. I got too excited posting prior to verifying.
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Udacity free access for a month to nano degrees(udacity.com)
7 points by weej 6y ago|5 comments
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by weej 7y ago
"This guidance does not change the April 15 filing deadline." This is also solely related to federal income tax payment not the filing.
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by weej 7y ago
You're right. My mistake. I intermixed the two as delayed income tax payment also applied to filing, which didn't, until today.
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by weej 7y ago
The announcement from the IRS can be found here: https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/payment-deadline-extended-to-ju...
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by weej 7y ago
Took a little longer than it should have to find the formal announcement https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/payment-deadline-extended-to-ju...
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by weej 7y ago
I'm having PTSD just thinking about updates of YY to CCYY in mainframe code. Very real and heavy investment across numerous industries from aviation to financial and more. At a macro level, I remember it being pretty well managed ris
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by weej 7y ago
You didn't hear? DEFCON is cancelled. ;-)
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by weej 7y ago
Bizarre: In chrome this is rendering as strange character set in UTF8, but HTML source shows correct english text output. https://imgur.com/a/18CJCDY
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by weej 7y ago
Perfection is the enemy of good enough. BUT...technical debt does factor in when choosing the easier route that may incur longer-term problems with short cuts.

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