shaggyfrog

Louis Rossmann is a well-known figure in the maker/hacker spaces. He has been making top-notch instructional videos for a long time.

Amazon is one of the largest tech companies in the world.

Amazon's hostile relationship to their users and abuse of their monopoly position are important, frequent topics of conversation (especially on HN). That such an abusive action happened to someone like Rossmann means it can happen to anyone.

Summarizing what happened "eceleb drama" is not just inaccurate, but totally bad faith.

I hear that 2023 is going to be the Year of Linux on the Desktop!

There’s a great video by NativLang on different kinship systems: https://youtu.be/YOi2c2d3_Lk

The system is designed so that most of the staffing budget goes to new hires, not to reward existing employees.

Organizations undervalue their employees, encouraging brain drain, and then wonder why retention is such a hard problem. It's almost comical.

It also doesn't help that salary sharing is still so taboo (in the US/Canada at least). Stinginess is hard to do when people know what they're worth and know what you're paying everyone else.

Now that I see it from the manager perspective, I pledge to stay sharp and become a job hopper ... as soon as I find the time to start interviewing. :^)

It's true that interviewing takes up a lot of time, but you can accomplish a lot just by doing low-stakes networking. Connecting with someone new over coffee at a cafe (and/or virtually) is a 15-30 minutes, every once-and-a-while kind of thing. Even better if you interact with them before/after on social media.

"Because I paid for the game, and despite the fact I was happy to pay for it and I enjoy playing it, I think everyone else should need to pay for it, too. Otherwise all that enjoyment I had will be undone."

c.f.: sunk cost fallacy

What would happen if the Colorado state legislature passed a law that said you can't sell goods or services to people in Colorado if you refuse employment to people in Colorado?

Don't use the Zoom app. Load meetings in an incognito/private/whatever browser window, and cancel the automatic download it prompts you with, then click Join In Browser.

Nothing about this company's attitude towards privacy has changed in years.

Based on my personal experience of automated testing in AAA games, even if you "only" count the overlap with the actions humans take, it's a huge overlap in practice. And while there are edge cases only humans find, automated testing finds bugs humans don't.

The point of that section is that the earlier you find bugs, the quicker you fix them, and you end up with less overall pain for the length of the project.

Asking for money from candidates as a pay-to-get-hired scheme is evil for the same idea that unpaid internships are evil. Taking it to the next level, it's offering jobs to people with wealth who have networks with wealth. Hyper-discriminatory.

There used to be a time when companies saw employees as long-term assets, to be invested in, educated and trained, given space to grow and learn. Here, they're seen as such liabilities that they need to mitigate the financial risk a company could possibly take, but still ultimately be as disposable as ever.

It's the most crass, base form of rent-seeking I've seen from a YC company.

No wonder they got funded...

(I wouldn’t hire again but they did a fine job)

This alone makes no sense to me. It's a contradiction.

So I assume the website/author thinks they're a kind of mega-hustler 1000x developer or something.

Facebook is a massively evil company, a true net-negative to life on earth, a destroyer of personal privacy, responsible for facilitating genocides, constantly lying to its users, the most egregious example of how corruptive a monopolistic corporation can be on a society at a global level.

If this recruiter is to believed -- and I wouldn't believe a goddamn word of any of it -- there are all these poor, principled people who really truly want to "make Facebook better" but dangnabit they just don't have critical mass yet.

Bullshit. All of it.

This is a carefully calculated response, like all of Facebook's responses (PR or otherwise), to make you drop your guard and stop using your critical thinking faculties. It's a siren song, with promises of six figures and early retirement.

Listen... if you're at Facebook, you've personally made a decision that you'd rather collect your paycheque than stop contributing to the beast that surrounds you. You're fine with the pervasive corruption and rampant disinformation and hypocrisy because you're making bank. Don't be shy. Own it. Say it with a full chest. At least it would be genuine.

But don't lie to yourself, or your coworkers, or anyone outside the company, and say you're trying to "make Facebook better". It can't be made "better" in its current form. It will never be better. It needs to be dismantled. It needs to be put on trial. It needs to be bled dry.

Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Everything/whatever. Most recent: Python (Django), Kotlin, Java (Spring), JavaScript. Before that: iOS/OSX/Linux/Windows (C/C++/Objective-C), Bash, Perl. 15 years ago: MSc in AI (heuristic search).

Résumé/CV: See LinkedIn and/or request via e-mail

Email: thauk@ualberta.net

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomashauk

Stack Overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/users/161161/shaggy-frog

First Computer: Atari 800 (Logo and BASIC)

Cake: !YES!

Copy & Paste Messages: no thank you

Contract position preferred. Companies that skip whiteboard/coderpad challenges preferred. Money/term not a priority at this stage in my life compared to doing meaningful work.

I'm a proud generalist. I add value. I care about my work. I get stuff done. I deliver. Send me an e-mail!

Create a firewall between your personal and professional time. Another name for this is “setting healthy boundaries”.

Always create new accounts for anything work related -- GitHub, Apple ID, whatever.

Don’t install work apps on your personal phone. Don’t enrol your personal phone in corporate MDM. If they want you to use a device for work, ask them to give you one.

Don’t do personal stuff on your work devices. Don’t do side project work on your work devices. Only do work for your employer on your work devices. Turn it off when you’re done work and leave it off until you start work the next day.

Be very clear on all your contractual obligations related to this before you start a new job. Ask to see ahead of time all the paperwork they will ask you to sign, so there are no last-minute surprises (“oh, you want to own anything I create outside of working hours?”).

Firewall yourself to protect yourself.

Edit: One more: don’t use corporate WiFi with your personal devices

looks like someone with the same name as the author? that seems kind of unlikely

Unlikely, yes, but not impossible.

I mean at that point you’re advocating for the author to not have any identity

I am not advocating that at all. Please don't put words in my mouth.

That way nobody gets hurt and you can move on.

Until you generate a photo that actually does look like someone, and that person becomes targeted as a result.

Shitty article by a shitty user with a shitty submission history. How has it lived for so long on the front page? Who upvotes this?

The poor pay a disproportionate amount of taxes for what they get back. They certainly pay more than the billionaire class does. Perhaps the lack of funding has to do with power structures more than some subjective measure of utility.

Why don't we talk about raising taxes when we want to raise spending for ("subsidize") the police, or the military? Why does it only seem to be a concern when we're talking about services like public transportation?

Where are people opposed to taxes being used to fund fire departments, and why?

Why don't we see public transportation as one of your "public goods"?

Is it possible those people who you say are so concerned about value are maybe not seeing how they gain from having public transportation for their community, or are they more concerned about someone else deriving more value from a service than they would?

Why would public transportation need to be paid for by "boosted commerce" to be beneficial? Why does it need to be profitable?

As a public service, do we ask fire departments to be profitable? What consequences happen when we try and make other essential services profitable, e.g. police?

Should armed forces be made to be profitable?

How do you define profitability in the first place... how do you define the costs and benefits?

Why does this question only ever seem to come up when we're talking about things that raise quality of life for the poor?

This is a textbook non-apology and is just further reason to keep this researcher (and whoever else was involved) banned from ever contributing again.

The classic American story of condemning a child to a life of incarceration and criminality because a family is too poor to afford to replace an accidentally broken school laptop (and has no other computer)...

Foreign ownership has been shown conclusively to be a major factor, if not the most important, in real estate pricing in Vancouver.

The foreign buyers tax and the speculation tax had a demonstrable effect on the market here in Vancouver: https://twitter.com/ianjamesyoung70/status/13712123551708323...

Meanwhile, real estate prices are up for the whole country: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/housing-bubble-small-towns-...

This has always drove me bananas, too. I still have 10.14 but `defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleShowScrollBars -string "Always"` has worked for me for years now. Does it work in 10.15?

This argument is as predictable as much as it is done in bad faith.

No one is calling for this person to be erased from history. They are asking that he no longer be honoured as a consequence of what he said.

Indeed, teaching people what he did and said will be the best way to prevent history from repeating.

Egads. The term is "generalist", and has been for decades.

No one would or should say "short & fat".

And yes, generalists are undervalued.

As a Canadian, Vancouver resident, and software developer, I certainly don’t approve of the discount all software companies get here, including ones based here. Not only do companies pay out 60 cents on the dollar, they can also qualify for large refundable tax credit subsidies from provincial and federal governments.

In other words, there are plenty of your “home-grown studios” here, who benefit from the manipulated market created by the multinationals that came before them.

Salaries won’t rise to meet parity until labour gets organized, but as a previous commenter pointed out about labour laws and overtime pay, it’s a massive uphill battle.

This article has almost as many upvotes as that one you’ve linked to, so the criteria doesn’t seem to be very clear.

There might be a brief back & forth between users flag/vouch but yes, it seems to be getting shitcanned simply because it's about PG. With 22 upvotes currently, I would hope @dang can keep it on the front page for a while.