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I keep waiting for a law enforcement death due to a no-knock raid. With gun ownership in the US, it's only a matter of time before someone shoots someone they assume was a burglar, and since it was no-knock, just saying "FBI" isn't really enough. Anyone can break into a home and say "FBI."

Think they're going to "find" child porn?

So they're obligated to accept bribes if they're in shareholders' best interest?

In college, I was diagnosed with Aspberger's. Later, after seeing a student therapist few a years, the therapist and their supervisor (and actual psychologist) didn't think I do. It made me wonder if the original diagnosis was the lazy, obvious one, and something else is going on.

I wasn't a "golden child," but growing up, the thing adults praised me for was my intelligence. Not being in a good school district, I skipped a grade. Thinking about the different opinions of the therapists, I wonder if my emotional immaturity relative to my peers, always being eager to show off my intelligence, and disadvantage at sports isolated me from my peers, hurting my social development.

C++ was the right choice for broader organizational reasons, but the wrong choice for what the project needs.

In a few months, I might be switching to a team with a C++ project. A lot of the team is new to C++, and there's nothing about the project that needs C++, Java would have been fine.

This doesn't look very fun.

It's possible that the client blindly fetches a mapping from keyword to ads, saw the keyword client-side, then requested the ad.

But do the teams know that? I love picking on Timnit Gebru and her time at Google. She clearly didn't know what her actual job was, which is funny because she seems to be good at marketing herself. You think she'd know Google was using her for marketing.

His resume has some impressive accomplishments, but has enough BS that it makes me suspicious of what teaching courses on ethical design actually entails.

Probably best not to tell HR that there's a joke going around that your team should be laid off. Wouldn't want to give them any ideas.

Has any one seen teams like this actually work? They seem to mostly exist for PR purposes.

Now they just ask your cell phone company.

For several months, keyless entry stopped working on my car. It fixed itself. My unlikely conspiracy theory is I was being tracked and interference kept the keyfob from working.

a genre of checking off boxes and making numbers go up, along a linear way as laid out by the developers for you

Feels like a FAANG job

Frances Haugen, a former Facebook executive,

Wasn't she just a product manager?

Once collected, this information is analyzed, compiled, and sold to any interested parties willing to pay for it.

The part about selling isn't true. Google and Facebook slurp in a lot of data, but they hoard it. It's only "sold" by allowing advertisers to target against it.

Google claims

we do not sell your personal information to anyone.

Facebook claims

No, we don't sell your information.

Maybe there's an asterisk when it comes to heavily aggregated data, and they both work with legitimate researchers, but big tech selling your data isn't true. A bunch of medium-sized adtech players you've never heard of sell your data.

You skipped a step. They actively contributed to mercurial before the full fork.

Smart...pleasant to work with

Does anyone have tips for having high code standards, but still pleasant to work with? I got feedback that I have high standards, but I also go to the effort of explaining why I think an approach is better in code reviews and don't talk down to people in code reviews (and got feedback saying this), but I'm not sure it's enough.

There are worse ways to go. You'd lose consciousness in just a few seconds from a sudden drop in blood pressure.

You didn't get a burner smart phone once Apple and Google added covid trackers?

Third, these radars have been in operation for decades. You are talking about thousands of planes that have to be modified to accommodate telcos.

Perhaps Boeing should have bid of the spectrum that their products depend on being unused.

This is essentially the government leasing out previously unused federal land for mineral extraction and a nearby rancher saying "it ruins my view," only with safety concerns added in.

it shows that you can work with others

Nope.

and that people like you enough to put you there.

This. This is all it shows.

Heh. He was the submitter. From a green account.

Funny enough, he was a little bitter about being down-leveled, but it looks like that was the right call.

The puke emoji was especially unwarranted. Templating engines are templating engines.

He wanted to write a SPA. Instead he was writing Rails.

This is the quote that is especially telling:

I asked myself the question, "Am I becoming a better frontend developer through this experience?" and the answer was of course no.

He didn't think he was getting better by learning different approaches to solving the same problem? He doesn't think that more server-side code would make him understand the context of frontend development better?

Funny enough, I'd buy "I don't enjoy the work" or "Rails is outdated" (this is debatable) over his complaints.

I love how student government teaches you how government really works. The election is a popularity contest for a puppet regime with no real power, but you can pat yourself on the back and take price in the democratic process.

Not many others from him on his issues with work conditions (there were others from other people about Amazon). He actually contradicts himself. This is him describing alleged intimidation after he because active in the union (emphasis added):

Everyone else working around me was working at their own pace and he was just on me sending me more carts to sort and telling me to work faster

One reason he gave for joining the union was "the warehouse’s extremely rapid pace of work."

He has the same rights on paper, but that's not how it works. Say "it's not fair" all you want, but if you screw over society, society isn't going to trust you the same way as someone with a clear record, and you're going to have to prove yourself. I obviously know he's not going to read this, but he doesn't strike me as a reliable source of information either, so I'm just not too concerned with what happened.

It's really hard to say because the article limited it to this:

During his second week at Amazon, Smith was approached by workers involved in organizing the Amazon Labor Union. Although Smith loved his job, he thought there were things that could be improved. In particular, he said, he was concerned about the warehouse’s extremely rapid pace of work and lack of breaks.