StopHammoTime

+1 on this. People forget product development is a collaborative process. If a PM is just chucking work over a fence, they’re not a PM. They can’t be doing their job effectively if they’re not spending as much time with developers as with customers.

I agree and disagree. Even competent managers and high performing teams hire people when the amount of work stress exceeds a limit and it’s mentally cheaper to onboard someone into the team.

I think hiring is all about making peoples lives easier (to the extent they’re allowed). However, there’s a cynical way to look at it and there’s a positive way to look at it as well.

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Not like that, but I worked at a startup that was on its fifth (or so) pivot. Worked many 12 hour days, heaps of crunch.

I’m still on the BP medicine because it stressed me out so much.

+1. I have a group chat with my wow friends and we have been mostly connected (with some brief periods after Cataclysm where everyone stopped playing) for almost 15 years now. We’ve had in-person meetups and I have a solid conversation with them at least once a week on voice.

Incidentally, “fell off the back of a truck” is a euphemism for stolen goods/goods of unknown origin.

When I read the summary I thought they were going to say someone flogged it.

I have many friends from New Zealand and I am under the impression from them that most housing in places like Auckland is the most expensive in the world for what it is. The prices (apparently) make purchasing housing an unattainable goal.

I think this article is making an (incorrect) assumption that an increase in new builds and land sale drives the prices down which is not necessarily the case.

How could a stolen session token even be useful. I have to log into tools every day, if I change IPs at all I have to re-authenticate, and all prod access needs to be approved and has a finite lifespan.

How could a CI company be that negligent. They should be leading this stuff from a best practice point of view.

My bank has ATMs where you drop all your coins in a hole and the notes go on a stacker. It does all that stuff automatically

If there’s a damaged or counterfeit note it spits it back out. This is certainly 100% automated and it tells you exactly how much you deposited afterwards.

There was an article on here a few days ago about a call centre outsourcer who exploits workers. They make them pay for training, giving them tiny shifts, and then when they’re available for an hour but only take one call they only get paid for the time they were on a call (even though they were chained to their desks).

Most of their workers had their own LLCs that only employed themselves. A lot of companies force people to subcontract to get out of paying benefits. The statistic is a shameful one because it is not an indicator of a society that values gumption, tenacity, and entrepreneurship - it’s an indicator of the exploration of labour and crushing one’s fellow man underfoot in the eternal march for lower margins and higher profits.

Spot on. You remunerate people based how much respect you have for them and what esteem you hold for them. If your company pays you less than you’re worth, then they clearly don’t value you.

Very few people would show up to work without the money. Let’s stop pretending they would.

Magnetic deviation might not have been an problem in a single year, but magnetic drift can be quite impactful even over a decade. It can be quite severe the further North you get which can really throw compass directions off. The airport in Fairbanks, Alaska changed its runway numbers in 2009 and will change then again in 2033[1]. This can represent anywhere between a 15-30 degree drift over the course of 20 years.

For anything more than a short jaunt (which you probably don’t need a compass for anyway), you would need to understand updated magnetic deviation regularly to navigate with confidence.

[1] https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/airport-runway-names-shift-ma...

LastPass gets hacked so often that I’m not surprised. I stopped using them about three years ago and I’m happy that I did.

I just don’t understand how they can be so consistently bad at this when they are a security company. I can understand why “Farmer Joes Potatoes” gets hacked, but LastPass? Bruh.

There needs to be a link between donations and turning off monetisation features.

Just remember, SBF wasn’t donating money to these causes: he was donating his customers assets. These organisations are lucky the assets don’t get clawed back because this money should be considered stolen or proceeds of crime.

My non-cynical take is that they have overheads for data in GDPR-esque regions. They want an excuse to easily eliminate that overhead. They can’t “just” take your money before closing so they need to justify it.

I think the point is that it's not magic, but a very clear and obvious system that's been created using native tools. I've run into a lot of people (including Senior SRE/DevOps people) who don't realise that Containers are just another process running on a system.

How come CEOs never get fired during layoffs? Laying off this much of the workforce is an indicator they have done their job poorly (I.e. failed to adequately forecast industry trends and demand). Any normal plebeian would be out the door in two minutes if they did something similar.

I only have one question to everyone here who is complaining about “job hoppers”. Do you pay more than 5% increases in salary per year for performance?

If you don’t like job hoppers, be the change you want to see in the world: create a good team, pay well, and retain your employees.

I have yet to be in a performance cycle that ever whipped out my timesheets. It has always focused on the things I have achieved, and that has resulted in a pay increase/bonus. Maybe timesheets are whipped out in a performance cycle but I think that would be an indicator you're about to hit a PIP cycle.

The only time people care about a person's timesheet is usually when they're failing to meet standard. There are some jobs, say like, manufacturing where you have to stay on a line BUT that's still not paying you for your time, you need to be on the line to meet your performance obligations as an employee. It just so happens that the time spent on the line adds up to the time you're expected to be there as an employee.

Now, that's not to say that performance expectations aren't influenced by the time a manager can squeeze out of someone. BUT, if you consistently can exceed expectations you can reduce your output to meet expectations and do something else (another job, working on open source, playing games, walking your dog, etc).

The opposite argument of course is that when you aren't meeting your expectations you are expected to work extra hours (and not get paid more). If a company has "extra" work outside of the normal expectation, they will a pay overtime or offer TOIL.

“Give”.

Taiwan have been preparing for this war since its inception. Taiwan will be going to war without Western support and I think most Taiwanese would prefer Taiwan burnt to the ground before surrendering without a fight.

If someone invaded my country there would be two outcomes: we win or I’m dead.

I personally see no ethical conundrum BUT you are better off starting your own company and consulting directly. That way there’s no middle man and you can take all your $$& to the bank.

“The 80% of the floor space that we dedicated to kind of factory-farm, battery-chicken housing for people to use their desks…” Rare to see any corporate anyone call out the modern offices for what they are.

When you are salaried, you are rewarded based on your deliverables. If you can deliver two jobs of output to satisfactory results, then who cares.

Some employers may require the full 38 hours, but let’s not forget the whole point of salary is for flexibility on behalf of the employee AND the employer. The employer may ask you to work a bit of overtime, but likewise it shouldn’t be expected that the employer “buys” you as a salaried employee. You get benefits like leave and the employer gets benefits such as you turning up every day. They pay you, you deliver results, if you don’t perform you get fired.

This is a different argument for contractors who do get paid by the hour so that starts to descend into some very ethical grey areas. Those grey areas mostly exist though because a lot of employees treat contractors like salaried employees (I.e. expectations are the same but no benefits).

I could never do it, but there isn’t really anything REALLY wrong with it.

+1 on this. If someone is as smart as they think they are, building up the team is always the best option. If you’re always going to be ahead of the curve hours out how you can make everyone perform better as a force multiplier rather than just your own performance.

I will say, I think this is a negative aspect of performance culture though: if you’re average are you going to help someone who is going to be pipped instead of you? Probably not.

It could be as high as 10% if you have a connecting flight, maybe? I’ve been fortunate enough to always fly direct and never had any lost baggage. I’ve always assumed direct is fine, it’s once you start transferring loads across different flights and codeshare carriers it starts to do awry.

Honesty with my own limitations and then planning accordingly.

I also have an inbuilt system where I just stop doing things when the bucket is full. It renders me temporarily unreliable but it’s a reliable way of shedding unnecessary load.

The one thing I dislike about these articles is that it seems to paint India as a place where skilled Engineers are not from, when in reality there are a lot of talented people in India and from India. What these stories should be saying is "inadequately trained or skilled staff outsourced to for $9-an-hour". There are plenty of good engineers in India, they just cost the same amount as good engineers in other places.

The thing that boggles my mind in regard to this is that they don’t take them to an impound lot. In Australia, if your car is towed someone then has custody of it. I guess initially the “courtesy” part is that it’s meant to be easily findable. But it sounds like having a centralised place where you can get your car and you won’t get fined sounds like less effort the the “helpful” solution.

If the local government can’t afford to tow cars to an impound lot and pay those fees, then they can’t afford to have local events. This is simply a case of having your cake and eating it too. Local government wants all the benefits of having events with none of the negatives (like actually planning and being responsible).

I actually don’t understand why there is no system where a note is issued by the tower that informs whoever that this car was moved as part of a courtesy tow and it is not subject to fines. I don’t mean a centralised system, I mean a sticker you can just bang on there. There should also be an option where you could call the DMV and they can “page” the owner to advise them were their car is located if someone is being inconvenienced by an unwanted car that has been towed.

There are so many simple options that won’t fix the issue but at least prevent it from being hellish. The fact that nothing has been done makes me feel like this is actually quite intentional on part of the parking authority for revenue reasons.

Yep, when I bought my Hilux I was told that it had an ANCAP Safety Rating of "5" (which is the highest in Australia). If I chose to get a bullbar installed, it would reduce to "4" even though I would be safer as pedestrian safety is significantly reduced and that factors into the rating.