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This is an extraordinary and disingenuous leap, and it doesn't even merit responding to as a proxy for your willingness to engage with others, but to make the superficially obvious point more crystal clear: the existence of folks who prefer the communal and social aspects of work in a common location is not up for debate, and no, their preference on this subject does not imply that they uniformly think everyone should share their preference.

Please take a deep breath and consider the extent to which your unwillingness to even acknowledge the existence of people who don't share your opinion may harm, rather than help, your cause.

Probably not, which is why an attrition strategy might work for both downsizing and trimming the fat, as the less motivated/willing to drink the "kool-aid" are filtered out and not replaced.

Sure, but -- if you're reading tutorials to learn yourself enough k8s to do damage, as provided in the link we're commenting on -- you don't know k8s. Parent is a reasonable question for this thread.

I would definitely pay at least the cost of a good eBook or two for this

I read the parent's emphasis in "even if they wanted to follow the law in good faith" on even. It's quite possible they agree and meant:

I don't think they want to follow the law in good faith, but even if they did, they'd have to shut down while they restructure to accommodate the law, so this outcome doesn't tell us much about their thinking yet.

I'm no expert, but my understanding is that pig is a combination of

- a language for specifying data transformations, and

- an engine to compile programs written in that language into mapreduce jobs to execute on a hadoop cluster

it was designed to easily map some common functional and SQL idioms (e.g. filter, group by w/ aggregation functions) to parallel execution for processing huge amounts of data.

Impala is another big data project that is an engine for planning and executing SQL on data stored in a hadoop cluster.

Zookeeper is... black magic??

You've brought exactly as many sources to bear in this conversation as the parent you've replied to, which is to say, none. When admonishing others for their lack of sources and making a counterclaim, you may want to consider providing the source yourself.

As for sources of evidence suggesting disproportionate use of force against black persons, here's one to consider:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6080222/

Victims of fatal shootings by police were majority white, but disproportionately black. Additionally, black individuals were unarmed when fatally shot more frequently than white persons.

Sure, no arguments here about the existence of a top end — that’s moving the goalposts though. There is not a hard cap at 160K.

As an aside, is this materially different than any other FAANG? All the offers I’ve seen when browsing tools like levels.fyi scale much faster in stock/bonus compensation than in salary.

There are a large number of salaries reported in excess of 160K therein.

That is not true for at least SDE positions. See: https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Amazon&track=Software%20Engi...

If you have an issue with the content of the OP's comments, you should address it directly. Dismissing a comment because an account is new is weak.

I am indeed glad to hear that! You are a very prolific programmer. I’m hope you’re proud of your work and that you keep it up!

Thank you for posting!

I’m grateful to hear your story. These days, it seems all too easy to see only the bad sides of the internet.

It feels like news breaks every day about yet another way that the advertising industrial complex robs us of agency, another insensitive corporate gaffe goes uncorrected, or a CEO ousted for their malignant influence on a company lands on their feet with no repercussions — sometimes at the same company.

I grew attached to my computer at a young age — It felt like a chance to make real all of the possibilities that felt so out of reach in the rest of my life. It’s been a really hard road to face the current state of the net, like one of my childhood dreams has turned sour.

So, when I see a story like yours, I’m grateful to be reminded of the ways that the promise of a more connected world is not yet lost, we can still do some good. I hope you enjoy your new job and São Paolo and that this is the beginning of an exciting next chapter!

I know we tend to have little control over this as ICs, but I think the party line here is that 20 is too many people to effectively make use of most agile/scrum ceremonies. Do you actually need to know all 19 other persons’ updates?

Poets pack a lot of meaning / emotion into their words — you could think of them as “full” of the stuff that makes up life, like a pregnant woman is more literally filled with another life.

I don't disagree with you, and in fact I believe the point of the GP to be exactly this -- these idioms' literal interpretations are a bit nonsensical. I was merely trying to point out that I think you two agree.

The literal translation of “Ça va” is neither “it is” nor “it goes well”, right? The literal translation is “it goes”. “It goes well” would be “ça va bien”, which is also used for both question and answer parts of a slightly longer standard greeting.

This isn’t a big distinction because I agree with both of you about the relative meaninglessness of the content of such a greeting in either language.

Not that I'm aware of! As you've seen, I see Big-O abused into shorthand for "on the order of" to the effect of "average case is O(nlog(n))"

Big-Theta is not an average case, it is a special form of Big-O and Big-Omega wherein the worst case is also the best case from a complexity perspective.

This is sometimes true in sorting since comparison based sorting cannot be improved beyond n*log(n) except in specific cases for specific domains.

You are absolutely on the money about worst case being O(n^2) though for quicksort.

That's not how words work.

"I don't know everyone who is Japanese" does not mean every person who exists is Japanese.

Is there a grand realization i'm missing in the observation that all people's belief systems are composed of data points that lead to those beliefs? This seems tautologically true to me, and mostly irrelevant.

It's hard to disagree too strongly with a characterization like Russian Shill when you describe a donation to the Clinton Foundation[0] as 'her husband's "gift"'. Perhaps you'd prefer intentionally deceptive?

0: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-foundation/c...

How concerned should I be about my employer (sizable company, ~300 employees) being reticent to divulge our 409A valuation with me? I've had a hard time (read: never did get; only got my options' fractional ownership in percentage terms after long nagging email chains) in the past getting any information to this effect, and we just raised another round a few months back, so I would like to estimate my tax burden, but they don't seem keen on sharing.

I tried to respond on the other sub-thread about getting downmodded, but I think this is probably more concise than mine. I think the key here is that workers are always going to be better off when they have more bargaining leverage with their employer / are competed for more rabidly, and competition is fierce for drivers between Uber and Lyft more because of their business model than any regulatory influence (or lack thereof).

I don't yet have down vote privilege, but I have to imagine The GP (your original comment) got nuked because it is both needlessly inflammatory and also lacks a substantive argument. As for your response to dragonwriter, you appear to be talking past one another; of course markets are matchmaking services for buyers and sellers by definition, but what you've done here is mistake this specific case of relatively frictionless movement between employers increasing the surplus of the employees for an indictment of regulation in general.

This particular case seems to realize said friction (and consequently, the surplus/benefit for the drivers) precisely because the service itself being offered by Lyft/Uber is market like, and the end-consumer product is in fact offered by the drivers themselves. It is not clear to me (or the others disagreeing with you here evidently) that regulation has any bearing on this conversation -- in a world where both Lyft and Uber's respective operations are regulated by the state, the power is still in the drivers' hands because Lyft and Uber are competing to offer the drivers' services.

This is not exactly the common formula for most employee-employer relationships, although it may become more common as this business model takes off. What dragonwriter seems to be saying IMO is that there are certainly cases that don't fit this mold that are good arguments for state intervention; among them are cases where there is greater friction for the employees themselves due to the nature of the business; lack of information about compensation, working hours, or other metrics to evaluate the given positions; or, as dragonwriter said, physical proximity to the workplace itself.

If you would be so kind, please elucidate how you feel this particular seemingly unique scenario is generalizable to regulation in general.

PS: Apologies if this is wordy and difficult to follow, I have a hard time writing coherently into this tiny box.

In what world is that a reasonable response to GP asking you for a reference for further reading?

Your use of 'blame' vs. 'responsibility' is confounding here. It's possible you answered the question I posed at the end of my reply but if you did I'm not seeing an answer here. Please enlighten me if I've missed it.

In response to this, by your own logic you've claimed that either 1) Aaron holds sole responsibility for his actions or 2) We can't assign responsibility to anyone. I disagree with both these conclusions because I don't think responsibility must be fully distributed to a single party. In what world are our actions absolved of any connection to outside influences? If I'm unconscious, and a doctor tests my knee reflex with one of those little hammers, and my leg moves - who has agency in causing the leg to move? (I in no way mean to insinuate this is an apples:apples comparison, just trying to tease out the implications of your logic.)

You've established here that there exist reasons (i.e. immaturity, lack of empathy, or whatever you prefer to call it) for which we should absolve individuals of blame in situations resulting in suicide. The only way this doesn't directly contradict your grandparent comment is if you also feel mental illness (diagnosed or otherwise) is not in this set of reasons. I think this is the crux of what others have disagreed with; mental illnesses quite literally alter your brain's ability to function properly and reason through these choices. How is this impairment any different than the "impairment" of a child's lack of development?

EDIT: grammar

>> "Defendants have published copious volumes of such false statements to many third parties, theoretically extending to every person on Earth through the Internet

...really swinging for the fences with this one.

>> It's really easy to brush off the fact that hundreds of people worked to make that movie you downloaded for free, especially when you never have to look any one of them in the eye.

How much of your Netflix subscription do you think actually makes it to those hundreds of people?