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tastynacho

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tastynacho··on Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About Previous Pay
No it doesn't come back in a background check. The only thing that comes back is your title and employment dates.

That is actually how I've avoided all those annoying salary negotiations. Lie about how much I make, let them offer me slightly above that and gladly accept.

tastynacho··on Lyft losing as much as $50M a month, president confirms
Can someone please explain how its possible to lose that much money? What exactly does that 50M constitute?
tastynacho··on Why Are 20-Somethings Retiring?
> There's a lot of bullshit work assigned in a typical corporate job

yeah its called being young and being inexperienced. Gotta put the time in before you're qualified to enjoy the meat..

tastynacho··on How to lose $5B
Other fun fact with that nugget is that mandate was originally written and lobbied for by UPS and Fedex. USPS's financial woes were manufactured by the public competition..

Funny also how quickly perception of USPS changed. Prior to that many considered them a model of an anti-red tape beaurucratic government entity.

tastynacho··on Volkswagen's U.S. head: individuals engineered emissions cheating
Related side question. A few months before this leaked out I bought a brand new Golf TDI(diesel) and I'm in California where it sounds like my car is technically now illegal?

I have no idea what I should be doing at this point. I've been significantly overpaying on the note but not sure I should now. Does anyone have an idea what this means for the owners of the vehicles in question?

tastynacho··on Q: Why Is the Facebook App So Large? A: iOS Can’t Handle Facebook Scale
No offense but a couple million users doesn't mean you're playing the same game as someone significantly bigger than you.

I've worked for places that average 2-4 million users/per day 40+ million a day, they're an order of magnitudes different in every single way

tastynacho··on Cisco declines disclosure grace period, bug gets released
If I read the comments I see: "Cisco originally aimed to get the release of the patch for the 22nd September, however due to testing issues this has been postponed until the 29th which would fall outside of the 90 day disclosure window. Cisco were informed that a grace period exists for this exact situation and they could use it if they requested. However in this case Cisco has declined to use the grace period."

So it sounds like they were aware of the issue, communicated out a fix would be in place but 7 days later than the expiration. Someone didn't want to budge those 7 days and released it anyway.

Not that its a big flaw but it seems a bit inflexible. Companies as large and as old as Cisco don't move very fast..

tastynacho··on Dear Startups: Stop Asking Me Math Puzzles to Figure Out If I Can Code (2013)
I see a bit of this on the devops world, any employer that does this sort of egotistical dick swagger I drop immediately. There are TONS of good opportunities out there where you don't need to play dumb little games.

And don't get me started on those who use those equally dumb Google questions. "You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and thrown into a blender..." Its not a creative question its basic physics, stop asking things you don't understand or aren't relevant