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Yay?

The `votes per dollar` return on science spending is too low, unfortunately :(

It strongly correlated with wealth, which itself strongly correlates with status/class

Hey, some of us are passionate about paying rent and bills

Had?

South Africa?

Houses in South Africa are (on average) 1) bigger, and 2) poorly insulated.

Also, way less efficient hot water cylinders

Don't forget the cheap servants

Maybe they pay their employees in RSUs and so need to keep some amount in reserve?

Front end JavaScript sure sounds like pay to win games on the AppStore nowadays…

Probably GPT-3 generated...

And there are vastly more engineers to compete against

Most common type of collision IIRC

Rain

Arguably good outcomes for the French as well

Hipocrisy*

They get to choose what proportion of their pay is cash cash stock

RedHat?

Even better that the rules, in this case, apply equally to everyone

You can’t compare US benefits to UK benefits. I’m fairly certain Atlassian’s EU offices will have very different parental leave to the US. IIRC, Aus is 6 months

Atlassian provides very thorough and structured training before anyone is allowed on the management ladder

+1000

This article should be read with a huge grain of salt.

They forget to mention (or I missed) the 30 odd days of “no questions asked” special leave we got over the past 2 years.

They also don’t mention how, by policy, small leave applications are approved, no questions asked.

I’m a current P5 SWE at Atlassian and whilst I agree that going from P5 to P6 tends to be difficult, I can’t say I’ve observed any of the other aspects mentioned in this post.

I personally have a larger frustration with there being too much time off as I actually enjoy the work I do

Atlassian products are varied across different jurisdictions. Chances are that if you’re using an Atlassian product in the USA, all your data is hosted in the USA too.

Source: I work for Atlassian, platform stuff

IMO it's a correlation rather than a causation.

A hiring binge could be a 'hail-mary' attempt to try and save a sinking product because everyone's busy putting out fires.

Or it could be a genuine sign of growth where product development and refinement cannot keep up with the demand for it.

There is another option... Creative accounting.

It's possible that the figures have been shifted, bent, and twisted to report a loss on what could actually be their biggest profit, as you so question.

Some instances of our services went down but our deployments are multi-AZ by default so minimal perceptible outage to our customers

That's what happens in the age of paywalls

> the paper is deliberately misleading in an attempt to overstate its contributions.

Welcome to academia. Where a large number of students are doing it just for the credentials

> Another interesting thing is that you'd expect, by the central limit theorem, that sufficiently large tasks would eventually become normally distributed rather than lognormal, because they're composed of a large number of subtasks. But it turns out that lognormals are a pretty pathological case; sums of n lognormals can continue to look nearly lognormal until n becomes really, really large.

I’d say that the CLT wouldn’t apply here since the sub tasks aren’t independent? E.g. a discovery when doing sub task C could mean a change to already-completed sub tasks A and B

All the Bulgarians coming out in this thread

Also had an 8C as a kid