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Netflix employee here, there are no "mass layoffs" that I'm aware of (would also have WARN act require issue of notice >75 employees). We have involuntary attrition when people do not meet "the keepers test" in performance/impact and are exited from the company with severance. This is a regular part of the business and explicitly called out in the company's culture memo (see the top of the HN comments). Perhaps, the friend of a friend falls within this category, or just hearsay.

> This dramatically limits the levers that can be pulled.

I don't disagree, but this feels like slapping a bandaid on a bullet wound. It's unclear to me how this will fundamentally make improvements at the source of the problem vs. temporary forgiveness.

What do you think it would take to gain some majority alignment to actually move the needle effectively?

>> "we are forced to own nothing and be happy. Bitcoin, Blockchain and crypto solves this."

Serious question, what/where does this apply to? I get NFTs for digital authenticity, but PKI solves this too. How does one "own nothing without blockchain" when we have property deeds, automobile titles, jewelry and fine art certificates of authenticity all without blockchain? Your comment comes off as a solution looking for a problem.

Fair point. Out of sight out of mind and reduces ability for advancement up the corporate ladder. It plays a role in office politics and positioning for better or worse in organizational structures and accolades.

Laszlo Bock was recently interviewed on this topic via Fortune (article below), and I tend to agree with him. It will be a slow roll over time for most companies returning to work (see Apple taking harder stance) with some exceptions on hybrid model 3-2 at work vs. remote.

  > Bock says that after three to five years of flexible work models and hybrid plans, the normal in-office schedule will prevail at Google—and beyond. He predicts this transition will happen over the next few years, telling Bloomberg it’s the “boil the frog method.”

https://fortune.com/2022/04/04/former-google-hr-chief-laszlo...

My time at Dell immediately brought this to mind. No coffee offered other than overpriced you had to purchase from the cafeteria. I brought in my own espresso and coffee maker, and got chastised by facilities as a fire hazard. We weren't even allowed to put in the tiny kitchenette, which was a sink with plastic utensils in a couple of drawers. Ridiculous.

>> saw it coming a mile away

You're telling me. (not so humble brag) I developed a software solution and 3 patents granted over 10 years ago to stop these kind of shenanigans. Ahead of our time.

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"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." - Edsger Dijkstra

For those suffering from depression, anxiety, stress please consider meeting with a psychiatrist and psychologist.

Some brains are neurologically misconfigured and prone to chemical depletion or lack receptors for it (ex: serotonin or dopamine). All the pushing through and search for answers, triggers, or source of problems won't solve this.

Secondly, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) can work well for analyzing the 'why' you feel and/or behave the way you do. It provides perspective, insight, and tools for helping cope with problems (control/mitigate or potentially eliminate).

Both of these are tools that can dramatically improve your life. I've been there and still am. Seek the support you deserve. Tomorrow will bring a better future.

But did you lower the price then raise it? That's the key differentiator in the customer/retailer relationship that I believe the parent comment made.

Yes, we're hiring in L.A. too. I'm the Director of the teams. We are hiring in L.A. The JD specific location has not been posted yet, but we are hiring in L.A. in addition to Los Gatos. If you're based out of L.A. and interested go ahead and apply to the existing LG role I linked to. Don't worry about the location marked for LG.

Netflix | Sr. Software Eng. | Full-time | Onsite | Los Angeles or Los Gatos, CA | https://jobs.netflix.com/jobs/870669

We're building the world's first global, digital studio.

If you're interested in learning more about our mission, challenges, & solutions we're taking on, checkout overview talk on "Entertainment @ Scale". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDu8Ccpr6Us

We're currently hiring backend Sr. Software Engineers with experience in Java, GraphQL, Distributed systems, AWS, ML (bonus)

A bit of the out of sight out of mind at play? Curious too as to how much visibility into efforts of remote employees (wins) were shared, celebrated and known across the company vs. folks in person that have a better platform to promote themselves.

This. IMO it's very difficult to establish trust in new relationships especially when remote.

Thanks for sharing. This is great. I appreciate the additional insight in the comments on the software behind it for the guitar effects & tones. Kudos on the experimentation and iterations to meet your needs. Wish I would have seen this for a potential DIY project before I went in on purchasing the SPARK amp for at home practices and FXs.

It also assumes malicious request have same or similar signature attributes (ex: IP addr, http hdrs), which is not always the case.

>"The bear population has quadrupled"

Isn't this due to hibernation concluding and Spring arriving?

Nice find! Appreciate it.

Odd, overlays notification banner for me. Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/EVHdD8W

Dammit. I was hoping this wasn't the case. I got too excited posting prior to verifying.

"This guidance does not change the April 15 filing deadline." This is also solely related to federal income tax payment not the filing.

You're right. My mistake. I intermixed the two as delayed income tax payment also applied to filing, which didn't, until today.

The announcement from the IRS can be found here:

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/payment-deadline-extended-to-ju...

Took a little longer than it should have to find the formal announcement https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/payment-deadline-extended-to-ju...

I'm having PTSD just thinking about updates of YY to CCYY in mainframe code. Very real and heavy investment across numerous industries from aviation to financial and more. At a macro level, I remember it being pretty well managed risk and mitigation.

You didn't hear? DEFCON is cancelled. ;-)

Bizarre: In chrome this is rendering as strange character set in UTF8, but HTML source shows correct english text output.

https://imgur.com/a/18CJCDY

Perfection is the enemy of good enough. BUT...technical debt does factor in when choosing the easier route that may incur longer-term problems with short cuts.

Fair point "WeWork", but this early on I think the focus of an investor should be more on the founders vs. product/business idea. This early on there's a potential for pivoting, and you'd rather have smart, talented individuals that can deliver vs. a product idea

I feel ya, Mr. Horn. :-)