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Restaurants. Usually just before opening or just before the dinner rush. You go over specials. assign sections, etc. Construction. Scrum is (allegedly) inspired by the morning brie…

One has lower capacity than the other (probably due to small differences when they came off the manufacturing line resulting in them aging differently). Or maybe the difference in …

"i've "known" this guy for ~10 years now" Ha. I have one of those too. His wife keeps getting it wrong too, so I get emails asking my opinion on various purchases/kitchen renovatio…

Separate post on HN https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap221015.html Image of the same event from the Fermi LAT. The Fermi GRB is one of the instruments listed in the article as detecting …

The situation you witnessed and heard about made you sufficiently uncomfortable to create a throw-away account to ask HN for advice. That level of discomfort is sufficient to repor…

At this point I would say no, Document and hand off to HR. If the colleague comes to you and asks if you reported to HR then you can be honest and say you did because you were conc…

Like LinuxBender said, document everything. You don't say where this happened; local laws and customs will prevail. In California (for example) most companies will require you to r…

All I’m saying is that the schedule of payments for medical care in the US is largely driven by what Medicare pays for each treatment code. The Medicare payment schedule is set by …

Assuming you are in the US, a psychiatrist isn’t going to involuntarily commit you unless you threaten to hurt yourself or someone else. (It’s fine to say that you’ve had those tho…

Stack ranking is a terrible way to measure performance. If managers can’t figure out how to objectively measure performance using tools like skill matrices then they are just bad m…

It’s mostly a benefit for employers. It reduces the penalty for underpaying people. No one is going to up and quit because they get paid more than people on the team who they perce…

That’s great for the cofounders and current execs, who are probably all getting very low interest loans secured by their equity. How do the rest of the employees and ex-employees g…

Correct. Atherton isn't a great example. There's literally no downtown, so any homeless people would have to set up camp right outside some (very rich) person's (giant) single fami…

What PragmaticPulp said. I also watched an acquired founder act out. Although in my case they exited without leaving a bunch of money on the table, they made life unpleasant for pe…

The main problem I see with scrum (and agile generally) is that it has wandered away from where it was originally conceived into places it just doesn’t work. If you are building a …

No I’m sitting in the middle of it, outside a wine bar, right now. The calculus of where to hire people is the same as it was ten, fifteen, twenty years ago. When the restrictions …

+1 I also encourage the person I'm meeting with to add items to the agenda running up to the 1:1. Sometimes I'll respond async before we meet and just check that I answered their q…

Rounds of investment and acquisition are both complex transactions. The simple way to think about it is that when a VC or other investor invests in a company the company creates ne…

800k is San Mateo county only. The whole Bay Area has a population of closer to 8M.

I had a manager who was big into amateur dramatics so I used Director/Actor.

I think it is reasonable for you to be compensated according to the skills you have and the performance you demonstrate. I think it's reasonable for everyone with similar skills an…

Off the top of my head: How do you evaluate performance of your direct reports? How often is compensation reviewed and who make the final decision on any compensation adjustments? …

It depends on whether your boss is competent or not. Generally, yes. You should be able to discuss this with your immediate manager and they should (1) understand or (2) educate th…