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With all due respect to your freedom of speech, but who cares? I want to read responses about the article, not anecdotal weight loss data and about your daily habits.

This is nonsense.

Fat is good for you. Cut the carbs if you need to lose weight. Meaningless source of food.

I feel bad for the employees. This song will repeat itself many times over. Selfish deluded egomaniac taking advantage of people and their livelihood. Good luck to the rank and fil…

>See, eg, healthtap. https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/HealthTap-Reviews-E453567.... Wish there was something more that could be done than just saying "I'll never work for or do bu…

Not a snark, but why do you address him as Mr. Buchheit and not Paul?

I can't believe how many typos there were in this article, do editors exist anymore?

What's the likely scenarios for an employee whose been there for 2 years, an employee whose been there for 1 year, and an employee whose been there for 6 months? If we assume 1 yea…

>Beyond that, when I'm interviewing someone, I know I can't or shouldn't ask certain things, and I don't want to make people uncomfortable or break any laws. So I will often casual…

A _social_ network built by "ex-Google" engineers.

Yeah but why ruin a good headline?

Fair enough. I respect your point of view. I hope you engrain this mentality in your team for future hires and/or when they start their own companies. It's a solid perspective, sor…

Not sure what's so revolutionary here. Seems the process is this: 1) Call with "CTO", who answers any questions about the company. Sounds like a standard phone screen. 2) Work samp…

Your mindset is very scary to me because a lot of others think like you. If someone earns options over one, two, two and a half year period and then is deemed "toxic" to the compan…

$500M invested, previous valuation ~$1B, so a "3x" exit.

Uber does not own all 20%, from the article: "Investors in Uber China, an entity owned by San Francisco-based Uber, Baidu Inc. and others, will receive a 20 percent stake in Didi, …

I think mbesto's list was supposed to highlight the fact that a large number of China's top companies are state owned.

Good story, but not exactly hard-nosed in my opinion. Either be left on the sidelines while your competitors all jump on the newest distribution platform, or follow suit. I'm just …

Yeah, but the executives already got their bonuses for many years. If the campaign is a monetary failure for the company, they will just clean house and hire a new batch of execs w…

>"2. Being able to identify troublemakers in a community (such as a forum or a social networking site). I'm sure a lot of administrators would love to know if that suspicious looki…

Hocus pocus. >"Ordinary Display Advertising Performance: Estimated percent successful 1%" >"Estimated Adlove Performance: Estimated percent successful 50 %" Do you have ANY success…

No different than calling yourself a Googler.

Top line of wikipedia: "In business management, micromanagement is a management style whereby a manager closely observes or controls the work of subordinates or employees."

Don't get in the way of a good story.

Skully has a few interesting glassdoor reviews: https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/SKULLY-Reviews-E1046917.ht...