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> replies, I have hardly ever seen them used before they were removed. in any case, the new implementation is much better How are so you sure that a feature you never used is bette…

Yahoo uses Bing because Microsoft was willing to cut Yahoo a better deal than Google, which happened because Microsoft was more desperate than Google. That's not exactly a good thi…

I don't know if this was changed for the external release, but when Windows 10 was rolled out internally to employees at Microsoft, a significant fraction (but not all) employees w…

IBM is particularly dysfunctional in this regard. I keep in touch with a lot of friends at IBM and a common story is that they'll cut headcount by one on a local team and hire two …

> we put our kids in school five days a week, eight hours a day Do kids spend 8 hours a day at school now? Back when I was in school, it was 9-3, including an hour for lunch, plus …

> A software engineer at Google earns, on average, $127k per year [1]. We multiply that by 1.4 [2] to obtain a cost per employee of $177k. That ignores RSUs, signing bonus, and oth…

> [Tom] Chavez thinks industry titans like Larry Page, the chief executive of the Alphabet holding company that includes Google, are intentionally driving up salaries. “If I was La…

I'm past the edit window here, but it's also not to the point. The point is that, by incentivizing reviews, you skew the sample of reviewers. Even if we didn't have decades of rese…

> with a $17k tuition, a "free" hoodie is not enough to sway a review one way or the other. That's intuitive but factually incorrect. There's a large body of empirical research tha…

That's shady. Normally, there's a bias such that people who are disgruntled are more likely to post a review than people who had a good experience. If you take that bias into accou…

> I have learn that during the interview process unless it is written down and signed then it is probably a lie. This happened to me when I took a job at Microsoft and it sucked. T…

15k barely covers the engineers employed by Google alone at the time. The class action lawsuit covers 64k employees, and that's a subset of the employees affected. If your argument…

> which likely affected 15,000 software developers at most Where does this number come from? When the wage fixing agreement was canceled, Google immediately issued an across the bo…

> Cool site, but it's really too bad Google isn't willing to open up offices outside of California (like, say, Portland? :) ) Google has teams in Portland and the office has grown …

I believe you're overestimating what it takes to get a job at Google (or Facebook or whatever other company you might be thinking of). As someone who's approaching middle-age and h…

I don't have enemies, but I've made enemies. In both cases, I said something that accidentally publicly embarrassed them, and it seems to have enraged them for life. They both appe…

When I've seen this happen, it's been pure mismanagement. An order goes out to do layoffs, so people get laid off. Within days, people realize that they've laid off critical employ…

> Mozilla devs appear to be completely out of touch with what their core goal should be . . . Instead the Process is holy and cannot be altered They made a mistake. They then fixed…

So you're saying that you don't know anyone who buys in the quantities that we do, but definitely know what we pay? I think you're responding to something that's not what I'm sayin…

Sure, you won't get much of a discount from anyone for quantities of a few hundred. You might be looking at a 2x price difference, which is pocket change for a few hundred machines…

Solarflare isn't the only option for OS bypass. In fact, no major cloud vendor uses Solarflare NICs even for applications where OS bypass is critical because Solarflare is way too …

In case it wasn't clear in the original comment, the big name is usually someone who was only tangentially involved in the project, if at all. Sometimes it's the head of the org th…

Something I've seen at every large tech company I've worked at (which includes the author's company), is that some people do the work for something cool. The next step for them wil…