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Is there some agreement with Instagram and TikTok to be included here? Or are they just crawling and displaying?

They're clearly putting on an air of authoritativeness, but yeah exactly. I read this more like a very extended Glassdoor review. You're getting one person's perspective. Interesti…

This seemed like a fairly normal level of knowledge to me, honestly. There's a lot of public information about the company, and you work there so you want to learn and know more - …

I recall seeing that they were experimenting with it. Yep, here's a story from August. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-12/china-s-p...

Good predictions. Didn't mention distributed/remote work. Not sure if that's because it's so obvious a trend as to be boring? I think he's early on the plant-based diet prediction,…

I think it probably happens gradually a lot. And I think many companies will go by team or by function like e.g. support, dev Companies that want to hire remote or offer it should …

I see my employer becoming remote-friendly, and remote-first on a team level. On teams vs companies... I've been putting together a list of the biggest distributed companies https:…

Slack continue to make product changes that speak loudly. Listen to what they are saying.

When your blog is getting beat by a typo website to the tune of thousands of visitors a day... I love old-style internet websites like this. It makes me happy they haven't sold it …

That's awesome to hear! I'm recalling history, math, science lectures, english classes. Just thinking back to both high school and college there was a lot of lecturing.

It's crazy to me that modern adult life is nothing like a traditional classroom format, and yet we spend 18 years preparing our kids for it by having them sit in a room and get tal…

Haha, thanks. I did. Do you mind if I incorporate your point? I was speaking a bit colloquially, but the correct number would be better.

thanks for the critical feedback and thoughts. as another poster put it, perhaps disintermediation would be a better word to describe it. Individuals now have power to do things th…

Yeah, this would totally have been a better / more nuanced way to put it.

Just on your last point, I think that when we have the next economic crash some of these people, and also talented engineers as well, won't stick around in software engineering. Ca…

Paul became incredibly successful. I wonder what he thinks his own bus ticket was? Going deep on a topic seems like great advice with kids, and I wish schools allowed for more of i…

Good question. They did it through Harris Poll, which should make it relatively balanced. Sometimes you see these surveys and the population is sourced from customers/audience of t…

I was pretty surprised by some of these numbers about remote work in the U.S. For example, 31 percent of Millenial knowledge workers surveyed work remotely full time. 27 percent fo…

Don't really disagree that older founders are generally going to be more competent/experienced, but is an alternate interpretation of the data that as people get older their appeti…

This is a bizarre article because in some sense getting a computer science degree has advantages to teaching yourself to code, but I don't think the article really says any of them…

If not Gitlabs, what do you think is a good policy for setting salary rates? Paying based on SF/NYC rates seems ... dumb. Maybe companies should choose a salary that's competitive …

To me most of this is basically a sign that more companies who are hiring should try to shift to remote asap, because of the talent pool you get. Also, taking 2 months on a reply t…

> However, it's difficult for me to identify which problems are caused by the remote-first culture, and which problems can just be attributed to the company itself. This really res…