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I don't know what kind of an egregious organization the WHO is. First they let millions of people consume sugar alternatives for years, if not decades. Then they release a report s…

Lower ranked US universities will grant admission to anyone who can afford their fees. Majority of the people coming to the US are from tier 3/4 colleges in their home country. The…

Because that would lead to an influx of an infinite number of people from a particular south asian country.

This always gets stated - "Removing roadblocks". But if the engineer isn't removing roadblocks on their own and collaborating with other teams, then they get labeled as "lacking in…

The 2 most important traits that managers desire are agreeability and subservience. Never argue with them. Even the slightest of power corrupts humans.

Hopefully, the new CEO can help them reach the 100% mark.

Or maybe even code that was syntactically incorrect?

ML/AI moving too fast.

chatGPT

I'm getting "too many requests in an hour" error. Barely using Google for day to day tasks anymore. This thing is addictive and fast. Was able to set up a jest/rtl playground withi…

most of them are coasting, hosting "bonding" events, socializing, holding useless 1:1s where you're supposed to "take the lead", just utter bs.

here's a listing for a D role https://www.themuse.com/jobs/meta/director-product-technical... it's basically smooth talking.

If this turns out to be true, I hope it's a watershed moment in the tech industry. Lots of middle management in other companies will be sweating since they'll need to do something …

I wonder if this has any effect on the deposit sweeping programs run by firms like robinhood, betterment and wealthfront. They promise 4%+ yields with freedom to take out your cash…

This is basically a frontend person looking for some validation that they are so smart.

Each man for himself. I'm seeing a dog eats dog mentality.

This is like comparing the code written by an experienced 20 year veteran to the code written by a fresh graduate. Give it time, India will catch up. Lot of people in the comments …

Do you expect the CEO to tell his employees that they are more likely to be laid off if they are paid more compared to their peers?

You don't need to "guess" how much to pay someone. The market dictates that. HR has pay bands. Raises are always in a narrow band. I don't know what kind of disputes you're talking…

Run teams by being hands on. Just don't sit in endless meetings and help "manage" people's careers. It's all a bunch of bs.

Management is just a way to coast. I don't understand why we need to "manage" grown up adults. What we need are team leads who code and architect. Then give them the autonomy to ru…

It just means they're trying to get a counter offer to improve their negotiating ability.

Should have loaded those shares a couple of months back, smh. Up 70%+ since Nov last year.

I think the first thing that comes to mind is that there's too many programmers.