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Talking about another country. Regardless, US culture says that this sort of thing gives the employer far too much power over the employee, and that there are plenty of unscrupulou…

South Eastern Europe. I'm curious about how common it is elsewhere in Europe too.

No, we're talking about something vastly more invasive. Beyond a certain extreme, they become very different things.

But go talk to some people who've only ever experienced these types of business cultures, and they'll start listing for you a ton of reasons why it would be IMPOSSIBLE for the busi…

It's a region-level culture I'm talking about. In this case, I was thinking of Eastern Europe culture. You're in for a MASSIVE culture shock, if you ever get employed there. For th…

Worst is the whole country's cultures who really believe that each person can only be great at one single thing. Being great at multiple things? Impossible, right?

Is there a document that lists out Redis best practices like "Redis is very fast as long as you use O(1) and O(log_N) commands"? Sure it's probably all obvious things, but it would…

The top chart looks correctly formed, but you may be right about the bottom chart on that page: "Probabilities For Years Left to Live". If I'm reading correctly, it seems they trie…

Each fundraising is literally a mini-exit, especially B-series and beyond, where founders are often allowed to liquidate some of their shares. The reality is more fluid and less bl…

So what's the best OSS search autocomplete these days? Solr's, Elasticsearch's, Linkedin CLEO?

You have to realize that it's not about what's going on in your mind. The receiver can't possibly read your mind to know your intentions behind the words. But they will likely know…

Someone pasting that template to a client is doing the opposite of "honest" communication :)

A moody client could see it as insulting to their plans or project.

The template sounds very passive-aggressive, and the excessive length of the template makes the receiver feel like the freelancer has something to hide.

What's missing from this argument is that opportunities to make ongoing profit without considerable ongoing investments tend to be VERY short lived in the tech field. Assuming that…

Is lower goals really more founder-friendly? I'm not so sure. A bit perplexing, but in my experience, VCs who aim lower will often put far more stress and pressure on founders to m…

I'd just note -- both total-profit and profit-per-employee are REALLY terrible ways to predict employee happiness. Just look at some of those rankings. They're a really mixed bag o…

> Second, they tell every applicant that openly discussing the interview process (esp blogging about it) will get you disqualified/blacklisted from any future positions at google. …

So punctuation is a type of musical notation for high-level meter and pitch, while the words are like the lower-level rhythm. Pitch and meter fluctuations, over the ranges of phras…

Also worth pointing out that in languages which do divide the words, they often divide the words too much, such that the individual words have little to no relation to the meaning …

> What I have found is that the subconscious will resist taking action on something perceived to be important until it's worked out an appropriate approach. Yup, that's why wheneve…