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this is just a more honest merger. Someone is always getting acquired, in this case they're upfront about who has post-deal control.

pretty much like you've described. When you're making up the valuation and spending your own currency there's no problem; you control both sides of the balance sheet

or you could, ya know, walk 8 blocks and keep the restaurant in business, but hey, we all have our limits.

This is an all stock deal, so valuations are about as realistic as a televised poker tournament. No one is paying a 27% premium in cash; they're spending their own ridiculously val…

I disliked JIRA and we switched to Microsoft DevOps about a year ago. Now I really miss JIRA. DevOps is so painful in comparison, especially doing really specialized things like, y…

I'm a big believer and user of 1:1s and don't think they're a waste of time, because if there are no problems it gives me a chance to get a coffee, go for a walk, get to know my di…

having sat on both sides of the table, this is a weak rationalization for wasting a lot of people's time. You're making candidates do so much work in terms of applications, prepara…

I hear this all the time and it's overly simplistic. Maybe if I give you a single number that is my true desired value, yes. If I give you a range where the low-end is 25% higher t…

This seems reasonable and beyond what other major employers are offering, but as is the fashion I'm sure Amazon will be convicted in the court of public interwebs shortly...

Except they were there for 14 years. Unless it became instantly diametrically opposed to their belief system in the past couple of months, the author has put up with the changing e…

from a recent modern family: Phil: "Who knew people on the internet could be so mean?"

I agree - I consider the current president both a hater and accomplisher of impressive things. down-voters should interpret impressive as "making an impression" not "something real…

over-commenting is explaining in pseudo-english what you've written in code. Prentend you are at the United Nations but you speak all the langauges, so you don't need a word-for-wo…

comments shouldn't explain code period; they are to clarify intent.

I just don't agree with this viewpoint at all. There are plenty of profitable startups directly focused on education and the environment. Maybe you don't agree with their definitio…

>> I don't particularly care about meaningful work, I enjoy solving problems that matter and I'm good at it so I want to do that. Isn't this the same thing? Meaningful is highly pe…

I think the question around performing meaningful work is largely rhetorical; the challenge is where do you find meaningful work? We tend to love the romantic notion of throwing aw…

Yes, likely the inventors' ancestors now work for Facebook or EA.

I'd say it's somewhere between bottom 5% and top 10% ;)

>> Walmarts core is poor, rural/suburban America. Maybe in 'Merica but not in Canada. It's the go-to for the huge array of products between Costco & the grocery store for a wide se…

We're in the process of migration, first from Jira to Boards. I have some serious concerns but I'm a marginal Jira user and DevOps newbie, so they all seem confusing to me. The bui…

The biggest problem with learning on an "as-needed" basis: You only learn what's needed to accomplish your immediate goals. An inefficient, injectable query will certainly get data…

It's hard enough to identify good or bad, let alone assess to the degree that I can say 2 candidates are comparable. When that happens it really means I've got an equally poor meas…

Must be pretty cool to able to identify sociopaths just by "lookin' them in the eye!" The more I do interviews and get assigned the "culture & fit" asessment role, the more depress…

Well, what your typcal symphony orchestra audience wants is a mix of challenging (for the performs & listeners) pieces and the well-known standards. Stray too far either way and it…