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ununoctium87

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    Comment #37069878

    The `votes per dollar` return on science spending is too low, unfortunately :(

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    Comment #36056070

    It strongly correlated with wealth, which itself strongly correlates with status/class

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    Comment #35295998

    Hey, some of us are passionate about paying rent and bills

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    Comment #34072151

    South Africa?

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    Comment #33685349

    Houses in South Africa are (on average) 1) bigger, and 2) poorly insulated. Also, way less efficient hot water cylinders

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    Comment #33685280

    Don't forget the cheap servants

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    Comment #33650778

    Maybe they pay their employees in RSUs and so need to keep some amount in reserve?

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    Comment #33650767

    Front end JavaScript sure sounds like pay to win games on the AppStore nowadays…

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    Comment #33630379

    Probably GPT-3 generated...

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    Comment #33459426

    And there are vastly more engineers to compete against

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    Comment #32846049

    Most common type of collision IIRC

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    Comment #32404499

    Arguably good outcomes for the French as well

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    Comment #32299364

    Hipocrisy*

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    Comment #31916190

    They get to choose what proportion of their pay is cash cash stock

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    Comment #29954428

    Even better that the rules, in this case, apply equally to everyone

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    Comment #28556925

    You can’t compare US benefits to UK benefits. I’m fairly certain Atlassian’s EU offices will have very different parental leave to the US. IIRC, Aus is 6 months

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    Comment #28556883

    Atlassian provides very thorough and structured training before anyone is allowed on the management ladder

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    Comment #28556828

    +1000 This article should be read with a huge grain of salt. They forget to mention (or I missed) the 30 odd days of “no questions asked” special leave we got over the past 2 years…

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    Comment #28365575

    Atlassian products are varied across different jurisdictions. Chances are that if you’re using an Atlassian product in the USA, all your data is hosted in the USA too. Source: I wo…

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    Comment #28031049

    IMO it's a correlation rather than a causation. A hiring binge could be a 'hail-mary' attempt to try and save a sinking product because everyone's busy putting out fires. Or it cou…

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    Comment #28031035

    There is another option... Creative accounting. It's possible that the figures have been shifted, bent, and twisted to report a loss on what could actually be their biggest profit,…