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Let's say at your software company a sales rep brings in $2M in 2022 and demands a $1.8M commission. What do you say?

> We want to be the job search platform that puts engineers in control. I love this, but I'm curious about the incentives here. Triplebyte only makes money from companies, not engi…

> We’re arbitrarily defining “great” candidates as those scoring between 95th and 98th percentile on our technical interview, and “the best” candidates as those scoring at 98th per…

> The bottom line is that the difficulty of the decision is the most important factor in determining whether a player makes a mistake. In other words, examining the complexity of t…

How is this "strong-arming"? If we keep devaluing the meaning of words, we won't have any left when something serious actually happens. The rep ran through a couple of retention sc…

The BBB is basically a protection racket with excellent PR. Get a customer complaint? BBB contacts you to pay for membership. Don't want to pay for membership? You must not care ab…

> Programming, like writing, painting, and music, is chiefly a creative endeavor not a technical one. Practice... will not make you a substantially better programmer. It will just …

> Rails isn’t just a brick wall, it’s a brick mountain... By the end of the first month, I had literally no idea what was going on. This is not a brick wall. It's giving up as soon…

Here's an important piece of demographic information for the survey: > 45% of those surveyed don’t own a device that can read ebooks – this includes both e-readers and smartphones.…

> When the Internet bubble burst, the company underwent rocky times. By 2000, [the founder] was gone from the company, as were four other members of his founding team. > For the ne…

Employee compensation is absolutely not associated with the value of the work the employee does. Instead, it's associated with the best replacement that the company could find. If …

I'm not saying everyone has to work long hours. I'm just saying that the few people who do will have an obvious advantage. It's up to each person to figure out if that's what they …

> I have a friend who brags that he busts his * 60 hours a week driving a Coca-Cola delivery truck. Congratulations, I work 35 and make twice as much as he does. This is a straw ma…

What's with all these startups taking so much design inspiration from Stripe? https://www.shirts.io/ https://zinc.io/

> One possible opportunity is to get the legal system and governments involved in this so as to require an adequate level of merchant support. I wince every time someone proclaims …

It would be helpful if there was a way to show the reasoning behind deleted submissions. Like a quick note on [dead] pages that explains why it was killed, just like you did here. …