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Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS

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Post by verylittlemeat »

oh_sigh wrote: post #467
verylittlemeat wrote: post #434

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Well it just so happens I am black and I've been using the word most of my life. Nigga is just "bro" or "dude" but exclusively used among black/minority communities. I realize the word nigga is A Big Deal for white people but really in our community it is used as casually as the word "like" in any given sentence. Interestingly I have even used it with black bosses before in a joking casual way.

You're ignoring the fact that a non-negligible percentage of black people don't want to be called any version of "nigga" by anybody, including other black people. The same is not even remotely true of bro or dude

You could say that for any informal familiar expression that makes the recipient bristle.

It's so common people joke about it "don't call me dude, bro | don't call me bro, pal" etc etc

Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS

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Post by dirtnugget »

Trill-I-Am wrote: post #416
why_only_15 wrote: post #270

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I have one year of experience at a FAANG and i posted on the HN "who is looking for a job" thread and got an email from a company.

Would you have gotten that offer with a year of non-FAANG experience?

Probably not

Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS

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Post by random9763 »

niwork wrote: post #214
glotgizmo wrote: post #202

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This is pretty accurate and refreshing to see. Contray to everyone elses salaries, UK (excl. London) seems very low. I am just below the £45k mark with 3 years at my current company and 12ish years overall. So should be bang on your numbers when it comes to 5-10 years at this company.

Where in the UK are you based? Don't get disheartened when you read these big salaries online. The average reader isn't bothering to post theirs. The UK is actually pretty good when it comes to IT salaries. Go to France, for example, and they're much lower. The attitude to devs is quite poor in a lot of places, treating us like we're one rung above car mechanics. We also have a good contract market in the UK; in many…

Yes, salaries usually posted on HN are quite far from the average or median salaries for engineers.

E.g. as a french junior SWE I earn €50k before taxes and I known that’s more than most and less than some.

Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS

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Post by dirtnugget »

wolfgke wrote: post #339
paganel wrote: post #134

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> Salaries are off the charts Just to add another data point, Lidl is also the retailer that pays the best market salaries in the Eastern-European country where I live in (they actually included that in several of their hiring ads), and I'm talking about shop people like cashiers and the people that put things on the shelves. > They are getting into the car sales and recycle business as well. In here they've also ope…

> I agree though about the big difference between the German and US management. I have a close friend that works at the regional Lidl HQ and she got reprimanded just after being hired for having used the singular "you" (less formal) instead of the plural "you" (I'm not sure how it translates into German) when addressing herself to her bosses on the company's hallways Using "du" instead of "Sie" for adressing people c…

Take that n-word out you savage. You don't greet Germans with "Heil Hitler" or any middle-eastener with "Wallah, was los Kanacke?" to be informal.

Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS

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Post by smnrchrds »

Bayart wrote: post #461
paganel wrote: post #134

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> Salaries are off the charts Just to add another data point, Lidl is also the retailer that pays the best market salaries in the Eastern-European country where I live in (they actually included that in several of their hiring ads), and I'm talking about shop people like cashiers and the people that put things on the shelves. > They are getting into the car sales and recycle business as well. In here they've also ope…

>I have a close friend that works at the regional Lidl HQ and she got reprimanded just after being hired for having used the singular "you" (less formal) instead of the plural "you" Sounds reasonable. If someone did the same to me in a professional setting my instinct would be to treat it as an intentional lack of respect. Albeit my language is French (but it functions the same as German in that case).

As someone who is familiar with formal/informal you difference in 3 languages (French, Farsi, and Azerbaijani), I had the same reaction. But I guess things are difference in German.

Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS

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Post by oh_sigh »

verylittlemeat wrote: post #471
oh_sigh wrote: post #467

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You're ignoring the fact that a non-negligible percentage of black people don't want to be called any version of "nigga" by anybody, including other black people. The same is not even remotely true of bro or dude

You could say that for any informal familiar expression that makes the recipient bristle. It's so common people joke about it "don't call me dude, bro | don't call me bro, pal" etc etc

No, you couldn't.

Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS

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Post by smnrchrds »

eru wrote: post #355
redis_mlc wrote: post #129

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> Famous examples being how Netflix pivoted from DVD rentals Not to nitpick your overall post, but let me explain the context better. Netflix is named "Net flix" because the original plan was to offer a streaming product ASAP, but investors and end-users weren't ready at the time. So mailing DVDs was done initially, and because of a loophole in USPS pricing rules, was a genius move when looking at cost. (Netflix hist…

Do you have a link to a write-up on the loophole in the USPS pricing rules somewhere? Edit: I found a few articles. Seems mostly a lesson on how you shouldn't have a government monopoly on the postal service in your country..

I can't find the article. Would you mind linking to it?

Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS

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Post by type0 »

Merem wrote: post #232
pvitz wrote: post #207

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That might not be an issue on the countryside (everything outside Vienna ;), but it is definitely very impolite to address another adult person with "du" instead of "Sie" if they have not offered you to call them with the informal pronoun. However, that might be different with younger people.

Most definitely. Being relatively young, I don't think it's any different. In a work environment it's always "Sie", until one is offered "du". First name/family name depends on how companies/individuals handle it. Apart from that, people handle it differently. "Sie" basically always for people older than you and some use "du" for others around your age (unless it's in a more professional setting). There is no differe…

Seems to be true for Vienna. I'm not native speaker and can say that some people weren't pleased to be called "du" (same age or not) and the whole city seems very formal.

Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS

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Post by type0 »

StavrosK wrote: post #204
ido wrote: post #183

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This is very old-fashioned & I guess geographically dependent: we used to live in Vienna where you'd expect to use Sie (formal) with any adult you don't personally know where as we now live in Berlin where everyone uses du (informal). Either way nobody who isn't an asshole will get a non-native speaker in trouble for mixing these up & even in Austria my experience was that they will just be a bit perplexed but contin…

It was a bit surprising to me to see that in Spain you only use the formal plural with much older people, if then, whereas in Greece you'd use it with any stranger that wasn't about your age AND you had some rapport with. I guess I expected cultures to be similar in who gets the polite treatment, but they're really not.

Greece is east European in that regard, possibly influence of orthodox church if I would guess.
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