The $500M Dollar Typo • Hacker News Board

Re: The $500M Dollar Typo

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Post by jalapenos » Tue, Jan 16, 2024, 3:04 PM UTC

echelon wrote: post #14

maester-of-bots wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why? Just because cockroaches are gross?

Yeah. My brain just starts thinking about mold and rot and disease and I can't divert it. It's weird, because I can watch nature documentaries of lions eating prey without flinching.

Have you considered the possibility that you might be strange?

Re: The $500M Dollar Typo

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Post by appplication » Tue, Jan 16, 2024, 3:19 PM UTC

Redoubts wrote: post #26

> If a federal employee is accidentally overpaid, the government can only recoup 16.67% of the amount of the overpayment per paycheck pay period. Very curious to hear the story of that rule

I can wager a guess. In the military, it was pretty common for finance to mess something up, especially around TDYs and moves between assignments. You might get overpaid by a few $k and only 6 months or a year later would someone notice. Of course that is a lot of money to most people, especially military folks who might make $30-50k/year and wouldn’t immediately have a few $k to give back or subsist on if a paycheck was docked.

Re: The $500M Dollar Typo

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Post by llimos » Tue, Jan 16, 2024, 3:38 PM UTC

If Cockroach Labs think it remarkable that someone wouldn't be fired for a single typo, what does that say about working there?

Re: The $500M Dollar Typo

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Post by Graziano_M » Tue, Jan 16, 2024, 4:44 PM UTC

The redundant "Dollar" here bothers me more than it should. I can't help but read it as "The 500 million dollar dollar typo"

Re: The $500M Dollar Typo

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Post by etc-hosts » Tue, Jan 16, 2024, 4:47 PM UTC

Graziano_M wrote: post #34

The redundant "Dollar" here bothers me more than it should. I can't help but read it as "The 500 million dollar dollar typo"

The post writer is a former journalist who should probably know better.

Re: The $500M Dollar Typo

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Post by D13Fd » Tue, Jan 16, 2024, 7:58 PM UTC

echelon wrote: post #12

I viscerally hate seeing the name of this company. It's gross. I have a strong sense memory, and it immediately triggers bad images and smells. My brain just does that. Why on earth would they choose this name? Don't they know some nontrivial subset of their customers can't handle it? I'm a CEO. I won't question what my team wants or needs if they make the case, but I'd really have a tough time stomaching a choice fo…

You're getting downvoted, but I kind of agree. That's a terrible name for a company that has nothing to do with cockroaches. They might as well call themselves "Garbage Labs" or "Refuse Labs."