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That’s not a problem in California because it’s not possible to buy anything to get the mortgage in the first place.
So all houses are cash only?!
A buyer can easily outbid an all cash offer.
In fact, if you offer 100% over asking price you’re almost guaranteed to win ;)
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Does Valve really have 7 figure bonuses? That's quite impressive if so. Wonder what it would take to get that -- do you have to launch/invent a new, successful microtransaction store? Can't imagine it's easy based on that twitter thread.
Wonder what it would take to get that -- do you have to launch/invent a new, successful microtransaction store? You have to make a really cool looking hat for Team Fortress 2.
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It’s pretty useful if you’re an up and coming growth company paying higher than average comp as it ensures you’re continually snatching new employees from other companies.
The consensus I've seen is that it's useful for a year or two while you clear out the people who really need to go, but after that it creates perverse incentives and constant fear among employees, doing more harm than good.
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Editorial work is not close to sales. It’s upfront product development work. What Wrox did, though, was very clearly assign editors to book projects. You worked on one book at a time - each book was a little startup venture that shipped a product at the end.
Editorial work is close to sales in that it's clear that editorial quality impacts sales and it can be clear who did the editorial work on an item that sold. (Depends on the editorial process though, if you do a lot of group work, maybe it's hard to say who did how much). As opposed to IT work where sure, if the editors computer doesn't work, it's hard for them to do their editing, but there's not much connection to…
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Is Valve really going to file a lawsuit against him and argue in court whether this actually happened or not? They're not. Do they even have grounds to file a lawsuit? Likely not, American courts aren't that sympathetic to libel claims. But let's assume for a minute that what you're saying has some merit. Maybe Valve does have grounds to sue. And maybe they're interested in suing. In that case, is this lousy attempt…
American companies always have bored lawyers on staff, and lawsuits are just day-to-day activities for them. Suing costs the company virtually nothing, while defending against that suit as a private party can be ruinously expensive. The company can almost always afford better PR than you can, and relying or hoping your case going viral and the company backing off due to negative PR isn't going to help you sleep at ni…
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> But when you start a post off with "so and so is a phenomenal asshole", You should know that a reasonable person reads that as an ad hominem attack I would expect a reasonable person to read through the entire comment and not just the first sentence, before assessing the validity of the point the author was making.
The rest of the comment supports the first sentence.
This is the issue I'm taking about: https://mobile.twitter.com/richgel999/status/146443578680850...
Which links to here: https://github.com/phoboslab/qoi/issues/35
It got so bad even John Carmack told him he was out of line: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1464639553046728709...
Where everyone agrees, yes, the image should be removed. They didn't know about its history. Would he please stop being a gigantic asshole about it.
So if that's not blowing things out of proportion, I don't know what is.
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IANAL but would love a lawyer to chime in. My understanding was that you could indeed get in trouble if you don't cast enough ambiguity around the identity of the person/company you are trashing, but casting some ambiguity is better than none.
I am also not a lawyer, but I've always heard that telling the truth is a bulletproof defense in libel/slander/defamation situations. Some employment contracts have non-disparagement clauses but I think they're fairly rare (kind of a red flag) and at least where I live they can't prevent you from truthful griping about working conditions
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How is this his fault? Your service had poor validation or design and was used in ways it was intended to. You knew this but still didn't patch it?
No, this person was selfish and inconsiderate of their fellow employee. Employees are supposed to cooperate, not exploit one another for their own personal gain. It's weird to have to say this, and some people probably think it's naive, but I stand by it.
> Programmers will purposely subtly sabotage key utility functions, methods, or systems to prevent their bonus competitors This seems like a potentially self-destructive way to accomplish this. Not sure what company he is referring to, but at all I have worked at, this would be filed as a bug report and a quick git blame tells you all you need to know. Over time, if your name keeps coming up in that commit log, you'l…