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Is it actually possible to downvote postings on HN? (Why am I being downvoted for asking an honest question?)
yes but I believe you need a certain amount of karma
(Tedious disclaimer: my opinion only, not speaking for anybody else. I'm an SRE at Google.) > sometimes mining information to leak to organizer friends > After 9–12 hours on campus I would fill my Google-issued bag with Naked juices and to-go containers of food for my roommates So... deliberate violation of the corporate NDA (which is massively disrespectful to the other people who work here) and stealing food from t…
In my opinion you seem like a bit of a square. :|
edit: Goobye kharma.
OK, so this guy's problem with Google is that it doesn't give all of its perks to all employees? Why the hell would the company treat employees from significantly different labour markets the same way in the first place? Is there some crazy assumption that any employee should be equally valuable to the company?
What I find most interesting about this piece is the awesome lifestyle of flitting from grant to grant as a semi-celebrity in the international jet-set art world. Also lets you feel good about "leaking" your employer's information to "organizers." Take that, employer! And best of all, you get to use the word "show" as a nontransitive verb, as in "I showed at Venice." Apparently this lifestyle is only available if you…
There's a lot of odd insinuations and expectations in this piece. I found particularly strange the part where he talks about his joy in talking communist politics in Berkeley and then immediately muses about how to make these skills 'marketable' and about his resentment that he might not be rewarded with a comfortable bourgeois middle-class existence. Feels like there are a lot of unstated assumptions and arguments b…
(Tedious disclaimer: my opinion only, not speaking for anybody else. I'm an SRE at Google.) > sometimes mining information to leak to organizer friends > After 9–12 hours on campus I would fill my Google-issued bag with Naked juices and to-go containers of food for my roommates So... deliberate violation of the corporate NDA (which is massively disrespectful to the other people who work here) and stealing food from t…
What I find most interesting about this piece is the awesome lifestyle of flitting from grant to grant as a semi-celebrity in the international jet-set art world. Also lets you feel good about "leaking" your employer's information to "organizers." Take that, employer! And best of all, you get to use the word "show" as a nontransitive verb, as in "I showed at Venice." Apparently this lifestyle is only available if you…
There's a lot of odd insinuations and expectations in this piece. I found particularly strange the part where he talks about his joy in talking communist politics in Berkeley and then immediately muses about how to make these skills 'marketable' and about his resentment that he might not be rewarded with a comfortable bourgeois middle-class existence. Feels like there are a lot of unstated assumptions and arguments b…
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Being able to use the restroom when you need to is a perk?
Yes. I don't know how they organized scanning books, but in a lot of jobs it makes total sense. Do you know how a conveyor belt works, for example? Soccer players earn millions of dollars, but they still can't go to a bathroom break in the middle of a game.
A soccer player is out on the field for, 45 minutes? Have you seen contracts that restricts a player's ability to use a restroom?
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Being able to use the restroom when you need to is a perk?
Yes. I don't know how they organized scanning books, but in a lot of jobs it makes total sense. Do you know how a conveyor belt works, for example? Soccer players earn millions of dollars, but they still can't go to a bathroom break in the middle of a game.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is it actually possible to downvote postings on HN? (Why am I being downvoted for asking an honest question?)
yes but I believe you need a certain amount of karma
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes. I don't know how they organized scanning books, but in a lot of jobs it makes total sense. Do you know how a conveyor belt works, for example? Soccer players earn millions of dollars, but they still can't go to a bathroom break in the middle of a game.
I do know how a conveyor belt works. Have you heard of contingency planning? A soccer player is out on the field for, 45 minutes? Have you seen contracts that restricts a player's ability to use a restroom?