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xiphias2 5 minutes ago | parent | favorite | on: Career Builder's CEO: Young people are 'ghosting' ... Companies could add anti-ghosting clauses, like an employee needs to give at least 1 day written notice even for the trial period. In that case if he starts working at another company on the same day when he was expected, he can be sued for damages.
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devit 10 minutes ago [-] Is there any betting market that is taking bets and has good volume on whether there is going to be a novel coronavirus pandemic? That seems like the only way to get some clarity on this.
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gamblers, always better informed than public health authorities
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this is a bit late butJawnV6 posted:coutt 1 day ago [-] as someone who primarily works on a C89 codebase on a daily basis ITYOOL 2020 with a small team let me just say:  (i finally convinced management to let us move this code base to C++ and I'm counting the days until we can implement the switch)
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Xik posted:xiphias2 5 minutes ago | parent | favorite | on: Career Builder's CEO: Young people are 'ghosting' ... That's a silly idea but I still don't get why you have at-will employment other than for the capitalists to fire the workers on a whim. Pretty sure every European country guarantees severance and 2 weeks of an interim period. Sure you can walk out of your job at any time, but you can do that in Europe too, you just lose out on severance so it's not worth it. The only person benefitting from at-will employment is the business owner who can fire you whenever without giving you advance notice. alexandriao fucked around with this message at 08:10 on Feb 13, 2020 |
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Feb 13, 2020 08:08
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alexandriao posted:That's a silly idea but I still don't get why you have at-will employment other than for the capitalists to fire the workers on a whim. Pretty sure every European country guarantees severance and 2 weeks of an interim period. Sure you can walk out of your job at any time, but you can do that in Europe too, you just lose out on severance so it's not worth it. The only person benefitting from at-will employment is the business owner who can fire you whenever without giving you advance notice. Yurop's a big place with a pretty huge variance in laws especially in the employment area, but I don't know of a country mapping well to any NA country. FWIW, my current contract, which is fairly representative, stipulates a three month notice period for _both_ sides. My employer can't cancel the contract without giving a very good reason that holds up to scrutiny, but if I were to walk out I'd be on the hook for the remaining labour just as much as my employer would be on the hook for the remaining salary if they tried to get rid of me. "Severance" doesn't really exist as a concept. And typical "trial" periods are 6 months where both sides can walk away from the contract at a moment's notice. This is notably different in, say, the nordics, which have opt-outs because they prefer a more hire-and-fire model with a relatively strong safety net, but such laissez-faire stuff doesn't fly in Germany because it's insufficiently contractual. Also, a HN about tech companies offering predatory loans with insane interest rates in Kenya: quote:egdod 1 day ago [-]
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got to love the brainworms that make you think that you are doing good by giving someone tHe FreEdOm oF ChOiCe between no food and poisoned food
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Feb 13, 2020 18:24
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lol which one of you is this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22319383
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Feb 13, 2020 19:00
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it’s me
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Feb 13, 2020 19:04
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Antigravitas posted:Also, a HN about tech companies offering predatory loans with insane interest rates in Kenya: this is probably a person that tries to make money on those microloan sites
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alexandriao posted:Imagine being such a chud that when someone says "I want a slightly less thin laptop that allows for upgrades" you instead recommend a completely non-portable desktop tower instead. I suggest this too sometimes though, although that's mostly wrt students wanting ~gaming laptops~ and to a strong degree informed by me getting annoyed by people with noisy Asus clunkers in class.
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Feb 13, 2020 21:01
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it’s actually extremely paternalistic to be against usury
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Feb 13, 2020 21:58
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the biggest pater of them all was against it, checks out
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Feb 14, 2020 02:50
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dads friend steve posted:it’s actually extremely paternalistic to be against usury not all paternalism is bad hth
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Feb 14, 2020 04:57
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i was on top of hn all day and the dealio was weird and stupid enough that n-gate will almost certainly write about it i wait eagerly
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Antigravitas posted:This is notably different in, say, the nordics, which have opt-outs because they prefer a more hire-and-fire model with a relatively strong safety net, but such laissez-faire stuff doesn't fly in Germany because it's insufficiently contractual. quote:Less than 6 months: 1 month. If you are subject to a trial or probationary period, your employer has the right to terminate your employment with 14 days’ notice within the first three months.
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Feb 14, 2020 08:51
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:not all paternalism is bad hth I was being sarcastic, usury is actually bad
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bob dobbs is dead posted:i was on top of hn all day and the dealio was weird and stupid enough that n-gate will almost certainly write about it n-gate is about as insightful as the average hn poster.
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Feb 14, 2020 13:01
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Lambert posted:n-gate is about as insightful as the average hn poster. but it's funnier
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Lambert posted:N-gate might as well be the average HN commentator with the amount of weird and hot takes in that person's commentary. Not seeing much of a difference. Lambert posted:n-gate has tons of really dumb takes, it's quintessential HN. Lambert posted:Nah, n-gate is garbage. Lambert posted:n-gate is about as insightful as the average hn poster. come on, just tell us which of your hn posts they roasted
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don't acknowledge lambert
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lambert lambert what a prick
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I got on n-gate
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bob dobbs is dead posted:I got on n-gate quote:An Internet tries to invent digital Methadone. Hackernews recommends the same procedures for disciplining teenagers over the internet. Half of the comments are about which Python script Hackernews uses to pirate Youtube videos. The other half are struggling with the ontology of gratification. On one hand, spake Hackernews, it cannot be wise to gratify oneself instantly and frequently. On the other hand, quoth Hackernews, it's fine to jerk off constantly until you chafe your genitals to stone and die of dehydration, as long as you can quote economics textbooks to people who are only present to wait for their turn to quote their favorite folksy street philosopher. congratulations
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bob dobbs is dead posted:I got on n-gate lmao what did you poast
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fack you posted:lol which one of you is this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22319383
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the hackers are disrupting 'surplus labor' ddalex 9 hours ago [-] > Very few innovative people seem able to reap or retain the most value of their work. Once a company pays you, it's not your work, it's their work. They paid you fair and square. IMHO a developer need to produce about 10x what's his paid as to cover for the company costs and profits. If one thinks that they can cover those 9 tenths in marketing, office space, infrastructure, admin and legal costs in a more efficient manner, they should quit and start their own company. reply
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Feb 16, 2020 01:42
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:come on, just tell us which of your hn posts they roasted Sorry I hurt your feelings and discussed something that is part of the thread's topic. Ngate is terrible, though. Being worse than HN is quite the accomplishment.
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fritz posted:the hackers are disrupting 'surplus labor' e-business tyrant
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fritz posted:the hackers are disrupting 'surplus labor'
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I really enjoy the periodic eruptions of "HN fuckerface outs himself as a fascist because what's really wrong with 8chan anyway, they're just opinions".
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paulus_magnus2 19 minutes ago [-] Can we stop the self hate already? There definitely are 10x musicians, 10x painters, sportsmen and 10x programmers. You know what never exists in 10x form? Burocrats and middle managers who write articles like this one. I suggest to flag this as fake news and all future articles intended to devalue young talented programmers who yet are to discover their true market value. reply as a bonus the OP is a self-serving dollop of BS saying 10x programmers _do_ exist because of this one time DEC Alpha mgmt put a high estimate for a task, this poster didn't even parse the title competently
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fritz posted:the hackers are disrupting 'surplus labor' this dipshit's simultaneously owning themself while also insisting that someone else deserves to own them pitch perfect proof that programmers are not always smart
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commandlinefan 11 minutes ago [-] However you feel about unions (and I personally have many reservations), if tech workers unionize, management will have nobody to blame but themselves. They've had decades to listen to us, and they've responded with open offices, JIRA (or the equivalent) ticket quotas, unpaid overtime, whiteboard coding interviews and zero training. We're well paid but besides that, I'd be hard-pressed to think of a way we could collectively be treated with any more contempt than we already are. reply
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Suspicious Dish posted:commandlinefan 11 minutes ago [-] the correct take
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Your salary is a direct numerical measure of your bargaining power against your employer by definition. These idiots are going to be kicking themselves when they try to unionize when their salary has been cut to $50k in a decade instead of doing it right now when their salary is $150k+ Mind you a successful union also needs to have solidarity outside its very narrow member base, but there was that story earlier itt where the overwhelming response to google cafeteria workers unionizing was "good." On hn. Randroid shitrobot central. Kinda think it went under the radar how big a deal that was.
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just find it funny that apparently "making people use JIRA" is the heinous crime, as compared to, you know, literal warcrimes and giving sex pests billions of dollars
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Suspicious Dish posted:just find it funny that apparently "making people use JIRA" is the heinous crime, as compared to, you know, literal warcrimes and giving sex pests billions of dollars the workplace conditions problem isn't "using JIRA" -- you had to finish the sentence. it's ticket quotas. i'd be really pissed if i had to close a quota of tickets per week. (also, all the tickets would slowly become bogus over time)
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specifically putting forth "ok you have to document everything in jira now so we can add staffing when people get busy" rather than the real reason "so we can beancount your work" and putting forth "we're moving to open offices so you can collaborate better" rather than the real reason "so we can keep an eye on you because we know you'll just play snood and facebook all day" and putting forth "catered lunches so you can eat healthier, on our dime!" rather than the real reason "just take it back to your desk and have a 'working lunch' you loving animal" The tools and perks in and of themselves aren't bad. The problem is primarily the real motivation behidn them, and secondarily the way that they lie to workers about the real motivations
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i had a customer seriously proposition evaluating their developers based on the number of lines of code in their pull requests
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