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Re:Ask HN: Why do many CS graduates lack foundational knowle... by SturgeonsLaw on Monday March 20, 2023 @04:32AM (#35228739)
No, it's unacceptable. When people are not at work, they should be thinking about work, planning for it, and hell, still doing it, only unpaid.

I say we shouldn't even have a distinction between work and home. We should set up dorms so that people don't have to leave the premises. Rent can just be taken out of their pay, talk about convenience! In fact, do they really need to get paid, when the company can provide all their needs? Isn't getting to do the work reward enough?

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Re:Ask HN: Why do many CS graduates lack foundational knowle... by simplotek on Monday March 20, 2023 @04:39AM (#35228803)
And once a company exec feels the need to embellish results by cutting salary expenses, those workers need to be the first to present resignation to avoid the extra cost to the company in salary, meetings and in paperwork.
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Re:Ask HN: Why do many CS graduates lack foundational knowle... by rob74 on Monday March 20, 2023 @05:11AM (#35229017)
Oh, hello Mr. Musk, didn't know you had an HN account under pseudonym...
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Re:Ask HN: Why do many CS graduates lack foundational knowle... by raspberry1337 on Monday March 20, 2023 @06:04AM (#35229402)
I don't think firing middle management, documenters and designers with no trackable productiveness and forcing people to work in their free time is the same thing ?
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Re:Ask HN: Why do many CS graduates lack foundational knowle... by SketchySeaBeast on Monday March 20, 2023 @07:13AM (#35229924)
Do you have evidence of this claim that it was only unproductive people (though I find your definition of who those people are also suspect)? I've read news of large parts of teams being fired, including gutting important groups like curation.
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Re:Ask HN: Why do many CS graduates lack foundational knowle... by ohgodplsno on Monday March 20, 2023 @10:22AM (#35231896)
Statistically, by firing entire teams, you're bound to catch a few unproductive people. The acutally productive ones that you fired can be filed under "side-effects of making the company lean".
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Re:Ask HN: Why do many CS graduates lack foundational knowle... by mold_aid on Monday March 20, 2023 @09:14AM (#35231013)
Weren't there reports last week of that dude literally creating a company town in Texas
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Re:Ask HN: Why do many CS graduates lack foundational knowle... by octopolus on Monday March 20, 2023 @05:15AM (#35229046)
I should start demanding payment for taking a shower, I can’t believe I’ve been providing this service free of charge
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Re:Ask HN: Why do many CS graduates lack foundational knowle... by wholinator2 on Monday March 20, 2023 @05:40AM (#35229229)
Nobody wants paid for time spent in shower, we just wanna go home at night and be free to choose our activities and hobbies without being critiqued for having lives
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Re:Ask HN: Why do many CS graduates lack foundational knowle... by JackFr on Monday March 20, 2023 @07:27AM (#35230018)
If you would just be cleaner, showers wouldn’t even be necessary.

I mean honestly it’s like debugging - for God’s sake just stop writing the bugs in the first place.

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Re:Ask HN: Why do many CS graduates lack foundational knowle... by Aeolun on Monday March 20, 2023 @05:37AM (#35229203)
I think you are describing the animation industry in Japan :)
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