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Re:Google contractors in Pittsburgh vote to unionize on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @11:19PM (#21067281)
Why would google ever hire anyone who's already a contractor if it's cheaper to keep them as contractors or vendors?
I do this using a cron that rips videos off an unlisted youtube playlist and syncs them over to my plex server. Its great for having a group of videos to shuffle in the background while im at home.
Re:Coc.nvim – Intellisense Engine for Vim8 and Neovim on Saturday March 30, 2019 @09:58PM (#19533242)
There's a plugin to support the large monorepo at the FAANG i work for, i would expect there is one at the other too. A lot more people use the jetbrains products than you think at these companies.
Re: Google gets into game streaming with Project Stream on Monday October 01, 2018 @04:33PM (#18116591)
The company may be liquidating but the service looks identical.
There is none, it's a meme
Re:What to do when tech jobs go bad on Monday February 19, 2018 @08:21PM (#16417155)
I would be careful with this, my last employer refused to pay for unspent vacation days, and if you put in your notice or thought the individual was likely to quit they wouldnt approve your PTO requests. I don't know if this is legal (South Florida), but all the information i find online for this state say that the employer is not required to pay out your time (varies by state).
Re:What to do when tech jobs go bad on Monday February 19, 2018 @03:59PM (#16415699)
I've personally witnessed the VP of product stand over our senior engineer's shoulder while he tried to debug some serious bug that we couldn't reproduce in dev/stage for hours until it was done. That same engineer also had the CEO stand over his shoulder and actually ask "You don't mind if I stand here and watch do you?" The same CEO constantly brags about his "10 years of experience building companies with successful exits"(10 years of experience vs 1 year of experience ten times), and calls his company the "Amazon of the south". Reading this article gave me flashbacks, but it does help to know that it wasn't just that company.
Re:The cpu_features library on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @04:18PM (#16328093)
The CPU you compile on will probably not be the CPU your program runs on. If you know what CPU you're running on I guess you can just make assumptions about what features that chip supports, but it's much safer to use something like this to verify at runtime that you support avx or whatever features you need.
I guess that's what i dont understand, what are the needs of the people in this market and what about chrome or firefox fails to meet that need? It doesn't have flexbox support, and i would imagine that would break a ton of modern websites. It isn't like these markets have their own version of html/css, everyone's on the same web, so why go for a browser with worse support for modern standards?
Why do these markets use these browsers and not chrome or firefox, or even the built in browsers on their phones?
There are a lot of people who dont get to make that decision, and they probably dont get to choose how many hours they work until retirement.
Re:F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules on Thursday December 14, 2017 @04:38PM (#15927336)
I would imagine, and correct me if I'm wrong, but a muni isp that started tomorrow wouldn't have a mountain of legacy copper lines that are quickly deteriorating, and cost a ton of money to maintain and replace. They could start right out of the gate running fiber to the home.
Re:F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules on Thursday December 14, 2017 @01:49PM (#15925415)
There is an incredible up front cost for wired infrastructure and even Verizon was unable to turn a profit in the long run. Go pull their earnings reports and look at the performance of their wireline division (phone, internet, tv, etc...). It always lost money except for one year where they turned a million or two profit. That's why they sold it off to frontier who will invest the bare minimum and just run it until it breaks. This cost is what's preventing competition. Providers are betting hard on 5g wireless, it requires much less last mile infrastructure (you don't have to run and maintain connections to people's houses).
Re:Learn to sell on Friday December 08, 2017 @08:36PM (#15883690)
I think the issue he's talking about is more along the lines of "hey we promised X _and_ that we could deliver it in Y" when Y is an unreasonable amount of time. Situations like that almost always lead to death marches in my experience.
"The thing I've always hated about Obamacare was how healthy self employed folks are subsiding the unhealthy people"

Is that not how this all is supposed to work? the young and healthy help the old and sick, or the rich living in coastal cities help the poor living in rural areas.