jvreagan

I've led teams for over a decade that have oncall duties. One principle we have lived by is that if you are paged outside of hours, you take off the time you need to not hold a grudge against the team/company. Some people don't need it, some people take a day off, some people sleep in, some people cash in on their next vacation. To each their own according to their needs. Seems to work well.

We also swap out oncall in real time if, say, someone gets paged a couple nights in a row.

This is why non-competes are a joke in the US. Courts aren't going to enforce them. Almost every state has an industry where moving between companies, or starting companies to compete with existing companies, exist (midwest auto industry, New York financial industry, Texas energy, etc).

It's great that California is so explicit. I wish other states would follow suit. But the only times I've ever seen a court uphold a non-compete is for highly (8 figures) compensated employees.

I remember spending $1500k on a professional license circa 1999, and still think it was the best money I've ever spent on an IDE. Incredibly powerful for large-scale systems, and made large-scale, readable-code development fast.

Thank you, Jeff.

You can try to spin it or rationalize it all you want, both sides are behaving the same.

Side a: 2016 US election was stolen. 2020 was fair and square. Side b: 2020 US election was stolen. 2016 election was fair and square.

Seems that there are a small number of people who think a) both elections were stolen or b) both elections were fair and square. They are being drowned out by sides a and b.

If you fit side a or b above, you might want to some logical thinking. Pretty simple to see the two sides are simply opposite sides of the same coin, both deeped in hypocrisy.

Old news. Been happening for decades, by design.

More recently, Disparities and Discrimination by Thomas Sowell was a real eye opener for me.

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Never saw stamps used for what they were supposed to be there for. Sad.

Wish I would have done this 25+ years ago, as someone who does indeed feel like my college degree from a "Prestigious School" was not worth the time and money investment.

As Jeff Bezos says, the older he gets, the more he realizes he doesn't know.

Most people have no issue with saying "I don't know." I've worked with people that can't say "I don't know" - they are incredibly toxic.

http://www.aei.org/publication/some-amazing-findings-on-inco...

I would postulate the opposite - I would have thought because we believe that neither companies nor the guvmint would be there to support us, we would have fended for ourselves better (I know that's how I personally took it, and many/most of my friends). But you might be right... sounds like an attitude of "ef it, we're doomed" set in.

Lane surfing happens in the US because people here don't understand how to drive on freeways. It is non-existent in Germany because drivers there know how to drive.

I used to live in Seattle, a perfect example of a city that has enough freeway but still has traffic jams because people drive cluelessly. Not just my opinion, but the opinion of traffic enforcement in Washington.

And people on their phones while driving just make the situation worse.