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Re:The Case for Doing Nothing on Friday September 13, 2019 @10:29PM (#20968562)

Totally valid point.

Re:The Case for Doing Nothing on Friday September 13, 2019 @10:28PM (#20968560)

I've considered it.

Re:Facebook’s Data Deals Are Under Criminal Investigation on Thursday March 14, 2019 @12:40AM (#19386568)

I would entertain a wire fraud argument.

Ask HN: What does Google pay?

Posted by realodb on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @11:49AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I am currently interviewing for a director (not senior) of software engineering position at Google. I'm wondering if anyone on HN has held such a position at Google before, or currently, and what it pays. I realize all positions will have ranges based on experience, etc, but what ballpark can I expect for a base salary, bonus, and equity? For a positon based in SF Bay Area, or possibly Seattle?

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Re:Facebook Morale Takes a Tumble Along with Stock Price on Thursday November 15, 2018 @02:04PM (#18462177)

You have no idea what ideas I have... :)

Re:Facebook Morale Takes a Tumble Along with Stock Price on Thursday November 15, 2018 @02:13AM (#18457481)

Ive chuckled at rude thoughts, sure. Ive not thought of building a technology to humiliate people for my amusement. Its an important distinction.

Re:Facebook Morale Takes a Tumble Along with Stock Price on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @10:04PM (#18456551)

We are talking about a man (and his company) who began with a site that, per Wikipedia, "allowed visitors to compare two female student pictures side-by-side and let them decide who was hot or not." Imagine being subjected to such childish humiliation. Of course I also did stupid and childish things as a young adult. But I never thought things like this:

"I'm a little intoxicated, not gonna lie. So what if it's not even 10 pm and it's a Tuesday night? What? The Kirkland dormitory facebook is open on my desktop and some of these people have pretty horrendiedous facebook pics. I almost want to put some of these faces next to pictures of some farm animals and have people vote on which is more attractive."

That is just mean. To me it reveals his vision from the beginning was to prey on people's worst instincts.

Marc Zuckerberg is, I fear (because of his enormous power), a man devoid of empathy. This is the root of Facebook, and that is the problem with Facebook.