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I work for a company belonging to Accenture.

I can only agree. Shareholders get +10%. Employees get nil.

It is expected that we do at least 15 - 25% overtime without compensation. Project manager promises everything the client asks for. Even if they know we cannot in any universe deliver this without massive overtime. At the same time they introduce new mandatory processes to follow costing additional time.

Performance management is a joke. Employee development non existent. Promotion and raises have nothing to do with performance. If managing directors do not like you, you are out of luck as they ultimately decided on your salary, promotion and bonuses.

I am still there because I can only switch jobs after Sept 2021 for private reasons.

After that it is jobhunting season.

If anyone is of the opinion that you do not deserve adequate pay, can be bullied by project managers or others - do yourself a favor and look for another company that does value you.
Sure, but I've never read an as-toxic Jobs story / exchange, as the things in this story...
Considering the context can be helpful. Apple has their caffeinate utility, seems to me amphetamine is an appropriate name for a more powerful “stimulant” utility, given the naming convention Apple themselves have laid out.
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Would be interested to know what design software they use for these chips.
I completely agree, sure if you’re into a feature and on a roll in a startup keep going but if you’ve reached a good point to stop no need to cause yourself stress!
I can't imagine getting takeout soup dumplings. They're almost getting a little too cooled down by the time you finish them in a restaurant. Dumplings that you pan fry at home can work reasonably well but, of course, a product that you have to partially cook yourself is not what a lot of people are looking for in take-out.
> implying Apple is uniquely evil.

It's not that they're uniquely evil, rather that they don't have the moral authority to lecture.
I worked for Apple retail in San Francisco. Being an early retail employee in the Bay Area, we had very close ties to Cupertino. I worked when Steve was still alive.

* Retail management in my store ruled by fear. I heard from other stores across the US this was the same as well.
* Promotions were handed out to those who kissed ass the hardest. Even if they were unqualified or cheated on promotion exams, if they brown nosed enough they got promoted.
* The goal for every retail employee was to eventually make it to Cupertino and work for the corporate side of things. Either Genius support or logistics in Elk Grove.
* Those who I knew who made it to Cupertino shared similar experience to the author’s post.

Apple comes off as a happy family friendly company, when in reality behind the scenes it’s a rule by fear culture.
We really shouldn’t normalize the kind of thought control, censorship, and morality policing that underlies this Apple guideline. We need to break up and heavily regulate any company that is so powerful that there is effectively no choice but to cave to their demands. These companies, like with the Apple-Google App Store duopoly, are powerful enough such that even though they are technically private, their actions are as direct and impactful as the government enforcing such rules.
Biden's entire career has been center right policy. There will absolutely be no socialism under Biden. People were sure Obama was a socialist too, but he left calling his actual policies closer to a moderate Republican[1] and I strongly agree with him there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677elaGIsKU
Although your classification of the images presented above is incorrect, brutalism can actually be quite a beautiful architectural style. Except perhaps when attempted by American educational institutions.
Seems like a stretch to claim that approving an app on behalf of an employer is protected political activity, but is this really so different from the pharmacist who refuses to fill a birth control prescription on religious grounds?
As far as I understand, ASML is not the creation of government
funding, but instead a spinout of Philip and ASMI, two successful
Dutch electronics companies. ASML was successful in a competitive market, dominated by Japanese companies pretty quickly.

In other words, very different model from what the EU is currently trying.
I've been bashing Apple about BatteryGate a few times. You know, where they hid information from their customers in a way that benefitted their sales. They were sued and they settled. Which is basically admitting guilt, as these lawsuits are never lost by corporations (they either drag them out forever or if there too afraid of what losing implies, they settle).

Each time I'm downvoted.

The Apple Shiny Aluminum Corporate Distortion Field.
-> In some years you'll be 40
...noting value for "some" may not necessarily be positive
EPA mandate for 2020 that's been in the works for a while:

* https://www.epa.gov/burnwise
Who is old enough to remember the McDLT?

https://youtu.be/UTSdUOC8Kac
Now, imagine the same behavior from bosses, but also being paid way less, working to the bone, and wearing diapers because bathroom breaks are frowned upon.

Welcome to Amazon warehouse work...
I've hired a number through upwork, and once from someone who advertised on here.

Through upwork it can be hit and miss, I found the best method was to set a couple of questions in the description of the task for people to answer ie "start you response with the phrase gosling was off his rocker" & something like "explain the tech you would use to build mvp and why". That tended to weed out the people who were mass bidding on tasks without reading, you want someone who's read your task and thought about it a little.

For bigger tasks, I've had success with posting the full job details but then setting a small task, like wireframes or some design work for say $50 to a couple of upworkers, then picking one to carry on the rest of the work. That worked really well, and spending $200 on selecting a freelancer when spending $5000 felt like a good payoff.

The person on here I hired after he posted an offer to make an mvp for a fixed price, and it worked out really well, delightful Chap, good work.

I've tried fiverr, but that seems better for smaller tasks.
What is the idea behind getting paid less when working with famous people, or in a job that has prestige? That you can cash out on the side?
I was wondering if anyone would do this. Any plans to share your experiences (and the code)?
State machines are incredibly useful and I use them all the time when I write UI code.

There are a couple benefits that come to mind with respect to writing UI. First, it forces you think through all the potential "inputs" on your system, be they button presses from users or network request responses. You have to be explicit about what could have an effect on the system. Secondly, it makes your business logic easier to reason about because you essentially turn your UI code into a bunch of functional statements. All your transitions are just pure functions where the input is the previous state and some input, and the output is the new state.

A lot of UI frameworks do it this way today, of course, but I picked up from reading about how Elm works. Whenever I write new UI from scratch, I always end up falling back on the state machine for guidance.
I think the limits in the legislation are quite tight. Tighter than existing powers around mental health detentions. So I don't think there is really much room for abuse created with these powers.

I agree it's a not ideal to legislate like this during an emergency. But as the legislative haven't done their homework there don't seem to be many other options.

The law itself doesn't mention COVID-19 so it is general purpose at least.
You’re absolutely correct but missing out on a major point. If you are an immigrant, especially on a soon-expiring visa, especially from a country with export restrictions (I’m guessing Iran), you are unlikely to pursue a legal battle. Most likely you won’t even be able to attend to any court hearings on time.

This is also why many immigrants on H1b and OPT visas at FAANGM companies (often their first job) bow down to abuse, get their work done, and do their time until they receive a Green Card so they can freely roam the job market.
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And adults as well
I don't believe any of the FAANG companies have unions, not even in Europe.

This is still good advice though - unions will probably help you even as a non-member.
you were correct. Thanks for pointing this out.

Have a great new year!
I think you need to ask why a non trivial amount of people would lie about needing to go to the bathroom. This is not a common behavior of teenagers at home, in a museum, at camp, on a canoe trip, or just about anywhere else I can think of...
My main point is whether or not you can do it inline it nothing is stopping you from renegotiating. Just because the tool is in "take it or leave it mode" doesn't mean that you actually need to take or leave the offer.
I feel sorry for anyone who has not had many years of corporate experience who enters a situation like this.

Toxic survival politics at a big tech company are a triple black diamond ski slope and if you are just learning to ski, you will get murdered by making a single mistake.

Knowing what I know now, human beings can behave in shockingly awful ways and politics can become extremely distorted in these environments.

The only way to survive a situation like this is to not react emotionally and to take an extremely neutral and objective approach. Do not become a threat or a problem, keep your opinions to yourself, carefully observe the Personalities and structure and understand who they are and why they are acting this way.

Do not engage in gossip or any negativity. Do not complain or criticize or raise questions.

You do not know the pressures, history or forces causing the behavior of your management and if you become the problem you are cooked.

I experienced a toxic situation myself recently, it caused me to do a lot of reading and research.

My peers who remained positive and optimistic and polite and non threatening or competitive survived the environment fine. They made a mental decision to be positive.

If you find yourself in this persons situation you had better keep your mouth shut until you can find a new place to go or you will get killed off by your peers and your management.
I've done my good share of recruiting interviews and you can measure if the CV has been inflated just by having a conversation with the candidate. Just asking "What did you do in your last job?" and following from there works wonders. No coding exercises, no whiteboards, it's all about working a conversation with them. I can confidently say that the recruiting process was faster --less interviews--, less stressful for the candidate, and finally the number of hire employees that flopped was not that much worse.

I did whiteboards for Architect positions, but once again, I just asked the candidates to draw architectures to have a friendly discussion.
Both major parties are authoritarian in nature. On some issues, they agree. On the issues they disagree on, they're still authoritarian (e.g., abortion restrictions favored by Republicans, gun restrictions favored by Democrats).
>Are there fewer ethical issues in plants than animals?

Yes. There are no ethical issues in plants. Nobody gives a flying ducks about individual plants wellbeing... (not the same as environment and plants ecosystems in general).
It's hard to say, because Apple is a huge corporation. It would be wrong for the takeaway to be "all of Apple is like this." But it should call into question "how much of Apple is like this?" and "how many more stories are there like this?" because I guarantee you that this author is not the only one who has experienced this at Apple, and there may be elements of its secrecy-obsessed, top-down culture that are common factors which contribute to it.
>>Remote workers get payed less. I can't prescriptively say how much less, but many companies in tech participate in geo-based compensation models while not being geographically locked in sales.

And many companies do NOT participate in geo-based compensation. The first half of you statement sounds like an absolute ("Remote workers get paid less") and the second half walks it back...

It's quite possible to work remotely, and not take a paycut. Its also possible to work remotely and make "FAANG money" if you're in the right tech.
I don’t see anyone complaining about Occulus, Google or Microsoft’s labor practices on threads about them.

Perhaps that will change if people read this list.
500k may seem like a lot, but it’s not in the context of the Mac App Store. Apple has sold over 100M Macs in the time this app has been around. Also, Apple’s policies are distinctly not driven by “if enough people are fine with it”.

Apple’s policies are bullshit, don’t get me wrong, but let’s not act like download numbers give the developer any leverage.
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Typically these are candidates, most of whom are already working right? So their visa would be tied to their current employer and they are not allowed to work for someone else.

5-10 hours would be similar to a typical interview loop yes, and if that was the entirety of it then it's not more time consuming than the typical engineering interview.
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As referenced in the comment with the Foucault quote, the modern school and prison are both structures designed in a way that makes it easier for their authorities (wardens, guards, principals and teachers) to contain and control their captive populations (prisoners and students).

In his book "Discipline and Punish", Foucault argues that in the establishment of the modern prison, the mission of imprisonment shifted from punishing those who were imprisoned to reforming and disciplining them to become better citizens. The same organizing principles of command and control developed for "modern" prisons were applied to the "modern" school as well. I thought the game eerily demonstrated how similar prisons and schools look to one another. Both kinds of buildings are designed to limit access to the building and also egress.
Sounds great, as long as I can recover my losses resulting from your irresponsibility.

Freedom isn’t free, dude. As executor of a COVID victim’s estate, if I can trace the infection to your idiocy, I want a lien on your house to meet the obligations of your victim.
Thats the thing, most of us immigrant does not come from well-off countries. We couldn't just book a ticket and get visa to work in , say Canada or Japan. Our passport power is shit. All things considered US is still the most welcoming for most of us who want to improve our life.
Where I come from, I can got thrown into jail if they found my religious non-affiliation, combined with my racial identity.
Not sure for other immigrants, but for me, companies literally have execution power over my trajectory of my life.
When you shove 30 kids in a class or 200 students in a university lecture hall, you're going to value conformity and pulsed, factory-like processes.
Insomnimac.

You’re welcome.
It's a great project thanks for working on it and sharing!
To publish or not should be based on cogency of argument, not whether the subject matter is popular or not. So if YEC can make a good argument, then they should have the opportunity to publish.
For me, the trees are the only things about those examples that I actually like. Absent the trees, they remind me of the Tricorn center in Portsmouth, which local folklore claims won two architectural awards: a professionally awarded one for being good, and an award from locals who had to live with it for being the worst.

The place has long since been demolished; I remember it from personal experience as a shopping centre where all the shops had closed, and as a car park where nobody parked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricorn_Centre
Most US work visas are limited to a single specific employer. Some can be transferred to another employer, once that employer extends an offer - but this transfer has costs in processing time & fees.

In other words, some visa holders in the US are very much allowed to work, but not contract work.
Agreed.

Learning not to be offended by things is a skill that is worth learning.

It is also the road the tolerance.
Are you sure? I've seen some pretty panoptic school designs, and this IS indeed a shape of building that Foucault focused on...

Here's the chapter of his book about the nature of certain building styles and shapes being important here...

https://foucault.info/documents/foucault.disciplineAndPunish...

Also interesting to talk about, are the ways that the people influenced by Foucault talk about space, area, and architectural design. Deleuze and Guattari had a whole lot to say about all of those topics, and they are one of the principle reasons for Foucaults fame...
It's a series of boxes. That's the default setting for buildings.
Correction; the senator meant to say the Buchla 258 oscillator had linear FM.

(Although there were variations!)

The control voltage input goes through the exponential converter, and the FM input sets the bias of the exponential converter.
I remember my wife’s iPhone 5 dying one winter just from condensation corrosion. The operating range is still 0°-35° non-condensing. So never use them outside and then inside. My nokias never had this problem.
My kid's suburban high school sits amidst a large grouping of light industrial warehouses. We joke that the district built it's own warehouse...for kids.
I think it's pretty dismissive to presume or imply that comments you disagree with here must all be from bots.

Edit: To expand, Apple inspires strong opinions in a lot of people. They have a lot of fans for various reasons, and a lot of detractors for various reasons. And then there's everyone in between those extremes too. It's to be expected that any comment thread about Apple will have a lot of opinions that you disagree with, no matter what your viewpoint is.
I was surprised that this was relatively so easy: you don't have to understand very much about the two types of buildings to spot important functional differences.

As other people have commented, space for windows is crucial. (And, at least 2 of the pictures had identifying words in different languages) I scored 10 out of 10 and the game bounced me out.
This is something that only makes sense after you've spent significant time on the hiring side of the table.

Engineers who are 100% honest, overly humble, and fortunate enough to have only worked at top-quality companies tend to not understand the need for verifying the skills that people put on their resume.

In the real world, some of the best candidates have the worst resumes. Some of the worst candidates have the best resumes. And perhaps most dangerously, some of the worst hires tend to be the best at lying and exaggerating because they've used their charisma to get them through life.

Making bad hires is a very costly mistake for the team. Not only do you lose out on months of team-building and project progress, but it's bad for morale to see people hired and fired quickly. In reality, bad hires are going to stick around for 6-12 months or more at any company of moderate size company.

Also, not all experience is created equal. It's shockingly common for applicants to claim 5+ years of experience in something, only to discover that they only touched that topic a couple times per year for 5 straight years, for example.
Maybe not so fast as you may think, if something like https://github.com/dolohow/uksm would be applied, not to mention architectures very different from the technological substrates we are used to.

edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_same-page_merging

edit: The mentioned security risks in the wikipedia-article could also explain what we call supernatural phenoma, by partially leaking code and/or data between different virtual instances(universes), thereby fucking with our simulated minds :-)
> This is going to sound a bit curmudgeonly, but why should hospitality bend over to some tech middlemen?

Because that’s what their customers want, and providing something that their customers want should probably be one of the most important things for a business to do.

The only genuine harm that can be caused to these businesses by the delivery companies, is if the delivery company is legitimately impersonating the restaurant. Which as I said, would already be illegal.

The actual “harm” that this law addresses is somebody making a profit of providing a service that the restaurants think they deserve a cut of (just because?...). Hilariously, this type of arrangement is the most beneficial thing the restaurants could have. Because they’ll find if they’d try and make one of the arrangements with a company like UberEats, that what actually happens is the delivery company will be demanding a cut of their revenue instead.

Criminalizing a type of customer based on whether they intend to on sell the product after purchase is just entirely stupid. It’s one of the many stupid laws we have that only seek to protect dead business models that consumers no longer want. Just like the DMCA and all of the car dealership laws we have.
As are dentist visits and prostate exams - but even those things ultimately add value. HOA’s arguably do so as well even if they’re often hated.
No, it’s C) protect the general welfare of society.

As demonstrated, folks don’t get that, so we empower the state to compel behavior.

There’s a lot of high minded morality around “freedom” with these matters. The reality is the laws around public health are much less draconian than they once were and predate fascism and its ilk. If you showed up in Philadelphia during the constitutional convention with sailors aboard your ship with smallpox, you’d be quarantined and left to die, and the ship set ablaze.