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There's no chance this will work for them when their stock is crashing and there's no growth. High performing employees already have incentive to leave and get new stock grants elsewhere, they will leave at a higher rate now.
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Not just severance. Possibly unemployment.

I'm not sure what the law is in California, but one state where I was fired, the company doing the firing was required to pay half of my unemployment benefits.

Not surprisingly, it fought it. Which is how I found out about the law.

Someone from the state unemployment department called me to get my side of the story. Then called my former employer to get its side of the story. Then told my former employer to write a check or lose its business license.
The best part is, if you quit now it's an implicit admission you were one of the ones who "shouldn't be here". It's a really wonderful set of incentives. Great job, Mark.
From the article: "Zuckerberg indicated that Meta plans to slow its hiring plans for engineers by at least 30% this year – adding roughly 6,000 or 7,000 workers rather than the 10,000 it initially expected to hire."

So yes, still hiring quite a lot of people, just fewer than originally planned.
the current top comment in this comments section is also decrying the Entitled, Toxic Gamers that are the cause of all that is Bad and Wrong in the world of video games today—have you ever noticed how convenient of a recurring boogeyman this is?

"gamers are the worst, they suck and are terrible. no, not you, of course—you're not a gamer, you're a Cultured Video Game Enjoyer, just like me, the writer of this Kotaku article. you and I are different from these vile and horrible "gamers", who aren't being misogynist or racist today but you just know any day now they'll be back to doing that too. how we hate them! now anyway, the latest vile act that these abject villains have done is make Ron Gilbert sad by writing mean words about an unreleased video game based upon trailer footage, on the Internet. imagine! being mean to Ron Gilbert, celebrated adventure game designer! the nerve of these gamers. how we hate them! now, Cultured Video Game Enjoyer, what do you think about the art style of Return to Monkey Island? do you love it? answer carefully, because the only people who don't love it are those people we hate, those untermenschen 'gamers'! now answer: how great is Return to Monkey Island's art style?"

don't you find the rise of this kind of rhetoric over the past 15 years or so, and all of the moralizing it entails, to be at the very least curious? "othering" a broad, diverse population of people by strawmanning them as though they were a political party or something, generalizing based upon anonymous Internet comments, an eternal beast of a boogeyman who is always lurking in the shadows just out of sight, only to emerge in the public consciousness now and again as the driving force of moral outrage that you should definitely feel very strongly about, because as we all know there is no greater evil in the world than typing mean words into an Internet-connected text field and clicking "Submit", right? and it always seems to happen whenever somebody wants their personal and/or game's profile to be raised, whenever it sure would be nice for all involved if more sympathetic Cultured Video Game Enjoyers would point more of their eyeballs at the person and/or product being promoted, on grounds of moralizing against the uncultured gamer swine, and above all, proving that you're not one of them.

idk for me after 15 years of this shit it's pretty old by now and that kind of appeal-to-emotion persuasion doesn't faze me in the slightest anymore. some people said some mean words on the Internet to a guy who's going to release a video game later this year, and it made the guy sad. that's a bummer, but I just can't bring myself to get worked up in the way the Video Game Journalism Industry wants me to—I'm kind of done being emotionally manipulated by everyone in that sphere. I don't need to "identify as" either a "gamer" or a Cultured Video Game Enjoyer to enjoy video games, so it's not hard to reject the attempted pseudo-political cultural bifurcation here by rejecting the whole dichotomy and saying "lol video games amirite"—and I recommend others do the same!
Because expecting managers to do their damn jobs would just be too hard?

It wasn't the #1 reason but "dead wood" probably ranked 2 or 3 for why I left my last job and it was 100% the manager's fault. Had that company decided to "turn up the heat" I would have left even faster and I can promise you the "dead wood" would have stayed till the bitter end.

I doubt the claim that no one has come up with a better strategy and I question the leadership abilities of anyone who thinks it's a good strategy.
I disagree, though it greatly depends on how "turning up the heat" is done.

There is not a lot that is more demoralizing to top performers than to see dead wood continue to plot along and earn a sizable paycheck and produce little of value. And it's not even all solely an envy issue - it's also an issue of poor performers getting in the way and making other people's job more painful and inefficient.

So a message of "we're going to start getting real about ensuring our high bar is met, and having hard conversations with people who consistently don't meet that bar" is something that some folks would look forward to.

Of course, like I said, the devil is in the details, and if "turning up the heat" means we're going to have more time cops than yes, I think it would be demoralizing.
I've thought about this too and I think it's because their strategy is structurally flawed. Their focus is on new/newish tech companies, but they don't make $3 million investments. They want to make $3 billion investments.

But when you're buying stakes that size in companies that aren't yet mature, you're almost necessarily going to be chronically overpaying. There just aren't many 4 year old companies that actually have real upside when you're buying in at a $100b or $200b valuation.

When you're making investments that big, you've got to go back to value investing like Warren Buffett or the Norwegian Sovereign Fund. That's the only place to sustainably put billions to work. And you'll have to accept the 8% annual returns that come with it.
Is it just me or does the art style in the earlier trailer look almost nothing like the style in this one? I can't say I like the change. The old one was kind of cool with transparency and lighting effects and this looks very flat.
> I use jarred garlic (a lot!) and buy it in quart (~900ml) containers.

I want to use it, because it seems like such a convenience, but every time I buy a jar it tastes...weird/bad. I think because it's always mixed with citric acid to keep from oxidizing aggressively? But then it doesn't taste like garlic anymore. Is that something you experience too? Is there a remedy? Does it vary by brand?
> Extremely traumatizing for the animal.

Do you have a citation for this?
Some substantial fraction of all pesticide and fertilizer release into waterways comes from cities not farms. Also a huge part of the non agricultural water supply goes to lawns. So while I empathize with the people who say that asking residents to stop watering their lawns to conserve water, but we don't do that for farmers, that's still quite an impactful action from the perspective of the city's water supply.

The farmer is filling up a tank or hopper with hundreds or thousands of pounds of chemicals that cost them a ton of money so they can't really afford to have it just sitting around. They know when they fertilize right before a rainstorm just how much money they lost. The feedback is pretty immediate. Some people would say this is sufficient to prevent problems, but we know that's not true. It discourages problems, but it doesn't prevent them.

Meanwhile your neighbor has a $10 container they bought last year and they'll need a new one next year even if they didn't use it, so who cares if I fertilize and forget to turn off the sprinklers? Hardly any discouragement at all. It's very open loop.
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> The Chinese government is an adversary of the West whether we like it or not.

It's not like they became an adversary overnight, China's economic success was predominantly sponsored by the West; Their abysmal human rights regulations were favorable for Nike to Apple for employing child labor and they in-turn used that economic growth to increase their defense budget 6-fold in just two decades.

Of course autocracies and democracies would be adversaries; But the sabre-rattling without holding the West's capitalist interest in China accountable seems disingenuous(In general, not your comment).
The V2 had an awful lot of catastrophic failures at launch and in flight. It would also mysteriously disintegrate at supersonic speed.

See "V2" by Dornberger.
Sounds like you’re describing this https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear...
They also hire people so they don't go work for the competition. There are bound to be a ton of people with bullshit jobs just checking in for the paycheck.
that doesn't sound like it's within the scope of OP's request, but best of luck!
the good people are the ones that perform well in the kitchen when it gets hot.
This isn't about techs, it's about those metal scrapers that pick things up for free.
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> It’s called "living below your means and saving money".

… or living well above your means in the time of asset bubbles left and right?

Let's say you and your buddy both make $125K.

If you bought a small $100K serious-fixer-upper house in order to live below your means in 2019 and your buddy bought a large $600K house at the same time which he could barely afford, then who would have "saved" more by mid-2021 when you both sold at 2X valuation?

At some point "living below your means and saving money" needs to turn into "you need to spend money to make money".

"Saving" does not protect you from inflation and it is of nearly zero value in the case of hyperinflation.
I think the cost correlates pretty well with the effort of producing the game.

I offer as a comparison the wireless providers with 60% corporate profits that everyone pays - with a job or without one.

(although I do dislike the psychological manipulation and personal-info gathering games that grown)
>Why aren't you always keeping your resume tidy and staying ready to interview?

Keeping your resume tidy is more of an expression (making sure you have marketable skills), it doesn't take much effort to update experience and new or shifts in skilling.

As to interviews, I could go on about the current broken interview process, but suffice it to say that interview prepping takes several weeks of sitting through competitive programming problems for most people.

For those who presumably need no sort of prep time, good for you, I however need prep time. I also value my personal time and have no desire sitting around for an hour or more every day playing with competitive programming problems so you'll have fresh memory for interviews that use this silly approach. As such, like many people, I need a little bit of lead time before I can get through all the hurdles. I've yet to see a single employer who doesn't use this process in the past 4 years although maybe I have a bad sample. This includes big tech, mid and small tech and some big/mid that aren't even tech focused I spoke with at different points. I'm glad you managed to find a sane employer that considered prior experience, a resume, and traditional interview process. That is not the norm in my area to say the least.
Great post; this is how I felt about it too.
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To not give one to, or let Wozniak share it is kinda messed up. I wonder how this process is undertaken. Kudos to jobs though
Unless your company was 4 people that is an unreasonable expectation.
You can pry my jalapeno-pineapple pizza from my cold dead hands.
I just saw a similar idea for a gym membership. Expensive upfront cost but you get $5 dollars back every time you work out.
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Exactly. I should've added (wrongly) after "convinced" in my original reply. :)
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I get where you're coming from, but I think you're expecting too much from the "form" part of design, when guitar pedals are basically pushed entirely towards "function". There's obviously a spectrum (Walrus Audio, Earthquaker Devics for two that manage good function and good form), but BOSS pedals are beautiful to me in just how easy they are to use - that big ol' flap covering the switch makes it to where I have to try _really_ hard to not turn the pedal on when I stomp on it. And that's the primary thing I want to do with a pedal - turn it off and on. BOSS's pedals actually very literally are laid out in proportion to how I use them - the dials get maybe 20-25% of the enclosure's usable space, while the rest is dedicated to making it easy to do the thing I care about. It might be brutalist and basically entirely function over form, but there's beauty in just how usable it is.
Yeah, I mean it could have held out longer but Hong Kong was doomed to just become just another CCP victim.
This is what Ukraine found out too late. When Russia invaded they legalised gun ownership but there weren't enough guns to go around. If Ukrainian civilians had been as well armed as Americans, the Russian army would have been vastly outnumbered in urban warfare and washed away in a river of blood.
> Yeah, "we hired people we shouldn't have so now we're going to make it increasingly unpleasant to work here" doesn't work.

But that's not what Meta is saying. The goal isn't just to make it miserable. The goal is to raise the expectations and hold people accountable throughout the company.

The exact quote "Realistically, there are probably a bunch of people at the company who shouldn’t be here" is hard to argue with. Every company that went on a hiring spree during the last bull run has collected some percentage of people who aren't performing or aren't qualified. Raising expectations and holding people accountable is a reasonable approach, IMO. Much better than just firing people.

Give people a chance to meet very clear expectations and fair warning when they're not. Remove people who can't or won't catch up.
No, what you saw were the comments after he moderated out the comments telling him to kill himself, that he and is colleagues are useless, etc.

He left behind the critical comments that were otherwise polite.
> Then this suggests a profound failure of management and leadership.

Dead wood management?
Just a quick note, something my dad taught me. Break apart the garlic into segments, peel them then use a broad, flat kitchen knife and crush the garlic with the heel of your hand. Once crushed, gather together and finely chop.

I've never gotten along with garlic crushers, they leave too much of the garlic in the tool and washing them is difficult.
My memory of the PDP-11 is different.
However, the pdp11 is/was a weird collection of systems, from tiny little single chip implementations to run a VAX console, upto large racks of boards to make up a cpu and fpu like the 11/70.
I mainly worked on 11/44's an 11/73's which both shared a 16bit paged address space, (with no cache that I remember).

They had more physical memory (256k and I think 4M) than could be addressed by the instructions(64k).

The pages where 8k - so eight of them, and waving them around required an OS mapping function call.

The IO controllers where asynchronous, and the OS did preemptive multiprocessing and the problem-space was larger than 64k, and faster than the disk-drive, so multi-processing and locks where required to address it.

We used C and assembler on them. C was nicer than assembler to work with.

I don't see a difference of-kind between the pdp-11 and current computers.
I do see a difference of 'know-ability' of the software stack that makes up a system.

There are so many external dependencies in the systems I have worked on since, many of them larger than the systems that loaded into that pdp-11, so being certain that there is no fault was almost always a pipe-dream. Automated tests helped - somewhat.

Often, confidence is based on the 'trajectory' of the rate of bugs discovered.
Rich countries in very much control their international trade agreements and are 100% responsible for where they invest.
They are probably already trying to get two 10xers to breed a 100x.
Execs don't interface with employees on a level where there is much emotion going on, and they probably see this as a benefit.

This is par for the course. Athletes won't ever say 'I am moving to a new team' a month before a deal is inked. Employees won't go to their manager and say 'I am thinking of leaving in about a month, not sure yet tho'...they give the 2 week notice and peace out.

This is all extremely strategic, anyone who thinks the average exec really gives a damn needs to wake up. There are certainly exceptions, I have yet to see it.
This is why I don't believe a word from the author. I don't even know if the demo is actually translating it or a demo of how he wants it to work. I have no idea if 90% of it is hand translated (SDL, some complex routines, etc) with the easy 10% actually translated.

Or maybe 100% of it isn't translated but compiled to object files with a compiler with V generating wrapper functions. I have no idea what to expect

I just never heard of anyone using V and it actually working as they expect
Absolutely. I worked at GE for 5 years and their reluctance to performance manage individual contributors was just insane. They will do anything to cut people in ways that are not performance related. VJRP. SERO. Contractor reductions. Site eliminations. And then finally the blanket RIF. I never saw anybody get fired for poor performance, and many of them should have been. And they also make it hell on people leaders to put people on PIPs. If you take over a team and 50% of them are slackers you can not put all of them on PIPs. HR will start looking at you as a people leader. “Why can’t you motivate and inspire these people?” It was insane really. I actually loved working there, but the bureaucratic BS was crazy.
I used to bicycle a lot before/during dawn hours to get in a workout before work and have seen mountain lions inside the city limits of Cupertino and Palo Alto. Both these cities have significant overlap with or contain nature preserves.
This article is basically blogspam of this Reuters piece:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-meta-girds-fier...

That's generally the case for the NY Post, where you'll usually find a better source linked within the first few grafs of their stories.
The web, neural networks..? Many innovations are made in Europe. Americans are better at finding the product market fit. Not always at innovating.
AWS is another. The gripe i have with them is they do it during the good times as well. I've seen some pretty horrible effects on perfectly good devs who were subject to what i'm only going to characterize as mental torture during their time there.
Re: France:

They are military, and they've been patrolling the streets for years (10k soldiers). The stated aim is to help people feel safer from terrorism, and dissuade attackers.
My guess is they're missing large demographics, hispanics that scrap metal. I'd imagine if they took effort to do campaigns in Spanish, Polish and Chinese, they'd have a lot better luck.
> It's absolute insanity that they don't see that the best talent can and will walk out the door if this happens.

On the contrary, the best talent is probably already performing to these higher expectations and won't be impacted. Their peers who weren't keeping up are the ones who will be impacted.

Holding employees accountable for high performance standards is generally welcomed by high performers.
I think the game looks fun :) I hope it gets a linux release, unlike every other Monkey Island game.
If making sure references are valid is left up to the user, it's ridiculous to call this language safe.