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Faith For Two posted:If scoring 80/100 on an annual review means Achieved Expectations and 91/100 means Achieved Expectations, then wtf does it take to exceed expectations? Arrive early stay late ... on Saturday
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mweb posted:I am trying to research Facebook's algorithms and kinda the sociology of algorithms. https://ai.facebook.com/blog/dlrm-an-advanced-open-source-deep-learning-recommendation-model/ It's used to predict "where will the user click next"
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Feb 21, 2020 11:35
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Beef posted:https://ai.facebook.com/blog/dlrm-an-advanced-open-source-deep-learning-recommendation-model/ Thank you for this link
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Feb 21, 2020 23:41
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Faith For Two posted:If scoring 80/100 on an annual review means Achieved Expectations and 91/100 means Achieved Expectations, then wtf does it take to exceed expectations? Don’t forget the classic HR maneuver: Companywide email: “Here is our performance evaluation process, with the possible ratings and criteria for each” Immediate follow up to managers: “You are forbidden from giving anyone the highest rating, ever, no matter how justified”
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Feb 22, 2020 18:19
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Docjowles posted:Don’t forget the classic HR maneuver: Anyone know why HR seems to always provide guidance or procedures that make high performance evaluations difficult to achieve? When I asked my first manager what it'd take to get a 5/5 he stopped just short of describing Jesus.
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Feb 22, 2020 19:17
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Metrics are so dumb. I’m reminded of retail surveys where anything short of a 10/10 review is seen as negative. Yeah, let’s teach our kids that a 75% average is, well, average, and then when they go into the real world a 10/10 is the bare minimum. 
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Feb 22, 2020 19:22
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PBS posted:Anyone know why HR seems to always provide guidance or procedures that make high performance evaluations difficult to achieve? When people get top-tier performance ratings, they tend to expect raises and promotions. Those are expensive. They can also expose the company to liability around terminations. If someone has a consistent record of 5/5 performance reviews, and is abruptly fired by her new manager who's made lots of "but isn't your place in the kitchen" comments, her case is much stronger than someone who has a paper trail that lets the company say "she was always a poor to average performer, we just had to let her go." If management or executives want to give someone a high rating, they're always free to ignore the guidance and just slap "5/5 great job greatly exceeds expectations" on their favorite brownnosers. So, it hits all three of HR's jobs in most organizations: keep costs down, limit liability, and make sure that "essential" people high in the org chart are allowed to do whatever they want.
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Feb 22, 2020 19:33
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I had a promotion get approved in early December effective 1/1, so on year end perf I was graded under the lower title rubric. My boss told me that this is the only time I should expect to see a 5/5. They gave me one big raise with the promotion in lieu of annual merit anyway, so getting 5/5 meant nothing other than a formal satisfaction of the requirement that everyone gets an annual review.
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Feb 22, 2020 20:11
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Generally speaking, formalized annual reviews are just as arbitrary as less formalized processes, they just make people lie harder and think a lot more about what they're writing down
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Feb 23, 2020 02:44
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My old job had you fill in three objectives for the year. We were basically told that we should set them quite modestly so that you are guaranteed to achieve them year after year.
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Feb 23, 2020 15:53
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Vulture Culture posted:Generally speaking, formalized annual reviews are just as arbitrary as less formalized processes, they just make people lie harder and think a lot more about what they're writing down Formalised annual reviews can be good if they include a remuneration review. At my current job we have formalised annual performance appraisals which are tied to a mandatory remuneration review. Based on your appraisal your manager will take a remuneration recommendation to the GM. From this process I've had a $10-25k raise each year ranging from over the ~6 years I've been there (Also had two promotions over that same period but all that really did was raise the pay ceiling). In comparison my last job had formalised nothing. The only raise I got there over ~4 years was when I sent a loaded e-mail to my boss and his boss mentioning a competitor had offered me +$10k base. They gave me +$12k...
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Feb 23, 2020 17:29
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Alternately, everybody just gets a raise that may or may not match inflation every year.
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Feb 23, 2020 22:34
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Rocko Bonaparte posted:Alternately, everybody just gets a raise that may or may not match inflation every year. Lol whats a raise.
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Feb 23, 2020 23:58
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Gildiss posted:Lol whats a raise. it's what you get when you get more money for changing jobs
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Feb 24, 2020 11:24
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My company has a scale of 0 to 15, where 10 is "met expectations" (???) I have received an 11 (which they label as "exceeded") every single year, regardless of my performance or growth. I'm pretty sure my manager figures out how much they can afford to pay team members and retrofits our scores to match, which kind of makes the company's "pay-for-performance" mantra a joke. And of course because quantifying relative performance is near-impossible in highly collaborative environments, it's very hard to challenge it.
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Feb 24, 2020 14:01
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I’m in my first management role, and I had to do annual reviews, and then was given a pool of money to split between my employees. I only have one non-contractor, so my job was easy. I know in my last company the managers had to fight among their peers for anyone they wanted to rate “incredible”, or whatever the top rating was.
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Feb 24, 2020 14:57
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I'm working for a US corp that also does that pool of money thing for raises. However, I live in a country with mandatory and automatic cost of living raises. For the past few years, every post-performance discussion has been "welp, all the pool money went into the cost of living increase, no raise for any of you" Meanwhile, the constant increase in medical insurance cost that the corp pays for US employees keeps exploding and is somehow not counted as a raise.
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Feb 24, 2020 15:58
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Beef posted:medical insurance cost that the corp pays for US employees Hahahaha Just lmbo if you don't think they pass most of the increase on to the employee as higher premiums.
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Feb 25, 2020 02:23
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I do not possess the depth of creativity necessary to conjure up the myriad ways the US healthcare system thoroughly fucks an entire country up its rear end.
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Feb 25, 2020 18:12
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redleader posted:yeah it owns. way more fun than doing things by the book. i'm a loose cannon Turn in your gun and your badge, I'm taking you off devops.
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Feb 26, 2020 01:59
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God damnit, he gets results
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Feb 26, 2020 06:04
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Hi it's me: an engineer who likes his job. EDIT: It's also my 2nd week at a new gig after leaving a company that was poison, that doesn't make a difference right?
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Feb 26, 2020 06:53
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Slimy Hog posted:Hi it's me: an engineer who likes his job. You'll get over the honeymoon phase but leaving the poison was a good thing to do.
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Feb 26, 2020 14:59
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prom candy posted:God damnit, he gets results *wearily restoring git server from backup after some shithead force pushes directly to master* "I'm too old for this poo poo"
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Feb 26, 2020 15:11
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Slimy Hog posted:Hi it's me: an engineer who likes his job. I left a toxic job and am coming up six months at the new nontoxic job and I’m still quite happy so either the honeymoon period is really long or it’s really just a good job that pays me well and where non-assholes respect and value my work.
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Feb 26, 2020 15:19
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Queen Victorian posted:I left a toxic job and am coming up six months at the new nontoxic job and I’m still quite happy so either the honeymoon period is really long or it’s really just a good job that pays me well and where non-assholes respect and value my work. Get back in your pod!
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Feb 26, 2020 15:29
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Broke brain: clicking the checkbox in your IDE to enable multithreaded compilation of your source code Woke brain: hand-writing and maintaining a makefile equivalent of your IDE project file so you can compile with -j8.
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Feb 26, 2020 19:54
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Should have used cmake to autogenerate both 
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Feb 26, 2020 20:05
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alias make='make -j64'
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rt4 posted:alias m="make -j$(cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "processor" | wc -l)"
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Feb 26, 2020 21:20
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Because Compilers Are Weird, you often get a slightly better performance choosing a parallelism number that is somewhat higher than your actual number of cores.
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Feb 26, 2020 21:33
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I just go with =core count since its somewhat easier to dig through the inter meshed flood of overlapping error messages when the build fails
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rt4 posted:alias make='make -j64' The make team recently adding a new env variable specifically for crap like this,  GNU software, where having details about what is in a new release should never be in the news feed, or product page, http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/make.git/tree/NEWS Apparently it is MFLAGS or MAKEFLAGS, compared to Gentoo's MAKEOPTS MrMoo fucked around with this message at 23:23 on Feb 26, 2020 |
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rt4 posted:alias make='make -j64' If you leave off the number, gmake will start as many processes as it can. Tried this one time at my old job, where we had a highly-parallelized make system and it ground my computer to a halt. Maybe this should be in the coding horrors thread.
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Presto posted:If you leave off the number, gmake will start as many processes as it can. Tried this one time at my old job, where we had a highly-parallelized make system and it ground my computer to a halt. I thought about venting in the coding horrors thread about porting a project to gnu make but A) Ive fallen behind in keeping up with that thread yet. B) for all I know it’s a common practice to hand-write a makefile equivalent of an IDE project file. I’m pretty sure it’s a stupid idea but both my manager and tech lead like it so I feel like I’m being gaslighted. Edit: I just discovered that several years ago, lovely IDE’s could only run single-threaded build tasks. I guess I know what they were thinking now. Faith For Two fucked around with this message at 05:01 on Feb 27, 2020 |
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Feb 27, 2020 04:27
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As always, the coding horror is coming from inside the thread while everyone screeches about whether json or xml is the superior one. Just go to the most recent post and forget about the rest of it, you're missing nothing
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Feb 27, 2020 04:34
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Out of interest, what are the challenges of porting an existing IDE project file to GNU Make? I have the marginal benefit of working in an environment where we do everything in Makefiles from the start.
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Feb 27, 2020 11:49
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I dunno, go build . seems simple enough to me
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rt4 posted:I dunno, go build . seems simple enough to me not empty quoting
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Volmarias posted:As always, the coding horror is coming from inside the thread while everyone screeches about whether json or xml is the superior one. Just go to the most recent post and forget about the rest of it, you're missing nothing In unrelated derailment, I am happy to have discovered hjson. It supports trailing commas and comments, which are the two most common fuckups I deal with from human-created .json files here.
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