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I hope the current crop of online "do my chores so I can bask in bourgeois awesomeness" companies all get screwed.
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A visitor to the bay area can look at the outdoor ads to see just how ideological this place has become. Mattresses are being target-advertised to techies. Mattresses! And Red Bull, their whole advertising angle here is that every bay area commuter is a startup founder and Red Bull will make them rich.
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One "buys" after the options vest. The thing that happens when someone joins the company is the company striking the price.
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Feb 8, 2016 04:57
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DOOP posted:Why are (some) tech companies called unicorns? I don't get it
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Feb 8, 2016 22:16
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Dr. Fishopolis posted:Well, after all this fun and rejecting a billion dollar buyout offer from Google, where are our scrappy heroes now?
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Something I've noticed about crowdsource startups is that they don't seem to have any concept of a sales pitch. Even after they've started operations, if you go to their home page at least half the time it's a vague mission statement and an exhortation to sign up before you can read anything else. Where do companies get this idea that they can drive sales in their service by throwing an obstacle in the way of learning anything about it? Is there some book that they're all reading, or do they just assume that it's a good idea because Facebook does it? Why don't their investors tell them that they need to sell?
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I'm assuming of course that internet startup VCs do the kind of thing that VCs normally do: meeting with the directors & officers, suggesting managers, voting their shares, generally working to promote the success of the business. Maybe voting stock is just generally out of fashion and the founders are running their own asylums.
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Jun 4, 2017 23:29
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LeJackal posted:Once I actually clicked an advertisement to go to a shirt website because I liked shirts. Then the scripts started, locking away their catalog and exhorting me to sign up as a member before I could browse. What kind of storefront demands you sign-up before letting you browse the product? I don't understand, and I never found out because I tried to circumvent the script lockout for all of five seconds before closing that website forever.  OTOH at least I have an answer if they ask me whether I saw something on their site that I'd like to improve. Gazpacho fucked around with this message at 08:04 on Jun 6, 2017 |
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Jun 6, 2017 08:00
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You've heard of satan in the classroom, now get ready for hashtags on the walls.
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Sep 4, 2017 00:16
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I might take the whole "learn2code" campaign a little more seriously if it didn't seem to be backed by companies that will tell candidates to gently caress off if they have 10 years experience in Java 1.4-7 but not the ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL Java 8 experience.
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Sep 5, 2017 20:23
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Try telling that to a bank IT department.
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Shooting Blanks posted:Link to a real world example of this happening? I have sold IT services for the better part of a decade and in my experience, companies typically don't give a poo poo if someone is certified on the absolute latest version of XYZ product if they have substantial experience (especially recent experience) in earlier versions. Unless you find someone who's an absolute phenom at Java 1.4 and hasn't touched a more recent example than that, to use your example.
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Sep 5, 2017 21:04
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Sorry I don't have a recording of a conversation with a recruiter to post, I do have other business to attend besides being able to document everything I say online.
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In response to the report on the Tesla labor situation at the end of July, some goon posted either here or another thread that he had worked at SpaceX for a while and told various stories about what was going on there. One of those stories was that Musk hired a designer to design a spacesuit that "looked cool", and then a succession of engineers to make that design function as a pressure suit. I didn't see it mentioned in the thread, but he's basically confirmed this late last month: Elon Musk posted:First picture of SpaceX spacesuit. More in days to follow. Worth noting that this actually works (not a mockup). Already tested to double vacuum pressure. Was incredibly hard to balance esthetics and function. Easy to do either separately.
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Cicero posted:I don't see how software locking a battery is fundamentally different from software locking software. If you have a lite version of an app it'd cost the company nothing to let you have the full version instead, but they don't do that for free because they need/want more money. blowfish posted:IIRC there were some straight up "buy license code to unlock more core" CPUs though.
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Sep 10, 2017 22:40
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Condiv posted:there's like three things named spark now
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Sep 20, 2017 04:05
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No it was in 1998 when Marc Andreesen and Tim O'Reilly decided they could get rich off unpaid programmer labor.
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Sep 22, 2017 07:35
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As the baffler article explains, all those precedents have only accidental relevance to open sores becoming an ideology that businesspeople were willing to actively promote.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:The thing is, nobody was ever fooled by "downsizing" or "rightsizing". We knew exactly what it meant: layoffs, only without the protections afforded to unionized workers. What this dude is doing is firing, and calling it "liberating" may make him able to sleep smugly, but the person getting fired knows exactly what it means. Gazpacho fucked around with this message at 20:02 on Sep 22, 2017 |
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Sep 22, 2017 19:58
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Not too thrilled about that 11/3 item. What constitutes an "organization or group"? "Advocate" where, in what manner? "Violence" even in direct self-defense? It's big enough to drive a Panzer through.
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Oct 21, 2017 22:27
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"Leftism" isn't an excuse for passing on misinformation. The press reflexively uses Silicon Valley as a symbol for all things tech even when it's not geographically accurate. So you often find Microsoft and Amazon in lists of SV companies, and the importance of offshore labor is ignored. There's a significant degree of ideological construction that goes on. The bay does have several material advantages, most of which stem from the development of Solkanar512 posted:Don't forget Seattle. Gazpacho fucked around with this message at 16:15 on Oct 27, 2017 |
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Oct 27, 2017 15:09
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Baby Babbeh posted:The Bay Area is about 15 percent of the worldwide venture capital market just by itself. When (public) companies are ranked by revenue rather than market hype, you have 1. Apple 2. Alphabet 7. Intel 8. HP 9. Cisco 11. Oracle 15. Facebook Of these, two date from the 90s tech boom and one is from the unicorn era.
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Oct 28, 2017 02:58
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Shugojin posted:I give it a year tops until someone tries to sell a literal wheel as an innovative product https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svbn1vboJ50 
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Kerning Chameleon posted:I'm doing my part: I replaced uBlock Origin in my browsers with AdNauseum, which in addition to blocking ads and javascript bitcoin miners, basically generates fake clicks on any ads it comes across. Hey, Google banned it from their Chrome extension store, and those Pale Moon wackos banned it from their otherwise MAH FREEDOMS drm-hating lovely knockoff browser, so it must be doing something right!
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aware of dog posted:https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/938938539282190337  No I didn't edit the captions.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:What are the best examples of businesses running perfectly well with good PR, and then they kill their golden goose in the belief of a better profit margin, and then they lose all goodwill and ironically end up out of pocket.
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Someday all headlines will be like this (there is no article btw)
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No company ever 401k-matched its way to the highest market cap.
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