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Ask HN: What are some companies you refuse to work for?

4 points·by 3maj·4 года назад·4 comments

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3maj
·4 года назад·discuss
pretty much, or if you're put in an extremely quiet room you'll start to lose it.
3maj
·4 года назад·discuss
I thought this too until I learnt what tinnitus actually is. Tinnitus isn't your ear ringing, its you losing hearing from loud noises and the loss of said hearing fucking with your brain and then due to that your brain creates that ringing noise.
3maj
·4 года назад·discuss
Couple of comments.

Hedge Funds don't invest in trailer parks, if they did they wouldn't be hedge funds they would be PE firms or REIT's.

While the US Industrial Complex is a cancer to the system I don't think they're to blame for Russia invading Ukraine. Instead, the US government needs to stop non-bid contracts and paying these companies "cost + Percentage" contracts.

Also the FP article misses out on a lot of nuances in the futures markets but thats a bit too much of a pain in the ass to get into.
3maj
·4 года назад·discuss
For the last 5-10 years one of the most popular strategies for mid-sized PE firms has been the dental clinic roll up.
3maj
·4 года назад·discuss
Laughs in Northern Canadian
3maj
·4 года назад·discuss
Looks at wahoo kickr in corner

Hello old friend, we meet again.
3maj
·4 года назад·discuss
Project/Product Manager.
3maj
·4 года назад·discuss
There is a lack of cybersecurity investments in almost every industry. The issue is that the executives making the decisions 1) Usually aren't knowledgable about CyberSec and 2) don't justify the investment because it's not something they can physically point at and take credit for. .
3maj
·5 лет назад·discuss
I generally suggest that all dev teams send at least one person that's in the trenches daily to the steering committee meetings and any other decision making meetings.

This way, there's always someone that can keep expectations in check and can relay any minor/major changes back to the team. Ideally, these would be the tasks of a competent PM/Sr.BA but it doesn't always work like that.
3maj
·5 лет назад·discuss
I agree.

If they sent me a home test with a custom programming language I would laugh and tell them to withdraw me from consideration. I'm busy, I'm not learning a new language so that you can pat yourself on the back, others might, but I won't.
3maj
·5 лет назад·discuss
I'm looking at this from a PM's perspective and not a devs perspective so take it as you will.

>he basically tells me this project should have been finished a long time ago and he can't believe it's taken this long >>Sounds like a manager with a MBA and lack of hands on technical experience.

>he says I probably just misinterpreted an offhand comment of hers as a hard requirement >>The problem isn't you not understanding her requirements, its a lack of documented well defined requirements - and any changes to said requirements should be noted and tracked.

>no longer necessary due to changing requirements >>Once again, this sounds like your manager is deflecting the fact that they didn't have well thought out and well defined requirements before the project began.
3maj
·5 лет назад·discuss
Shoutout to the Slavic Homie Nikola Tesla, was one of the greatest inventors of all time but died in poverty.
3maj
·5 лет назад·discuss
Probably a big one. Drug overdoses have killed more 18-54 year olds in Canada than Covid has.

Hell, in British Columbia there have been more drug overdoses than Covid deaths across all ages.
3maj
·5 лет назад·discuss
Government of Ontario (Province in Canada) published data months ago showing that young men were at higher risk from heart issues. Nobody cared and the all the local and federal news outlets refused to report on the numbers.
3maj
·5 лет назад·discuss
This is complete nonsense. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.01.21259785v...

In Israel (I use them because they have a fantastic dashboard) not a single individual under the age of 19 has died of covid.

Stop fear mongering.
3maj
·5 лет назад·discuss
Worse, FB doesn't care about the facts and neither do journalists anymore. All that matters is clicks and political leanings.
3maj
·5 лет назад·discuss
Happens in manufacturing allll the time, especially if you're contracting our work to companies in India/China/Vietnam/etc.
3maj
·5 лет назад·discuss
As far as I'm concerned they're recreating Club Penguin.
3maj
·5 лет назад·discuss
Here's a wild idea, meet in person.
3maj
·5 лет назад·discuss
We're going to get to a point where instead of advertisers paying per click they'll pay per look since the glasses will be able to track eyeballs. Hell, there might be a premium that pays "x" per every millisecond spent looking at the ad.