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HowTheStoryEnds··on Ask HN: Having trouble getting senior applicants, wondering what to do about it
Because a) it's not 'to make' but 'to possibly make' times APPLICATIONS_RUNNING b) most people on that level will already earn that compensation package.

So it tends to narrow down the pool to those for which it is an interesting position, ie. 'Not yet established senior yet'. Which explicitly doesn't seem to be what they want.

HowTheStoryEnds··on The age of Scrum is over
N Times 'well: great atmosphere and colleagues; no minus points'
HowTheStoryEnds··on The age of Scrum is over
And at the very least with waterfall they thought about their requirements, now it's: shove 3 sentences in a JIRA and off you go, clairvoyant developer!
HowTheStoryEnds··on How Nix and NixOS get so close to perfect
For me it was documentation: I don't mind having to look things up with a new system but there does need to be a clear place to look the current things up. Instead I had to resort to Google which pointed to out of date solutions and package-names. Reducing everything to 'pin the tail on the donkey' for me and impeding me getting the system I want.

And I love the idea behind it and the programs only available within X directory encapsulation but for me the docs just weren't clear enough when I tried.

I should try again. :-/

HowTheStoryEnds··on Due to failure in the IT system, it is not possible to run any trains today
The workers don't get that though, they get 2nd class.
HowTheStoryEnds··on Due to failure in the IT system, it is not possible to run any trains today
No the section a train is on is automatically and mechanically secured by the lights on the section ahead and afterwards. (2 sections if you count the yellow warning lights)
HowTheStoryEnds··on Diary of a first-time on-call engineer
It's not a hackathon if my idea needs to be chosen and ordained by Papal seal. I already have that, it's called work.
HowTheStoryEnds··on I love you, Hacker News, but you’re toxic
All I know is he's reading a different HN than I am, if this is shadowbanning then it's great. XD
HowTheStoryEnds··on Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work
Why would rent not rise? Landlords know you have X more to spend now. Why would they not raise prices, altruism? You think that's their reason behind renting out property?

Same with the telecommunications pseudo-monopolies: you really think they won't try and tap into that resource even if a little? Communications has become almost as vital as housing the last decade.

Companies will do everything they can and the public is capable of paying to increase their revenue.

Also: depends on how you define 'rent control'

HowTheStoryEnds··on Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work
Only if all costs and prices remain the same as before the ubi and that seems a ridiculous pipe dream.
HowTheStoryEnds··on Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work
The problem is that it takes a strict authoritarian governmental control because you need to regulate the prizes of everything that's deemed necessary to prevent subsidizing controlling third parties.

Take housing for instance: rent would rise a lot when people suddenly get x more. People pay because they have no choice so the x transfers directly to the controlling third party in the end, completely negating any possible benefit but for those already in a non-vulnerable position.

HowTheStoryEnds··on Log4Shell update: second Log4j vulnerability published
So firms will need Ceremoniously Executed Offerings, eh?
HowTheStoryEnds··on You don't need to burn off your fingertips (and other biometric myths)
Are you sure about this? It does sound a bit more expensive than this 16 Shekel wrench.
HowTheStoryEnds··on Golang: Code of Conduct Updates
That's a good idea since humans are indeed awful: if something truly morally bankrupt happens you can always trace it back to one of them. Ceterum censeo, delenda est homo.
HowTheStoryEnds··on Sir Clive Sinclair has died
Yet the commoditization of computers he brought forth was a genuine gift to the people that opened a lot of doors for many. He has positively influenced the lives of many.
HowTheStoryEnds··on I refuse to let Amazon define Rust
No, but you do have to trust said tenets and their application.
HowTheStoryEnds··on Why are so many knowledge workers quitting?
In many European countries a big subsection(< specialist Dr.) of them most certainly are: no right to strike, low wages set by said governments and arbitrary rules imposed by same government that when not followed lead to inability to exercise your profession. Not too many other sectors where .gov even dictates your physical integrity. (No jab, no work)
HowTheStoryEnds··on I was a teacher for 17 years, but couldn't read or write
Only true in those instances where rent is significantly cheaper than mortgage + maintenance costs.
HowTheStoryEnds··on Activision Blizzard employees walk out over harassment and ‘frat boy’ culture
As a european(Belgian) I can only anecdotally tell you: no, it doesn't. They're the same instrument of collusion with the employer to keep wages down for the many in exchange for benefits of the upper few while also serving as the counterweight that keeps both the incompetent and the malicious firmly fixed in place. To put it in current days' terms: they're a major source of toxicity.
HowTheStoryEnds··on The productivity of working from home: Evidence from Japan
The truth lies in admitting actual productivity. He's claiming 0.68 or 5 hours and 26 minutes of productivity when WFH. That's a huge number to have both consistently and exceptionally. I bet the average person gets 2-3/day if they're honest about it.
HowTheStoryEnds··on The Many Faces of a 10x Software Engineer
Agile, agile.

Et tu, scrumfall.

HowTheStoryEnds··on Parents of daughters are more likely to divorce than those with sons
I believe that's because of (the scare of) pregnancy and the certainty that the baby ends up in the mother's hands wether or not there's a willing let alone capable father.
HowTheStoryEnds··on Programming for Cats
My cat still seems to run out of space when tail recursing when certain values get adjusted, I figure he needs to go into functional programming and no longer use shared and mutable positional values with what he uses to thread.
HowTheStoryEnds··on Programming for Cats
Yeah violating ethics is something that happens when you get caught doing something others don't like and like any non-critical error a cat can just walk away from that or spend their time reprogramming the short-circuited device.
HowTheStoryEnds··on Programming for Cats
Will there actually be basics of programming in there or is it just for cuteness?

Buying it either way but it might be a means to finally kindling an interest into it in my spouse. :P

HowTheStoryEnds··on Teamspeak 5 to be based on the Matrix protocol
For my group it was mumble's voice normalisation and the inability to boost or lower the volume of individual users.
HowTheStoryEnds··on Tell HN: Please update your DNS records when abandoning servers
How can they know the name of the original bucket? Can the route53 entry be queried?
HowTheStoryEnds··on Parents demand academic publisher drop Proctorio surveillance tech
It's perjury at 1 so strictly speaking there are restrictions. Problem is that it's too hard/costly to act upon them.
HowTheStoryEnds··on I assume I’m below average (2010)
It represents your cost to the company: something they try to keep down and which gets countered by their need to have you, the scarcity of your position and most importantly your willingness to walk away.

If people got paid their actual worth to the company there probably wouldn't be much profit to go around at the end.

HowTheStoryEnds··on Why I teach vim
Would you mind elaborating a bit on that for those of us not in the loop, like myself? Which plugins are you using?
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