> The incentive was that we would have a pizza party IF we hit the deadline. This same thing happened to me when I was a wee lad. I then personally ordered and paid for a few pizzas, breadsticks, root beer, a greek…
Thank you very very much for posting that 1986 article which documents clearly the facts of what was been going on. It is an established documented fact that the tax changes were in fact retroactive and specifically…
Yes, yes and yes. Absolutely. Key parts of the sordid, brutal and shameful history of american slavery in the 20th century. US slavery in the last 100 years, and the support and defense of that slavery by the certain…
That's part of the edit after an extremely useful post with insight into the reality started getting downvoted because it didn't conform with the political or whatever beliefs of the downvoters. HN would be better…
I remember ComputerLand stores. Sounds like he was a hard working guy who earned his success. Saipan is one of the most corrupt backwards places on earth. As a US trust territory, for many years they had slave…
It's a bit frustrating to see very insightful contributions like my comment here downvoted. Downvotes isn't meant to be for good points. Let me make it more explicit though for people who have difficulty understanding…
It depends on a lot of things! We'll assume that whatever it is you are having people do is something that is intrinsically rewarding, benefits them, and is not taking up their entire life. We're not talking about…
Myself I pretty much don't do jack shit in any given hour of the year, so I guess companies that would hire me at those rates are getting ripped off since they aren't getting anything for their money. On the other hand,…
Hm, well thanks for the clarification. I just reread it several times and it's not clear. I'll agree that it's ambiguous. It would be interesting to know more. Is this a fixed 25 day cut off then, or is it prorated?…
1. Respect 2. Autonomy 3. Control None of those cost money yet so few workplaces value them since disrespect, micromanagement, and industrial era style division of labor are addictions of the corporate management crowd.…
This is considerably better than others since he comes out and s ays it's 30 days off. But it leaves many questions unanswered. Is it paid holiday or not? I see there is a bonus for unused days, that seems to imply it…
Yeah Bob, what about the clearance? The crazy people are the ones that won't push back at a certain point of provocation. You hear about these women that stay with abusive spouses that beat them instead of leaving or…
I used to say native applications were the only way to do a lot of things like photo editing. Since then I have been proven wrong in finding photo editing and even audio production tools running in web browsers. Not the…
I appreciate your insightful and relevant comment. Pity it's getting downvotes.
Are you saying then the deadline is always "ASAP"?
"Only people whose sick leave exceeded 2 standard deviation were notified" I don't understand what notified means? Notified of termination? So each year the company measured which people had the most sick days, which…
For those that work, they do go mad. Haven't you noticed that Americans are obese drug addicts with little knowledge of world culture, don't speak any other languages at all, and love to declare war or otherwise bully…
I am a designer, engineer and entrepreneur, but I have also taught high school in the past. As an engineer, I would not consider working for a place that had a problem with less than 4 weeks vacation. It is absolutely…
This is the exact reason why these policies claim there is no specific time. No allocated days legally means zero days. Companies use this "flexible vacation" policy specifically so they don't have to comply with pay…
Absolutely so. I've seen this policy many times and it always results in less vacation around. Not only that but in his very post linked to he makes clear that he considers a proper 6 week vacation (I take off August…
Hm. The thing is, tech firms are known for having amorphous and ill defined vacation policies that seem very open in print, but in practice, no one takes it because you're not really allowed to. So I want to know. 1.…
How cool. $20,000 per text is much more than most textbook authors are claiming they are getting from the publishers.
It's a very interesting question. I use yahoo a fair bit for email accounts and for reading the news. I am not sure how they monetize this activity if at all. Recently they forced me out of the old interface with email.…
I've learned about a lot more than physics from Feynman. I also see little evidence that classes are taught by experts in their subject matter except at the university level, and even then only rarely. But let's post a…
It's obviously not true that 40% of Europeans are not mentally ill unless mentally ill is defined so loosely as to be meaningless. But let's play the game for a moment and assume it is true. We must then ask if it is a…
> The incentive was that we would have a pizza party IF we hit the deadline. This same thing happened to me when I was a wee lad. I then personally ordered and paid for a few pizzas, breadsticks, root beer, a greek…
Thank you very very much for posting that 1986 article which documents clearly the facts of what was been going on. It is an established documented fact that the tax changes were in fact retroactive and specifically…
Yes, yes and yes. Absolutely. Key parts of the sordid, brutal and shameful history of american slavery in the 20th century. US slavery in the last 100 years, and the support and defense of that slavery by the certain…
That's part of the edit after an extremely useful post with insight into the reality started getting downvoted because it didn't conform with the political or whatever beliefs of the downvoters. HN would be better…
I remember ComputerLand stores. Sounds like he was a hard working guy who earned his success. Saipan is one of the most corrupt backwards places on earth. As a US trust territory, for many years they had slave…
It's a bit frustrating to see very insightful contributions like my comment here downvoted. Downvotes isn't meant to be for good points. Let me make it more explicit though for people who have difficulty understanding…
It depends on a lot of things! We'll assume that whatever it is you are having people do is something that is intrinsically rewarding, benefits them, and is not taking up their entire life. We're not talking about…
Myself I pretty much don't do jack shit in any given hour of the year, so I guess companies that would hire me at those rates are getting ripped off since they aren't getting anything for their money. On the other hand,…
Hm, well thanks for the clarification. I just reread it several times and it's not clear. I'll agree that it's ambiguous. It would be interesting to know more. Is this a fixed 25 day cut off then, or is it prorated?…
1. Respect 2. Autonomy 3. Control None of those cost money yet so few workplaces value them since disrespect, micromanagement, and industrial era style division of labor are addictions of the corporate management crowd.…
This is considerably better than others since he comes out and s ays it's 30 days off. But it leaves many questions unanswered. Is it paid holiday or not? I see there is a bonus for unused days, that seems to imply it…
Yeah Bob, what about the clearance? The crazy people are the ones that won't push back at a certain point of provocation. You hear about these women that stay with abusive spouses that beat them instead of leaving or…
I used to say native applications were the only way to do a lot of things like photo editing. Since then I have been proven wrong in finding photo editing and even audio production tools running in web browsers. Not the…
I appreciate your insightful and relevant comment. Pity it's getting downvotes.
Are you saying then the deadline is always "ASAP"?
"Only people whose sick leave exceeded 2 standard deviation were notified" I don't understand what notified means? Notified of termination? So each year the company measured which people had the most sick days, which…
For those that work, they do go mad. Haven't you noticed that Americans are obese drug addicts with little knowledge of world culture, don't speak any other languages at all, and love to declare war or otherwise bully…
I am a designer, engineer and entrepreneur, but I have also taught high school in the past. As an engineer, I would not consider working for a place that had a problem with less than 4 weeks vacation. It is absolutely…
This is the exact reason why these policies claim there is no specific time. No allocated days legally means zero days. Companies use this "flexible vacation" policy specifically so they don't have to comply with pay…
Absolutely so. I've seen this policy many times and it always results in less vacation around. Not only that but in his very post linked to he makes clear that he considers a proper 6 week vacation (I take off August…
Hm. The thing is, tech firms are known for having amorphous and ill defined vacation policies that seem very open in print, but in practice, no one takes it because you're not really allowed to. So I want to know. 1.…
How cool. $20,000 per text is much more than most textbook authors are claiming they are getting from the publishers.
It's a very interesting question. I use yahoo a fair bit for email accounts and for reading the news. I am not sure how they monetize this activity if at all. Recently they forced me out of the old interface with email.…
I've learned about a lot more than physics from Feynman. I also see little evidence that classes are taught by experts in their subject matter except at the university level, and even then only rarely. But let's post a…
It's obviously not true that 40% of Europeans are not mentally ill unless mentally ill is defined so loosely as to be meaningless. But let's play the game for a moment and assume it is true. We must then ask if it is a…