Or copycat. People are fired from power companies all the time but how often do they damage equipment? I don't actually know but you'd think we'd hear about these attacks more.
Whilst uncommon, employee attacks aren't unheard of in any industry - or particularly unusual. The phrase 'going postal' originates in a period of time where being a postal worker was particularly stressful, causing many such incidents against management; but such attacks are background noise in most industries.
I used to buy/sell junk stuffs in nyc. I would doubt this is a stolen collection from the pics posted.
Looks like a classic dump of the non-valuable lps from a larger collection. Maybe a dealer already bought the good stuff and the relatives of a deceased family put it on the curb, maybe a record store dumped it on the curb, maybe someone even drove by skid row and offered it for free because it was discarded.
Wash Your Hands! And clean the records and sleeves thoroughly. The ripped and torn sleeves look like they've been chewed by mice... (in the biz we called it "rodentia scarring" or something equally fanciful)
This post is over half a decade old, I wonder what percent of American budgets are spent on groceries in 2023? More or less than 8%?
There is more to this story. Freakonomics did an episode about the Cold War "Farms Race".
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.14958
This paper outlines a similar method, but with the addition of guiding the plot structure. See page 30 for the specific prompt sets they used.
Pay attention to the timing of your ride! I rode this trip once and didn't get to the Rockies until it was too dark to see much of anything out the windows.
I found a state unemployment map: https://www.bls.gov/charts/state-employment-and-unemployment...
But, would love to see the equivalent of this chart broken down by state and job sector. I've noticed an uptick in holiday seasonal jobs in my area... wonder how this affects the data
NYC's Fact sheet about the new law notes that minimum and maximum stated salaries must be in "good faith". Not a lawyer, but maybe this is space for class action lawsuits or something...
A knowledge worker's productivity can easily (and provably ) range from -10x to +1000x.
So, it's much easier to prove in the court of law that the ranges are justified.
Dude who created the React Framework is always 100x valuable to the company than an average Javascript developer. A couple of brilliant dudes is all that is required for a company to be a mere $100 Million company vs $1 Billion company.
It's ridiculous to pay the same $100,000 for each of them
The dude who created the react framework (who I happen to know) already knows his worth, and is not getting jobs through public listings. This law isn't for him. Also he is getting higher level jobs.
And that's true even further down the line -- if your experience can mean $200K more per year, then those should be two different job listings. One senior and one junior.
This law applies to anyone in New York with no stated exceptions for outliers. If he ever works for a company/satellite office there, whether remote or on-site, he's as much a member of the job market as anyone else. Any company interested in hiring him would obviously provide a massive number at the higher range.
But they would never make a job listing for the job. They would just reach out to him and ask for an interview. Actually they would reach out and ask to have a discussion about what he wants to do next, and it would be a multi-month effort of convincing him to even apply, including informal meet and greets with the team. There would never be an open req.
And when hired he would be hire into the role that has the salary range he requires and possibly some larger than average performance based compensation scheme, which is totally legal, but also possibly not because at the point that you're hired as a principal or distinguished eng the default compensation is still really high.
> A knowledge worker's productivity can easily (and provably ) range from -10x to +1000x.
this is a variation of the 10x engineer BS meme. statistically this is not possible, and realistically you'll see the companies using that line of arguments for obfuscating salary information are also doing it to comply maliciously. In fact, using a far outlier case to justify your average base case is the definition of operating in bad faith.
Also, sure if you see an actual superstar nobody is stopping you from hiring him for a different role and paying him 10x or whatever. anecdotally speaking in my many years in silicon valley I have seen very few cases for such high performance engineers and you need a lot more than tech expertise to not just produce 10x more personally but also keep your team productive & all that is not easy to judge in an interview.
> I don't think I've ever met an engineer who is, by themselves, 1000x more productive than even the least productive person I've ever worked with
I guess that all comes down to how you measure it. I've worked with people who screw up the code base, suck time and productivity away from other team members, and require frequent management attention. So their productivity is negative or zero. Which makes me infinitely more productive than them.
I demand infinity dollars!
Just kidding of course, but the point is people aren't and can't be paid exactly mathematically proportionally to their productivity. About the best we can expect is for pay to be correlated with productivity. Or maybe monotonically increasing with productivity?
Yes you can easily make a lot of claims. But I don't think they stack up, hence my request to "prove" it.
Also, of course, if you compare me (L5 Swe) and Jeff (L11 senior Google fellow/SVP) or Sanjay, you'll find that the roles we are hired into have vastly different compensation ranges. So even presuming this is true, it actually goes against your overall point that wide ranges for a single posting are justified. I'm not being hired for the same work as Sanjay.
> Even though you are an L5, you'll never design an Android or a Spanner or a Dremel system or a Self-Driving System from scratch.
Correct, but neither Jeff nor Sanjay did any of those things, and no one did any of those things alone, or from scratch.
> SWEs who create Spanner Databases are 1000x more valuable to companies than someone who adds tiny features using a well-defined process and framework.
IDK, I'm pretty sure there's an automated tool that can create a spanner database for me, so I'm not sure why you think that's that impressive. Less snarkily, you're underestimating the amount of collaboration that happens, even with the impressive engineers. Tellingly, it's never the people extolled as 10 or 100x engineers who claim to be such, usually they echo my sentiments!
MapReduce is neither Spanner nor Dremel nor Android nor a Self-Driving system. I'm not sure what your point is.
And the paper you cite notes a number of other people in the acknowledgements who were critical both to refining the design, and to the infrastructure that MR was built atop, so even in the case of something that Jeff and Sanjay did do, they neither did it "alone", nor "from scratch", despite yes, being the two primary designers and developers of the initial implementation of MR.
If you have a point you're trying to make, make it explicitly.
Geez, I'm sorry dude, you are really clueless about 10x programming.
MapReduce was a revolutionary paper which allowed Google to scale using cheap hard-drives and compute instead of paying Oracle licenses. If you can't understand the impact of that paper during early days of Google to what it became, I'm flabbergasted by your L5 claim.
You are clearly a 1x, 9-5, LeetCode, TC chasing programmer and not Jeff.
I'll pay Jeff/Sanjay/Linus/Andy Rubin/Lewandosky 20x the salary I'd pay you. it's as simple as that
It's not particularly constructive to presume that someone who disagrees with you is "clueless". Just to reiterate, I think that it is absolutely true that some people have extremely high value in organizations. The obvious question is whether they have extremely high value above replacement. You've yet to present any so called "proof" of this.
> MapReduce was a revolutionary paper which allowed Google to scale using cheap hard-drives and compute instead of paying Oracle licenses. If you can't understand the impact of that paper during early days of Google to what it became
Sure. I do, however fail to see how this relates to whatever broader point you are trying to make, which still eludes me.
> You are clearly a 1x, 9-5, LeetCode, TC chasing programmer and not Jeff.
At least two of these are untrue, but yes, I'm proud to maintain work-life balance? I guess you got me.
Yeah, in the cases where they're like "looking for someone anywhere between college hire & sr engineer inclusive" it'd be nice if it was breaking it out by level/pay band, then people could have a much better idea if it was worth their time
Check out https://bookshop.org/
Allows you to select a local bookshop to support. The book gets shipped directly from Ingram, with some of the proceeds going to the selected store.
I asked at my local bookshop if this was preferable to ordering the book with them and going to pick it up. They assured me it was, it saves them upfront costs and guarantees the sale.
I still go in when I can to browse new titles, but they don't carry much tech/computer related stuff.
Bruce "Utah" Phillips covers Harry McClintok standard "Hallelujah, I'm A Bum." Marching song of the International Worker's of the World, "Halleujah, I'm A Bum" is an important historical satire of work as identity.
Search aggregator of a rare book websites. Useful for identifying reputable dealers and beginning a book search.