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If I read the article correctly, they handed the hiring committee /their own/ anonymized packets and the committee chose to only hire 1/3 of themselves. That mean numer 2 is not the case. Presumably the hiring committee prepared for their interviews of they passed their rounds.

Number 1 can still be true, and likely is. But then what's the point of using dated packets to test the hiring committees calibration?


How do we know it's not? Those positions might have paid higher were it not for employees passions.

That would be true if there weren't a power and information imbalance.

What would be the downside of all salaries in all corporations being pseudonymously public?

What does revenue have to do with margins. You didn't mention costs anywhere in your statement.

See my further reply, margin of 20% give or take 10% depending on scale (on average, some products obviously have incredibly high or low margins as is typical in the creative industry).

My point about revenue was that games are pulling in more money than film and TV and we all know they cost less to make, and film and TV has good pay so therefore the games industry can afford similar rates, if not more.


now compare that margin / growth to big tech or hft...

That wasn't the question though was it. Compared to most businesses those are good margins.

There isn't any business on earth that compares to the margins of HFT firms. Regardless they aren't asking for big tech or HFT level salaries.


Hmm compared to film/entertainment yes, but from the perspective of an individual developer worker, your alternatives are not just in film/entertainment

GitHub has been such a staple of the modern dev that some are now (re)discovering git is distributed.

Everything old is new again. I wouldn't be surprised if there were people that thought GitHub invented git.

> thought GitHub invented git

Putting the generic term into your corporation's name can be effective means of claiming things that don't belong to you.

Jon Postel reserved 44.0.0.0/8 for a generic purpose: "amateur radio digital communications." Decades later, there was a successful heist when some enterprising individuals who had incorporated "Amateur Radio Digital Communications" misrepresented to ARIN that the assignment had actually been theirs. Immediately after ARIN gave them transfer rights, they pocketed 8 figures reselling the space to Amazon.

Github obviously isn't making explicit claims like this but they benefit whenever people with purchasing power implicitly understand that github is the only option.

edited: Amateur Radio Digital Communications is not an LLC


Do you have a source for your claims about the ARDC?

This lengthy email thread[0] indicates that Jon Postel made the assignment in 1992, that the entity "Amateur Radio Digital Communications" wasn't formed until years later, meaning Jon's assignment had to have been for a purpose and not to an entity of the same name.

The head of ARIN defends[1] the transfer throughout the thread.

[0]: https://seclists.org/nanog/2019/Jul/366 [1]: https://seclists.org/nanog/2019/Jul/458


From your earlier comment it sounded like there was a "heist" simply based on having a similar name. Looking into it though, it seems like the ARDC non-profit did a pretty reasonable job of proving they were the same folks who'd been managing the IP block for decades. Also, has there been any sort of allegation that they've misused the funds? From what I understand they've pretty consistently used the funds to support amateur radio.

That assumption has come up in almost every conversation I’ve ever had with semi-technical people regarding git, so the confusion is just a fact. It happens so often, I think Linus (or whoever controlled the git trademarks at the time) should have demanded GitHub change their name when it was launched.

More precisely, a movement to leave GitHub mistakenly endeavors to leave git.

I know so many people I went to school with and have worked with that _still_ couldn't tell you the difference between git and GitHub.

I don't think I've ever met a programmer online who didn't think git and github were the same thing.

One of my younger colleagues indeed displayed a mistaken impression of that kind last week.

The code is right there and MIT licensed. Be the change you want to see.

You are less charitable than me. Maybe I'll adopt your approach. I first give an app the benefit of the doubt and go into the apps notification preferences and see if I can fine-tune their notifications. If not, off for all at the OS-level. If yes, I tweak it, but if I get surprised by one later, off for all at the OS-level or uninstall. It's especially annoying because I don't have notifications shown on my home screen and need to unlock with a pin so if I go through the trouble of unlocking my phone to spam and I extra annoyed with the app.

It's not insurmountable. Spam filters have been around for decades. They're pretty good. If I didn't expect the email, I train my spam filter that it's a bad email. There are a few that get through, maybe 1-5 a week, which require flagging.

The checkboxes seem to be a placebo. Sometimes there isn't one. Sometimes it doesn't do anything. Sometimes they say "updates on your order", which apparently also means future products you might want to buy a week after you receive your order. (Marketers' English seems like a foreign language to me).


For 2FA, why would I want to use my phone? Certainly not SMS. YubiKey primarily, TOTP if necessary. Neither of which I need a phone for.

Most TOTP solutions are phone based, but you're right you can use them on any platform.

Some 2FA is app based, so that you'd need a phone for.

You wouldn't want to, but it's what 99% of people are herded into doing. TOTP is a lot more supported than hardware keys.


Here too. If I were to pick a can up on the shelf it would likely have 800-1200mg of sodium. But if I look for low sodium beans it has like 100mg.

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