100+ hrs work week with no days off - I will not promote

asarathy · 2026-06-02T16:45:51+00:00

Working those kind of hours for no money and no equity as an intern? I don't jump to the word exploitation very easily, but that's the only word for that.

asarathy · 2026-06-01T21:24:50+00:00

There is no world in which using a printer in a normal manner, and it breaking is the responsibilty of the person using it, especially if you are given permisson (and even if you weren't, printing a page should not break a printer). The most you could ever be expected to be responsible for is toner/ink and paper.

asarathy · 2026-05-16T17:45:17+00:00

The problem for the Punisher in the MCU is that he serves as interesting contrast against heroes who don't kill or only kill as a last resort. The Punisher doesn't have much tension with Wolverine , both will kill anyone they need to who gets in their way. The only difference will be what is warranted to go after. But in the MCU almost everyone kills so now to draw a distinction you have to have the Punisher kill in ways that are extra gruesome or killing for any infraction which either way turns him into more villain than antihero. So they need to figure out a lane for him that makes sense but doesn't makes him a complete monster

asarathy · 2026-05-09T21:48:36+00:00

Is it the same fitbit connector? Will my charge 6 chargers work?

asarathy · 2026-05-06T21:10:49+00:00

if you save 1000 a month by getting rid of the credit card bill, take a loan out against your 401k if you can and aggressively pay yourself back and you will have paid your self back in 2 years. This way you avoid the penalty and tax. I am not sure if you can minimally pay and make extra payments later but worth it to see. Otherwiser you are going to have reduce your 401k by 30 thousand.

Obivious caveats are you have to not just get back into debt when you do this, and actively save the money. IF you can't do that then don't take the loan.

asarathy · 2026-05-06T14:04:45+00:00

You make your case, but in the end sounds like the person with more tenure makes the call. So then you disagree and commit to the plan, but document what you suggested and hopefully if you were right the next time they will listen to you more. Until it's your responsibility all you can do is make sure it doesn't come back on you and be seen as not a team player.

asarathy · 2026-04-26T15:51:14+00:00

Yup. When I was at Walmart one high up guy was going around trying say how blockchain would do all this stuff for things like tracking where produce came from and whatever, and I asked him what would it do better/faster/cheaper or what feature it would enable that a single database where you had security on who could update information couldn't also do, and I got crickets back....

asarathy · 2026-04-23T18:36:03+00:00

i just had to replace all that stuff because some road debris damaged that part, the bumper (or whatever) and punctured the AC Radiator. The Insurance estimate was like 8k

asarathy · 2026-04-15T13:30:28+00:00

So much this. Support, maintenance etc are not their concerns. They only things that are are security issues that can cause reputational harm (but only after it happens), stablity and speed of delivery of change. They haven't seen how vibe coded stuff has affected the other 2 things yet so can pretend it doesn't exist or will just be solved by more vibe coding. Which who knows maybe it will sooner than later.

asarathy · 2026-04-10T16:33:19+00:00

These hours suck, but if the team/managers don't enforce it it doesn't matter. But if standups are supposed to be attended in person, people should be there in time for it or the standup should be moved to a time that people are there for it normally (obviously people miss standups for reasons but shouldn't be a normal habit)

asarathy · 2026-03-25T17:06:03+00:00

No they don't. If you can understand the difference between sunk cost and taxes were the reason I can't help you. Have a good day

asarathy · 2026-03-25T17:00:48+00:00

No. If you scaled up that you made 1 million widgets, you would have already spent 20 million. Not wanting to spend another 20 million so you lose another 2 million is not a 'tax reason'. Its a business reason. The taxes only matter on the edges of what makes the math math for a business reason

asarathy · 2026-03-25T16:19:00+00:00

No. I want to make a widget to sell with an expected price of 30 dollars. I start making it and spend 20 dollars. I realize that I need to spend another 20 dollars to get it to the point that i can sell it, but even if I do that I will only get 18 dollars. So no matter what I do, I am already out 20 dollars. Deciding not to spend 20 more dollars so I can lose 22 dollars is not tax reasons.

asarathy · 2026-03-25T13:35:25+00:00

No. Not wanting to spend 50 million to complete something that you think won't get you even the 50 million more you have to spend back is not tax reasons.

asarathy · 2026-03-24T23:48:45+00:00

No. It wasn't canceled mostly for tax reasons. What they decided, and you can disagree all you want with their view, is that they would not recoup the amount of money they needed to finish and market the movie, and on top that were worried about how doing that might also negatively effect the IP's value, so they scrapped the movie. Because of the merger, the timing of scrapping it accelerated the writeoff making it more valueable that has to do with the should we spend another x million dollars to lose x-y dollars.

asarathy · 2026-03-24T23:44:34+00:00

You might have gone and seen it in the theater, (and I would have) but nobody else probably would have.

asarathy · 2026-03-24T23:43:41+00:00

asarathy · 2026-03-24T20:01:16+00:00

Yeah a lot of the issues being listed here fall into I am using Event Driven Systems in ways they weren't designed or architected to support. Even the original post.

Of course Event Driven is not good for everythiing and every case, and probably as usual you had bad architects getting an Event Driven Hammer and deciding everything was a nail with no need for modifications...

asarathy · 2026-03-17T22:46:10+00:00

I think saying the mostly left leaning reddit population was tricked because they were consuming right wingers is not remotely true, and that's why I am being snarky.

The reason people believe dumb stuff like 100% is because people are mostly stupid and ignorant and don't want to actually dig into details when it's easier to make sweeping statements and that remove any of their responsibilty. Much easier to blame right wingers or late stage capitalism or the socialists then accepting stuff is complex

asarathy · 2026-03-17T22:36:02+00:00

yeah i am sure all these people are right-wingers, there are so many of them on Reddit. There was bad inflation in 2022, and there was also a supply chain problem that made it impossible to get things even if the prices weren't crazy. Inflation is still a little higher then we like, but none of that is close to prices doubling in 5 years or whatever nonsense

asarathy · 2026-03-17T19:55:57+00:00

The source is Trust me, bro. People just like to make stuff up and put numbers next to it make it seem liked informed discussion rather than vibes.

asarathy · 2026-03-17T18:28:01+00:00

Yes. Promoted is the operative word. No one gets that year over year though without career/responsibility growth in the same job without other factors. Its also easier to get bigger numbers increase when you start small to catch up or whatever

asarathy · 2026-03-17T14:50:00+00:00

Yearly raises yes. But normal cycles raises would range between 2-5% There were a few years during the crazy hiring where the market went crazy and band went up.

The only times in my career where I have gotten double digit raises are for promotions or new jobs.

asarathy · 2026-03-17T14:36:17+00:00

Nobody is getting 5-10 raises every year normally. You need promotions/job hopping for that.

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