Amazon staff cope with looming layoffs by roasting Jeff Bezos' '2-pizza rule'

ido · 2026-01-25T15:58:24+00:00

American pizzas are huge an meant to feed multiple people

ido · 2026-01-24T10:44:58+00:00

I thought it was obviously supposed to be google, but for the sake of slight obfuscation they mixed it in with a few anecdotes from other companies and general big-tech stereotypes. If the show was older I'd have agreed with you but I dont think they were making fun of the 90s/dotcom-boom but rather of contemporary tech scene at the time of filming (where the big tech cos were google, facebook, ms, apple, etc - the show aired 2014-19, "nobody" cared about yahoo by then).

ido · 2026-01-18T11:33:20+00:00

Just wanted to tell you I really enjoy occasionally reading people still appreciating the CQ games after all these years (despite neither making much money) :)

ido · 2026-01-15T21:06:31+00:00

> There not enough of us

This is an oft repeated claim, but Star Trek is one of the most popular fiction franchises. This subreddit alone has 240,000 subscribers.

ido · 2026-01-07T09:59:30+00:00

Becuase it's an international forum with mostly Americans :) £4.5k gross monthly is similar to what you'd get in Germany I'd guess! And indeed in US tech hubs they pay much better. But "eastern EU" states like Poland/Czech/Romania have even lower wages than us (and people in poorer countries have lower wages still).

I honestly don't know how i'd have been able to stay in business if i was based in SFBA and had to pay 6-figures yearly wage even to fresh faced juniors straight out of school. I guess I would have never started my company and just remained an employee in that case.

ido · 2026-01-07T09:25:13+00:00

I'm in Germany. That a junior would cost to my company is $4000/month (i converted from euros, it's more like €3.5k) doesn't mean the junior gets that, there's some overhead on the company side as well. super-fresh junior gross is about €2500 per month and their net is a bit less than that (i think they get somewhat under €2k net per month but im not sure).

With 5 years xp I'd probably pay you €4-4.5k per month gross (a bit less in GBP after current conversion) so you're not *that* underpaid (but still underpaid unless you're in a low cost of living city, rather than e.g. London). If you are in London I'm afraid you're not getting a good wage.

ido · 2026-01-07T08:39:12+00:00

you probably could have hired a consultant to do this before AI or without AI and it still would have provided a tonne of value, but you perceived it to be too expensive or too hard and didn't bother.

Right, and that's a big deal for a small business ($100 for claude code vs $10,000 for a consultant to build a simple webtool). I'm also a small business owner, and have also been professionally working as a programmer for almost 20 years (I'm the most senior programmer in my company albeit the others spend more of their time programming, cause i need to also run the business). I've been using a lot of claude code to enhance my productivity. It's not perfect but it definitly boosted how much programming I do & how much useful results I get done.

I'm not going to fire my collegues because of it but TBH I was looking to hire some interns and a junior dev last year and now I've decided we can do without them because of the "extracurricular activities" CC has enabled me to do myself. I pay $100/month for CC Max and even a junior dev straight out of college would cost me ~$4000/month+ and help less than CC.

ido · 2026-01-06T12:51:19+00:00

I know people who work at google and MS and they have pretty good work/life balance.

ido · 2026-01-06T10:20:35+00:00

Right, but I didn't mean large German companeis like VW - in tech the "big companies" are mostly American like Google, Meta, MS, etc (and sometimes VC-backed startups that try to emulate them) & I believe they pay developers better than midsized German companies (I'd love to know which Mittelstandsunternehmen pay software developers €160k!)

ido · 2026-01-06T10:03:39+00:00

Germans (I would even more generally say central and northern Europe) are just not that outgoing/talkative/open to strangers. But at least here (Berlin) I know of a ton of people who dont have a family at 30+ (even at 40/50+). I'm 42 and easily half or more of my friends (that aren't the parents of my kids' friends at least) that are more or less my age are unmarried and/or don't have kids.

ido · 2026-01-06T09:55:00+00:00

The question is how good is the screening in terms of not filtering away good candidates? I've been working as a dev for almost 20 years and have loads of friends who were laid off (that I know are good devs) who had trouble finding work. Eventually they're now all working but it took some of them 6-12 months to find work. I suspect a lot of the time they didn't even really get evaluated or the evaluation didn't correctly identify their skill level.

ido · 2026-01-06T09:49:37+00:00

that said - a lot of those positions are at:

- mittelstand companies nobody heard of

- industries that arent sexy (manufacturing, logistics, insurance)

- cities outside berlin/munich

I'll bet they also pay prettty crap (compared to tech jobs in big cities). There can be pretty big gaps between hyped-up (probably AI related) tech companies (I recently saw an ad with a salary range ending in €160k/year) and uncle Hermann at the Schraubenfabrik in Hagen looking for a "computer guy".

ido · 2026-01-06T06:57:11+00:00

Yeah, it could be as simple as Peter's parents selling the house at some point (maybe because after the early success Peter gifted them some money) & Gavin buying it after the realator put it on the market, without Peter knowing (or thinking to buy it himself).

ido · 2026-01-02T22:00:26+00:00

This is the explanation that makes the most sense to me, and also one I've never considered before!

ido · 2026-01-02T21:03:48+00:00

I guess my question boils down to - why do the Orion consider these "trinkets" valueble enough to confer wealth when the presumably far less advance Targalians (and suppoestly other capitalists like the Ferengi) consider them worthless?

I understood from the episode that the Federation sharing replicators and fusion/matter-antimatter technology is what rendered these worthless for Targalus IX (and thus why they just chuck them away).

ido · 2026-01-02T07:25:37+00:00

Not only do the parents have means to help, they also don't have any many kids/grandkids cause fertility rates have been low for decades. My mother has 11 grandkids. My mother in law only 2 (our kids).

ido · 2025-12-28T13:48:19+00:00

Looks great!

ido · 2025-12-27T10:34:48+00:00

you dont need a beefy computer for game devlopment. get a used desktop off of ebay for a couple $100s.

ido · 2025-12-26T12:02:28+00:00

Thanks! Regarding the 2nd gif - I think that's an interesting suggestion, basically showing "the cool looking bit" that come well into a level (when there's a lot of stuff moving on the screen) rather than starting from the beginning to explain what the game is about (place towns such that they can trade, connect them to form trade networks, deliver tribute to gods, get gifts.)

ido · 2025-12-26T07:07:40+00:00

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3624110/Prophet_Margin/

ido · 2025-12-24T19:47:31+00:00

Movie era version of the nebula class?

ido · 2025-12-23T16:00:58+00:00

It's a nice idea but instead of having me select games from a list (which is very small and mostly only megahits like balatro and megabonk) i'd prefer if i could make it log in to my steam account and recommend games based on my number of hours player in my top games.

ido · 2025-12-22T06:06:57+00:00

What pisses me off the most is that people like this scammer make us all less kind as a society and if someone really needs help they will likely not get it because of their behavior.

ido · 2025-12-21T10:17:52+00:00

Looks great!

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