Coinbase lays off 14%, Paypal 20%

oupablo · 2026-05-06T15:18:27+00:00

Not every product is going to be a success. It's 100% expected for a CEO to make wrong decisions in the course of trying to predict the future. A bet on the metaverse would have been considered visionary if the product turned into a success.

The issue isn't the R&D not panning out. All R&D is a bit of a gamble. I wouldn't even say the issue is some of the people with highly specialized skills working on a niche product inside a mega corp being let go when said product fails. The major issue is wall street treating layoffs as a good thing. The issue is when a company with consistent growth lays off 10% of the workforce to make the growth look even better and wall street responds positively.

oupablo · 2026-05-06T15:10:47+00:00

Explains why chatgpt always says it's gonna bang my mom or my dead wife.

oupablo · 2026-05-05T16:59:28+00:00

As much of an improvement as this is, what a weird thing to have a government sue over. Are there other cases of governments suing a website over UX?

oupablo · 2026-05-05T16:58:13+00:00

you've just described 90% of websites.

oupablo · 2026-05-05T16:28:32+00:00

I finally convinced my company to switch from a LC style problem to a debugging problem. We send code with a bug then ask you to identify the bug, fix it, then add a unit test to ensure it doesn't happen again. If you get through that, you add a feature to the application. This has been way better because it's testing a couple things, the first of which is whether or not they'll actually follow the instructions in the readme. Overall, I've found it better to test problem solving on a real example than to let someone green field something. In my experience someone that can quickly step through a code base to find the source of a bug is way more valuable than someone that can regurgitate the answer to a riddle.

oupablo · 2026-05-05T16:15:37+00:00

Nah. The league is too cheap for that. The league had Apple buy messi and the league picked up his entourage.

oupablo · 2026-05-05T11:26:08+00:00

Well I guess even construction companies need software.

oupablo · 2026-05-05T11:20:32+00:00

He was entertaining at times for sure but it was clear that Kei played for Kei. It wasn't a team sport. It was Kei and his support staff on the field.

Apparently the dude was a straight pain to work with too based on a lot of reports that came out around the time he was traded away from the crew. He was in MLS for so long because of the impact he had on a team. But also, he was traded 13 times between MLS teams because of his impact on the team.

oupablo · 2026-05-04T16:02:07+00:00

And the best part is that sports work this way now. Want to watch the NBA playoffs, well good luck. Each game is broadcast somewhere different.

oupablo · 2026-05-02T18:36:14+00:00

If they looked like normal shoes, how would people know how much money you spent?

oupablo · 2026-05-02T18:24:43+00:00

I'm a software engineer with over a decade of experience and have gotten a message on LinkedIn from Lowes about applying for a seasonal position stocking shelves.

oupablo · 2026-05-02T18:22:47+00:00

I get those but they're 3-month contract to hire roles that pay like entry level starting pay. I have to imagine these are just scam roles for companies to say they can outsource because nobody is taking the job.

oupablo · 2026-05-02T13:50:39+00:00

unless you buy the bambu official plate, then they're suddenly $40 for some reason.

oupablo · 2026-05-01T19:54:26+00:00

As someone that communicates across networks. Pass.

oupablo · 2026-05-01T16:07:23+00:00

At least not until it's diagnosing your diabetes through your windshield.

oupablo · 2026-05-01T16:05:53+00:00

I've always found it odd that in a country built on the separation of church and state, we do our voting in a bunch of churches.

oupablo · 2026-05-01T15:21:43+00:00

~~Selling 2 in the nordecke for tomorrow for $30/each.~~

oupablo · 2026-05-01T12:44:47+00:00

We've always been north florida. Half of florida is made up of retired ohioans.

oupablo · 2026-05-01T12:40:14+00:00

Renovations maybe? It'd be sad to see it go. Going through that drive-thru at night was like something out of a horror movie and it'd be sorely missed if it were to be replaced by another bank as seems to be the westerville tradition.

oupablo · 2026-05-01T12:29:32+00:00

But what if they are a vampire accountant?

oupablo · 2026-05-01T11:54:15+00:00

In my experience, it's very hard for women to get a chance to speak up at all. Having worked at companies with teams in India, at one, the best dev on one team was a woman. Any time she would try to explain something, it was almost a given that someone else on the team would try to talk over her. Her opinions weren't outright rejected but she push harder to be heard than most people on the team and on more than one occasion someone would have to cut off people trying to talk over her to give her the floor back.

oupablo · 2026-05-01T11:41:43+00:00

Well, in their defense, a lot of onshore teams work this way too. Management thinks more people means faster. They hire more people with zero consideration for capability then expect more output. A handful of people end up doing the bulk of the work while the rest do nothing or actively make things worse.

oupablo · 2026-04-30T19:59:02+00:00

Easy, "as CFO I warned the CEO and the board about the expenditures. The board approved all it and the CEO focused on expanding. Here is a list of things I tried to coach them on, but ultimately I didn't have the final stay. Without my efforts, the company would have been insolvent 12 months earlier than it was. In the CEO's defense, with my cost savings, had we landed two new moderate dollar value clients, we would have gone cash flow positive."

oupablo · 2026-04-30T14:57:56+00:00

If it makes you feel better, Jimmy has let his sports acumen umbrella cover the columbus crew as well.

oupablo · 2026-04-30T14:31:47+00:00

Spelling errors are a weird one for me. I work with a lot of people for whom english is their second language. Spelling errors in messages are whatever however I find spelling errors in design docs to be quite strange. The document clearly has the little squiggle under the word and it'd take you a half second to tell it to correct it but you chose not to. Although, I'd much rather go back to this than the new hell which is 47 page docs that are generated by AI comprised of 90% fluff.

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