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asr commented on On loyalty to your employer (2018) medium.com/hackernoon/on-... · Posted by u/Peroni

samspot · 8 months ago

Article points are mostly all valid, don't give your loyalty in return for abuse, etc. etc.

But I've been at my employer 11 years now and I have greatly prospered. They took care of me in many ways that aren't required by law, and gave great benefits. They didn't abuse me or take undue time from my family. They constantly invest in my career -- for their ultimate benefit, yes, but I benefit too. If and when I get transactioned out, I'll have no regrets.

It's ok to reward an employer with some loyalty for treating you well.

But also, this quote needs to be here :)

Would I ever leave this company? Look, I’m all about loyalty, In fact, I feel like part of what I’m being paid for here is my loyalty, But if there were somewhere else that valued loyalty more highly… I’m going wherever they value loyalty the most. — Dwight Schrute

asr · 8 months ago

Exactly the right attitude. If you're dealing with an employer that thinks everything should be transactional and that it's no issue if they nickle and dime you on small things, it gets tiring (ask me how I know). When your employer acts in ways that value their employees, it's ok to put a value on that, even if you recognize they're not your spouse and they may lay you off or act in other un-loyal ways in the future.

asr commented on FTC takes action against GoDaddy for alleged lax data security ftc.gov/news-events/news/... · Posted by u/luu

maxclark · a year ago

The FTC action is because GoDaddy claimed to have security when they didn’t - not because they didn’t have security in the first place.

Subtle but important difference.

Also the remedies include having a complete security program within 90 days IIRC, on what world would anyone think that’s remotely possible?

They wouldn’t even have an RFP drafted in 90 days.

asr · a year ago

GoDaddy will have known of this investigation since it began—probably for years. So it’s 90 days from now(ish), but they (should) have gotten a head start.

asr commented on The other British invasion: how UK lingo conquered the US theguardian.com/science/2... · Posted by u/n1b0m

anthomtb · a year ago

On holiday in Whistler back in 2019, I had a brief conversation with an Englishman in the hotel elevator.

A few days later, he recognizes me outside the hotel but I am noticeably slow to recognize back and he mentions "we chatted on the lift". I fake remembering while desperately searching my memory for the event of riding the chairlift with this English guy.

An hour later I remember that in the UK, "lift" == "elevator". Me, being North American and having spent plenty of time in ski towns, always associates "lift" with "chairlift".

asr · a year ago

Hah! But if you say “on holiday,” I would have expected you to know “lift.”

(or is there a region in the US where this is common? Everyone I know would say “on vacation,” but the US is very regional.)

asr commented on Why the CrowdStrike bug hit banks hard bitsaboutmoney.com/archiv... · Posted by u/sideway

deepsun · a year ago

I'm still amazed how the blame shifted from Microsoft to CrowdStrike. Yes, CrowdStrike update caused that -- but applications fail all the time. It was Microsoft's oversight to put it on Windows critical path.

And banks/airlines etc were hit hard because their _Windows_ didn't boot, not because of an application crash on a perfectly working Windows.

asr · a year ago

Not MSFT’s fault: https://stratechery.com/2024/crashes-and-competition/

asr commented on Google Chrome has an API accesible only from *.google.com twitter.com/lcasdev/statu... · Posted by u/develatio

ascorbic · a year ago

Worth caring about because they have a browser monopoly. It's not allowed for the exact same reason why in the olden days Microsoft wasn't allowed to add APIs to Windows that could only be used by IE, even if it made things better for IE users. It harmed users in the overall market by making it harder to compete.

asr · a year ago

> in the olden days Microsoft wasn't allowed to add APIs to Windows that could only be used by IE

This is not true.

asr commented on Google Chrome has an API accesible only from *.google.com twitter.com/lcasdev/statu... · Posted by u/develatio

yjftsjthsd-h · a year ago

If it's easy for users to just install the extension, then obviously there's no point in Google doing this in the first place. The fact that they bothered sounds like a pretty compelling argument for it being worth caring about.

asr · a year ago

Worth caring about why?? Because you think Google shouldn’t be allowed to make things better for their users? Like I said, you are so concerned about fairness you’re missing the point.

asr commented on Google Chrome has an API accesible only from *.google.com twitter.com/lcasdev/statu... · Posted by u/develatio

asr · a year ago

So the concern is that Google is making Hangouts better in a way that is hard for competitors to replicate? (And by "hard," I mean, "competitors have to ask users to install something," not hard in any HN-relevant sense of the word.) This forum sure has a lot of wanna-be Handicapper Generals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron

asr commented on Sam Altman Was Fired from YC washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/asr

asr · 2 years ago

Four years ago, Altman’s mentor, Y Combinator founder Paul Graham, flew from the United Kingdom to San Francisco to give his protégé the boot, according to three people familiar with the incident, which has not been previously reported.