electricslpnsld (u/electricslpnsld)

electricslpnsld commented on Deloitte tells staff they can work from home forever cityam.com/deloitte-tells... · Posted by u/rchaudhary

BrissyCoder · 4 years ago

Can't imagine working in an office again. The bathrooms, the bad food you inevitably end up eating, the hour a day lost to commute, the interruptions, having to shower and wear pants. Yuck.

electricslpnsld · 4 years ago

> The bathrooms

At my first job they were so crunched for space my desk in the open office was about ten feet from the entrance to the men’s bathroom. I got to quickly know everyone’s schedule, and knew I just had to leave my desk at certain times during the day due to certain coworkers… my manager was not happy when I cited that as my reason for quitting a few months in!

electricslpnsld commented on pierogis – python/rust image and animation processing github.com/pierogis/piero... · Posted by u/ksm1717

desert_boi · 5 years ago

As someone who is fourth generation Polish in America--basically all that's left at that point is food and people butchering your last name--is that even though pirogi is plural in Polish, plenty of Americans have made pirogis the plural in English.

electricslpnsld · 5 years ago

The old lady who runs our neighborhood Polish grocery store would smack me upside the head if I tried to order Pączkis!

electricslpnsld commented on Ask HN: What does performance management look like at your company? · Posted by u/edgefield0

Ozzie_osman · 5 years ago

Alternatively your manager could proactively give you bits and pieces of that positive feedback without being forced to by a formal, time-consuming process.

electricslpnsld · 5 years ago

And this is at a company that supposedly prioritizes constant feedback, we even have multiple mandatory training sessions per year on providing fast feedback. Go figure...

electricslpnsld commented on Ask HN: What does performance management look like at your company? · Posted by u/edgefield0

cbanek · 5 years ago

It's all honestly completely useless. I've never had a useful performance review at any company ever. It's either I'm doing bad, and know it, and that is either my fault or due to reasons outside of my control. Or I'm doing well, and know it. Honestly, sometimes at places things were so bad that I felt I was doing terrible, but I was actually keeping the team going by pushing past a lot of tricky issues.

Really I think any company that waits until performance review time is really broken. That could be a year, or sometimes many years.

Also, the usefulness or performance management is usually undermined by the fact that the people doing the worst usually are in hardcore denial as to their performance. Those people are the hardest to change and manage. I've rarely seen performance management actually fix a problem, other than making the environment so unpalatable that the person just leaves.

I really wish I could have all that time wasted on writing useless "self-reviews" back. Even if I was staring at a blank wall it'd be time better spent.

electricslpnsld · 5 years ago

I wish I had that kind of insight into my ‘performance’ pre-review! I’m at a FAANG right now and given my interactions with my manager alone, I figured I was bombing performance-wise (constant complaints about my work, refuses to acknowledge any accomplishments, super angry at me during one on ones, assigns piles of work that ‘need’ to be done by Monday on Friday at 6pm and then doesn’t even acknowledge the completion of the work next week, ...). Come performance review time on the other hand I’ve had awesome peer reviews, performance ratings, stock refreshes, etc for the past four biannual performance cycles. Given the complete mismatch here between how I feel I’m doing and how my manager treats me, I’m actually pretty happy we have this performance review system in place. Probably just need a new manager...

electricslpnsld commented on Ask HN: CS Researchers, why did you choose your subfield and niche? · Posted by u/Brazilian-Sigma

electricslpnsld · 5 years ago

Because I liked the people in my department doing research in my niche! Unfortunately federal funding in the US disappeared almost overnight for my slice of CS, so I'm currently operating and publishing in a cross-disciplinary fashion in an industry research scientist position. I'm considering leaving the US for a faculty position to get back to the research I really enjoy... so don't do what I did. :)

electricslpnsld commented on Space Jam's 1996 website is still alive spacejam.com/... · Posted by u/olingern

SquishyPanda23 · 5 years ago

I'm curious how this happens.

Obviously the site owner is intionally keeping the site up and dealing with outages.

But I wonder why?

electricslpnsld · 5 years ago

> But I wonder why?

Publicity for Space Jam 2?

electricslpnsld commented on New York City’s Mail Chutes (2015) atlasobscura.com/articles... · Posted by u/tonyedgecombe

electricslpnsld · 5 years ago

Our apartment building in Manhattan had one of these, it was super fun to fill! We also had a garbage chute... guess which one was more likely to get clogged when it was 98 degrees and 90% humidity mid August

electricslpnsld commented on Why are there so few black people in STEM? labroots.com/trending/che... · Posted by u/thangkan

fastball · 5 years ago

Who is getting the rest of the undergrad science degrees if Asians, Blacks, and Whites only account for 74% of them?

electricslpnsld · 5 years ago

Possibly Native Americans/First Peoples, Pacific Islanders, or individuals who self-identify by ethnicity rather than race on these types of reports.

electricslpnsld commented on With remote work plan, Facebook dashes hopes of paycheck arbitrage mobile.reuters.com/articl... · Posted by u/rdslw

ardit33 · 5 years ago

but... you can see people gaming it though

Claiming residence in SF or NYC during the hiring process, then starting working somewhere else...

The best way about this is for FB to split the difference. Eg. if your average tc is 300k in SF, and it is 200k in North Carolina, if you decide to move there, you will be slotted down to something in between so it becomes a win win.

electricslpnsld · 5 years ago

> Claiming residence in SF or NYC during the hiring process, then starting working somewhere else...

It would be a bit of a cat and mouse game. Companies can trace where you are working from VPN logins. I suppose you could VPN through San Francisco then VPN into your corporation’s network, but they probably monitor for use of common VPN providers. Plus during your meetings, etc, you coworkers would notice if you moved.

electricslpnsld commented on Exploring the architecture of gentrification texasobserver.org/gentrif... · Posted by u/hoffmanesque

electricslpnsld · 5 years ago

I'm as much Stop Building Ugly Condos as the next resident in my reviv(ing) corner of the rust belt... but honestly, with the exception of maybe one photo, none of these are horribly objectionable or out of step with the existing architecture. Crying wolf anyone?