Meh. I don't want to take it away from the author, it certainly shows they're motivated, but I have a hard time this isn't a textbook example of how publishers/conference organisers are trying hard to get "underrepresented" token demographics in cover. Even if it is to perform trivial talks (a glorified "intro to channels in golang"... really!?) or write platitudes like said article. They're clearly underqualified to distillate advice to anyone, maybe interns/students could benefit from this though.
It became ok when emotionally frail tech CEO's needed to cope with nagging existential fears of _not_ actually making the world a better place, while at the same time frantically trying to succeed so that they won't be left with the horrific ignominy of not being successful _and_ making the world worse.
I follow GitLab's CEO posts with attention when he comes on HN. However, this post reflects terribly on GitLab's culture. I don't think anyone would want to dedicate time and energy into a company that squeeze their employees' creative energy just to leave them behind, dry, and without nothing but their eyes to cry. Loyalty must go both ways.
Obviously, this only tells one side of the story, I'll be curious to hear what GitLab has to say about this. Or maybe they'll refuse to comment. Who knows. Right now, taking this story at face-value, this is sickening.
I'm shocked GitLab mustered the courage to tell an employee they "do not have the company's best interests in mind" after said employee moved to a new city, with its coworkers, and agrees to put in +10h/day of work. That's all assuming it is true, which honestly sounds like it is. I have seen that happen.
>Waterloo is known for being mediocre/trash for CS research
Are you out of your mind?
Do you know why Waterloo's School of Computer Science is named after David R. Cheriton?
Yeah, the same DRC who made a major exit to Cisco, seed funded Google and hold an emeritus professorship at Stanford.
A sizeable chunk of the people who published Spark have done their undergrad' or research masters at UW.
Waterloo is definitely top-notch at the undergrad', perhaps less impressive than schools with bigger endowment at the research level, but far from being "trash". Tons of Waterloo profs are on the steering committees of major CS conferences (VLDB most notably).
This comment is so puerile, it has to be written by some jealous and petty undergraduate student. Or so I hope.
Supplement, a quote from Jean-Jacques Rousseau: "beware of those cosmopolitans who go to great lengths in their books to discover duties they do not deign to fulfill around them. A philosopher loves the Tartars so as to be spared having to love his neighbors."
One of the theological cornerstones of Islam, is that the Quran is the perfect, direct and unalterable word of Allah.
If you have faith in Allah, if you truly believe that he is the author of this world, and if you accept Muhammad as its prophet. Then, I genuinely wonder what room is left for compromises. How do you interpret "Kill the apostates"? How can you, in good faith, pretend it is an allegory?
This is what Islam requires from its followers: blind and complete trust. It is not only a sacred book. The Quran is a civil code that aims to regulate every minute of the lives of its adherents. And let's stop kidding ourselves. It is not a peaceful religion either. Islam has conquest and expansion ingrained in its DNA. The Muslim world is extremely orthodoxical. There are peaceful Muslims living in the West. They are peaceful in spite of their holy book, not because of it. Those individuals should be celebrated.
We're asking a violent bedouin who lived in a pre-medieval era to share our hierarchy of values and ethical system. This is anachronistic and cannot end well. Muhammad was not a hippie. He was a warlord.
You linked to an article where half the "arguments" made are either valid but are disjoint with the mainstream schools of Islam (in face, that they all live in the West is a good hint that they would probably be considered apostates elsewhere - I counted one Ahmadi). Anecdotally, none of them either published or studied at Al-Azhar.
The other half are just threats.
So, really, I'm quite disappointed because I am looking for someone to contradict me.
>Quite a few intelligent people disagree with you.
Downtime should be unacceptable and exceptional for a financial marketplace.
On Coinbase however, downtimes and unexpected behavior are common place, and happen multiple times a week.
It's outright fraudulent when you allow your employees to trade during those downtimes.
What the hell.