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New comment by mav3rick in "Microsoft wins $21.9B contract with U.S. Army to supply AR headsets"

mav3rick — Sat, 03 Apr 2021 08:27:17 +0000

Have fun at your perfect company.

New comment by mav3rick in "Microsoft wins $21.9B contract with U.S. Army to supply AR headsets"

mav3rick — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 20:44:41 +0000

At least Googlers can dissent and protest. Not one big company comes close to the amount of times Googlers can and have affected change. No company is perfect. Look inside yours before always finding flaws in one.

New comment by mav3rick in "Microsoft wins $21.9B contract with U.S. Army to supply AR headsets"

mav3rick — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 17:55:36 +0000

I think we're going in circles. I"ll let it rest. I appreciate that you engaged in a civil way. Are you still at Microsoft ? Is Azure the alpha org now ?

New comment by mav3rick in "Microsoft wins $21.9B contract with U.S. Army to supply AR headsets"

mav3rick — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 15:29:15 +0000

Yes and at Google each individual employee can raise concerns. Not some "org head" who may ask softball questions because his promotion is directly controlled by the CEO. I can't believe you're comparing this cherry picked gathering to a setting where literally anyone can go up and ask a question.

And then you justify leadership standing their ground. Ha. So Microsoft leadership is all benevelant, never wrong. There's a reason 99/100 make the move from Microsoft to G.

New comment by mav3rick in "How does Google manage protobufs"

mav3rick — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 09:38:27 +0000

You can have multiple repos ? One public and one internal referring the public protos ? Sync them and get going ?

New comment by mav3rick in "Google Play limiting Android 11 apps from seeing what’s installed on devices"

mav3rick — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 09:34:53 +0000

The kernel can literally see everything. No amount of good faith efforts can ever please anyone in that case.

New comment by mav3rick in "Amazon plans to ‘return to an office-centric culture as our baseline’"

mav3rick — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 03:41:24 +0000

You must be tweeting too. Makes sense.

New comment by mav3rick in "Amazon plans to ‘return to an office-centric culture as our baseline’"

mav3rick — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 03:38:29 +0000

Haha nice ! Your bad attempts to doxx me are nice. Are you tweeting in favor of Amazon too ?

It took a pandemic for Amazon's perks to be equal to other companies lol. Just go to blind and see how every Amazon employee bitches and moans about the perks at Amazon. Even at your "concert" people were allowed "2 sodas" lol. Nice.

New comment by mav3rick in "Microsoft wins $21.9B contract with U.S. Army to supply AR headsets"

mav3rick — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 02:16:16 +0000

Tell me one avenue where employees have complained ? Satyas QnA ? And like you said no one does anything there. You really believe 150k people are all aligned with military contracts ? At Google there are at least 4 company level avenues to raise your voice. You can Google them. And Google has walked back on contracts after backlash on employees. So clearly there is more proactive action here. At Microsoft there is both employees are too meek or don't care and employees can't even voice their concerns. Cycle keeps going on and on.

New comment by mav3rick in "Microsoft wins $21.9B contract with U.S. Army to supply AR headsets"

mav3rick — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 00:04:18 +0000

'By the last day of August 2020, 310 employees had added their data to the spreadsheet. Microsoft employs more than 150,000 employees around the world.'

You don't say.

New comment by mav3rick in "Amazon plans to ‘return to an office-centric culture as our baseline’"

mav3rick — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 17:04:58 +0000

At least G's office perks are way better lol

New comment by mav3rick in "Amazon plans to ‘return to an office-centric culture as our baseline’"

mav3rick — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 17:03:55 +0000

Are you okay taking a pacycut while moving to the Midwest ?

New comment by mav3rick in "Amazon plans to ‘return to an office-centric culture as our baseline’"

mav3rick — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 17:03:09 +0000

Curious on your response to this story -

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/mar/30/amazon-tw...

New comment by mav3rick in "Microsoft wins $21.9B contract with U.S. Army to supply AR headsets"

mav3rick — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 15:38:32 +0000

Lol just 94 people protested this contract at msft. I don't want to debate if it's the people at Microsoft or the suppressed voice by upper management. Either way Microsoft gets away with a lot of contentious business decisions as employees are more inclined to keep their head down.

Also about salaries, try creating a spreadsheet for salaries at Microsoft. I guarantee you, you will be fired within the week.

New comment by mav3rick in "Microsoft wins $21.9B contract with U.S. Army to supply AR headsets"

mav3rick — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 15:34:38 +0000

The point I'm refuting is that there are far less avenues in Microsoft for employees to collectively complain or share information together or dissent against the top brass.

New comment by mav3rick in "Google is accelerating reopening of offices and putting limits on remote work"

mav3rick — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 07:52:04 +0000

Lol yes investors want to sell offices. They clearly need brain cells from you.

New comment by mav3rick in "Microsoft wins $21.9B contract with U.S. Army to supply AR headsets"

mav3rick — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 01:40:15 +0000

LOL Microsoft has few forums to even voice your concern. You can't even share your salaries within Microsoft. It's such a joke to tout it as more employee friendly than Google. For starters it pays lesser across the board. Google has also backed out of many contracts when dissent was raised.

The voices aren't suppressed at Microsoft, because there're no avenues to raise them anyway.

New comment by mav3rick in "Elon Musk’s anti-union tweet from 2018 must be deleted: U.S. labor board"

mav3rick — Sun, 28 Mar 2021 06:28:53 +0000

Really ? Working more has nothing to do with it ? Or brilliant universities ? Or immigration ?

New comment by mav3rick in "Akira Kurosawa’s List of His 100 Favorite Movies (2015)"

mav3rick — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 06:58:56 +0000

I think the parallel story lines in Godfather 2 almost make it incomparable to 1. 2 is also a bit slower but I feel the screenplay warranted it.

New comment by mav3rick in "Docker Raises $23M"

mav3rick — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 19:05:54 +0000

There is a container runtime / API to abstract this. Pretty sure Windows has equivalents of namespaces and cgroups.