https://pinboard.in/u:jm/public/ recent bookmarks from jm 2025-06-18T10:25:40+00:00 https://bsky.app/profile/emollick.bsky.social/post/3lrt6mcqzv225 jm straw-director culpability law responsibility please jobs future ai sin-eaters https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0149bc5da499/ 2023-06-28T21:42:04+00:00 https://threads.championswimmer.in/p/navigating-the-software-engineering?r=9op8w jm career ladder jobs work engineering levels https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:3fe79afb9568/ 2023-06-28T09:57:04+00:00 https://www.entrepreneur.com/growing-a-business/the-damaging-results-of-the-mandated-return-to-office-is/454043 jm business employment remote work rto jobs https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:d3aa7cbd2ba0/ 2023-06-23T09:42:05+00:00 https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/on-being-useful/ jmI and many of my friends are struggling to be, or at least feel, useful. Most of our professional opportunities are not particularly useful. If you are a ‘project lifecycle manager’ at a bland corporation, it can be hard to convince yourself you are achieving anything good for the world. [...] Although there are many corporate jobs furthering inclusivity, sustainability and other worthy things, the work there largely consists of getting certifications or having people do the right kind of training. Often very little actual sustainability or inclusion is going on, and even if there is, your role in such a department is pretty far away from the action. But, unlike the project lifecycle manager, you can at least tell yourself your efforts are intended towards creating a better world. But, back to our challenge: how can we be useful, how can we try to contribute to at least trying to make things better? Because things aren’t looking that great for climate, societies, peace and democracies worldwide. ]]> being-useful usefulness jobs work life career bert-hubert society https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:d7c24bc0c8a3/ 2023-05-23T09:46:23+00:00 https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-chatgpt-hiring-ghost-interviews-job-search-weird-labor-market-2023-5?r=US&IR=T jmJob seekers may virtually interview with or be prescreened by an artificial-intelligence program such as HireVue, Harver, or Plum. After someone applies to a job at a company that uses this software, they may receive an automated survey asking them to answer inane personality-assessment questions like "Which statement describes you best? (a) I love debating academic theories or (b) I adopt a future emphasis." [...] And these AI-moderated processes might not be fair, either. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, say that AI decision-making systems could have a 44% chance of being embedded with gender bias, a 26% chance of displaying both gender and race bias, and may also be prone to screening out applicants with disabilities. In one notorious case, an audit of an AI screening tool found that it prioritized candidates who played high-school lacrosse or were named "Jared." ]]> jared ai enshittification future jobs work hirevue harver plum ghost-jobs hiring https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:716a128a9fa6/ 2022-08-08T12:07:06+00:00 https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/oncall-compensation/ jm compensation oncall salaries on-call industry software-engineering work jobs working-culture https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:d814841cd2dd/ 2021-09-28T21:42:55+00:00 https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1442162670753431559?s=20 jm work jobs coding career google bigcos promotions roadmap https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:723957b301ff/ 2020-06-09T13:56:05+00:00 https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2020-06-05/the-climate-case-for-a-jobs-guarantee-kim-stanley-robinson jmIt would mean that governments would set a higher minimum wage than ever before, and if that minimum were a true living wage, private enterprise would have to match it to attract workers. And then, suddenly, everyone would be both employed and making a decent living. Private enterprises would therefore have more prosperous customers, and all would then rise in a virtuous cycle. Given the immense stresses that climate change is sure to bring, finding useful work for people would not be a problem. There will be a lot to do. Recall that 5% unemployment is often said to be the “natural” level, such that markets get nervous when the jobless rate goes lower than that. Unemployment at 5% is said to create “wage pressure,” which it definitely does, because millions of people are thereby living in fear and will take any job they can get, even ones that don’t pay enough for a secure life. The phrase “wage pressure” is yet another indication of how markets exert power to keep power. In this context, a Job Guarantee would erase wage pressure (meaning fear and misery), and the less fearful and more productive populace that resulted might thrive in a feeling of security. ]]> jobs work unemployment economics economy qe future ksr scifi climate-change https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:d5ce481f6463/ 2020-01-06T11:07:59+00:00 https://danluu.com/algorithms-interviews/ jmAt this point, we've gone through a few decades of programming interview fads, each one of which looks ridiculous in retrospect. Either we've finally found the real secret to interviewing effectively and have reasoned our way past whatever roadblocks were causing everybody in the past to use obviously bogus fad interview techniques, or we're in the middle of another fad, one which will seem equally ridiculous to people looking back a decade or two from now. Without knowing anything about the effectiveness of interviews, at a meta level, since the way people get interview techniques is the same (crib the high-level technique from the most prestigious company around), I think it would be pretty surprising if this wasn't a fad. I would be less surprised to discover that current techniques were not a fad if people were doing or referring to empirical research or had independently discovered what works. ]]> interviews interviewing hiring tech software jobs fads algorithms dan-luu https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:004563f1528d/ 2019-08-06T11:16:29+00:00 https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/why-i-turned-down-an-aws-job-offer/ jm aws amazing noncompetes jobs work legal non-competes https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:293e78eda970/ 2018-05-03T21:44:27+00:00 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/992006545473966082.html jm ketamine funny drugs mary-mcaleese vips work jobs fail twitter https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:8d30b316a37f/ 2017-12-20T22:44:09+00:00 https://stripe.com/blog/operating-kubernetes jm stripe kubernetes cron distributed-cron jobs docker containers ops julia-evans https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:639810fe8ecd/ 2017-03-23T10:56:46+00:00 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz1IyXr7uH9HRzhfZldHRnZfcTQ/view jm data-science roles jobs stereotypes fail big-data https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:a8f9daa81f35/ 2017-03-23T10:48:47+00:00 http://www.newyorker.com/culture/jia-tolentino/the-gig-economy-celebrates-working-yourself-to-death jmAt the root of this is the American obsession with self-reliance, which makes it more acceptable to applaud an individual for working himself to death than to argue that an individual working himself to death is evidence of a flawed economic system. The contrast between the gig economy’s rhetoric (everyone is always connecting, having fun, and killing it!) and the conditions that allow it to exist (a lack of dependable employment that pays a living wage) makes this kink in our thinking especially clear. ]]> capitalism culture gig-economy lyft fiverr work jobs employment self-reliance https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0ca0dce8f0b5/ 2017-03-21T14:24:54+00:00 https://qz.com/937038/github-now-lets-its-workers-keep-the-ip-when-they-use-company-resources-for-personal-projects/?s=1 jmIf it’s on company time, it’s the company’s dime. That’s the usual rule in the tech industry—that if employees use company resources to work on projects unrelated to their jobs, their employer can claim ownership of any intellectual property (IP) they create. But GitHub is throwing that out the window. Today the code-sharing platform announced a new policy, the Balanced Employee IP Agreement (BEIPA). This allows its employees to use company equipment to work on personal projects in their free time, which can occur during work hours, without fear of being sued for the IP. As long as the work isn’t related to GitHub’s own “existing or prospective” products and services, the employee owns it. ]]> github law tech jobs work day-job side-projects hacking ip copyright https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:59c1f2763a9b/ 2017-03-21T10:30:04+00:00 https://medium.com/positiveslope/dont-get-trampled-the-puzzle-for-unicorn-employees-8f00f33c784f#.1q8mqiih1 jm share-options shares unicorns funding employment jobs compensation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:4971243fd12c/ 2017-02-23T10:53:44+00:00 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-02-15/maniac-killers-of-the-bangalore-it-department jmTechnology was supposed to deliver India from poverty, but in Bangalore it’s also deepened the division between rich and poor, young and old, modern and traditional. As the city has grown richer, it’s also become unruly and unfamiliar. If the tech worker is the star of the Indian economy, then the techie is his shadow— spoiled, untrustworthy, adulterous, depressed, and sometimes just plain senseless. (“TECHIE WITH EARPHONES RUN OVER BY TRAIN.”) In one occupational boogeyman, Bangaloreans can see their future and their fears. [....] “TECHIE’S WIFE MURDERED” read the headlines in both the Hindu and the Bangalore Mirror. “TECHIE STABS FRIEND’S WIFE TO DEATH” ran in the Deccan Herald. To read the Indian newspapers regularly is to believe the software engineer is the country’s most cursed figure. Almost every edition carries a gruesome story involving a techie accused of homicide, rape, burglary, blackmail, assault, injury, suicide, or another crime. When techies are the victims, it’s just as newsworthy. The Times of India, the country’s largest English-language paper, has carried “TECHIE DIES IN FREAK ACCIDENT” and “MAN HELD FOR PUSHING TECHIE FROM TRAIN”; in the Hindu, readers found “TEACHER CHOPS OFF FINGERS OF TECHIE HUSBAND” and “TECHIE DIED AFTER BEING FORCE-FED CYANIDE.” A long-standing journalistic adage says, “If it bleeds, it leads.” In India, if it codes, it explodes. ]]> crime tech india bangalore pune society techies work jobs https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c93af94ece2d/ 2016-11-03T16:26:28+00:00 https://www.reddit.com/r/DevelEire/wiki/index jm ireland dev jobs coding via:its https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:2a2724624ac8/ 2016-04-22T15:50:04+00:00 https://medium.com/@milistjohn/i-am-alex-st-john-s-daughter-and-he-is-wrong-about-women-in-tech-4728545e7c0e#.jnczmb18o jm sexism career tech amilia-st-john alex-st-john jobs work feminism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:00ab366c5e01/ 2016-04-13T16:01:28+00:00 http://engineering.foursquare.com/2016/04/04/improving-our-engineering-interview-process/ jm hiring interviewing foursquare hr phone-screens tech jobs https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0b4f4460c54c/ 2015-06-05T09:53:57+00:00 http://nerds.airbnb.com/airflow/ jm airbnb open-source python workflow jobs cron scheduling batch https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:b89f8e9c803f/ 2015-04-07T16:02:05+00:00 http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2015 jm coding jobs work careers software stack-overflow surveys https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c37b84ea4e3a/ 2015-03-28T11:05:07+00:00 http://www.somebits.com/weblog/life/basic-stock-option-questions.html jm stock share-options shares stock-options via:nelson employment jobs compensation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:365d5ea3f4ab/ 2015-03-22T21:20:29+00:00 http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/21/the-terrible-technical-interview/ jm interviewing jobs management hr hiring techcrunch https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:a7a46e305e40/ 2015-02-13T10:19:56+00:00 http://fortune.com/2015/02/12/slack-growth/ jmButterfield insists that Slack improves on the basic messaging functionality offered by its predecessors. The company plans to expand from 100 employees to 250 this year, open an office in Dublin, and launch a version that supports large companies with multiple teams. ]]> slack messaging chat dublin ireland jobs tech https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:2cdb57df5e3e/ 2015-02-12T23:49:22+00:00 http://kotaku.com/the-pizza-party-where-everyone-got-fired-1685455125 jmThe testers at [MAJOR PUBLISHER] had just finished wrapping up testing on a project we'll call "Biolands." And to congratulate them, the man in charge arranged a huge bowling/pizza party for the end of the week. Of course everyone is hyped for the event. So the day finally arrives and all the testers show up. They all start bowling and eating pizza. After a few hours of everyone enjoying themselves, the VP asks for everyone's attention. When he does manage to get the team to listen, he begins to thank them for their hard work and has the leads hand them their termination papers. And many other horror stories from the worst software industry of all -- games.]]> games software jobs bowling pizza fired horror-stories hr employment https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7bd7eda61ce9/ 2015-01-20T10:07:05+00:00 http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/18/foreign-founders-should-look-beyond-silicon-valley/ jm salary bay-area silicon-valley usa tech jobs work real-estate rent startups techcrunch https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:a41ed6ae04a2/ 2014-11-06T16:46:50+00:00 http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/1106/657315-amazon-jobs/ jmThe jobs will be across a variety of positions, including software engineers, technical engineers, technical managers, customer support and IT security. ]]> dublin amazon jobs ireland https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:51d50927f5e3/ 2014-10-13T13:00:25+00:00 https://medium.com/@jocelyngoldfein/techs-meritocracy-problem-a6e5e0a56157 jmMeritocracy is a myth. And our belief in it is holding back the tech industry from getting better. ]]> culture hiring diversity meritocracy tech software jobs work misogyny https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:5f4c3622ff43/ 2014-07-15T10:46:00+00:00 https://speakerdeck.com/rantav/luigi jm workflow orchestration scheduling cron spotify open-source luigi redshift pig hive hadoop emr jobs make dependencies https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:83afb675adb7/ 2014-04-07T15:33:01+00:00 http://firstround.com/article/Heres-Why-Youre-Not-Hiring-the-Best-and-the-Brightest jmThere’s an elephant in the room in the form of an implied clause: Always hire the best people… who are willing to live in San Francisco. Substitute Mountain View, New York, Boston, Chicago, or any other city. The problem is the same. We pay lip service to the idea of hiring the best people in the world — but in reality, we’re only hiring the best people who happen to be close by. ]]> recruiting remote hiring business coding work remote-work telecommuting jobs silicon-valley jeff-atwood https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:bd5e9957dc31/ 2014-02-04T10:04:54+00:00 http://uk.help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN22641.html?impressions=true jmLike many companies, the structure of Yahoo's business is driven by the needs of the business. There are a number of factors which influence decisions about the locations in which the business operates. To encourage more collaboration and innovation, we’re increasing our headcount in Dublin, thus continuing to bring more Yahoos together in fewer locations. Dublin is already the European home to many of the world’s leading global technology brands and has been a home for Yahoo for over a decade already. Via Conor O'Neill ]]> via:conoro yahoo emea dublin ireland jobs tech https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:49d657785ccc/ 2013-03-29T11:31:40+00:00 http://nerds.airbnb.com/introducing-chronos jmChronos is our replacement for cron. It is a distributed and fault-tolerant scheduler which runs on top of Mesos. It's a framework and supports custom mesos executors as well as the default command executor. Thus by default, Chronos executes SH (on most systems BASH) scripts. Chronos can be used to interact with systems such as Hadoop (incl. EMR), even if the mesos slaves on which execution happens do not have Hadoop installed. Included wrapper scripts allow transfering files and executing them on a remote machine in the background and using asynchroneous callbacks to notify Chronos of job completion or failures. ]]> cron scheduling mesos stacks design airbnb chronos fault-tolerance distcomp distributed-computing scripts jobs https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:ed1cc2afd7bc/ 2012-07-10T12:32:00+00:00 http://www.broadsheet.ie/2012/07/10/the-business-of-science-in-ireland/#comments jm sean-sherlock jobs ireland science research https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:664399bd8a4c/ 2011-10-02T22:37:00+00:00 http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2011/10/01/ChangesInNetworkingSystems.aspx jm james-hamilton aws jobs amazon networking embedded https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:111378985533/ 2011-04-25T21:06:30+00:00 http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n09/james-meek/in-the-sorting-office jm via:fanf post mail postal-service holland dutch postmen work jobs business politics lrb https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:982f2cc30ae9/ 2011-02-04T23:11:34+00:00 http://trueeconomics.blogspot.com/2011/02/4022011-another-glitch-in-our-knowledge.html?spref=tw jm hea grants ireland bureaucracy academia research postdocs funding jobs https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:1cdf0926e70e/ 2011-01-14T14:50:39+00:00 http://www.careerzoo.ie/ jm amazon work dublin hiring careers jobs https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0914d5010c8d/ 2010-11-23T22:07:30+00:00 http://www.sbpost.ie/technology/skills-shortage-a-major-worry-52779.html jm hiring ireland software jobs work https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:79b309d4ac0f/