Assuming a lunch break is not included as part of 8 hours, do you really think most exmployees are productive for a full 8 hours?
Most office workers spend an exorbitant amount of time twiddling their thumbs, reading emails, going to the restroom. On average, I'd say knowledge workers are typically productive for about 2 to 3 hours per day. I'd estimate physical laborers range up to 4 or 5 hours.
Assuming 8 hours of full productivity is a strange number to focus on
It really depends. For Finland lunch is unpaid unless you are forced to eat at premises. But then you usually have 2 refreshment breaks (10-15min) which are paid...
A founder lives their company as the most important thing in their life, it's an extension of their life and they live and breath the company. A manager instead is being given a responsibility and will try their best to fulfill the role.
A founder will never rest if they know there's an issue to be solved in the company, while the manager has a life and know they can move forward in case.
A founder will not be intimidated by any internal policy or rule if they believe they need to change something. A manager will try to play by the rules, and in case try to modify them through influence.
A founder is basically a ruler who truly care about the success of the company (not necessarily about the happiness and fulfilment of the people taking part in the company).
For a funder the Company comes first, before anything else.
> A founder lives their company as the most important thing in their life, it's an extension of their life and they live and breath the company.
i generally consider myself a hard worker and i have done plenty of overtime in my career. i would feel pity for anyone who felt this way about any company, unless they were literally curing cancer or giving us infinite energy.
At a purely financial level, making their company the most important thing in their life for a period of maybe 5-10 years means that they have a good chance at not having to work at all for the rest of their life. Doing 5-10 years of overtime for someone else falls quite short of that in most cases.
You're obviously not a startup founder with an attitude like that. And it's OK: being a founder of a startup really isn't for everyone, for good reason. Most startups fail, remember. And like you, most people don't want to dedicate their life to a company. I wouldn't want to be a founder either: I like having a life outside work. Founders are different; their company is their "baby" so they have an entirely different outlook to work than the rest of us.
Your comment doesn't seem to describe you in a founder role, because founders don't do overtime. Whether or not it's healthy, and it often comes with a price, the entire concept is there's no separation (at least in the early days) between them and the company. They embody the company. So they aren't working hard or doing overtime, they're doing "whatever it takes". The grandparent concept is alluding to this different.
I got one hip replaced in my thirties with titanium and ceramic. I am so glad I did it. I can't run too much but, beside that, I got back entire mobility after couple of months. More than 10 years have passed and it's like not having a prothesis. Ceramic was suggested by doctor as it lasts longer (though it's more fragile in case of accident).
Thank you for sharing that - it seems to be the rule that everyone I've talked to who has the surgery recommends it, though I have not known anyone who had it done in their 30's. My understanding is that ages are averaging down for a few reasons. I had a co-worker who had it done in his early 40's back at a time when that was nearly unheard of. He wore it out after 22 years but also had a successful revision. That was before ceramics or newer plastics so there's reason to believe that the current ones might last much longer, but it is still daunting facing the prospects of multiple surgeries; something I'm sure you must have grappled with.
This is not true.
We moved longtime ago to use hCaptcha precisely to cut ties with Google reCAPTCHA.
And we switched today from hCaptcha to our own solution precisely for the reason described in the blog post.
Proton VPN is composed of a distributed global infrastructure of VPN servers, and a set of clients for each major platform. You would be joining the Linux Proton VPN Client Team, to take part in the development of the Proton VPN Linux Desktop client for all the major Linux distributions. As a Software Engineer, with your technical expertise, your main responsibility will be to contribute to the development of new features, setting up the CI/CD or even building new testing pipelines. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.
Within the Linux Team, you will collaborate with fellow Linux developers, QA engineers, Product Manager and Customer Support to develop the Linux client.
The Linux development team is distributed, around central European time-zone.
Hey, I have such glasses, and here in France at least they are still marketed. Do you have any reference pointing out the fact that they do not work? (Are they even worse than regular glasses?)
The problem is not that everybody can access information. The problem is that click-bait false information is pushed by ranking algorithms more and more in front of the eyes of people who are ready to believe in them. The information bubble then is making people more and more radicalized.
All the news / post / article I read on Facebook or Twitter are retweets / forwarded by people I followed. It means ultimately I am the one who is actually selectively sourcing all these information. "ranking algorithms" just rank them in better orders.
It doesn't matter how good your blackbox algorithms are. Junk in And Junk out.
Proton Technologies AG | Geneve, Zurich, Taipei, Vilnius, Skopje ONSITE | Full Time | Several openings | https://careers.protonmail.com/
Proton Technologies AG is the Company behind ProtonMail [1] and ProtonVPN [2]. Head-quartered in Geneva, Switzerland, Proton is always at the forefront in the fight for privacy and a safe Internet.
As we keep on extending ProtonMail and ProtonVPN, and we are building our new products - ProtonCalendar and ProtonDrive - we have several openings including Android, iOS, Windows and Go developers for our clients, QA engineers, Designers, SREs, Front-end devs, Security analysts, Database engineers, Mail Delivery engineers, and more.
We are strong believers in quality over quantity, so the hiring process at ProtonMail is highly selective. But if you make it, you will join a tight-knit team where nobody is a stranger.
