> I think paid leave is just plain immoral. It is up to the parent to evaluate how much they care for their child vs foregone salaries.
This is delusional or dangerous thinking. Are you an ultra privileged & sheltered young man? You do realise that even if a parent chooses to work, they have to pay someone for childcare?
Quite the opposite, form a very unsheltered life. It is the sheltered people that want to get paid leave, which is why the highest income workers are the ones that get the most paid leave of all.
> You do realise that even if a parent chooses to work, they have to pay someone for childcare?
That is an argument against paid leave: if a worker takes up the "nanny job" for their own son, they are capturing 100% of the value they do. No need to pay them twice for it.
The unsheltered people of my life don't have stable salaries or jobs, dont even imagine what paid leave is. The ones with 6 figure salaries are the ones on paid leave. Still anecdotal, but im pretty sure you will find that most paid leave is taking by people that dont need it. The ones that need it the most dont have stable jobs or benefits.
Would like like to reword your first answer to take into account your last answer?
Also, my bad - not sure where you live but it sounds horrifying. I can't believe there is somewhere in the world where people on 6 figure salaries are the only ones with access to basic employment benefits, and those less fortunate have no government provided safety net (now that sounds morally bankrupt to me).
I'm curious as well to find out if there are any people considered to be in the middle classes? Say...two full time earners taking in less than 6 figures, for instance? Is that a rarity in your country?
>im pretty sure you will find that most paid leave is taking by people that dont need it.
Not where I'm from, no. Most of the people I know that take paid leave are families where both parents need to continue to work to cover cost of living.
Disagree, within the timeframe of this topic. 0-6 months is basically all about the bond between child and parents. Sometime after that, sure, a requirement to socialise comes into play.
I'm afraid I must disagree. There's no evidence to suggest that the bond between a child and its biological parents is in any way important. Further, it is unlikely that its biological parents are experts on raising children and are thus likely to raise it suboptimally, leading to a poorer quality of life in its future.
Therefore, it is more selfish to raise your child yourself than to have an expert to do it for you.
I shouldn't have to disclaim this by argument by saying that I'm not making a serious recommendation to anyone, but because parents are so defensive and irrational when it comes to how they raise their children, I feel that I must. I don't have kids and don't plan on having kids, so this is merely an intellectual exercise for me.
That was my point? In that there’s no benefit to the child to be in someone else’s care with a bunch of other kids for the first 6 months at least, and probably quite a lot older than that.
No-one on this thread has mentioned breast feeding. The WHO recommends exclusively breast feeding a child for 6 months, and to continue until they are at least 2 years old. I understand that this is not possible or desirable for many parents, but the choice to do so should be available.
No surprise that even the most socially responsible companies in the US are skewed towards the extreme low end of parental leave allowance relative to other countries.
US employment law doesn't incentivise long term employment full stop, so little wonder some on here find it hard to understand why it is worth paying employees to come back.
Formula can be consistently made. The "breast milk is best" argument depends on cherry-picked breast milk.
Is it still better than formula if Mom drinks or has some health problem? Stuff passes into breast milk. If Mom takes an ibuprofen, into the breast milk it goes.
Can HIV pass through breast milk? No clear answer:
If you look at the scientific arguments about how breast milk is better, they revolve around hair-splitting. Like increased risk of necrotising enterocolitis in pre-term babies.
Ibuprofen is considered safe to take while breastfeeding. A brief web search didn’t turn up any concerning evidence (maybe you know of some?). There are some medicines which concentrate in breastmilk, but ibuprofen is not one of them.
Women who need certain prescription medicines, are undergoing chemotherapy, have HIV or certain other viral diseases, have had significant lead exposure, etc. are clearly warned not to breastfeed.
Mom has to drink alcohol extremely heavily on a regular basis to make a serious problem for a breastfeeding baby.
Alcohol content in breastmilk is roughly comparable to blood alcohol content. 3 drinks and it’s like 1 part in 1000. I wouldn’t advise breastfeeding women to drink several drinks at a time, but more for their own health than their infant’s – if mom loses motor control, becomes belligerent, starts making poor choices, etc. that isn’t great for her family. People in general should use alcohol sparingly, but new mothers don’t deserve any special scorn for drinking.
At worst, some studies suggest that babies drink less on average in a breastfeeding session immediately after the mother was drinking, presumably because the taste is strange.
The dangerous one for the baby is not a mother drinking while breastfeeding, but regular or heavy drinking during early pregnancy. The period of time when alcohol can have the most severe negative effects often comes before a woman realizes she is pregnant.
I find the move to take home tests extremely unfair. Anyone with dependents will typically need to block out most of a day of a weekend, or risk doing it in intervals through their week.
Got a decent CV? Good luck trying to juggle applying for more than 2 interesting opportunities at once.
We mostly hire full stack web devs. IMO It's impossible to really test the abilities of each candidate across the changing landscape of front end, back end, DB & devops tech within an interview process that doesn't use a vast amount of time for everyone.
Instead, we don't whiteboard or code at all in our process at the moment, and try and get it all done in a face to face hour or two by:
* Taking their experience at face value. Examples: If they have been coding for a couple of years, don't waste everyone's time with fizzbuzz. Assume they will be able to adapt to our source control system, if they have been using a different one.
* Insisting on real world examples when asking competency questions.
* Asking generic questions about code, such as "What is clean code?", "what should you take into account for password security for a web app?", and looking for their ability to communicate as much as their actual answer.
* Looking for areas of strength and weakness to compare across candidates, rather than trying to catch them out.
* Scoring highly for enthusiasm, flexibility and a willingness to learn over pure technical knowledge.
I appreciate this approach wouldn't work for all organisations but we've done really well out of it.
I’m never dropping the Fizzbuzz style problem. It has absolutely blown me away the number of people who market themselves as senior people who can’t perform the most simple or basic coding tasks.
No fancy algorithms. No obscure data structures. Just simple loops and conditionals in any language.
It has been the most effective (and most depressing tool) I’ve seen in eliminating the myriad of fakers and unqualified people.
I think it’s more that people get really nervous in interviews. And they’re trying to use the social part of their brain and the coding part at the same time. It’s not normal.
During my last job hunt, I literally told one company I wouldn't do their take-home test. They literally told me it takes days to do, which if you're going to do greenfield code is extremely easy to do. They came back to asking people questions "People memorise that", "people can learn that", etc which is super weird since a take-home test I can literally have a dude from China do and they would be none the wiser.
But the main thing for me was the arrogance of the company/CTO, was pretty much a no-name e-commerce company that was expecting someone to do days worth of work for a job. I've not even heard the like FANG or anyone expecting that during their interview and they are actually places some people really want to work at. Which made me worry about the quality of developers they had if they all had such trouble in the job market that they had to spend days on a tech test to find a job.
Weird thing was, I said I was willing to be tech tested in their office over a period of hours I just wasn't willing to do a take-home tech test, apparently that was too hard for them to figure out and they just did the good ole no contact rejection.
I don't think Apple are behind on the tech for VR/AR. They have the pretty much everything they need in place to release a mobile VR or AR device when they choose to.
They've probably already got the AR developer mindshare, and no-one is near them for mass adoption of mobile wearable tech (watch+ear buds).
OP here. That isn't the title I submitted. Mine was pretty boring, but factual. Bit miffed that it has been changed to that (though I did forget the [video] tag).
The original BBC headline was "Teenager beats Tetris champion at game old than he is", which I didn't like.
I note they have now changed it to "Teenager beats man at Tetris to become world champion".
tl;dr headlines about retro computer game championships are hard.
Monzo are a new UK bank, and the first bank to get onto IFTTT. It's really interesting to see what automations users are creating to make automatic transfers to savings pots, based on things like sleep, exercise, social media activity.
It's been a day so far, so once they open out more features it could be quite a gamechanger.
It grabs what I've read from Pocket and makes a page for each week.
It's cool because what I read is better than what I can write, and I think this is true for others. I've got loads of ideas for it, it's going to be massive, as long as HN like it.
This is delusional or dangerous thinking. Are you an ultra privileged & sheltered young man? You do realise that even if a parent chooses to work, they have to pay someone for childcare?