The most surprising part about this to me is that this matters at the top. Sure, for a middle manager it makes sense that it matters quite a bit. I'm pretty surprised that it matters much at the top, though. If Elon…
Eh? Does it matter? Some people are referred to frequently by their first names (Sergey, Larry, Joel), some by their last name (Woz, Jobs), some by both or either. Are you trying to imply something?
I don't disagree with you, but that isn't really what the article is saying. The article is all but making a blanket statement that "unpredictability = bad in any context": > Behaving unpredictably with one group —…
Interesting article. Not sure I totally find this persuasive: The author tries his damnedest to draw a distinction between "unpredictability" and "secrecy", but it ends up being pretty murky. For example: > Keeping…
I hate to get into an internet pissing match, but I think this is important (especially so if you're a healthcare professional, because this obviously has ramifications for you). Still, I really have no desire to argue…
It's almost certainly multi-faceted, but I don't think it's just "conservatives discovering the internet," or at least anymore than it was 4 years ago. Two things that I think contribute heavily to the phenomenon you're…
Really interesting that so many people went straight for the "welfare queen" of this current economic specter (s/"welfare queen"/"art therapist") while ignoring this. I mean the article all but says this ("critics.. say…
Interesting response. Really interesting given that white supremacists also tend to be anti-semitic, and most of the same tropes about Asians also apply to the Jewish community: Focus on education, low rates of crime,…
> I'll stick up for coding bootcamps as a general concept Sure, and similarly there isn't anything inherently wrong with for-profit universities: You can certainly find people who excelled in an environment like DeVry…
> I did not receive much support either from the HN crowd I think there's a reason for that, and you touched on some of them. There's undoubtedly an ageism to the tech industry, and being an older junior developer is…
> Taxation is definitely an effective tool for social control. Do you have an alternative? Or do you suggest that government should not be involved in social control? I hope you can appreciate why some people would say…
My guess is that Gopman posted something incredibly insensitive in a moment of frustration and probably really regrets voicing his opinion, even if he still believes it. It's hard to have sympathy for him given that.…
> It seems like consolidation was a lesson we learned a few decades ago and are in danger of forgetting. Despite groans to the contrary, I don't think consolidation is the reason services like Netflix/etc. are so…
> But does this mean that you are suggesting the members of this tribe convened and decided to put rules in place to define a member's behavior and potentially institute punishment if these rules were broken? No,…
It's an interesting question because it informs where we draw arbitrary lines about what's ok to eat and what's not. Honestly, and not to just be a smart-ass, but what are the acceptable life forms to eat? We've drawn…
> You can also make a good opinion just by looking at the place from the outside. Ehh, isn't this textbook "judging a book by its cover"? It tells you nothing about the quality of the food, service, etc. unless you…
You're thinking of rehabilitation in the "recovery from addiction" sense. The poster you're replying to is using rehabilitation in the "correct this person's future behavior" sense. > lock up a heroin dealer The problem…
Uh I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but "hard" science has a shitload of problems with reproducibility as well. It's actually a big problem with modern research in general.
I dunno, I think it's a refreshing reminder to take a step back from the "be hyper-productive, always learning, don't waste a second" mindset that pervades HN pretty heavily sometime. I honestly stepped into the article…
To anyone who's planning to use this or Atwood's article on writing less code as a little red book: For the love of god, please use some common sense when repeating mantras like "write less code." I've seen this used to…
You're being annoying about an extremely minor phrasing issue, and being incredibly rude to the person you're responding to. The person you're responding to is obviously trying to imply something about the strength of…
> As a backup mechanism your liver can also produce glucose by converting amino acids (muscle) and even fat, a process known as gluconeogenesis. Just a quick note, and your explanation is fantastic otherwise: this isn't…
I think that's the point. Hooli is a stand-in for any large tech company, and I don't think they mean to specifically single out google. Sure, "Hooli search" and "Hooli phone" seems like a dead ringer for Google, but…
> In part because of this, I find it really difficult to deal with people I work with complaining about pay/bonuses/hours etc, I get what you're saying and that you likely don't mean any malice, but just in case: It…
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree :).
The most surprising part about this to me is that this matters at the top. Sure, for a middle manager it makes sense that it matters quite a bit. I'm pretty surprised that it matters much at the top, though. If Elon…
Eh? Does it matter? Some people are referred to frequently by their first names (Sergey, Larry, Joel), some by their last name (Woz, Jobs), some by both or either. Are you trying to imply something?
I don't disagree with you, but that isn't really what the article is saying. The article is all but making a blanket statement that "unpredictability = bad in any context": > Behaving unpredictably with one group —…
Interesting article. Not sure I totally find this persuasive: The author tries his damnedest to draw a distinction between "unpredictability" and "secrecy", but it ends up being pretty murky. For example: > Keeping…
I hate to get into an internet pissing match, but I think this is important (especially so if you're a healthcare professional, because this obviously has ramifications for you). Still, I really have no desire to argue…
It's almost certainly multi-faceted, but I don't think it's just "conservatives discovering the internet," or at least anymore than it was 4 years ago. Two things that I think contribute heavily to the phenomenon you're…
Really interesting that so many people went straight for the "welfare queen" of this current economic specter (s/"welfare queen"/"art therapist") while ignoring this. I mean the article all but says this ("critics.. say…
Interesting response. Really interesting given that white supremacists also tend to be anti-semitic, and most of the same tropes about Asians also apply to the Jewish community: Focus on education, low rates of crime,…
> I'll stick up for coding bootcamps as a general concept Sure, and similarly there isn't anything inherently wrong with for-profit universities: You can certainly find people who excelled in an environment like DeVry…
> I did not receive much support either from the HN crowd I think there's a reason for that, and you touched on some of them. There's undoubtedly an ageism to the tech industry, and being an older junior developer is…
> Taxation is definitely an effective tool for social control. Do you have an alternative? Or do you suggest that government should not be involved in social control? I hope you can appreciate why some people would say…
My guess is that Gopman posted something incredibly insensitive in a moment of frustration and probably really regrets voicing his opinion, even if he still believes it. It's hard to have sympathy for him given that.…
> It seems like consolidation was a lesson we learned a few decades ago and are in danger of forgetting. Despite groans to the contrary, I don't think consolidation is the reason services like Netflix/etc. are so…
> But does this mean that you are suggesting the members of this tribe convened and decided to put rules in place to define a member's behavior and potentially institute punishment if these rules were broken? No,…
It's an interesting question because it informs where we draw arbitrary lines about what's ok to eat and what's not. Honestly, and not to just be a smart-ass, but what are the acceptable life forms to eat? We've drawn…
> You can also make a good opinion just by looking at the place from the outside. Ehh, isn't this textbook "judging a book by its cover"? It tells you nothing about the quality of the food, service, etc. unless you…
You're thinking of rehabilitation in the "recovery from addiction" sense. The poster you're replying to is using rehabilitation in the "correct this person's future behavior" sense. > lock up a heroin dealer The problem…
Uh I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but "hard" science has a shitload of problems with reproducibility as well. It's actually a big problem with modern research in general.
I dunno, I think it's a refreshing reminder to take a step back from the "be hyper-productive, always learning, don't waste a second" mindset that pervades HN pretty heavily sometime. I honestly stepped into the article…
To anyone who's planning to use this or Atwood's article on writing less code as a little red book: For the love of god, please use some common sense when repeating mantras like "write less code." I've seen this used to…
You're being annoying about an extremely minor phrasing issue, and being incredibly rude to the person you're responding to. The person you're responding to is obviously trying to imply something about the strength of…
> As a backup mechanism your liver can also produce glucose by converting amino acids (muscle) and even fat, a process known as gluconeogenesis. Just a quick note, and your explanation is fantastic otherwise: this isn't…
I think that's the point. Hooli is a stand-in for any large tech company, and I don't think they mean to specifically single out google. Sure, "Hooli search" and "Hooli phone" seems like a dead ringer for Google, but…
> In part because of this, I find it really difficult to deal with people I work with complaining about pay/bonuses/hours etc, I get what you're saying and that you likely don't mean any malice, but just in case: It…
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree :).