In a nutshell I'm spending most or all of my time using the tools (keeping up with a queue) not working on them. To work on them I need either permission to fall behind in the queue (probably not an option) or someone…
It's not hell on earth but I think about "oh my god dude get another job!" at least once a week. My job is this "hybrid" of 50% software developer, which I want to do, and 50% of, let's just say, flippin' burgers. It's…
In general, the CIA or any similar agency might "help" any government to either commit, or appear to commit, an act which is nominally "against" a popular movement, but which (through heavy-handedness, brutality or some…
I'm having a hard time figuring out which side is the CIA's people. Maybe both? I'm half joking, but also definitely wanted to plant that idea for the American readers. Wherever there's chaos and instability, the CIA is…
Agreed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW6W9iOjTKM
I have absolutely no skin in this game.
Certainly agree about Germany - there seems to be no more anti-Nazi place than Germany today.
I found it compactly hilarious.
its
I'm sure it's a little bit tongue-in-cheek.
Everyone drinks some flavor of Kool-Aid. Confirmation bias: it's the human condition. Do and think whatever whimsical thing you want to, then do the cognitive contortions later to justify it.
"How does it accrue?" might be a better way of asking than "Can we start taking it right now?"
It's always like that though. Everybody wants to be 'in' while things are soaring, but wants to be 'out' by the time it turns downward. Some people get out too early, successfully missing the low but also missing the…
I'll bet part of why they're conflated is because every company that tries to hire 10X engineers, does it wrong and ends up hiring arrogant engineers. Not to mention, to the much more numerous ranks of "1X" engineers, a…
I don't think this is a generational or age thing strictly speaking. There are several confounding variables or you could say non-orthogonal axes. There's a "human nature" axis that interacts with the money axis.…
The part about defining identity is, I think, referring to the fallacy of seeing someone in a context, and then thinking that they "are" that. Like meeting someone who is angry and storing them in your memory bank as…
In addition to points by sibling comments, there's also the possibility that Lyme Disease wasn't the intended result, i.e. this was a failed attempt to create something more useful, more lethal, etc.
Absolutely - most bigger companies have silos and can make excellent use of things like this.
In other words, everybody's a parasite on something. Lakota Sioux were buffalo parasites. Vegans are parasites of Daucus carota and Beta vulgaris among other species. Parasites of Homo sapiens are of course hated by…
This building is a masterpiece and a towering (no pun intended) achievement. If I were 18 I would make this my career, and today would be the day I would talk about with journalists 20 years later when they asked where…
Oh brother! This is kind of "concern-trolling" isn't it? "I'm concerned for you." Also see: "I'll pray for you," which passive-aggressive religious people say to simultaneously indicate that they disapprove of your…
I use ridewithgps.com. The managing & editing of tracks & routes has always suited my needs. I think they offer some of the more social-networky features too, but I don't use them and can't comment. I should also say,…
In some sense any technology is adopted or ignored based on its intrinsic merits or lack thereof. If we're about encouraging people to move to less-harmful technologies, making them genuinely better and irresistible…
Going on 8 years for me. Suddenly this feels like an AA meeting or something. "Got my 8 year medallion!"
Some classic rants and raves of the recently trying-to-do-better Linus Torvalds come to mind!
In a nutshell I'm spending most or all of my time using the tools (keeping up with a queue) not working on them. To work on them I need either permission to fall behind in the queue (probably not an option) or someone…
It's not hell on earth but I think about "oh my god dude get another job!" at least once a week. My job is this "hybrid" of 50% software developer, which I want to do, and 50% of, let's just say, flippin' burgers. It's…
In general, the CIA or any similar agency might "help" any government to either commit, or appear to commit, an act which is nominally "against" a popular movement, but which (through heavy-handedness, brutality or some…
I'm having a hard time figuring out which side is the CIA's people. Maybe both? I'm half joking, but also definitely wanted to plant that idea for the American readers. Wherever there's chaos and instability, the CIA is…
Agreed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW6W9iOjTKM
I have absolutely no skin in this game.
Certainly agree about Germany - there seems to be no more anti-Nazi place than Germany today.
I found it compactly hilarious.
its
I'm sure it's a little bit tongue-in-cheek.
Everyone drinks some flavor of Kool-Aid. Confirmation bias: it's the human condition. Do and think whatever whimsical thing you want to, then do the cognitive contortions later to justify it.
"How does it accrue?" might be a better way of asking than "Can we start taking it right now?"
It's always like that though. Everybody wants to be 'in' while things are soaring, but wants to be 'out' by the time it turns downward. Some people get out too early, successfully missing the low but also missing the…
I'll bet part of why they're conflated is because every company that tries to hire 10X engineers, does it wrong and ends up hiring arrogant engineers. Not to mention, to the much more numerous ranks of "1X" engineers, a…
I don't think this is a generational or age thing strictly speaking. There are several confounding variables or you could say non-orthogonal axes. There's a "human nature" axis that interacts with the money axis.…
The part about defining identity is, I think, referring to the fallacy of seeing someone in a context, and then thinking that they "are" that. Like meeting someone who is angry and storing them in your memory bank as…
In addition to points by sibling comments, there's also the possibility that Lyme Disease wasn't the intended result, i.e. this was a failed attempt to create something more useful, more lethal, etc.
Absolutely - most bigger companies have silos and can make excellent use of things like this.
In other words, everybody's a parasite on something. Lakota Sioux were buffalo parasites. Vegans are parasites of Daucus carota and Beta vulgaris among other species. Parasites of Homo sapiens are of course hated by…
This building is a masterpiece and a towering (no pun intended) achievement. If I were 18 I would make this my career, and today would be the day I would talk about with journalists 20 years later when they asked where…
Oh brother! This is kind of "concern-trolling" isn't it? "I'm concerned for you." Also see: "I'll pray for you," which passive-aggressive religious people say to simultaneously indicate that they disapprove of your…
I use ridewithgps.com. The managing & editing of tracks & routes has always suited my needs. I think they offer some of the more social-networky features too, but I don't use them and can't comment. I should also say,…
In some sense any technology is adopted or ignored based on its intrinsic merits or lack thereof. If we're about encouraging people to move to less-harmful technologies, making them genuinely better and irresistible…
Going on 8 years for me. Suddenly this feels like an AA meeting or something. "Got my 8 year medallion!"
Some classic rants and raves of the recently trying-to-do-better Linus Torvalds come to mind!