Religions and denominations of the same religion won't even agree on the nature or existence of free will. Why everyone else is so concerned about the same, I don't understand. It's more philosophy than science in most…
I find this unnecessarily aggressive and dismissive of people's (willfully chosen) social responsibilities. Yes, "the wife" is a convenient excuse for many things, including why you can't go out drinking tonight, even…
Vicious cycle / feedback loop. I recall there being a few studies suggesting that being poor can lead to poor decision making, and I certainly agree that poor decision making reinforces negative outcomes such as credit…
Even if they are accepting of you earning more, their own boss and/or Human Resources may well have a different opinion. Woe unto those whose supervisors are also underpaid.
Viable long-term survival strategies on Earth have some pretty hard limits. Even if we master famine, disease, our own worst impulses, and asteroids, there's still the expansion of the Sun. Even if we don't expand…
Perfection is a particularly anthropocentric concept. Earth was clearly a local optima, but our very capacity for trashing the planet suggests it was rather shallow. We've changed the fitness landscape like so many…
We stay on this rock, we die on this rock. Confining ourselves to Earth isn't a survival strategy, it's giving up. Rebuttals would be appreciated, though!
From the moment those copies exist, I'm not them and they're not me. We do not share subjective experiences. If you think we're equivalent and expendable, you'd best murder me in secret and pretend it never happened.…
If everyone has similar memories to conceal, problem solved. Who's ready to sign up for Total Recall style memory implants?
> 1. It needs a fake calendar that is randomly populated with meetings. Not enough to compete with the real deal. Has to have multiple team calendars, so it can support conflicting mandatory meetings so people can bitch…
If employable programmers are as rare as brilliant young mathematicians, we have a serious problem.
Yes, I want to be around those 20 year olds when I'm in my 40s. I want to be around a few 60 year olds as well. I don't want to just talk about diversity, I'd actually rather like to live it. Those who insist on living…
Personal anecdote here, which may mean absolutely nothing in the bigger scheme of things. I had encountered, from time to time, a certain category of recruiters who seemed to be hunting for brogrammers. The type looking…
> Recruiters typically don't want to waste their time with folks who aren't going to get selected. My spam folder says otherwise. There are still enough bad recruiters out there (or bad recruiter spam-bots) hitting me…
That's a perfect illustration of what I'm getting at. You can just keep redefining whatever 10x means to make your point. In your example, minus the the initial "Haha", this might as well be lifted from a cover letter…
The wonderful thing about 10x developers is that you can keep redefining what 10x means to make your point. The 10x developer is a mythical beast that changes with every retelling. There's only one definition with any…
- man nurse - man housekeeper - man secretary - man escort Wow, these all sound absolutely awful. How did the female, err, woman version become such an accepted construct?
Hope it was obvious that I understood who holds the purse strings. Regardless, if such sales people make themselves the enemy of those who'll be held accountable for the purchase, they'll get the fight they're asking…
Wait, that's a thing? (Quickly Googling...) OMG, that's a thing. People in the office are still using old-school typewriters for certain official documents, so I expect I can get away with it. If I can't concentrate due…
Less than a decade ago, by my reckoning. Pretty sure there was a rash of ambiguous medications between 2007 and now. You're absolutely right about today's drug ads being too much information, of course.
This strategy can be taken too far. You can claim that your "comprehensive fractional imperial unit helical matter extraction system" will turn me into a sexy master craftsman all you want, but as much as that's a…
Honestly, the amount of empathy here is encouraging. I'm not in the best position to take all the advice given just yet, but knowing I'm not completely surrounded by sharks is reassuring.
Having regrettably started from the IT side, it's seemingly impossible to make the jump to a software company proper. Nothing I do day-to-day is flexing any mental muscles an interviewer would find sexy. We're like a…
They can take the high road because they currently have money and social status to leverage. If they were easily replaceable and earning an average middle-class income, the first amendment wouldn't mean crap next to…
> 10-fold difference between the best programmers and the worst. He cites this as evidence and still goes on to talk as if the observed 10x-ers were 10x average. Then he tries moving the goalpost, with talk of…
Religions and denominations of the same religion won't even agree on the nature or existence of free will. Why everyone else is so concerned about the same, I don't understand. It's more philosophy than science in most…
I find this unnecessarily aggressive and dismissive of people's (willfully chosen) social responsibilities. Yes, "the wife" is a convenient excuse for many things, including why you can't go out drinking tonight, even…
Vicious cycle / feedback loop. I recall there being a few studies suggesting that being poor can lead to poor decision making, and I certainly agree that poor decision making reinforces negative outcomes such as credit…
Even if they are accepting of you earning more, their own boss and/or Human Resources may well have a different opinion. Woe unto those whose supervisors are also underpaid.
Viable long-term survival strategies on Earth have some pretty hard limits. Even if we master famine, disease, our own worst impulses, and asteroids, there's still the expansion of the Sun. Even if we don't expand…
Perfection is a particularly anthropocentric concept. Earth was clearly a local optima, but our very capacity for trashing the planet suggests it was rather shallow. We've changed the fitness landscape like so many…
We stay on this rock, we die on this rock. Confining ourselves to Earth isn't a survival strategy, it's giving up. Rebuttals would be appreciated, though!
From the moment those copies exist, I'm not them and they're not me. We do not share subjective experiences. If you think we're equivalent and expendable, you'd best murder me in secret and pretend it never happened.…
If everyone has similar memories to conceal, problem solved. Who's ready to sign up for Total Recall style memory implants?
> 1. It needs a fake calendar that is randomly populated with meetings. Not enough to compete with the real deal. Has to have multiple team calendars, so it can support conflicting mandatory meetings so people can bitch…
If employable programmers are as rare as brilliant young mathematicians, we have a serious problem.
Yes, I want to be around those 20 year olds when I'm in my 40s. I want to be around a few 60 year olds as well. I don't want to just talk about diversity, I'd actually rather like to live it. Those who insist on living…
Personal anecdote here, which may mean absolutely nothing in the bigger scheme of things. I had encountered, from time to time, a certain category of recruiters who seemed to be hunting for brogrammers. The type looking…
> Recruiters typically don't want to waste their time with folks who aren't going to get selected. My spam folder says otherwise. There are still enough bad recruiters out there (or bad recruiter spam-bots) hitting me…
That's a perfect illustration of what I'm getting at. You can just keep redefining whatever 10x means to make your point. In your example, minus the the initial "Haha", this might as well be lifted from a cover letter…
The wonderful thing about 10x developers is that you can keep redefining what 10x means to make your point. The 10x developer is a mythical beast that changes with every retelling. There's only one definition with any…
- man nurse - man housekeeper - man secretary - man escort Wow, these all sound absolutely awful. How did the female, err, woman version become such an accepted construct?
Hope it was obvious that I understood who holds the purse strings. Regardless, if such sales people make themselves the enemy of those who'll be held accountable for the purchase, they'll get the fight they're asking…
Wait, that's a thing? (Quickly Googling...) OMG, that's a thing. People in the office are still using old-school typewriters for certain official documents, so I expect I can get away with it. If I can't concentrate due…
Less than a decade ago, by my reckoning. Pretty sure there was a rash of ambiguous medications between 2007 and now. You're absolutely right about today's drug ads being too much information, of course.
This strategy can be taken too far. You can claim that your "comprehensive fractional imperial unit helical matter extraction system" will turn me into a sexy master craftsman all you want, but as much as that's a…
Honestly, the amount of empathy here is encouraging. I'm not in the best position to take all the advice given just yet, but knowing I'm not completely surrounded by sharks is reassuring.
Having regrettably started from the IT side, it's seemingly impossible to make the jump to a software company proper. Nothing I do day-to-day is flexing any mental muscles an interviewer would find sexy. We're like a…
They can take the high road because they currently have money and social status to leverage. If they were easily replaceable and earning an average middle-class income, the first amendment wouldn't mean crap next to…
> 10-fold difference between the best programmers and the worst. He cites this as evidence and still goes on to talk as if the observed 10x-ers were 10x average. Then he tries moving the goalpost, with talk of…