You can just say that outright next time. It's an anonymous internet forum so it's really not a big deal, and it's very hard to guess what you mean if you aren't clear about it.
Interesting. Thanks, I didn't go there at all and I believe ambiguous statements like these create a lot of the misunderstanding that we see in today's political climate.
What does that tell us? That HN trends pessimistic? That the HN audience is under-employed? Or something else?
Would be great to see if this one sticks, but I have a sneaking suspicion that managers will just find novel ways to get people to leave.
Whoa, if confirmed this would be really bad. Downtime happens, but data loss is much worse.
Agreed. We can more easily follow the autopilot patterns of commercial flights such that cars can activate autopilot once they have officially entered freeways, and disengages again after exiting. Doing so can also help…
Finish reading first, and then spend some time thinking before responding. I said: "Accidents are one thing; incompetency or, worse yet, callous indifference is absolutely unacceptable."
The integrity of engineering excellence should never be sacrificed for profit and/or conveniency in places where it involves human lives. Realistically and pragmatically speaking, you only ever get to have just one…
Slippery slope here. Why precisely is past performance indicative of future performance beyond some very weak correlations? Analogously, is a person's last relationship truly indicative of their future mating potential?…
It's basically https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down Thinking about this problem as a larger systemic problem makes me incredibly frustrated and sad about human nature and society overall.
Sounds like software engineering today.
That's pretty cool!
Double-standard is the oldest trick in the book for establishing and maintaining power dynamics.
Money can’t purchase genuine human connection, and that’s pretty much the root of it. Anything that can be purchased is that much more enjoyable when real human connection is involved, otherwise it honestly doesn’t…
I don't think they are capable of attracting better talent at this point. Come to think of it, I'm surprised they ever were able to attract any serious talent at all. I still remember a highly respected veteran industry…
Emphasis: "capable". Mapping one concept into another and between abstraction levels is something displayed by all the strongest leaders I've met.
Bravo.
#5 is basically an overclocked mind running DFS.
As an engineer turned manager, I disagree with this. While it is absolutely essential that the person managing the domain area needs to be capable of understanding the technical details surrounding it, it's not a…
I think history has proven enough times that it's hard to maintain power/wealth as you get more and more of it, and that is as it should be, because the complexity of all the moving pieces becomes harder and harder to…
The flaw in your logic doesn't lie in your assertion, but the opposite: If it's indeed possible for some powerful forces to coerce some engineers into accomplishing certain goals, how possible is it for the same said…
There is a distinct whiff of the aroma of propaganda around this one.
"Movement is life."
The "wildly differs from company to company" hits home hard. It's like organizational schizophrenia and existential crisis had a child that got named "Product Management".
As an older engineer currently having fun digging into ML: yep, a well thought-out set of good-ol business rules can do a lot of what teams are applying ML to these days. Nothing wrong with learning new things, though.…
You can just say that outright next time. It's an anonymous internet forum so it's really not a big deal, and it's very hard to guess what you mean if you aren't clear about it.
Interesting. Thanks, I didn't go there at all and I believe ambiguous statements like these create a lot of the misunderstanding that we see in today's political climate.
What does that tell us? That HN trends pessimistic? That the HN audience is under-employed? Or something else?
Would be great to see if this one sticks, but I have a sneaking suspicion that managers will just find novel ways to get people to leave.
Whoa, if confirmed this would be really bad. Downtime happens, but data loss is much worse.
Agreed. We can more easily follow the autopilot patterns of commercial flights such that cars can activate autopilot once they have officially entered freeways, and disengages again after exiting. Doing so can also help…
Finish reading first, and then spend some time thinking before responding. I said: "Accidents are one thing; incompetency or, worse yet, callous indifference is absolutely unacceptable."
The integrity of engineering excellence should never be sacrificed for profit and/or conveniency in places where it involves human lives. Realistically and pragmatically speaking, you only ever get to have just one…
Slippery slope here. Why precisely is past performance indicative of future performance beyond some very weak correlations? Analogously, is a person's last relationship truly indicative of their future mating potential?…
It's basically https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down Thinking about this problem as a larger systemic problem makes me incredibly frustrated and sad about human nature and society overall.
Sounds like software engineering today.
That's pretty cool!
Double-standard is the oldest trick in the book for establishing and maintaining power dynamics.
Money can’t purchase genuine human connection, and that’s pretty much the root of it. Anything that can be purchased is that much more enjoyable when real human connection is involved, otherwise it honestly doesn’t…
I don't think they are capable of attracting better talent at this point. Come to think of it, I'm surprised they ever were able to attract any serious talent at all. I still remember a highly respected veteran industry…
Emphasis: "capable". Mapping one concept into another and between abstraction levels is something displayed by all the strongest leaders I've met.
Bravo.
#5 is basically an overclocked mind running DFS.
As an engineer turned manager, I disagree with this. While it is absolutely essential that the person managing the domain area needs to be capable of understanding the technical details surrounding it, it's not a…
I think history has proven enough times that it's hard to maintain power/wealth as you get more and more of it, and that is as it should be, because the complexity of all the moving pieces becomes harder and harder to…
The flaw in your logic doesn't lie in your assertion, but the opposite: If it's indeed possible for some powerful forces to coerce some engineers into accomplishing certain goals, how possible is it for the same said…
There is a distinct whiff of the aroma of propaganda around this one.
"Movement is life."
The "wildly differs from company to company" hits home hard. It's like organizational schizophrenia and existential crisis had a child that got named "Product Management".
As an older engineer currently having fun digging into ML: yep, a well thought-out set of good-ol business rules can do a lot of what teams are applying ML to these days. Nothing wrong with learning new things, though.…