>No offense intended, but most PMs I've met are fucking useless Beyond basic horse sense, technical credibility, customer outreach, market sense, & roadmap development by nurturing sheafs of competing priorities while…
> [junior engineers] overhear stuff and get drawn into conversations. Or more senior engineers join in conversations between them and another senior Even on-prem before 2020, this happened most often in slack at least…
>IMO I don't think it's mentally healthy to not at least 'enjoy' your work and have decent professional relationships with your coworkers. You can have "decent professional relationships" with coworkers while remote.…
> Single humans are wrong about a lot, multiple humans arguing are way more accurate. I think this is only true if the commentors are SME's & operating in good faith. We've all seen whole threads hijacked by erroneous…
> You cannot, for instance, fire someone for being black So now companies don't put that as the termination reason, & fire them anyway for 'culture fit'. Or leave the term reason blank, b/c 'At-Will'. "Protected class"…
Nominations are by peers. Overall winners are voted on by the entire academy, & thus often a popularity contest.
> The Oscars are not decided by critics. They're decided by peers. That's the Oscar nomination process: it's by peers. The entire Oscar Academy (ie all previous winners in good standing) get to vote on the winners in…
> Neither side of the political aisle has a monopoly on lies and bad faith attacks, far from it. Some political movement are more guilty of it than others, but no political movement is fully innnocent, and no political…
> the hacker spirit was about working relentlessly towards a goal. PG would say the same. Whether that ultimate achievement benefits accrues financially just to you, or a larger corpo, is not that relevant This sounds…
> - On top of that slack threads are lost forever in time unless pinned. The conversation rarely gets translated in to wiki or email or whatever so decisions are sometimes made and forgotten. I've literally been…
> I know how to fall (intellectually). How do I translate that into the real world? As a martial arts instructor, here's my advice: The first month or so of aikido classes is a great way to learn rolling. Start on your…
Or notice how the core of his manifesto is ignored: that of all the police who horribly beat Rodney King & sent him to an early death, all were significantly rewarded in their careers and/or retirement. No lasting…
And how can we just ignore the waste problem? [1] In many cases, containment pools are full to the brim with spent rods [2], which is both environmentally hazardous, & a target for terrorists (dirty bombs) 1:…
> Nuclear is much better for the planet than fossil fuels and is the only option to bridge the gap required to operate the current renewables. That's a strong declaration without any solution in sight for nuclear…
> We stopped repairing stuff because stuff is cheap However, OP's main example is the NYC metro system, which is decidedly not cheap. A similar problem occurred in SF: BART cars are being replaced with multi-$M cars…
> You spend a long time arguing the opposite with your bicycle argument. The government never forced them to standardize and they did. They really didn't though. From different axel widths forcing older ones obsolete…
> I don't like externalizing problems to other parties as a business model You just described the entire gig economy
> I worked with a "brilliant" product manager whose idea was to onboard several of our enterprise customers right after our first major deliverable FWIW, I recognize it's fun to target PMs for ignoring technical…
He might like r/antiwork, r/latestagedemocracy, & r/hermancainaward Theres
...or that pesky problem of nuclear waste. Which nobody has solved. Every 'solution' today leaks. Websearch Yucca Valley; do you want your aquifer to be downstream of that?
There is a third option. The vast majority of people I've met [SF Bay Area] have no clue how easily a nuclear accident, let alone a nuclear war, could occur. The generation growing up with Reagan had the ability to…
SF Bay area, I've had 3 formal house assessments, & each time they "start with" Zillow et al to look at "reasonable values in the neighborhood". Which seriously affects your ability to refi, etc. So Yeah Zillow has an…
Totally agree. Live View photos on my 7D feels broken compared to the viewfinder: much slower AF, shutter-drop & recycle rate. & you really need a hood/3x magnifier to confirm critical focus. The only time I use photo…
This is very cool. I know this is a serious problem in my daughter's school with 5th graders... ie 10 years old & they aren't allowed phones at school. I wonder if there a viable asynch solution, ie via a browser...
It may be worth delineating "how much" taxpayers have paid for it. For example, many H-wood productions leverage huge tax benefits in their budgets, to the extent of pitting states against each other for better…
>No offense intended, but most PMs I've met are fucking useless Beyond basic horse sense, technical credibility, customer outreach, market sense, & roadmap development by nurturing sheafs of competing priorities while…
> [junior engineers] overhear stuff and get drawn into conversations. Or more senior engineers join in conversations between them and another senior Even on-prem before 2020, this happened most often in slack at least…
>IMO I don't think it's mentally healthy to not at least 'enjoy' your work and have decent professional relationships with your coworkers. You can have "decent professional relationships" with coworkers while remote.…
> Single humans are wrong about a lot, multiple humans arguing are way more accurate. I think this is only true if the commentors are SME's & operating in good faith. We've all seen whole threads hijacked by erroneous…
> You cannot, for instance, fire someone for being black So now companies don't put that as the termination reason, & fire them anyway for 'culture fit'. Or leave the term reason blank, b/c 'At-Will'. "Protected class"…
Nominations are by peers. Overall winners are voted on by the entire academy, & thus often a popularity contest.
> The Oscars are not decided by critics. They're decided by peers. That's the Oscar nomination process: it's by peers. The entire Oscar Academy (ie all previous winners in good standing) get to vote on the winners in…
> Neither side of the political aisle has a monopoly on lies and bad faith attacks, far from it. Some political movement are more guilty of it than others, but no political movement is fully innnocent, and no political…
> the hacker spirit was about working relentlessly towards a goal. PG would say the same. Whether that ultimate achievement benefits accrues financially just to you, or a larger corpo, is not that relevant This sounds…
> - On top of that slack threads are lost forever in time unless pinned. The conversation rarely gets translated in to wiki or email or whatever so decisions are sometimes made and forgotten. I've literally been…
> I know how to fall (intellectually). How do I translate that into the real world? As a martial arts instructor, here's my advice: The first month or so of aikido classes is a great way to learn rolling. Start on your…
Or notice how the core of his manifesto is ignored: that of all the police who horribly beat Rodney King & sent him to an early death, all were significantly rewarded in their careers and/or retirement. No lasting…
And how can we just ignore the waste problem? [1] In many cases, containment pools are full to the brim with spent rods [2], which is both environmentally hazardous, & a target for terrorists (dirty bombs) 1:…
> Nuclear is much better for the planet than fossil fuels and is the only option to bridge the gap required to operate the current renewables. That's a strong declaration without any solution in sight for nuclear…
> We stopped repairing stuff because stuff is cheap However, OP's main example is the NYC metro system, which is decidedly not cheap. A similar problem occurred in SF: BART cars are being replaced with multi-$M cars…
> You spend a long time arguing the opposite with your bicycle argument. The government never forced them to standardize and they did. They really didn't though. From different axel widths forcing older ones obsolete…
> I don't like externalizing problems to other parties as a business model You just described the entire gig economy
> I worked with a "brilliant" product manager whose idea was to onboard several of our enterprise customers right after our first major deliverable FWIW, I recognize it's fun to target PMs for ignoring technical…
He might like r/antiwork, r/latestagedemocracy, & r/hermancainaward Theres
...or that pesky problem of nuclear waste. Which nobody has solved. Every 'solution' today leaks. Websearch Yucca Valley; do you want your aquifer to be downstream of that?
There is a third option. The vast majority of people I've met [SF Bay Area] have no clue how easily a nuclear accident, let alone a nuclear war, could occur. The generation growing up with Reagan had the ability to…
SF Bay area, I've had 3 formal house assessments, & each time they "start with" Zillow et al to look at "reasonable values in the neighborhood". Which seriously affects your ability to refi, etc. So Yeah Zillow has an…
Totally agree. Live View photos on my 7D feels broken compared to the viewfinder: much slower AF, shutter-drop & recycle rate. & you really need a hood/3x magnifier to confirm critical focus. The only time I use photo…
This is very cool. I know this is a serious problem in my daughter's school with 5th graders... ie 10 years old & they aren't allowed phones at school. I wonder if there a viable asynch solution, ie via a browser...
It may be worth delineating "how much" taxpayers have paid for it. For example, many H-wood productions leverage huge tax benefits in their budgets, to the extent of pitting states against each other for better…