I sincerely hope not. Employee stack ranking just hurts a company but, if that mentality is applied to a country, then we're looking at a nightmare of historical proportions. Can you imagine what it would do to this…
I wonder what he has on his investors to be allowed to do this two-top-job thing. There has to be something big. It's shocking that this would be allowed otherwise, not because it can't be done, but because it draws…
I like Haskell but I see no future in terms of widespread adoption for it. The aim isn't necessarily widespread adoption, so much as the ability for people who know it to use professionally. It's way past merely…
This is a really poor analysis. Making $250k after five years at a large company is not the norm, except possibly in finance. The Googles of the world are littered with people who didn't make Senior after 5 years or who…
Technology itself isn't especially sexist. It's the swarm of VC-backed startups in Silicon Valley that has the sexism problem. The rest of the industry is much less sexist, far less ageist, and less brash in general.…
From the outside, Python 3 seems like a much better language. I don't have strong views of its object system (I avoid OOP as much as I can) but it seems like the string/bytes handling is much better, and I'm also a fan…
The society where "elders" were regarded as wells of wisdom probably never existed. Not true. Traditional Asian societies take the other extreme and venerate age (probably more than they should, but that's another…
Age is a weird prejudice because it depends so much on environment. In most companies, you're viewed negatively before age 30: you're expected to work the worst hours because the assumption is that you have nothing…
People overestimate the mental decline that comes with age dramatically. It's more sporadic: most people decline very little, while a few people (i.e. those with dementia) get hit very hard. Unfortunately, much of…
Yep. There's a reason why people in technology complain about the "Damaso Effect". Even though those Harvard MBAs get mocked by "real programmers", they get the last laugh because they decide what most of those…
I have to disagree with this claim. Leverage matters immensely. The truth about "merit" is that no one knows how to assess it, so people judge based on external leverage and status, and having an MBA from a top-5 school…
To me it seems Ms Garner is ok with growing old and more fragile, but does not accept being viewed as inferior or respect-unworthy. Good for her! Amen. Not that I would want to live at the other extreme (such as in some…
Ugh. Google's idea of "normal performance management" is what the civilized world calls "fascistic". It's pretty disgusting that, in the 21st century, execs are OK with a performance review system in which rape slang…
I sincerely hope not. Employee stack ranking just hurts a company but, if that mentality is applied to a country, then we're looking at a nightmare of historical proportions. Can you imagine what it would do to this…
I wonder what he has on his investors to be allowed to do this two-top-job thing. There has to be something big. It's shocking that this would be allowed otherwise, not because it can't be done, but because it draws…
I like Haskell but I see no future in terms of widespread adoption for it. The aim isn't necessarily widespread adoption, so much as the ability for people who know it to use professionally. It's way past merely…
This is a really poor analysis. Making $250k after five years at a large company is not the norm, except possibly in finance. The Googles of the world are littered with people who didn't make Senior after 5 years or who…
Technology itself isn't especially sexist. It's the swarm of VC-backed startups in Silicon Valley that has the sexism problem. The rest of the industry is much less sexist, far less ageist, and less brash in general.…
From the outside, Python 3 seems like a much better language. I don't have strong views of its object system (I avoid OOP as much as I can) but it seems like the string/bytes handling is much better, and I'm also a fan…
The society where "elders" were regarded as wells of wisdom probably never existed. Not true. Traditional Asian societies take the other extreme and venerate age (probably more than they should, but that's another…
Age is a weird prejudice because it depends so much on environment. In most companies, you're viewed negatively before age 30: you're expected to work the worst hours because the assumption is that you have nothing…
People overestimate the mental decline that comes with age dramatically. It's more sporadic: most people decline very little, while a few people (i.e. those with dementia) get hit very hard. Unfortunately, much of…
Yep. There's a reason why people in technology complain about the "Damaso Effect". Even though those Harvard MBAs get mocked by "real programmers", they get the last laugh because they decide what most of those…
I have to disagree with this claim. Leverage matters immensely. The truth about "merit" is that no one knows how to assess it, so people judge based on external leverage and status, and having an MBA from a top-5 school…
To me it seems Ms Garner is ok with growing old and more fragile, but does not accept being viewed as inferior or respect-unworthy. Good for her! Amen. Not that I would want to live at the other extreme (such as in some…
Ugh. Google's idea of "normal performance management" is what the civilized world calls "fascistic". It's pretty disgusting that, in the 21st century, execs are OK with a performance review system in which rape slang…