Racist, at least by typically objectivist measures
Is anyone surprised that the 25 year war on corporate paternalism and 2 way loyalty in favor of a quite openly stated reductionist policy of "extract maximum value from employees for the bare minimum that they will…
There is a little bit of misunderstanding sometimes when people discuss "inflation". To some, if not most people, inflation means increasing prices. To others, it means increase in the money supply, which eventually may…
I agree with the SCOTUS sentiment, but in other related areas, strict adherence to the law with the underlying intent to remain legal but avoid the spirit of the law has been cracked down upon. In the case of cash…
I was a submarine officer back during the end of the Cold War, doing special operations and what not. Now that was a super stressful job & the hours were lots longer, major sleep deprivation. Our therapy was…
I think the early, mid 90's were a lot more interesting time to be a programmer than now, just before the Internet explosion. Back then, a bigger percentage of the focus was on using computers to do something, solve a…
The thing that I dislike the most about the technology business is people who want to use developers as crash test dummies for their random ideas and think that "good ideas" are the topmost measure of goodness and once…
I spend 1/2 time in Japan because my wife is Japanese. Our 8 year old is bilingual, my wife is fluent in english but learned as an adult, and my japanese is rudimentary. Some of the comments disagreeing with the…
The optimistic viewpoint going into the unknown, i.e, the confidence that the answer is out there somewhere and you will find it, is one of the, if not the, most important success factors in any sort of greenfield…
Sorry, I think I poorly worded my comment. The point I was trying to make was that (imo) the better devs have an extremely deterministic viewpoint towards their code and are always paying attention to all the contextual…
Top 10% - gets the coding job done, timely, high quality code. Knows his craft well, but is still essentially a craftsman. Top 1% - Designs systems that will get the job done for the business/larger org goals, or even…
My grandfather always used to tell me, "You can be rich in two ways - the amount of your possessions or the fewness of your wants". This article alludes to that point at the end.
In the U.S., this legal electric company monopolies were more or less granted w/the proviso of providing universal access, sort of the same goal. The past 20 years, the electric companies are trying to wiggling out from…
I've worked at places that "only hired the best" and such. I think this kind of mantra coming from employers is as much self promotion as it is a statement of policy. As in, our stuff must be wonderful, we only hire the…
I live in Japan 1/2 time. Apparently, when a driver here hits a pedestrian or cyclist, he's got a lot of explaining to do. As a result, the drivers are so attentive that it is not at all unusual on reasonably busy…
Years ago, I worked briefly for The Southern Company, which is the largest publicly held electric utility in the U.S (Georgia Power, Alabama Power, and a bunch of other ones). While there was certainly a lot of…
Identity verification and such are only part of the problem. Even if it is a bona fide person writing the review (and ignoring the problems w/Yelp filtering practices), a truly valid review only comes from one who the…
There are at least two startup opportunities for something like this. One is the creation of the credential/verified identity certification and the second is the transmission/exchange of the credential. These are two…
Racist, at least by typically objectivist measures
Is anyone surprised that the 25 year war on corporate paternalism and 2 way loyalty in favor of a quite openly stated reductionist policy of "extract maximum value from employees for the bare minimum that they will…
There is a little bit of misunderstanding sometimes when people discuss "inflation". To some, if not most people, inflation means increasing prices. To others, it means increase in the money supply, which eventually may…
I agree with the SCOTUS sentiment, but in other related areas, strict adherence to the law with the underlying intent to remain legal but avoid the spirit of the law has been cracked down upon. In the case of cash…
I was a submarine officer back during the end of the Cold War, doing special operations and what not. Now that was a super stressful job & the hours were lots longer, major sleep deprivation. Our therapy was…
I think the early, mid 90's were a lot more interesting time to be a programmer than now, just before the Internet explosion. Back then, a bigger percentage of the focus was on using computers to do something, solve a…
The thing that I dislike the most about the technology business is people who want to use developers as crash test dummies for their random ideas and think that "good ideas" are the topmost measure of goodness and once…
I spend 1/2 time in Japan because my wife is Japanese. Our 8 year old is bilingual, my wife is fluent in english but learned as an adult, and my japanese is rudimentary. Some of the comments disagreeing with the…
The optimistic viewpoint going into the unknown, i.e, the confidence that the answer is out there somewhere and you will find it, is one of the, if not the, most important success factors in any sort of greenfield…
Sorry, I think I poorly worded my comment. The point I was trying to make was that (imo) the better devs have an extremely deterministic viewpoint towards their code and are always paying attention to all the contextual…
Top 10% - gets the coding job done, timely, high quality code. Knows his craft well, but is still essentially a craftsman. Top 1% - Designs systems that will get the job done for the business/larger org goals, or even…
My grandfather always used to tell me, "You can be rich in two ways - the amount of your possessions or the fewness of your wants". This article alludes to that point at the end.
In the U.S., this legal electric company monopolies were more or less granted w/the proviso of providing universal access, sort of the same goal. The past 20 years, the electric companies are trying to wiggling out from…
I've worked at places that "only hired the best" and such. I think this kind of mantra coming from employers is as much self promotion as it is a statement of policy. As in, our stuff must be wonderful, we only hire the…
I live in Japan 1/2 time. Apparently, when a driver here hits a pedestrian or cyclist, he's got a lot of explaining to do. As a result, the drivers are so attentive that it is not at all unusual on reasonably busy…
Years ago, I worked briefly for The Southern Company, which is the largest publicly held electric utility in the U.S (Georgia Power, Alabama Power, and a bunch of other ones). While there was certainly a lot of…
Identity verification and such are only part of the problem. Even if it is a bona fide person writing the review (and ignoring the problems w/Yelp filtering practices), a truly valid review only comes from one who the…
There are at least two startup opportunities for something like this. One is the creation of the credential/verified identity certification and the second is the transmission/exchange of the credential. These are two…