This matches my experience. To paraphrase Cory Doctorow, corporate leadership likes to sit in the back of the car and pretend they drive with a Fischer Price steering wheel. This fact is deeply embarrassing and thus…
The writers flat out rejected Roddenberry's vision of a better future and here's a take on why. We've reached a point in culture of deep pessimism about humanity, and so the characters in Picard are just as…
Every time I'm reminded NuTrek exists I get sad about what we've lost.
This tends to come up every time flat structures are discussed and it seems like such a failure of imagination that anything other than strict hierarchies could work, despite plenty of counter-examples like Valve. Yes,…
This is why we can't have nice things.
Given the top 10% holds 87% of shares, it seems clear the stock market is primarily a tool to compound wealth. Having a surplus of money is table stakes to play.
What if, and hear me out, we asked the people a new employee has been onboarding with? I know, trusting people to make a fair judgment lacks the ass-covering desired by most legal departments but actually listening to…
American culture still holds puritanical views of sex, and this article crosses the taboo threshold that 15 year olds are having sex.
Unfortunately many providers don't expose all the state used to create certain resources through the API, so there's no way to download the real source of truth after the fact.
If your only exposure to static typing is six months of TS, what you are missing is experience. You're still on the learning curve and thus the cognitive load of explicit types is high, but with time the opposite…
A poor manager in a structureless org is only going to have as much influence as their popularity allows. While this may cause damage, it pales in comparison to a bad manager in a traditional hierarchy who has the power…
I agree people are reaching for the limited power available to them, but the objections to cancel culture aren't usually around voluntary consensual boycotts but rather the use of "social force". Destruction of…
Violating ethical beliefs when they are inconvenient is what I'd call "moral hypocrisy". Practically everyone is guilty of it to varying degrees.
Because nationality is an accident of birth and being unconcerned with causing harm to others is sociopathic.
If it's clear someone is not acting in good faith, I can think of three options: 1. Find out why and try to fix it 2. Fire them 3. Embrace the low-trust environment by trying to mitigate the dysfunction with layers of…
If Mastodon is any indicator, the Fediverse is already well optimized to create echo chambers.
I hate to say it but from my 20+ years in the industry, this is the norm.
Why should a small group of activists get to decide for everybody which statues are allowed to stand?
It tells you the company values process over efficacy. Interviewing, like practically any complex task is dynamic in nature. Following down a line of conversation with a candidate provides genuine insight into the…
These kinds of attempts at language revision rarely have anything to do with the people supposedly offended by them; they are an excuse to gain moral standing. The goal is to advance a particular political ideology,…
Neutrality does not "implicitly support the status quo" unless you believe the status quo is stable or exists in a local maxima. That clearly isn't true however because the status quo is dramatically different today…
I dry clean my suits. I thought that was the only way to clean them... am I missing something?
I think most people don't realize this given how normalized it is. Wealth is a mechanism of distributing limited resources, and thus profit seeking without concern for externalities or creating value makes everyone else…
I have known very few managers who didn't routinely lie. The advantages of subtle (or not so subtle) manipulation are too tempting when trying to get something from someone.
One I'm interested in is graph databases powered with linear algebra (see GraphBLAS and RedisGraph). Putting the graph structure in a sparse matrix in GPU memory and doing matrix-multiplication to perform queries means…
This matches my experience. To paraphrase Cory Doctorow, corporate leadership likes to sit in the back of the car and pretend they drive with a Fischer Price steering wheel. This fact is deeply embarrassing and thus…
The writers flat out rejected Roddenberry's vision of a better future and here's a take on why. We've reached a point in culture of deep pessimism about humanity, and so the characters in Picard are just as…
Every time I'm reminded NuTrek exists I get sad about what we've lost.
This tends to come up every time flat structures are discussed and it seems like such a failure of imagination that anything other than strict hierarchies could work, despite plenty of counter-examples like Valve. Yes,…
This is why we can't have nice things.
Given the top 10% holds 87% of shares, it seems clear the stock market is primarily a tool to compound wealth. Having a surplus of money is table stakes to play.
What if, and hear me out, we asked the people a new employee has been onboarding with? I know, trusting people to make a fair judgment lacks the ass-covering desired by most legal departments but actually listening to…
American culture still holds puritanical views of sex, and this article crosses the taboo threshold that 15 year olds are having sex.
Unfortunately many providers don't expose all the state used to create certain resources through the API, so there's no way to download the real source of truth after the fact.
If your only exposure to static typing is six months of TS, what you are missing is experience. You're still on the learning curve and thus the cognitive load of explicit types is high, but with time the opposite…
A poor manager in a structureless org is only going to have as much influence as their popularity allows. While this may cause damage, it pales in comparison to a bad manager in a traditional hierarchy who has the power…
I agree people are reaching for the limited power available to them, but the objections to cancel culture aren't usually around voluntary consensual boycotts but rather the use of "social force". Destruction of…
Violating ethical beliefs when they are inconvenient is what I'd call "moral hypocrisy". Practically everyone is guilty of it to varying degrees.
Because nationality is an accident of birth and being unconcerned with causing harm to others is sociopathic.
If it's clear someone is not acting in good faith, I can think of three options: 1. Find out why and try to fix it 2. Fire them 3. Embrace the low-trust environment by trying to mitigate the dysfunction with layers of…
If Mastodon is any indicator, the Fediverse is already well optimized to create echo chambers.
I hate to say it but from my 20+ years in the industry, this is the norm.
Why should a small group of activists get to decide for everybody which statues are allowed to stand?
It tells you the company values process over efficacy. Interviewing, like practically any complex task is dynamic in nature. Following down a line of conversation with a candidate provides genuine insight into the…
These kinds of attempts at language revision rarely have anything to do with the people supposedly offended by them; they are an excuse to gain moral standing. The goal is to advance a particular political ideology,…
Neutrality does not "implicitly support the status quo" unless you believe the status quo is stable or exists in a local maxima. That clearly isn't true however because the status quo is dramatically different today…
I dry clean my suits. I thought that was the only way to clean them... am I missing something?
I think most people don't realize this given how normalized it is. Wealth is a mechanism of distributing limited resources, and thus profit seeking without concern for externalities or creating value makes everyone else…
I have known very few managers who didn't routinely lie. The advantages of subtle (or not so subtle) manipulation are too tempting when trying to get something from someone.
One I'm interested in is graph databases powered with linear algebra (see GraphBLAS and RedisGraph). Putting the graph structure in a sparse matrix in GPU memory and doing matrix-multiplication to perform queries means…