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Again, how is that the same as saying that blame should be tied to compensation? Separate out management for a moment. So an engineer who gets paid 50% more than another deserves 5…

Why should blame be tied to compensation? Compensation tends to be tied to perceived impact. The perceived impact of a manager with 10 reports who are all focused and delivering in…

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21915614 And: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21915674

The world running on top of C and Linux being popular have nothing to do with this. Have you looked at what TIOBE claims to measure? They very specifically say it’s not about the n…

I’ve never worked at a startup. I know very few people who have been involved in the startup world. I have exclusively used C and C++ in my professional work (with a tiny bit of py…

I would suggest that rather than just listing things that didn’t work out, people also discuss what they learned from the experience and how they would act differently if they had …

TIOBE’s methodology and rankings seem very dubious to me. When was the last time you met someone who primarily programs in C? (I was one of those people for 14 years, but that was …

Kotlin announcement 2017/5/17: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/05/android-an... Swift open source 2015/12/3: https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/?id=34

Yes it’s not at 1.0, but my point when I mention to people actually doing deep learning that Swift is coming and has support for native differentiation and static typing, the respo…

Swift was open-sourced 18 months before Google announced support for Kotlin. There was probably several months or more of debate and work within Google by the time of the announcem…

This seems very unlikely to me. They would need it to interoperate with their existing stack. They chose Kotlin where they reasonably could have chosen Swift and then worked to ext…

I’ve started using ‘hide’ on HN to hide things I am not interested in. I’ve noticed one really odd behavior, and also wonder if my ‘hides’ are “sticking” all the time. The off beha…

It’s a relatively inexpensive legal stimulant. It’s not just tech people. It seems popular amongst all class of people most everywhere.

Yes, any new language needs to start somewhere, but it’s interesting to think we need new languages for existing domains and that they have any chance of success to begin with. Con…

This is pretty much the first question I ask every time I see a new language pop up. The fact is the “language” part of a programming language is the easy part. The hard part is th…

I recently purchased Say What You Mean which is about Nonviolent Communication and Mindfulness. I’ve only read the introduction but it really resonates with me. Actually connecting…

Large company. Team of 12. Do very specialized work. On call: Never and never have been in 25+ years across multiple large tech companies. Seriously considered looking into a job a…

Have a friend whose father was scammed out of thousands of dollars. The ploy was that an "attorney" from another state called to say how the college-aged grandson was in trouble an…

> than the truth of the matter, which is there are certain technical issues that are difficult to overcome with darker skin tones. Can you point to any references supporting this c…

I would highly recommend the End of Life Guideline series: https://www.amazon.com/End-Life-Guideline-Compilation-Bookle... Was given these when my Dad was clearly failing to thrive…

Say What You Mean by Oren Jay Sofer After that I intend to primarily focus on additional books about communication: written and verbal including listening skills

See also: https://polyhedral.info The ideas here go back a long way. As mentioned on Wikipedia, the Polly project for LLVM uses this approach. There is also work for MLIR to use th…