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You can just say that outright next time. It's an anonymous internet forum so it's really not a big deal, and it's very hard to guess what you mean if you aren't clear about it.

Interesting. Thanks, I didn't go there at all and I believe ambiguous statements like these create a lot of the misunderstanding that we see in today's political climate.

What does that tell us? That HN trends pessimistic? That the HN audience is under-employed? Or something else?

Pretty good English equivalent for that saying: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ymmv

Would be great to see if this one sticks, but I have a sneaking suspicion that managers will just find novel ways to get people to leave.

Whoa, if confirmed this would be really bad. Downtime happens, but data loss is much worse.

Agreed. We can more easily follow the autopilot patterns of commercial flights such that cars can activate autopilot once they have officially entered freeways, and disengages agai…

Finish reading first, and then spend some time thinking before responding. I said: "Accidents are one thing; incompetency or, worse yet, callous indifference is absolutely unaccept…

The integrity of engineering excellence should never be sacrificed for profit and/or conveniency in places where it involves human lives. Realistically and pragmatically speaking, …

Slippery slope here. Why precisely is past performance indicative of future performance beyond some very weak correlations? Analogously, is a person's last relationship truly indic…

It's basically https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down Thinking about this problem as a larger systemic problem makes me incredibly frustrated and sad about human na…

Sounds like software engineering today.

That's pretty cool!

Double-standard is the oldest trick in the book for establishing and maintaining power dynamics.

Money can’t purchase genuine human connection, and that’s pretty much the root of it. Anything that can be purchased is that much more enjoyable when real human connection is invol…

"Compartmentalization is part of the problem, not the solution." This, this and this again. We as people are absolutely allowed to be complex, contradicting beings, but it is becau…

I don't think they are capable of attracting better talent at this point. Come to think of it, I'm surprised they ever were able to attract any serious talent at all. I still remem…

Emphasis: "capable". Mapping one concept into another and between abstraction levels is something displayed by all the strongest leaders I've met.

Bravo.

#5 is basically an overclocked mind running DFS.

As an engineer turned manager, I disagree with this. While it is absolutely essential that the person managing the domain area needs to be capable of understanding the technical de…

What a shitshow all around. Leadership is dead in today's climate.

I think history has proven enough times that it's hard to maintain power/wealth as you get more and more of it, and that is as it should be, because the complexity of all the movin…

It's not stupid. Think about large families with inherent power dynamics- everyone's either been in or knows at least one. It's just a human thing. We know what's right and wrong, …