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Very helpful, thanks

Thank you. I am now enlightened.

Thanks for the detailed and nuanced response. Which, if I can attempt to boil it down to one sentence, would seem to be: "Tests don't seem to be a good predictor of college success…

Anything more about Kafka you can tell us? Seriously, the one time I was in a situation where much of the team seemed hellbent on this "just put all in Kafka" idea (without really …

And what about predictions based on GPA and test scores? As has been in use at UC and just about everywhere else, up until now. In math terms: just because predicts(A) > predicts(B…

Agreed, and you made an excellent call there. If network ops is your bag, then yeah, maybe you "ought to" know about what's in the article. Otherwise -- it's just pure FOMO-based c…

Depends what you mean by "good". For the ruthlessly cynical and basically destructive ends toward which this man has devoted his life - his judgement is arguably quite effective. T…

Did we ever have any reason to believe that slogan?

The $500k fine is of course a complete joke, considering the seriousness of the matter at hand. But "as the company enjoyed booming and historic sales with its stock price doubling…

The fact that you don't see a need to offer any justification for that statement ... proves PG's point.

The same way we ramp up on anything: by building a system that (actually) needs it. The XYZ (service mesh, provisioning, etc) will fall into place, from there. Or not -- if it isn'…

The room was lit by a small upper window, and shows no evidence of having had any wall decorations. So even slaves at Pompeii had a window to get light from, we see.

Who cares about recruiters? The point there's no need to feel smug about people who are dealing with seriously nasty stuff.

If you are a toxic moron who will start badmouthing their former colleagues Or are dealing with a genuinely painful day-to-day work situation and are struggling to keep a lid on it…

The situation is in no way symmetric. I think we can let it go at that.

He didn't merely call him "ignorant", but "crazy". Both are ad-hominem attacks. What I don't get here is why you're trying to soft-pedal this very obvious fact. "Crank", "Toxic" "B…

It wasn't "embracing the outrage"; rather facing up to the fact that -- whatever the merits or lack thereof of his proposal -- the donor's language was intrinsically manipulative: …

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The idea of making adults share bedrooms is very bizarre. True, but if you're asking why anyone would put up with that -- it has something to do with money.

This windowless thing is just a bunch of crazy suppositions by an ignorant man. Wow. For the sake of its reputation, legacy and future funding from other sources, which, over time,…

I mainly found that people who are miserable at a job were miserable at every other job too. That's not what I find at all - I can't even count the number of times I've been a shou…

The flip side of this sentiment is expressed quite eloquently in a sibling comment. In fact, we might even say the commenter is "crushing it": One challenge is that even in sucky w…