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anon_e-moose

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    Comment #48333600

    ie - people that are incompetent at their role of people managers. Why is incompetence so discussed for ICs but rarely for management? Maybe if more managers were competent and les…

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    Comment #47296363

    Didn't Australia recently ban social media for under 16s? Sounds like kids are rediscovering fun and socialization in the outdoors. Isn't this an unintended byproduct of what Austr…

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    Comment #47178916

    A corporation is a bunch of people cooperating to achieve a common goal. There is a very important factor that heavily influences (perhaps even controls?) how people act to achieve…

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    Comment #45789208

    He made the point clearly, stop dodging the question...

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    Comment #45119557

    That short-term individual success is at the expense of the wider long-term success. If 10 people live in a lake and I fish more than everyone I will be better off that others. But…

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    Comment #44889322

    If you reach out to them you're risking validating that the data they already have is somewhat accurate, plus they might demand more information from you. What do you get back from…

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    Comment #44865063

    Maybe he did not embrace AI enthusiastically enough... https://www.businessinsider.com/github-ceo-developers-embrac...

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    Comment #44855168

    > Obviously the LLM doesn't have "senses" in the human way, and it doesn't "see" words > A different analogy could be, imagine a being that had a sense that you "see" magnetic line…

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    Comment #44808954

    > while one can't control the company's behavior, a person can control their own behavior. As such, it is perfectly reasonable to criticize them when they choose to act without int…

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    Comment #44602278

    If your competitor is lazy and grows to accept more money for less quality that is immoral. The moral thing to do is to compete against that company so that you provide better prod…

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    Comment #44602267

    That has nothing to do with communism, go educate yourself, and actually try

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    Comment #44498210

    > None of these questions seem especially hard, and they're exactly the sort of problem that I face on a daily basis in my work. Really? Do you invert linked lists all day? When th…

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    Comment #44498008

    Leetcode has nothing to do with actually programming a project that lives long enough to deliver value.

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    Comment #44497988

    Hiring that guy is a badge of honor because admitting otherwise would be to admit that the interview processes have nothing to do with the job, thus the real incompetence here is w…

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    Comment #44497949

    For me too, anyone that does horribly, bad signal. Anyone who does perfectly, bad signal. I've found that looking for mediocre and sub-par results will give you professionals that …

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    Comment #44497923

    I have had the exact same experience with the exact same kind of person. We used to be in the same team for years and after we collaborated once, I absolutely hated any work intera…

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    Comment #44497814

    /s... Right...?

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    Comment #44478608

    There is no such thing as a 100% free market, not in America, not anywhere. What was passed was a petition for the EU to listen to the needs of a million EU citizens. It is not yet…

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    Comment #44473324

    > First of all we are developers only. Calling ourselves engineers is a sociopathic lie. Almost none of us are capable of doing anything that resembles engineering. What if you did…

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    Comment #44411268

    Good points, he seems to be in to something in the health field, but the analysis was incomplete and flawed. Given the importance of the health results, perhaps someone could build…

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    Comment #43818989

    Phone usage while driving is a big one. Flat out looking down at your lap and texting, instead of looking at the road. I have seen people do this everywhere, in the city, in the hi…

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    Comment #43818967

    Considering the whole world, gun utility for the civilian population is clearly much smaller than car utility. You will also find even in US a higher number of individuals that hav…

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    Comment #43818916

    > the skill that actually matters is reaction time to sudden unexpected hazards (and consequent need for stopping distance) More important than that is actually learning to predict…

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    Comment #43651974

    If grandma can't tell that the picture is edited, then it's no longer a meme, it's slander. The comedic value would be even higher if it was an obvious tongue-in-cheek edit. Given …

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    Comment #43618932

    That's all fun and games until a single company puts the top 3 or 5 candidates pitted against each other to see who waits the longest without a rejection and takes the lowest offer…