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Your logic is side-stepping the point. There was a period of time, at least in the USA, where the goal was economical and social stability (New Deal, GI Bill, unions). Over the cou…

Wait... you didn't know about this?

I had a single phone interview with someone at Northwestern (a long time ago) where they were looking for someone to build a pen of developers to "partner" with MBA students to tur…

Not a bad idea.

No, we never really got far enough that we were able to collect that kind of data. I'm glad it was fun; certainly doing it for a living is entertaining. Mostly. IMO, the messiness …

I may or may not have picked the locks to my middle school's computer room and I definitely didn't hide in there when I was supposed to be in class.

I think if we'd survived there would have come a day when we got a letter from somebody's lawyer. But as a kid who grew up below the poverty level, the idea of an epic escape remai…

The way I remember it, the general experience was that companies reached out to us and were very excited by the idea, but when we actually sent a candidate, they scotched it. I did…

Invisible, forgotten third partner here... more made it through all of them than you might think. They even set up their own Slack community to help each other out.

Yes to "existing bad hiring pipelines." In at least one case, the in-house recruiter was obviously offended that she had to speak to us at all. The one placement we made was with a…

Attracting entry level hires is part of the point, but the problem remains that most companies lack the resources and/or desire to train entry level hires. Heck, most of the ones I…

I left a job in 2007. Things were so stacked against me that I had no choice but to leave. Two years later, the manager contacted me to apologise. He told me that they'd had to hir…

Losing plants is still a bummer. I think I average over my lifetime ~60/40 for survive/die over here. The soil here is hard clay, which is not helped by decades of previous owners …

This tracks. As a gardener, you also have to be comfortable with things dying and general risks caused by events that are beyond your control. The weather, municipalities trying to…

You're gaining a skill, though. For example, in future interviews, you will see obvious red flags that indicate a similar environment. Being able to gracefully navigate bureaucracy…

These past few months, I have been slowly working through the audiobook version of Steven Strogatz' Infinite Powers. The work is enjoyable exactly because there's a bit of effort m…

What’s doing the verification of the email on the server side? How does this service associate the email with the account? Specifically, what could be put in the email header or bo…

Thanks for this. I recently left an otherwise awesome job mostly because of OKRs. I am still trying to articulate why. I'm going to correct you, because it's relevant. Mehta says, …

And there it is, the one thing I can never have an honest conversation about. The rules are different for ugly people, based on my personal experience as one data point. We're the …

I'll bite. We're coming up on our 24th anniversary. I will likely regret this, but this is what I have learned. 1. Misery is a function of expectations management. As is said, ever…

I've seen many apps sending metrics to domains owned by Facebook while I was testing them. This does not surprise me at all.

My money is on there being a direct correlation between companies who did early adoption of internet technologies as crucial to business and 'doing it right' versus those other com…

I may not be caffeinated enough to participate in these threads articulately, but this question made me realize something that hadn't quite clicked before. As I have experienced it…

There's a word for that. Gaslighting.

If this is a way to treat depression, maybe dialing back the crap way we treat each other is preventative. I've been angry for a long time that I have to take medication because mo…