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Isn't Infantino European?

I'm both happy to argue about it, and have someone tell me why I'm wrong.

Since this is at the top of Hacker News: this article is not good advice generally. Here's what I do (and mentor people to do the same): 1. Don't start with the argument, start wit…

Mostly agree with this article. When I mentor people about managing, some other bits I also usually mention: 1. 'You’re not “part of the team” anymore.' - You're not part of the so…

I was in middle school at the time, learning programming. I think by that time, we had home Internet, but it was really slow, and so a lot of my learning about programming was eith…

Not a question, just thought I'd throw out that I worked through Black Art of Java Game Programming when I was learning Java in 1997 or so. I still have my copy because I don't lik…

Not OP, but within Amazon we have pretty good connectors around integrating with our task system (so you can pretty easily ask your GenAI tool "look up the next item in our sprint …

I work at Amazon (standard disclaimer: just sharing my own experience, not an official spokesperson, etc.) I can't say that this isn't happening, but at least the parts of the comp…

Within a few years Xi coined this phrase, China began having a massive real estate sector problem due in large part to speculation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_property_s…

In my experience as a former astronaut, international spy, and traveler to half the countries in the world, the jury is still out.

I am glad most places are getting rid of non-competes. But here is the best argument I've heard for them: For many companies, a lot of their value is in their intellectual property…

Not sure if this is meant sarcastically or not, but it is - it helps reduce transaction costs of changing employers. Anyone who has ever signed a contract with wide non-competes kn…

1984 is 22 on the list.

The examples in the first paragraph, while not grammatically passive, are functionally passive. They would be stronger in most cases if the author wrote them with the actor as the …

This isn't really just a big company problem, lots of start-ups fail too. It plays out a bit differently at big companies, as those failures tend to be more public but also done in…

With other engineers I mentor, I often give similar advice: break the promotion into two steps. The one everyone talks about is when the email goes out. The one that probably matte…

> The strength of conviction people have about this policy–almost either way, but certainly among those against–seems to scale with distance from the city. Writing this from mid-to…

Mostly because of the Maker's Schedule vs. Manager's Schedule ( https://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html ) issue. It's really hard to be in a role that deals with a lot of ra…

The Last Viking - a biography of explorer Roald Amundsen The Wager- a book about a ship by the same name which wrecked in the Drake Passage. Eccentric Orbits - about the Iridium co…

"No one goes there anymore, it's too crowded" finally makes sense. Yogi was presciently talking about X, being crowded by bots.

Yes, the case would be stronger with specific examples. However, I did not find it alienating, as examples of these 6 myths readily come to mind. We see people appeal to expertise …

I had a similar reaction. I plan on using this paper mostly for it's bibliography.

I work at a FAANG (and obviously, I'm not a company spokesperson, just sharing my own experience). Those who are passionate about interviewing internally all seem to agree on not a…

> “We should phase in new energy sources and technologies when they are genuinely ready, economically competitive and with the right infrastructure,” On the one hand, that seems li…

> It’s difficult to type and think at the same time I'm pretty good at typing, but not anything special, at around 90-95 words per minute. I type while thinking all the time, altho…