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Do you have any people in your company who could build what you need if given the time? Sometimes there are people who are pretty handy with coding who aren't called "programmers".…

It makes sense that Google would want to push jobs from high-cost centers to low-cost ones. The only question is why they haven't done so more aggressively.

Yo dawg, I heard you like parasites, so I put wasps in your wasps so they can parasitize while they're parasitized.

Yeah, it's not hard to find knowledgeable commentary to the effect that the duty of directors to act in the interests of the shareholders does not mean a simple-minded duty to maxi…

> He is considered one of the most savvy and aggressive tech ceos out there By whom? I used to work at Snowflake, and from what I remember people on the inside were far more excite…

I don't know about that. Companies generally do regular performance reviews, so there should be a lot of information about who the underperforming or merely adequate workers in eac…

I doubt the really top companies -- top 10, say -- have any trouble finding staff, at least for low-level positions. These companies are mobbed by applicants, and can afford to pay…

I don't for a minute believe this number is actually true. But on the other hand, it seems like a very strange lie to tell, because it's so unbelievable. It would be far easier to …

I agree with you that it is not possible to both fix the feature set and fix the delivery date and expect to consistently succeed. But it is also not possibly to tell upper managem…

The problem I see with various flavors of Agile is that they don't fit in particularly well with how things actually get done at companies. For example, teams running Agile are ver…

Here are the current number of deaths per million from COVID for the G7 nations: Japan - 119 Canada - 696 Germany - 1,093 France - 1,704 US - 1,876 UK - 1,886 Italy - 2,118 Judged …

I worked for Huawei in Canada for a bit less than a year before I left, because my boss insisted on assigning me work I didn't believe I could deliver on. Of course I was only ther…

Some people just plain don't like Reddit. I'm not quite clear on why, but it predates the current cancellation fights. Perhaps the upvote/downvote system encourages attention-seeki…

Actually, Data Secrets Lox has moved to this URL: https://www.datasecretslox.com/ The old link will continue to work for a while.

It's an anagram of "Slate Star Codex".

The SSC diaspora is collecting in a number of locations. The two I am most familiar with are Naval Gazing (a blog about naval affairs) and Data Secrets Lox (a new discussion forum)…

I have occasionally been curious about that, but never curious enough to try to make an effort to find out. Call it a mix of laziness and respect for the preferences of others.

Anonymity is not some sort of natural right. For most of our existence as a species, we lived in small groups where you quite naturally knew everyone you dealt with. True strangers…

I'm sorry Scott has decided to shut down his blog. He posted many interesting things over the years, and the community of commenters that clustered in the blog's open threads was u…

How about something counter-intuitive: lower the limit? There is a built-in hard limit imposed by the structure itself. Set the marked limit to something well short of that, like 8…

The dollar sign comes before the number, not after it. $150

"Grit" is a good translation. English-speakers who try to translate the word usually try something like "courage" or "guts", which isn't quite right. "Sisu" is not really about dar…

For what it's worth, Bing doesn't make the distinction much clearer. Ads have a tiny little Ad icon, but both the background and the text look just like regular search results.

For a long time, the answer was probably performance. Lots of people were trained to use Lisp in their computer science courses, and lots of people admired it. But it was never any…