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FYI: At Microsoft, in Windows, the job might be PM or TPM, but the people aren't. A person is expected to be able to switch their focus from one to the other. At least, that's what…

I literally had a dev manager say it to my face! "I guess you were a mediocre programmer or you wouldn't have become a PM"! No, you aren't doing that kind of high-level design. For…

When I moved to Microsoft 15+ years ago, I went from being a developer (for 20+ years) to a PM. 9/10, would recommend. But also know that it's a very different skill set that you'l…

Among other problems: the variables est and estTime are both mis-named. The correct name for "the time in New York" is Eastern Time. Depending on the time of year, Eastern Time wil…

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What is it about computer people that they see a flood of open, free, engaging material about computers, and think, "I should put up an artificial road block so that fewer people r…

Not high tech. The blog post presents exactly one side of the issue, "what happens if a lawyer alleges child abuse knowing it to be untrue in order to extract a settlement". But it…

Incorrect. The maintainer isn't ignoring anything; they are considering the request and deliberately rejecting it because of their preferred style guide.

Things to not do include: randomly picking medicine "X", have it hyped up by a weird republican hype machine, and then bitterly complain when the unwarranted, evidence-free hype is…

If you have 1024 people each of whom make 8 trades (and win/loss is 50/50), 4 of those thousand will succeed with every trade. Given that, survivorship bias is 100% the right answe…

I used to program many different terminals, back when they were a thing. A classic terminal only has a screen full of memory: it does have extra memory that would allow it to scrol…

Flagged as being obviously fraudulent.

I don't need to read any vaccine-denying, COVID-deny9ng crap.

Makes me wonder what the opposite point of view is. I've been in many set of ongoing meetings where the point of the meeting is to herd cats: us insiders know what the work is, but…

All legal stuff is expensive. Source: was an expert witness, and made a nice sum. SEC type stuff is guaranteed to be pricy because it's bound to be complicated, and require special…

Which, per the article, you can appeal to a real judge.

From the article: yes, you do. Compare the SEC's actions to a simple traffic ticket: a police officer gives you a ticket with a pre-set fine. This is like an SEC officer giving you…

For everyone who's hated bosses that determine success by number of lines of code: the "damning" part here is that the teams don't have good metrics for success. There's not a hint…

Not even remotely a technical site; is just an ad for a service, and doesn't belong on HN.

I live in a town that has some decent hills between my house and downtown. With an ebike, it's easy to and from downtown. But with an ordinary bike I would rarely get into downtown…

Uninformed bullshit session that's not really tech related. And no, we're not about to have a nuclear war with China! Wow, the presenter really likes the "dump a bazillion facts" s…

The source for the graph is just "NASA", without even a hint of a proper attribute. The link to the sciencedirect paper is a nifty and super geeky description of a continuous effor…

Great use of "quotes". That will "convince" me for sure!

Snarky summery: "If me and my fellow "skeptics" keep adding "quote marks" and arguing about everything long enough, surely this time people will listen to us complain about every s…

Weirdly, it doesn't handle unique placenames. So if I say my mom is from Huntertown, where do people think she's from? No answer, and it won't even try. That's because there's only…