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As the company grows a certain proportion of new engineers - by law of averages - will be self motivated to seek out and understand how things work, what makes the company tick and…

Wasn't joking. Perhaps my worldview is more limited than it should be.

The example argument is very weak, the fictional organization has a goal of "increasing revenues and profitability", isn't that a tautology? I mean are there any firms where that w…

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> I don't know of anyone who likes high pressure time crunch interrogations except maybe the ones getting to do the interrogating part. As someone who has been through this early c…

Logically, shouldn't the compensation for a worker be a function of both leverage and risk? CEOs have enormous leverage to affect change in their company, with proportionate increa…

No worries, sorry if I came across as overly critical. Thanks for the work, the content is awesome.

We had a term where I used to work - Promotion Oriented Architecture. In most places progress in the engineering org chart is heavily influenced by delivering software for complex …

Why the purple? Dont know if its just me, but found the styling to be a distraction. The content is good enough to stand by itself without the font and color gimmickry.

As someone in the same boat I've found this book to be very helpful. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1466230525 - Mathematical Notation: A Guide for Engineers and Scientists

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This may seem somewhat out there, very uninformed or misanthropic, but I've been thinking about basic human needs(emotion,ego,the desire for companionship - both spiritual and othe…

+1 I agree with waiting. In fact I'm personally coming around to the point of view that 90% of verbal technical discussions miss a key point which becomes very evident on reflectio…

Apart from the other excellent suggestions here: - check CO2 levels in your bedroom - allergens(dust,pollen, etc) in your sleeping environment can cause breathing problems. - Acid …

Its unreasonable to say that individual exceptionalism is all that matters for success. There needs to be a way for hard work yo matter as well. Perhaps have both union and non-uni…

Does someone here know offhand the fatality rate for the Max per flying hour at this time? http://www.airsafe.com/events/models/rate_mod.htm lumps max together with other 737 model…

I'd agree on exercise being ineffective, or only marginally effective as a way to control weight long term. However there are surprisingly effective strategies to lose a lot a weig…

ETL job in AWS glue with DynamoDB as source and S3 as sink is one option. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/aws-glue-...

My team opted for postgres over a graph db in one of our projects to model a network of devices. Primarily due to the pgRouting extension, which implements many graph algorithms in…

Do you extend that opinion to both unit and integration tests? I agree with you that unit tests at the application level have low ROI, but I've found integration tests to be invalu…

With an infinite amount for investment I'd agree with you, no city would need or want to proffer incentives. But with only $x to go around for investment countrywide, how do I attr…

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