CheesecakeFred

He was describing the ideal attorney. If you factor in human failure in your ideals from the start, what you get is the lowest common multiple, so you limit any aspiration and potential from the start.

No, the ideal would be an attorney that can almost perfectly differentiate between his emotions plus opinion against true justice.

You can measure the health of a society in how they treat the weak and helpless (helpless in this case in regards to prisoners who are at the whim of the prison).

In this regard, America is profoundly sick and defective.

It is of course true, instead of rehabilitating, they are breeding criminals in prison. It's an abomination.

I think the problem here is pretty obvious.

I was going to comment on this article, but realized it is futile to go into detail and critizise it at this place.

Simply put I would stay far away from articles and people thinking the way Venkatesh Rao exhibits here. Highly toxic and inhumane management bullshit.

Are you shilling against SpaceX, or was that worded slightly weird, or what?

Bug-free is a ridiculous theoretical concept, where there are humans at work, there are bugs.

As for 'perfect development culture', same thing. Ridiculous concept. There is always something to improve on.

But would I personally, with my limited knowledge about Boeing and SpaceX, but with the catastrophic fails at Boeing regarding the 737 MAX in mind, judge SpaceX the more competent company in terms of management engineering skills, efficiency, to get a product as bug-free as they can without putting money before safety concerns? OF COURSE. There is no question.

Thanks.

You made a guide homepage in the post I answerded to, which repeatedly mentions "if you have these symptoms". But the symptoms are not mentioned in the guide.

I think for a proper guide you should absolutely list the symptoms of corona virus at the introduction.

I searched in search engines. As far as I could find the corona virus symptoms are similar to pneumonia. The main symptoms are fever, cough and pain in the lungs.

This is not similar to flu symptoms which do not necessarily spread to the lungs.

There is no information on the often-called "symptoms". What are the symptoms one should be aware of, one should check for?

Ok. But who in their right mind still uses google search directly?

I think you missed the point, "will often express very blunt concerns about quality/risks in emails or PRs" means he straight up communicates any issue without sugar-coating. Which is what you want from a conscious employee. If despite that someone higher up in the decision chain ignores the issue (in the case of safety risks, that is criminal negligence), to continue to fight this battle is pointless and would only mean risking one's career for nothing.

The gear ratio would change. Also I can't imagine certification is only required for changes from a pilot's perspective, but from a functional perspective.

>The problems are less difficult to solve, but also much more frustrating. A lot more black boxes that you can't reverse engineer when you get stuck. Working with other people in a big company means things move far slower than my ability to get things done.

The part about black boxes you get stuck on strongly resonates with me. Programming can be a lot of fun, when you can rely on your own, or well documented programming.

But enter the world of development in big companies where everything specification never leaves alpha phase, is done in retrospect, only on request, 3 month later then needed and if missing half of the absolutely needed information is the best case, it's just so miserable.

Point 2. "Code is a Liability" ends with the sentence: "Always strive to do everything using as little code as humanly possible."

On its own I consider this bad advice.

I would change it to 'Always strive to make your code as easy to understand as possible, while less lines of code and complexity is preferred'

Somehow there seems to be a fundamental difference in cognition between me and these people getting scammed like that. I cannot even begin to imagine the mindset, filter bubble, delusions one must suffer to not see right through a scam like that from the first second...

I guess greed makes some people really stupid?