decebalus1

> Russia says

Russia is a proven liar. Whatever Russia says I would default to the opposite, until irrefutable evidence comes along.

This reminds me of Molotov's bread baskets. I bet there were also some useful idiots back then, saying stuff like 'Russia says they're not dropping bombs, only humanitarian aid'.

And you are very obviously talking out of your ass, indeed.

I think it's also safe to brush aside Russian nationalism which literally threatens the whole planet. I didn't say that. The Russian president 'itself' said it right before he made a fool of 'itself' and of his army.

> I don't have the time to deal with the rest of your "views"

Please don't. Do the world a favor and invest your time in more productive endeavors.

I don't think it's about the edit button itself, literally.

The fact that a tweet is immutable is likely an assumption running deep inside twitter's system. For a large enough system, I could totally see implementing something like this taking months, just from the cross-team overhead or schema migrations

> The west will still do nothing.

Haven't you read Russian propaganda? The west (which is the devil, basically) is waging war against Russia. The west is the reason Russia is a shithole rural petro-state. Also, the west is trying to turn Russian men into gays. After this incident, the west will ramp up the 'war' by not sending troops or firing anything in Russia's general direction even HARDER. But will still try to turn Russians gay and make fun of Putin, because in the limited universe of the Russian propagandist, 'the west' is the end-all enemy of Russian greatness.

Did I mention that the west is to blame for Ukraine getting invaded by the Russians? In the spirit of "Look What You Made Me Do", Russia was basically forced to bomb hospitals and schools. It will all be Biden's fault when Russia becomes a larger North Korea.

Did I also mention Russia has 0 agency? Everything it does is driven by the west.

I will go with the propaganda from a state that doesn't literally control mass media and where we don't shoot journalists in the street or poison dissidents. Thank you very much for such a valuable input, 40 day old account with negative karma which exclusively posts Russian misinformation about the war in Ukraine.

> Groups like Azov are actively supported by the Ukrainian government

So is the Wagner group with the Russian government. Your point being?

> videos of pow torture

As per the Russians, this is not a war. Hence, they're not prisoners of war. Or we can have our cake and eat it too? If something bad happens to a Russian soldier on Ukrainian territory, that's that all part of a 'Special Hospitality Operation'.

In terms of your second point, no.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_military_deception

By default, the Russians are lying, unless there's evidence that they're not. They lied about Crimea, they lied about invading Ukraine, they lied about the refugee corridors, they basically lied about everything, if it suited their goals. They're lying right now. Satellite images show that the mass graves were there since before the Russians left Bucha. What they did there is something all Eastern Europeans who had ancestors 'liberated' by the Russians know too well.. Not to minimize the current tragedy, but this is tame compared to the past exploits of the Red Army. I bet this is just the tip of the iceberg and that the south-east of Ukraine is pretty much hell on earth right now.

And why should the employee help with that? And why at that point? There's a lot of opportunities for feedback during employment. If you're banking on exit interviews, you've already lost and you're doing it fundamentally wrong.

> All feedback is anonymous, rolled up with non-exit feedback, and delivered to managers/leads periodically so it can't be easily linked back

Oh sweet summer child.. No feedback is anonymous, ever. It can be 'confidential', which means that HR can disclose it at their discretion or as appropriate.

As a manager, if you get value from the exit interview, with all due respect, you're doing it wrong. All the feedback which could be part of the exit interview should never be a surprise or an added value after the fact.

Not very common as a 'role', unless you're in the Navy. Because it's made up and it's an oddly specific description of some person the author observed. Everyone can become a 'deep diver' as appropriate. It's not a role, at best it's an archetype which evolves naturally if the organization allows for it. Nobody hires 'deep divers' (unless of course, we're talking about the Navy) or has a business need for 'deep divers'. All of this is just malarkey.

> Something about these articles reads so self congratulatory and aggrandizing...

That's a requirement for staff engineering. This is how you graduate to staff. If you don't understand, there's a couple of books you can buy and educate yourself. Also there's a staff engineering podcast where staff engineers are invited to talk staff engineering and how to staff engineer effectively.

See my previous comment about this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30049319

I cannot take any of this seriously.

- First of all, it assumes that `interviewing.io` is some sort of certification standard (which I'm willing to bet is the actual point of publicizing these 'studies' in the first place. It's 'fact' manufacturing)

- Then there's selection bias about engineers actually using one platform vs the other

- Touting the data set size in order to give the 'study' some credibility is a red flag for me. You can analyze millions of the same technical interview and deduce all sorts of conclusions.

- The use of 'best performers' is deceitful. It means 'best performers in the interview context'. But using it in the context of where do they work, it implies something like 'the best performing engineers are at company X'. Which is bullshit. More like 'best trained engineers to pass these interviews work at company X'.

Garbage. I'm flagging this as it's nothing more than self-serving marketing.

> a place that did 100% pair programming with rotation every day

Sounds like a nightmare. I interviewed once for a company where the team did exactly that, and it was the moment in the interviews I realized I don't want to work there.

ad-hoc peer programming is perfectly fine. Debugging something tricky or helping someone ramp up is great. But peer programming as-a-process is literally peer-micromanaging and outright insulting IMHO.

This is easy. Because we have a well-established institutional hate for poor people. There is a subconscious belief that poor people are poor solely because of poor decisions. So, it's not our job to improve their lives. It would be 'unfair' for the rest of society to keep these 'freeloaders' afloat. /s

There's gonna be a lot of comments in here saying ^^ but unironically. It's just ingrained in the fabric of our society.

I hate TurboTax with a passion. At this point, the only benefit I see from it is the fact that because my taxes are boring, I just update the information from the last return. Which is something the IRS could do EASILY. Because of all the 'tax freedom' which has been lobbied in America, I now have to pay a private corporation, navigate countless dark patterns to make sure I don't accidentally sign up for Super AuDiTProTec™ at every step of the way (God forbid I sell stock or do something soo complicated), to do something the federal government is more than competent to do on their own.

Every piece of news in which Intuit gets slapped is good news to me. I just hope legislators start doing their jobs at some point and spare the taxpayer of this bullshit.

> Far away problems are so much more interesting than those nearby.

However, as the world gets more and more connected, far away problems have a tendency to become nearby problems real fast.

Prosecuting whales is both super expensive and risky to the conviction rate. See https://www.npr.org/2017/07/30/535799735/corporate-bungling-...

As opposed to the game being always rigged but without everyone knowing... just the insiders.

The premise doesn't make a lot of sense.

> monetary sanctions because they are in EUR or USD

Yes, because that's what the contracts specified as a currency. Russia uses the ruble as a currency, which is not censored, it's just not 'in demand'. Adopting BTC how? Do you think Germany et al would be willing to pay for oil/gas in bitcoin when the contracts already specify a currency? Or adopt BTC internally? Like all the babushkas fighting in line for sugar would need to have crypto wallets now?

Also, wallets of Russians could be denied transactions.

Also, BTC is small enough to be manipulable by an alliance of state actors if push comes to shove.

Not sure I agree with such a sweeping opinion about 'what video games have become'. I've been playing video games since the early 90s and quite frankly I've never been happier with my gaming career like I've been in the past 4-5 years. And haven't been paying anything for it (aside from the price of the game). Maybe I'm playing the 'wrong' games? I also don't play any EA games out of principle..

I do agree with the underlying sentiment. But these pay for play schemes are so easy to ignore. I play CS:GO and get a lot of enjoyment out of it without paying for skins or special weapons or whatever.

I think it's a great analogy. It's a shift in mindset, don't take it literally, the point isn't that you're a temporarily embarrassed CEO.. the point is that for example when you interview for a position, don't think about it in terms of getting a job, but in terms of a business transaction (ie you also interview the company) or, when you're constantly in crunch mode, ask yourself whether or not your 'company' is being taken for a ride under an unfair contract.

You trade time, health, mental energy for money and health insurance (and/or reputation or whatever you get from your job). That's pretty much it. We (well, most of us) live in free countries, so if the business transaction does not benefit you, you're free to take your 'business' elsewhere.

One should definitely not be working hard. You need to minimize work and maximize income. The more you work, the less you actually make per-hour invested, if the income does not grow proportionally to surpass the current ratio. Unless you're in a good strategic position which ensures you will get huge benefits by working hard (think large stake in the company), working hard is a losing game.

A company will pay you the bare minimum it can get away with, taking into considerations all sort of parameters (such as risk of attrition) so naturally, your optimal behavior should be to work as little as possible to not get fired. Use the extra time to invest in yourself or just enjoy life.

This guy?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/03/elon-musk...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/tesla-empl...

https://www.businessinsider.com/free-speech-absolutist-elon-...

I can only imagine how 'free' and 'uncensored' it will be. I bet it's gonna host everything from ISIS beheadings all the way to porn or straight-up conspiracies to overturn the US gorvernment, but nothing bad about the great leader Kim Old Musk and his endeavors.

Honestly, HN has been invaded lately with accounts posting brazen Kremlin propaganda.

Lots of new accounts with lots of opinions lately..

> Zelensky could concede the four points and end the war but he chose to force all men to fight for him.

I mean a person getting raped can also stop the rape by convincing themselves that the act is consensual, right?

That's not an excuse. Many of those displayed have been living comfortably numb under petro-dollar funded consumerism for the past decade or so while being 'non-political' and not caring enough about what their new czar was up to. Don't get me wrong, there are still dissidents, but putin managed to beat out any trace of viable opposition while people not only allowed it, most were jacking off in front of the television watching OMON beat in some skulls.

And speaking of that opposition, I urge people to check out Alexei Navalny's opinion on Crimea..

I'm tired of the 'innocent Russians' narrative shat around the internet. Nobody forced them to do jack shit. There's just an epidemic of cowardice mixed with a dash of imperial nostalgia going rampant in Russia, that is all.

Lots of new accounts with lots of opinions lately..

No, it's not timeless. Only the fact that it was updated to MMIX [1] proves that it's not.

And the fact that it's fictional it doesn't mean it won't age. Because he didn't pull the language out of thin air and he wasn't working in a vacuum, he was inspired by the trend at the time of its invention [2]. I bet if it was written today, it would look quite different, as proof of his language update for the recent editions [3]. So, it's anything but timeless, as said by even the author.

> won't age because it never existed to begin with.

Same as Da Vinci's helicopter? I think that one also aged quite poorly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMIX

[2] https://esolangs.org/wiki/MIX_(Knuth)

[3] "In my books The Art of Computer Programming, it replaces MIX, the 1960s-style machine that formerly played such a role"

I sometimes wonder if in the near future we'd have programming historians to dig up old brilliant but forgotten ideas, which were not feasible back then, but might add value now with our new computing capabilities.

> And while you might think that assembly language is ipso facto an indicator of vintage, I think having at least one assembly language² in one's experience is helpful for having some idea of what the computer is actually doing.

These two statements are not contradictory. We've stopped teaching CS using assembly language a long time ago, but we still do teach assembly in OS or computer architecture contexts, which is totally fine and should continue.

I'm gonna have to go against the grain here and completely disagree with this. While TAOCP is lauded and celebrated as one of the best (and at the same time unread) CS books of all time, the fact that it uses an assembly language is a strong indicator that it's 'vintage'. It still has that 'universal truth' but at the same time, as you said 'is representative of the time it was written', considering MIX is picked for teaching people how to program.