throwaway_au_1

>making an effort to do the minimum

It's worth making a distinction between "making an effort" to do the minimum, and simply doing the minimum; doing the minimum does not necessarily require additional effort as you have implied.

Possibly one could argue that if additional effort _is_ required, for either achieving the minimum or achieving more than the minimum, the employer pays only for the minimum, so the choice of whether to expend that effort to achieve the minimum or more belongs to the employee.

From a practical perspective, I found myself in a sort of context switching throughout the piece, looking up various bits to make sure I understood their use, but also finding myself disappointed when I came to the conclusion that the use of a given piece of jargon didn't seem warranted over a simpler version of the phrase. I liked the topic so I pushed through, but it made it tougher to read than it seemed to need to be.

For me, the Feedback button anchored to the viewport right does not work, and I'm not interested in signing up to leave a comment on the page, but in the event the author or anyone associated with them stumbles across this:

This article reliably causes Chrome to hang on my Samsung Android. No suggestions re. the length here, just feedback.

Is there a point to this comment? No one is denying you anything, and what does a lion's diet have to do with anything?

I have a very poor understanding of mathematical operators and how they relate in formulae. How I have phrased that might even suggest how poor it is. I have learned 'what to expect' from operators, like exponents/log will graph curve-ily etc, but I have never felt a solid sense of understanding that meant I could see any formula containing beyond +-*/ and feel confident that my solution would be close to right.

I recently tried to implement a basic compound interest calculation to graph something and understanding the formula did not come easily. By that, I mean that exactly what the terms represent and what each operation is achieving was something I really had to focus on. Being a dev, most of my counterparts have always seemed very comfortable with this stuff and I'm usually 30s behind.

I'm really astounded when I see complex formulae - I just can't imagine ever understanding them, let alone coming up with them in the first place. It's easiest for me to just imagine that I didn't develop a brain that's good at this stuff. It seems ironic to me because one of the enjoyable parts of writing code for me is modelling scenarios, assigning responsibility, laying out entities, etc which seem (to me) like activities that exist in the same 'abstract thinking' kind of space that math is in. Maybe that's another thing I don't understand :)

I'm not sure of your exact problem, so this might not be helpful, but learning about the reflog in Git accelerated my learning Git because I was no longer fearful of getting my repo into such a state, as I knew the reflog would get me out of trouble, i.e. I could try most any old Git op knowing that if I stuffed things up, I wasn't doomed to re-clone.

I don't know of the scenario that the above poster is speaking of, but it is believed/speculated that Harley Davidson did something similar to Alta Motors (electric motorcycles) inside the last 2-3 years.

I am also a software developer in Australia (NSW). I was 'headhunted' (in the loose sense) for a role and they booked me in for a "pre-employment medical check".

I assumed it would be something like: medical professional is briefed on my typical duties; medical professional assesses my abilities to perform these duties; medical professional then makes a recommendation to the employer. However on arriving and being presented the T&Cs and pre-check questionnaires, it became clear that the exercise was actually one of me declaring any and all medical information I could, with the T&Cs requiring that I consent to all of this information being provided to the employer.

I phoned my contact at the employer and said that this was ridiculous, and that none of the information I was asked to provide was relevant to the role: "it's just company policy for all employees", "we have a solid privacy policy".

They said that they had another health provider who was more 'lax' about what they asked. I contacted the provider and got a hold of their equivalent T&Cs and questionnaire, and it was way worse. Example questions: "Are you happy with your current weight?", "Has your weight changed in the past 5 years?", "In terms of noise, have you ever been exposed to (chainsawing|scuba diving|panel beating)?", "Are you pregnant or do you think you could be?". There were also questions about health conditions of family etc.

Ultimately I told them I wasn't interested in the organisation whilever they required me to unnecessarily disclose personal medical information. That said, I recognise I am very fortunate to be in a financial position to 'die on that hill', but I wish enough of us felt able to stand up to this bullshit so that none of us would have to.