He wouldn't be commenting if it was really unrealistic.
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Eventually, Pournelle’s Law Iron Law of Bureaucracy takes hold and the purpose of the union is to strengthen the union regardless of the needs of its members.
The problem is still the same.
That is, certainly, a recipe for catastrophic war.
If climate change is the existential crisis some insist it is, our only solution is technological. But those who wish to use climate change as a Trojan horse to enact their social whims will reject any discussion of the sort. Because solving climate change isn’t their goal, it’s the means to attain their goal.
No, you've decided to take it as an insult. You demand grace from them and give none in return. It's more a reflection on you than it is on them.
I find this perspective arrogant, rude, and counterproductive. Other people have experienced profound grief as well. They are communicating, possibly inelegantly, it’s possible to get through the grief (what better gift can someone offer than hope?) and they are making themselves available if you need support. And ultimately, they are expressing condolences and sympathy.
Grief should be shared. Grief does not make you special. Confronting grief alone is a recipe for depression and madness.
Suicide is infectious (as strange as that sounds) and I've found it tough to reconcile that showing compassion for the suicidal can actually encourage more suicide. It's an act I’m not able to comprehend and that paralyzes my response.
I was dismayed to read the section Did We Ignore the Signs?, but I understand. Similarly, I feel a sense of personal responsibility for the well-being of those I've hired. It's common for those left behind due to suicide to carry guilt, but it's neither healthy nor constructive to think that way. Please take the opportunity to be responsible for your own mental health, and that requires you not to feel responsible for the mental health of those around you.
May Pete rest in peace and sincere condolences to the friends and family left behind.
So I understand why some companies and teams bias toward everyone working in an office. And my choice to work at home will prevent me from being hired at those places. I'm blessed there's plenty of work available for everyone, remote or not.
You can play as many games as you like, but if people aren’t able to generate enough value to justify their pay, Stein’s Law will bring things to an abrupt halt.
It's an answer good enough for the Supreme Court of the United States, but I'll bet it wont be good enough for Wokeware.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.” - C.S. Lewis
Nonsense - engineering ethics have been discussed, codified, and taught for decades. Why are engineering ethics insufficient to cover building software?
Exactly the problem search is supposed to solve. Google doesn’t seem to be very interested in solving it.
1. $#!7 flows downhill.
2. Don't bite your fingernails.
There are a number of good reasons somebody might decide to stay put, even if it might be more lucrative or exciting elsewhere.
Prospects, if they can overcome the flattery of being offered a title beyond their skill and experience, should actually recognize such as a warning sign. After all, a company willing to do such a thing is likely a place full of stupid and inflexible policies where HR has too much power.
Sorry you have to play such games to get decent talent, but beware a nasty side effect: your actual senior engineers are going to need new titles to reflect the peer group they actually belong to. They may be (and perhaps rightly so) insulted by the insinuation that a new graduate is equally valuable to the company.
After only two weeks (and having never experienced such a thing before), it seems pretty natural to second guess one’s intuition.
15 months ago I started work as a Software Manager at a large arts and crafts retailer. Much of the job seemed completely in line with my interest and what I wanted to do, but two weeks in I figured out the place was clownishly toxic and the CTO, despite an impressive educational background, had a cartoonish understanding of how software is made. So I resigned and sought new opportunities. I've never worked less than 18 months at any job, and that made leaving a tough pill to swallow.
Looking at the reviews on Glassdoor (and TeamBlind) left since my departure, I can see my intuitions were spot on. Reviewers' descriptions of the environment seem absurd, but unfortunately they are completely consistent with what my spider-sense was telling me. I hope Glassdoor has helped others avoid the misery of employment there.
You can see a direct correlation in outcomes when comparing children that emerged from two-parent households over those that emerge from single-parent households. But because that is an uncomfortable and pervasive problem to discuss, almost all social effort is focused on solving less tangible problems.
Somehow the regular people are smart enough to know the lottery is entertainment but they aren’t smart enough for investment wizardry. It’s just incidental, I guess that the government profits significantly from the lottery.
Listen, I’ve heard and understand the arguments “why” investors must be accredited. But I can’t help but find myself hearing these arguments and thinking “this is the government codifying the wealth gap”. When Slick Rick scams someone, it’s the worst thing ever. But when the government scams us all, it’s just the way the world works.
But hey, Powerball is just entertainment! Right?