Stryder

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by Stryder 7y ago
You can just say that outright next time. It's an anonymous internet forum so it's really not a big deal, and it's very hard to guess what you mean if you aren't clear about it.
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by Stryder 7y ago
Interesting. Thanks, I didn't go there at all and I believe ambiguous statements like these create a lot of the misunderstanding that we see in today's political climate.
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by Stryder 7y ago
What does that tell us? That HN trends pessimistic? That the HN audience is under-employed? Or something else?
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by Stryder 7y ago
Pretty good English equivalent for that saying: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ymmv
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by Stryder 7y ago
Would be great to see if this one sticks, but I have a sneaking suspicion that managers will just find novel ways to get people to leave.
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by Stryder 7y ago
Whoa, if confirmed this would be really bad. Downtime happens, but data loss is much worse.
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by Stryder 7y ago
Agreed. We can more easily follow the autopilot patterns of commercial flights such that cars can activate autopilot once they have officially entered freeways, and disengages again after exiting. Doing so can also help spur further investm
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by Stryder 7y ago
Finish reading first, and then spend some time thinking before responding. I said: "Accidents are one thing; incompetency or, worse yet, callous indifference is absolutely unacceptable."
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by Stryder 7y ago
The integrity of engineering excellence should never be sacrificed for profit and/or conveniency in places where it involves human lives. Realistically and pragmatically speaking, you only ever get to have just one single shot at estab
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by Stryder 8y ago
Slippery slope here. Why precisely is past performance indicative of future performance beyond some very weak correlations? Analogously, is a person's last relationship truly indicative of their future mating potential? I understand th
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by Stryder 8y ago
It's basically https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down Thinking about this problem as a larger systemic problem makes me incredibly frustrated and sad about human nature and society overall.
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by Stryder 8y ago
Sounds like software engineering today.
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by Stryder 8y ago
That's pretty cool!
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by Stryder 8y ago
Double-standard is the oldest trick in the book for establishing and maintaining power dynamics.
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by Stryder 8y ago
Money can’t purchase genuine human connection, and that’s pretty much the root of it. Anything that can be purchased is that much more enjoyable when real human connection is involved, otherwise it honestly doesn’t matter how lavish the thi
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by Stryder 8y ago
"Compartmentalization is part of the problem, not the solution." This, this and this again. We as people are absolutely allowed to be complex, contradicting beings, but it is because of this richness of breadth and depth in our ch
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by Stryder 8y ago
I don't think they are capable of attracting better talent at this point. Come to think of it, I'm surprised they ever were able to attract any serious talent at all. I still remember a highly respected veteran industry executive
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by Stryder 8y ago
Emphasis: "capable". Mapping one concept into another and between abstraction levels is something displayed by all the strongest leaders I've met.
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by Stryder 8y ago
Bravo.
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by Stryder 8y ago
#5 is basically an overclocked mind running DFS.
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by Stryder 8y ago
As an engineer turned manager, I disagree with this. While it is absolutely essential that the person managing the domain area needs to be capable of understanding the technical details surrounding it, it's not a requirement to have to
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by Stryder 8y ago
What a shitshow all around. Leadership is dead in today's climate.
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by Stryder 8y ago
I think history has proven enough times that it's hard to maintain power/wealth as you get more and more of it, and that is as it should be, because the complexity of all the moving pieces becomes harder and harder to manage when
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by Stryder 8y ago
It's not stupid. Think about large families with inherent power dynamics- everyone's either been in or knows at least one. It's just a human thing. We know what's right and wrong, but acting according to what we /kn
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by Stryder 8y ago
The flaw in your logic doesn't lie in your assertion, but the opposite: If it's indeed possible for some powerful forces to coerce some engineers into accomplishing certain goals, how possible is it for the same said forces to coe
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by Stryder 8y ago
There is a distinct whiff of the aroma of propaganda around this one.
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by Stryder 8y ago
"Movement is life."
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by Stryder 8y ago
The "wildly differs from company to company" hits home hard. It's like organizational schizophrenia and existential crisis had a child that got named "Product Management".
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by Stryder 8y ago
The key is to accept that you'll never "earn as much as you should", let it go, and just live your life, find problems worth solving, and solve them. The rat race pays you one price in your hand while simultaneously taking an
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by Stryder 8y ago
As an older engineer currently having fun digging into ML: yep, a well thought-out set of good-ol business rules can do a lot of what teams are applying ML to these days. Nothing wrong with learning new things, though. I can get behind that

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