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by ck425 7y ago
I think the accurate term for it is post-Christian society.
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by ck425 7y ago
I disagree. No one magically becomes good at their job and management is a different job to engineering. Inevitably every manager is going to suck atleast a little for a period of time. What we need is more training and culture around feedb
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by ck425 7y ago
>Personally, I can't Not say anything when I see people doing the wrong thing. For sure I try to be tactful, but there it is. I'm the exact same. In fact it's the primary reason I got into tech, because as an industry it&#
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by ck425 7y ago
How did you make that transition? I've been interested in making a similar one but have been frequently advised to stay in engineering and work my way into management instead.
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by ck425 7y ago
I came to post the exact same comment. How can you build a functioning society with this type of BS? How can you encourage people to become entrepreneurs with this?
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by ck425 7y ago
This. Power users (normally engineers) drove Slack usage at my last company. I'm now in an org that uses Teams and all the engineers want to use Slack. Likely won't happen but it's important to note that this feature isn&#x27
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by ck425 7y ago
There's a skill to being honest in a productive way. Being honest in a way that communicates your thoughts and gets people engaged rather than defensive is really difficult but really valuable. But if you don't yet have that skill
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by ck425 7y ago
This is fascinating. It reminds me of a line from Hamilton: "I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory". Lin-Manual Miranda has said that was the most auto biographical thing he's ever written and that he thinks his
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by ck425 7y ago
Many European countries have minimum holiday entitlements close to 6 weeks. The main reason they have them is historical trade union activism.
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by ck425 7y ago
I do theatre as a hobby and do the same thing with learning lines. I run lines before bed and before lunchtime naps and I absorb the info far easier.
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by ck425 7y ago
This is an important point. I came from a less well off family in Scotland and when younger considered many of my peers to be lacking intelligence or ambition in life. Then a while ago I dated a girl also from that town and got an insight i
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by ck425 7y ago
From what I've seen the beer is manly culture is going away. There's also a lot more awareness of drinking levels and sobriety. It's far easier and more socially acceptable to drink moderately now. These changes are mostly dr
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by ck425 7y ago
The root causes vary, but include mental health issues and poverty in general. We should instead focus on those issues more. The main alcohol related root cause is the culture of binge drinking. The way to tackle that is to create and encou
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by ck425 7y ago
Is it not a bit soon to be drawing conclusions? Also there are so many other factors involved. I'm a scotsman and I'm personally not a fan of this law, nor the 10am-10pm licensing laws. They're blunt instruments that fail to
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by ck425 7y ago
Do they send data from games consoles? I watch TV entirely through my PS4, with the actual smart TV not hooked up to my wifi. I presume that would stop TV companies from getting my data, but then again Sony might sell it themselves.
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by ck425 7y ago
Shit like this makes me incredibly grateful for the NHS. It's one of the best things about the uk and I'm incredibly proud to be joining it next month.
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by ck425 7y ago
If that's the case what happens to her personally? I read that her family has british passports, will she have to flee?
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by ck425 7y ago
If you hold property that's not inhabited you pay council tax on it. It's a less than ideal tax but it does tax property hoarding.
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by ck425 7y ago
The uk already has a fairly progressive property tax call stamp duty and many councils in the UK have property taxes (or at least our equivalent called council tax) for empty properties. The problem persists not because of billionaire inves
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by ck425 7y ago
Shouldn't all 'software engineers' be 'product engineers'? I don't really get his point, all he's describing is what any good engineer should be doing anyway.
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by ck425 7y ago
We used to have that, then there was a backlash and we're now far more tolerant. I'm not sure what the right balance is between not disturbing people and calling out folk (new joiners in particular) in from of the whole company.
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by ck425 7y ago
I'm the same. I never had too much issue reading, though I do avoid anything overly literally as the language just gets in the way of story. But writing has always been impossible for me, even with keyboards. The whole idea of 'pa
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by ck425 7y ago
I also suspect that part of the benefit is the changing environment. The article talks about the internal GPS and how training it via walking trains the brain in general. If you're moving on the spot, I imagine the internal GPS won&#x2
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by ck425 7y ago
Lying is perhaps the wrong word here. Sharing self-delusion is probably a more accurate way of describing it. He genuinely believes many of his own exaggerations. But to be fair without a big dose of self delusion no one would be crazy enou
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by ck425 7y ago
It is a city. You're inaccurately redefining the term city to meet a very narrow definition, which is confusing the discussion.
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by ck425 7y ago
You really need to use a term other than city to describe what you're describing. I live in a city, Edinburgh, as do the various folk who have mentioned living in Manchester etc. Their not mega sprawling metropolises like London but th
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by ck425 7y ago
The article was comparing the same age ranges through time though. Young people are less well off compared to previous young people and old folk are more well off compared to previous old folk.
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by ck425 7y ago
You can get a far better quality of life in most other cities on the standard developer salary than you can in London. I know multiple colleagues who have moved out of London, taken a large salary cut but ended up with a far higher quality
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by ck425 7y ago
There are still a lot of places in the UK outside of London that have plenty of jobs and are far more affordable.
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by ck425 7y ago
Hmm interesting. I've ran my plan past many acting friends and they thought it was solid. That said I'm perfectly happy to semi-retire and do lots of semi-professional threatre. I'm very much driven by having fun rather than

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