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by danek 9y ago
Someone I know had to sign one of these as a prerequisite to getting a severance, but before the actual amount of severance was revealed to him. He asked my advice on it and I suggested he sign bc it would be reasonable for both parties. (B
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by danek 9y ago
Yes this too. Someone I know was interviewing at google (his first choice, he did a few rounds), and then later at some other places. Google took three months to get back to him and gave him a really good offer, but by that time he had alre
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by danek 9y ago
Fwiw, one "advantage" of "wanting to work there" is that counterproductive management practices can survive longer. If I'm your boss and am treating you like trash, and you complain, I can just say "oh it sou
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by danek 9y ago
I'm profoundly more productive when syntax highlighting is enabled. It's easier for my brain to focus on the details it needs at any given point, versus when it's all the same color
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by danek 9y ago
Does "parallel construction" mean "finding plausible but fake explanations for how we got the evidence so we don't burn our successful and secret investigation techniques"? Just guessing from context...
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by danek 9y ago
I feel the same way (though I never ran my own startup). On the surface it would make sense for me to start companies. I tick most of the boxes, but at heart I'm more of an artist. Maybe 10 years ago I'd be interested in spending
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by danek 9y ago
That's exactly the attitude that leads to more pilot error ;) But seriously, it's important to understand how it made sense to the pilot from his perspective at that point in time. Because he believed he was aiming for the runway
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by danek 9y ago
This. I've been "in the loop" on several people getting PIPs. Two were 100% a pretext for firing. One of those two was fired less than a week after going on the PIP, despite it being a six week plan. I thought that was espec
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by danek 9y ago
I had to close it because it was too similar to being at work, on my day off.
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by danek 9y ago
I've had to do this a lot. It's kind of fun to skip work to get work done, but it also annoys me because it makes it apparent that you can't get useful work done at work, and that makes me feel useless when I do go to work.
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by danek 9y ago
Some would say "perpetually busy management is bad management", and I'd agree.
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by danek 9y ago
In some companies you need to keep up appearances and look like you're busy all the time.
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by danek 9y ago
That's not an example of "shifting the power dynamic"
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by danek 9y ago
To be honest this is news to me and I lurk on hn every day :-/ I thought Minority Report was still a few years away... Thanks for the links, this stuff is both fascinating and scary.
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by danek 9y ago
For many people, even if completely innocent, a plea deal is a smarter choice than going to trial. So at the very least they are guilty of taking a plea deal. Possibly something more, but that can't be inferred.
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by danek 10y ago
This gives a great perspective on complexity. Reminds me a lot of the book An Introduction to General Systems Thinking by Jerry Weinberg. https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-General-Systems-Thinking...
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by danek 10y ago
I think you are right, the change likely happened in one of the preview versions leading up to this release. I didn't notice any documentation on it for any of the releases, though I could have easily missed it.
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by danek 10y ago
This is pretty cool and I was excited to hear about it. But this release also changes the way unit testing integrates with the tooling, so now my suite of 1000+ nunit tests won't run via the 'dotnet test' command, nor in visu
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by danek 10y ago
I think it depends on the quality of the feedback. Most tooling sucks, so the messages are very literal trace statements peppered through the code. , vs what the user-facing impact will be. When the thing is just spitting raw information at
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by danek 10y ago
This is a good pattern to use. The more pre-feedback I get, the less likely I am to make a horrible mistake. However one problem I often see with this pattern is the numbers are not formatted for humans to read. Suppose it prompts: &qu
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by danek 10y ago
Management is interesting because you can be a terrible manager yet still have a successful career at it. A lot of competent management practices seem counter-intuitive if you've never been exposed to them. Most managers I know have ha
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by danek 10y ago
It's probably an indication that your use-case is not a good fit for dynamo, or that you didn't adapt your use-case to dynamo, you're doing something "wrong" like trying to use it as a relational database. I've
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by danek 10y ago
Almost anything can user test well. It's really hard to get right, and really easy to fool yourself.
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by danek 10y ago
Sorry, you guessed wrong
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by danek 10y ago
Yes, that's correct
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by danek 10y ago
While your comment sounds like it makes sense at face value, I find it naive and simplistic. I think the logical outcome of a policy like that is that you end up worse off. We all unwittingly break many laws day. Living in the US is inheren
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by danek 10y ago
I'm always surprised to learn a band is English when I expected they'd be from Chicago or Detroit
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by danek 10y ago
fwiw i've heard it called both "Trans-Atlantic" & "Mid-Atlantic"
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by danek 10y ago
What's with this trend of calling an author's writing "childish" instead of saying you don't care for his style?
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by danek 10y ago
In addition to that, I would also worry about interactions between issues. I tend to lean towards spreading out the issues over time to make the eventual diagnosis easier. Occasionally we'll have a problem where we cannot deploy to p

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