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by hitekker 7y ago
It sounds like Godwin is trying to distract public attention away from his selling-out of .org to a private equity corporation. https://domainnamewire.com/2020/01/15/vint-cerf-and-mike-god... https:/&#x
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by hitekker 7y ago
I predict the next Chief Architect will stall (or begin a rollback of) HHVM at Slack. Too much time wasted migrating onto a nigh-proprietary platform for a now ambiguous value proposition.
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by hitekker 7y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevron_Corporation#Environm... For context on this decision. Some people worship corporations, and we should remember that those people value paper dollars over human lives.
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by hitekker 7y ago
As the saying goes, "the fish rots from the head". Somewhere above the manager is an executive who has failed to perform leadership. Leadership, to be clear, is the process by which an individual influences a group towards a commo
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by hitekker 7y ago
Project management is the responsibility of a manager. Project “leadership” is the abdication of that responsibility to individual contributors. This antipattern typically begins with the engineer being "volun-told". The manager w
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by hitekker 7y ago
Do you have a link to thread in question?
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by hitekker 7y ago
dhouston dropped by a few months ago to correct an inept distortion of Andy Groves "High Output Management".
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by hitekker 7y ago
Yep, they're trying to save face.
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by hitekker 7y ago
I remember that one! The people who defended the practice in that thread were laughed out of the room, if I recall correctly.
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by hitekker 7y ago
> But you don't get to call someone out for being prejudiced when they are literally following the advice given to them by specialists who are trying to promote diversity and inclusion. "Just following orders" does not abs
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by hitekker 7y ago
Your first link actually shows Dan deciding that the flux-based "store" name should be changed to the JS-based "reducers". Any reason why Dan isn't contributing to your new special toolkit, by the way?
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by hitekker 7y ago
Thank you for the context, but I wouldn't defend yourself in this thread: you already have one person narrating your posting history, and another cursing at you (in seeming rage) for not oversharing. Who would have thought that, on H
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by hitekker 7y ago
I disagree. The article articulates a political problem, not an error in reasoning. These few scientists did not just choose a stable approach that later turned out to be wrong: they doubled-down, tripled-down on a shakey guess for decades
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by hitekker 7y ago
How about "Collusion" instead of "Cabal"? Wikipedia defines collusion as "a secret cooperation or deceitful agreement in order to deceive others, although not necessarily illegal". https://en.wikiped
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by hitekker 7y ago
Thank you. Another follow-up if you don't mind: have you and the others considering ranking Oxide's values separately, and then coming together to determine their hierarchy? It would help a candidate to know which values are more
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by hitekker 7y ago
An obituary that seems to have more journalistic integrity than the one the author objects to: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/mormon-...
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by hitekker 7y ago
A throwaway proclaims, without evidence, that their employer is a paragon of virtue and its victims are liars, miscreants, criminals etc. A predictable pattern.
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by hitekker 7y ago
Out of curiosity, what kind of research went into articulating Oxide’s culture?
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by hitekker 7y ago
> Custom negotiated options contract outside of industry norms I think you mean the GP wants options within industry norms, which are outside of a failing startup's shoestring budget. On a separate note, what are your thoughts on th
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by hitekker 7y ago
The top comment here rebutts this article from a business perspective: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21313816
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by hitekker 7y ago
> There's a larger group of not-so-harmless people than the givers who are driven by greed for free stuff and a sense of entitlement. We can call these the takers. Takers are generally abusive if their entitlement is challenged; bec
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by hitekker 7y ago
> the degree of isolation between different mindsets and disagreement (that was typically very amicable if it was acknowledged at all) is emblematic of the culture of the company A thoughtful perspective that is useful for my own underst
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by hitekker 7y ago
Your analysis of Cyc is insightful and resonates with my own experiences. Two general questions, if you don't mind: 1. How would you characterize the relationship between the politics and structure in your company? 2. Do feel that the
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by hitekker 7y ago
Agreed, the quoted passage is not a rant; it’s a cute joke. The GP probably skimmed the article and reacted too quickly.
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by hitekker 7y ago
Yesterday you proclaimed that the status quo of physics is free from "bad science", and today you're engaging in a character assassination against a well-renowned female physicist who is questioning the status quo. https:&#x
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by hitekker 7y ago
> Risk for the company isn't the same as risk for a mid level decision maker. Small fuckups carry the same penalty as huge fuckups. (you get fired) From my fake story, doing it in house has a relatively high chance of being a minor
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by hitekker 7y ago
Not an answer and yet somehow more than answer: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61611068?book_show_act...
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by hitekker 7y ago
> it's very misleading to equate the two and use is as a way to imply they lied last time around. Your belief that the GP thinks they lied may be rooted in your own biases than in her or his words.
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by hitekker 7y ago
> I'm totally out of the loop about what this drama is about, and I'll stay that way. Yes, you who claims not to want to know, and then spends time and effort writing vitriol about the subject you don't want to know about.
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by hitekker 7y ago
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/334399/summing-up-t... A supposedly neutral timeline of events.

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