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by jmilloy 11y ago
In the very rare case that there is a clearly defined Problem which has been presented to from Above, which you can work on in isolation, and which you should prioritize to the exclusion of all else, then sure, distracting them will cause t
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No, I'm not saying that you should accept someone else's valuation of your contribution. Instead, I am questioning this particular person's valuation because, like those of so many other employees, it is too narrow. If you do
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It's good to be explicit like this. Probably we agree more than I realized, because what I'm trying to get at is that so many of these blog posts complaining about open offices use the wrong P by focusing on a subset what they pro
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I'm only saying that when engineers discuss how they are affected by their work environment, they should keep perspective on the actual value they provide to their employer, which is not equivalent to what and how much they produce on
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You're right, it is self-evident to me that group productivity is not the aggregate of individual productivity. We have companies and teams for a reason. Secondly, the goal of a company is rarely to maximize aggregate employee produc
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In fact, what I wrote is exactly the opposite of that.
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The one thing that kept blaring out at me to be addressed was that your daily productivity doesn't matter . The incentive here is to make the company as productive as possible over the long term (relative to costs). This is touched up
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The 385 day year is mentioned. What about hours in a day? Do we know that?
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I think it's easy to feel a lot of pressure at the beginning to know everything and to be productive right from the start. Hopefully this isn't necessary. Everyone will expect you to need to be familiarize yourself with the tools
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There we go!
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Now you are saying that we can't regulate corporate spending because can't regulate a non-corporate groups spending. It's like saying we can't stop kids from buying alcohol because we can't stop adults from buying
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> who do you sue? This is very strange to me. You sue Comcast, the corporation, of course. There's nothing inherent to the label "people" that allows people to own property or have accounts, nor anything inherent to the la
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As others are noting, I suspect you could accurately trim that down to "Pursuits may buffer the brain against addiction." When all you're thinking about is the next bike ride you're going to go on, or how your homebrew c
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I find this to be a strange comment. Quadratic voting is much better if we have to reach a consensus and want to protect minorities. So it has it's application (and is woefully under-used). But surely it's not always the best meth
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You could replace p/n in the formula with the average star rating and still get a reasonable ranking order.
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Criticker does this well. But as you say, I try not to waste time watching movies I don't think I will like, so there is a good reason my ratings are biased towards the high end.
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How Not to Sort by Average Rating (2009)(evanmiller.org)
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I agree that Google's help services are lacking. I never got my account back years ago. But this sounds fishy to me. It's equally likely that you are trying to hack someone else's account as trying to recover your own. Ther
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I think they summarise their arguments themselves. For example "Although the policy arguments for extending marriage to same-sex couples may be compelling, the legal arguments for requiring such an extension are not. The fundamental r
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Presumably, the labels are responsible, not Apple. Apple represents Apple's interests, while the labels are supposed to represent the artists'. Though in practice, the labels probably represent their own. So, presumably, the lab
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I noticed the opposite in this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE3fmFTtP9g Which is to say, it looks more natural and more balanced with the legs out of sync.
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I can't help but imagine a time when, instead of smartphones or wearables, it's not uncommon to have a little drone that flies around after you.
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I think this is, happily, becoming a myth. The transparency of the internet and the ease of owner to owner sales is making the used-car market more efficient. It is easier now for consumers to know the value of a vehicle. If you are treated
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Your only argument seems to be that people should be allowed to do/have things that they like. I don't think this a very strong argument. We can come up a long list of things that people like(d) are no longer allowed because they
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I could be wrong about this, but I think it is referring to a specific review of a Tesla test-drive from a few years back. It doesn't seem quite so contrived with that in mind, and the point is also more clear.
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Fairness is definitely not relevant here. But, an interview technique can be useful for a company or not. Asking candidates to write code on the spot isn't inherently useful or not useful. Assessing a candidates typos and compiler er
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It makes testing for this behavior important, and it sounds like the OP exhibited just this behavior, doesn't realize it, and blames the interview technique despite it ascertaining exactly what it needed to.
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The important mistakes that the author here made were assuming the interviewer wanted him to work quickly, without looking anything up, without asking for clarification, and without collaboration. The author seems to still be making this mi
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I broke my version of this cycle by doing things that I knew I would struggle at. I think it's emotionally valuable to be out of your comfort zone and "fail". Taking up another hobby is a good idea, but if it is just somethin

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