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by nilkn 7y ago
I think it was being advanced as necessary but not sufficient. Certainly being technically competent does not qualify one for a management position. It requires an entirely new skillset to be developed and a shift in mindset that many devel
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by nilkn 7y ago
I'm not sure that's true [0]. "Nicotine causes catecholamine release both locally and systemically leading to an increase in heart rate, blood pressure and cardiac contractility. It reduces blood flow in cutaneous and coronar
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by nilkn 7y ago
I think it's more that Juul pods have a very high level of nicotine and are creating a new generation of addicts. Even if they don't end up dying of cancer, this is still potentially millions of lifetimes of addiction for society
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by nilkn 7y ago
In fairness, there's a difference between fraud and investors just not doing due diligence and being swept off their feet by a charismatic and manic hard-partying founder. Investors do need to be responsible for their choices. My under
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by nilkn 7y ago
For what it's worth, PureScript is much more complex than Elm. I see people recommend it, but I don't see people actually use it nearly as much as Elm (not that Elm is super widely used, of course). I do agree that the biggest thi
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by nilkn 7y ago
1:1s are not micromanagement at all. They're just a regular opportunity for you to have guaranteed, uninterrupted face time with your manager. I'd go further and say that a manager who can't spend even 30 minutes a week with
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by nilkn 7y ago
Kubernetes is for when you need to run thousands of containers on a large cluster and you want to be able to do it both locally (on-prem) and in the cloud. It's for cases where you already have operations staff who can manage it on-pre
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by nilkn 7y ago
There's a large gulf between the simplicity of the question and the difficulty of obtaining the answer. Whenever a simple question cannot be answered via any known simple method, it seems as if one has unexpectedly come up against some
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by nilkn 7y ago
Just based on only my own experiences and perception, the entire news apparatus of the United States seems to have underwent a rapid shift starting approximately in 2013. Outside of only a small handful of venerable institutions like The Ne
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by nilkn 7y ago
My partner and I have went on several trips where we spent a good chunk of time in the hotel room. For those skeptical, I recommend trying it before knocking it too hard. We decided to try it when we realized that whenever we traveled, we’d
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by nilkn 7y ago
For anyone looking for a metal card with fewer physical disadvantages than the Apple Card, you might consider an Amex Platinum. The card is very pretty, and mine has stayed in good condition after extended (and ordinary) usage. Of course, t
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by nilkn 7y ago
This isn't just about punishing people, though. In fact, to some degree it's not about that at all. It's ultimately about the company, not the individuals involved. It's about preserving stability and minimizing risk. Mo
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by nilkn 7y ago
I don't think I said anything about holding the company accountable for the irresponsible actions of two employees. Under question is whether the company should be concerned about romantic involvement within reporting relationships. Th
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by nilkn 7y ago
Moreover, people are rarely told they can't work together anymore because they're friends. But the potential fallout from a looming romantic breakup can be enough that HR may force an employee to switch departments (as happened in
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by nilkn 7y ago
Your two examples are not so compelling when set aside a third example, the example of the article, in which someone's life was significantly harmed as a result of an affair at work. Do you care only about companies, or do you care abo
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by nilkn 7y ago
Virtually nobody in the US gains any sort of fluency from high school instruction in any foreign language unless they supplement the class with their own study. We could discuss why, but that remains true either way. If there's anythin
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by nilkn 7y ago
It has as few as 63k speakers, native or otherwise. The language is barely spoken compared to languages of similar difficulty.
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by nilkn 7y ago
They probably could've learned Spanish to a degree of conversational fluency in the same time period, though. Esperanto has about 1,000 native speakers. Spanish has about 480 million. You can visit entire beautiful countries with fasci
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by nilkn 7y ago
It seems like a pretty decent card for most people with a number of privacy, security, and usability upgrades. I'd get it if I wasn't able to extract most of the benefits and rewards from my Amex Platinum. As it stands, it's
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by nilkn 7y ago
The above poster is saying that Trump shouldn't have been allowed to be president because he didn't win the popular vote. This means that, under the above poster's scheme, they wouldn't have any president fighting for th
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by nilkn 7y ago
So if he'd won the popular vote nationwide but lost it in CA you'd be okay with that? Moreover, while detention facilities have become more crowded under Trump, he certainly didn't invent them. The solution here is to underst
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by nilkn 7y ago
The president is the chief executive of the government, and the government is a union of state governments. The federal government itself was never intended to be all that powerful. Tyranny of the minority is not really a problem in the US
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by nilkn 7y ago
For (5), I'm pretty sure they not only foresaw it but specifically designed the system this way. This is why they created both the Senate and the House. CA has 53x as many representatives as Vermont.
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by nilkn 7y ago
Thinking about my own communication patterns, I wouldn't give my own boss a direct "no" to a question like that. I'd most likely give a brief explanation of what my focus and priorities are at the moment, and if I'm
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by nilkn 7y ago
As a manager, "could you please..." and "would you like to..." seem like quite different questions to me. The former fits in with your description; it's a direct request wrapped in deferential language. The second,
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by nilkn 7y ago
Some directors may have dozens, if not hundreds or even thousands, of people under them directly or indirectly. This rapidly grows beyond the scale where the director can jump in for anyone in the tree beneath them. Your comment probably ap
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by nilkn 7y ago
Can someone explain why Google seems to be such a hotbed for stuff like this? I ask this question in earnest. Perhaps this is just bias in what the media chooses to report, or perhaps the cross-section of news that I read fails to find othe
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by nilkn 7y ago
It's always been acceptable so long as it's directed at the right person. What's changed in the last 9 years is simply who can be targeted with such language. Twitter supports and publishes language like this on a mass scale
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by nilkn 7y ago
There are plenty of recent tweets from active accounts that use the same language and display the same hate towards present-day politicians. It's hard to imagine that Twitter is only selecting tweets like this based on language.
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by nilkn 7y ago
Management is a very high leverage activity, hiring good managers externally is really hard (harder than hiring developers), and my experience as a manager (and manager of managers) is most developers don't want to do it (your post is

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