stlHusker

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by stlHusker 7y ago
Given the nature of the system, when would she have been notified that she needed to take control? Additionally, what did Uber tell her about how the system operated? Ultimately it is on Uber for the lack of serious consideration. Rollin
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by stlHusker 7y ago
> Seriously, think about it. How can someone who isn't qualified to do your job, actually manage you? When put in a leadership position, above all "resist the urge to manage". I don't want a manager, I want someone wh
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by stlHusker 7y ago
It is the bullshit asymmetry principle: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it. As another person mentioned, DerbyCon got tired of dealing with it ( https://www.derbycon.
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by stlHusker 8y ago
> You’re being tricked by gurus of the mind to send your money to someone else. How this is legal represents a gap between traditional laws and modern times. Eh, this has existed for decades at a macro level in over-the-air television an
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by stlHusker 8y ago
"I'm left with opinion on those days that not much of anything has happened regarding X. But folks still need views!" In a strange way it validates how well off we are, particularly in the U.S., that outrage needs to be manuf
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by stlHusker 8y ago
There is a differentiation here in important to the company vs. important to the individual. As mentioned in other threads, as people mature they often begin to look for meaning in their work beyond pure compensation. As a software enginee
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by stlHusker 8y ago
Again, the op stated these things are put there to "show how people react to stress" -- my post was a response to that, there is no re-creation of a stressful environment in the situations I stated. "I know it's totally
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by stlHusker 8y ago
"Interviews are necessarily more stressful than typical work. That's not just a property of whiteboard coding." My sister, a pediatric ER nurse would disagree with you. The interviews are largely behavioral and are a breeze.
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by stlHusker 8y ago
I agree but have a bit different take... "For instance, machine learning is now widely used for surveillance and advertising in ways that violate basic presumptions about privacy rights." Those same mathematical techniques are als
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by stlHusker 8y ago
What are the limits of culpability and what are you responsible for? The article is pushing that definition beyond the first order effects of safety. And the proposed solution is that gate keeping is done by the press and the public. How
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by stlHusker 8y ago
And yet that is not even close to the hand-wringing being discussed in the article: "In my first ever AI class, we learned about how a system had been developed to automate something that had previously been a person’s job. Everyone sa
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by stlHusker 8y ago
"If Boeing and Airbus weren't artificially inflating administrative barriers to entry we'd definitely have more competition, and consumers would benefit, not suffer." From the article: "For Bombardier, development o
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by stlHusker 9y ago
So, make city living even more expensive?
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by stlHusker 9y ago
"Very few of the lessons my parents taught me apply in the corporate world. Be honest and straight with people, assume good intent, take responsibility, etc." "All that behavior will do is paint you as naive. Sure there'
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by stlHusker 9y ago
"Third level of safety: optional part-time work." Don't you find it hilarious that a blog on financial independence tries to talk about safety nets vs. risks and devolves to: Well, sh*t just get a job I guess, but call it op
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by stlHusker 9y ago
From my own experience, most people have not. I work in aerospace and there are a large number of employees with 30+ years tenure who are of retirement age who need to stick around because of the quality and cost of the health insurance co
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by stlHusker 9y ago
You can't claim to be financially independent and come back two years later with this gem: "The secret is that my wife is no longer really retired, and in fact she started a business that is now big enough to FUND OUR ENTIRE FAMIL
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by stlHusker 9y ago
I really hope that more people would look at it that way. Just my own personal experience, but I've honestly seen the trial-by-fire method used either at the sole exclusion of, or weighted more heavily than actually talking to the cand
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by stlHusker 9y ago
People have been using this tactic for ages, whether it be for political, professional or personal gains. The software engineer who is rewarded for putting out the fires, when in reality they are a serial arsonist... Modern progressivism (
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by stlHusker 9y ago
In assessing the current poisonous political environment with respect to all parties... “It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault.
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by stlHusker 9y ago
From the long view, no. Regimes that use pain as control inevitably break as at a certain point, people will no longer willing give that up. This is history. Walk down to a local AA meeting and see people who at some point willingly made
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by stlHusker 9y ago
"I just struggle with understanding what's wrong with people these days." On one hand, it is fundamental human nature (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World#Comparisons_wi... ). On the other h
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by stlHusker 9y ago
Bull. The question as-is ("How do you create a memory leak in java?") is poorly constructed and will, a significant portion of time, lead down the wrong path when interviewing. Both you and the interviewee have to make assumption
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by stlHusker 9y ago
"That is, in a Darwinian way, clearly the product survived WITHOUT implementing the changes someone thought it needed." ...and this is one reason that many business die, the assumption that past performance is indicative of future
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by stlHusker 10y ago
"I've heard from multiple people that I'm the nicest and most patient person they've ever met. I don't know where I went wrong. I used to be intelligent." I can certainly identify with those feelings. So much
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by stlHusker 11y ago
The elephant in the room is how do you measure fairness? We devolve into measuring the end results in terms of equality which ultimately provide a negative feedback loop and move the conversation and solutions into trying to make things eq
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by stlHusker 11y ago
"Do I enjoy decomposing problems into detailed lists of instructions? Am I good at abstract conceptual thinking? Am I comfortable being a digital construction worker?" It is funny that these three questions appear one after the
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by stlHusker 11y ago
Sounds like you might be suffering from "imposter syndrome". A good number of high functioning, highly productive people who really care about their work suffer from this. It's normal and once you learn to control is, it ca