tfp137

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by tfp137 4y ago
If he was fired on paternity leave, the credited play is to say nothing. This is potentially a beautiful lawsuit and the last thing you want to do is lose ground on something you said on the internet.
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by tfp137 4y ago
The dual-ladder system exists to fix something that is broken but ends up breaking it more. In essence, there's the E9/O1 problem. An elite engineer with 25 years of experience simply knows more than an entry-level manager. Organi
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by tfp137 4y ago
> If you have a team, you need to "justify" their existence. Is not enough to keep the lights on or slowly polish the product, you need grand roadmaps to keep yourself busy the next year or two. Ideally you want to justify that
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by tfp137 4y ago
Whether or not it's "toxic masculinity", the internal lingo around performance reviews at Google is lulzy. It's called "perfing" (as in, if you do something bad, you might get "perfed hard" next cycle
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by tfp137 4y ago
I thought it would be Clojure, but that was 10 years ago and Python is still (inexplicably?) dominant.
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by tfp137 5y ago
Is this "scroll fatigue" a problem with algorithms, though? I remember the days of boredom with cable TV: 96 channels, "nothing on". Well, it wasn't that there was a lack of quality programming— I mean, modulo Sturg
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by tfp137 5y ago
I agree. That said, I think the "your grandma" line should be retired. 1. It's problematic. Why are we assuming that an old woman can't also be a badass programmer? Plenty of CS luminaries (a) were women, and (b) had kid
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by tfp137 5y ago
It was pretty obvious that some authors didn't really know what they were talking about. They knew enough to write something, but there were always a lot of mistakes. This is why I'd be very hesitant to self-publish a technical
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by tfp137 5y ago
Self-publishing has always been an option for authors. Some publishing houses offer you resources to publish your work. You simply pay them and they review and print your book. It seems to be a fair arrangement. However, after five minutes
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by tfp137 5y ago
I think the poor quality of the U.S. housing stock reflects the long-term shabbiness of our mandatory nomadic character. We move for the jobs, we set up shacks by the gold mines, but we never develop roots and, for the most part, we never g
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by tfp137 5y ago
This. I was going to write out my own list, but you covered everything I wanted to say. I would counter that most companies can't attract or retain talent because they don't really want it. Most of the work that needs to be done i
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by tfp137 5y ago
The "other side of the world" wars are mostly fought by the young, because they haven't developed enough skepticism to ask whether what they're being asked to do benefits the country as a whole, or only certain actors an