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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Well then, then that sounds like a pretty valuable skill that should be given greater focus during performance reviews, doesn't it? Rather, being a very rational person instead of being pissed off by arguments, is a skill that sho
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Being opposed should be encouraged even if it's just a way to internally test ideas; being obnoxious should be discouraged. The lines between "opposed" and "obnoxious" are very blurry and depend a lot on whethe
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> You can argue against things without pissing people off in the process. This requires lots of political skills that only few people have.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Good news: There are people who are neither. I prefer to work for competent non-jerks. A team of good people will always outperform a brilliant jerk that drives everyone else away. I prefer to work with brilliant people and love to lea
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> > Stay in your job for 15 years because you like the people, the work itself or some particular perk? When you finally leave, your next job will pay less than if you had hopped around each 2 years. That's if someone wants to h
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> I am frequently surprised by how lacking many technical professionals are in EQ/soft skills/civility -often I observe people who apparently believe that their skill is such that they don’t need to treat their peers with respe
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Europlug and the (spiritual) advancement in the form of the Swiss SEV 1011 plug. Europlug has no protective ground wire.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
Thanks for the clarification. This all reminds me of Poe's law > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Poe%27s_law&oldid... "[W]ithout a clear indicator of the author's intent, it is impossib
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by wolfgke 7y ago
Use Incognito Mode.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> It's funny. Last night I was just reading the chapter in Taleb's "Antifragile" where he argues the same thing as the author of this paper, i.e. that tinkering is at the root of most technological innovations, wherea
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Oh man. I don't know what to say. In the process of trying to bust myths, this confirmed every practical concern that the "myths" actually express. I think this is part of the joke.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> This is the offshoring holy grail. Let’s be honest here please, exactly the same structures and cultures that allow effective remote work also enables continued and increased offshoring. The (microeconomic) problem with offshoring is t
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Cost of living is cheaper, so you'll just accept less money and let the company keep it? Let's rather put it this way: the company saves money; if they give some amount of the savings back to the employee (via salary), both s
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> The problem is more pay gap with industry. Even though they tend to pay well by academic standards (e.g. no PhD required, yet pay is much higher than a senior postdoc), the salary is still way below what industry in London or Oxbridge
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by wolfgke 7y ago
Just a consideration: I don't believe that remote is so much more productive. The central advantage that I see is that in other regions than the Bay Area, the costs of living are much cheaper. Since for the employee, the central metr
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Biking is for liberals and not needing a car is socialism... Regulating that to drive a car, you need a driver's license is dictatorship. Building cities so that you need a car is enslaving the public to the car industry.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
MIPCL ( http://www.mipcl-cpp.appspot.com/ ) is a very fast and free (as beer, but not open source) solver for (Mixed-)Integer Linear Programs ((M)ILPs). EDIT: In Hans Mittelman's benchmark of MILP solvers ( http:/&#
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by wolfgke 7y ago
Don't forget sci-hub, too.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
This game is also contained in the ZACH-LIKE collection: > https://store.steampowered.com/app/1098840/ZACHLIKE/ (hint: it is free (as beer) ;-) ).
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Okay, but as much as we believe profitable companies are run by idiots, they arent. Rather: many customers are idiots, too.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Maybe its time to change definitions or terms. You should not change definitions/terms, but rather introduce new definitions/terms if you want to express something different.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> And yes, it's hard to recruit people with the right skillsets to support legacy hardware and software. Perhaps you should not fire them, then.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> NASA exists to be the civilian side of the US’s aerospace ventures. The military side is the Air Force. Not the Space Force? > https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/briannasacks/trump-spac... ;-)
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by wolfgke 7y ago
Try it out. :-)
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> why are people inclined to believe in conspiracies also happen to be hoarders? Because they are prepare themselves for the scenarios that they believe might happen and will be uncomfortable for them. You cannot mitigate against all con
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> There's something upsetting about that combination of traits, don't you think? "Millionaire hackers" should be using their influence and money to try to avert a doomsday scenario if they believe it's likely. No
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> In the last few years I have become increasingly aware of a trend where we wonder if successful people with blatant signs of being an idiot are in fact geniuses. [...] > I’m curious if this is Protestant work ethic fallacies in Amer
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by wolfgke 7y ago
Relevant: Blue and Orange Morality > https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlueAndOrangeMor...
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Because these days "IT Systems Manager" are expected to know basics of coding. LeetCode questions test for other things than "basics of coding".
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> I don't think $100 can really be considered a major roadblock to any technology professional capable of doing a standardized implementation... The problem is: the time when people learn most about programming is as students when

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