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961.
by wott 10y ago
Don't give orders to other people when in fact you just present a list of things that work for you (at the moment). There's nothing universal in those advices, it just fits you (at the moment).
962.
by wott 10y ago
I take you are an extrovert who really doesn't understand at all what it means to be introvert (and who probably doesn't understand any other people with any different psychology than yours, according to your words and tone). &quo
963.
by wott 10y ago
No, it is about creating problems to sell a solution.
964.
by wott 10y ago
The so-called "social" "skills" that a lot of people praise in these circles and in business environment are the opposite of empathy.
965.
by wott 10y ago
I don't believe his 'sorry' message for a second. Way too dramatical. Or I could be wrong and the brother is the city thug #1 :-)
966.
by wott 10y ago
In my experience: * there were quite many who understood that engineering jobs would not be for them and who became teachers as their first job. * another lot were those who had no interest in engineering, they only happened to end up in en
967.
by wott 10y ago
> The primary reason for the median age in Google and Facebook being so low is that the median age for programmers is low [1]. Er... you're quoting Stack Overflow study which only tells about the median age of people who voluntar
968.
by wott 10y ago
I hope the ruff comes back!
969.
by wott 10y ago
He didn't write anything like this.
970.
by wott 10y ago
When I was younger, I had a co-worker who was quite older than others. I must confess I fell from my chair when I saw him going to his editor menu to perform a copy-paste. He did not know about the most known shortcut ever. But I kept that
971.
by wott 10y ago
Yeah, I was occasionally told I was outdated, out of touch with technology, and other such qualifiers because I did not own a smartphone. I've designed some of the bloody devices, for God's sake! I just don't want any becau
972.
by wott 10y ago
And what you mention is just a multiplication of posting of the same job post. But there is also the case that more and more work is subcontracted. So you can find posts that are slightly different but all refer to the same job position: 1
973.
by wott 10y ago
With a phone in the other hand...
974.
by wott 10y ago
Well, now we are forced to be lenient, because half of engineers and other highly educated individuals who come out of school nowadays cannot write a single sentence without at least one fault :-( Yeah, it sounds like I worship the good ol
975.
by wott 10y ago
Bah, I could tell the exact same stories about middle Europe and northern Europe.
976.
by wott 10y ago
I don't understand either, I am not American. Perhaps their water is swimming-pool ready and not human consumption ready as in civilised countries? Everyone has his own priorities.
977.
by wott 10y ago
> Something about how anger makes a deeper mark in your memory than joy does. Uh? I thought that for most people, bad memories fade away and only good ones remain. And that's what I observed around me as well (I noted it because I s
978.
by wott 10y ago
I didn't know it was attributed to someone (or many ones). I always thought it was a common reflection almost everyone develops after seeing a few of those natural paths compared to the officially built paths.
979.
by wott 10y ago
> What exactly do they lose by doing this? A huge amount of time/energy/money wasted in interviewing way too many people in a way too deep recruiting process.
980.
by wott 10y ago
Wrong title. He was rejected.
981.
by wott 10y ago
Yeah. In my west European country, Tesla represents about 3% of the EV market and... 0.03% of the whole market! This, despite electric vehicles being heavily subsidised (which infuriates me because the equivalent of a whole year of minimal
982.
by wott 10y ago
You can all other manufacturers and in the end, you have the choice between a metallic grey car and a metallic grey car. Or, for the last 2 or 3 years, a white car or a black car. With the same shapes. Yippee! Variety, originality, Hosanna!
983.
by wott 10y ago
Flexible? In these days where unemployment rules, companies will reject your application if you have not 5 years of experience with the exact complete toolchain they use. Doesn't matter if you have been working 15 years in the same i
984.
by wott 10y ago
That's a different concern: a single lawyer is one lawyer too many.
985.
by wott 10y ago
Not always at all. Also often, the forerunner disappears when other companies jump in at a later, proven, profitable stage of the technology, when both technology and the market are ready for mass production.
986.
by wott 10y ago
> Whatever happened to making a grocery list before you leave? It stayed on the table where you carefully put it in-order-not-to-forget-it, as usual ;-)
987.
by wott 10y ago
Not at all a morning person either, but I think I could adapt: since I know that I can nap in the early afternoon, most of the stress of waking up without having slept enough is gone (one might take it as a split sleep in some case), that&#
988.
by wott 10y ago
What's a promotion? Is it a progression in job titles rank like Americans seem to fancy (junior/senior, engineer I/II/III, etc.)? Because their was no such thing in the 2 countries were I worked.
989.
by wott 10y ago
> Not storing important things in the 'cloud' is surely a bigger problem. Every heard of off-site backups? Yes, those are external hard-drives that are moved to a different location, and which can be restored in a matter of m
990.
by wott 10y ago
Most of the stuff on which we engineers work ends up in the bin anyway. This is just more spectacular than some manager showing up one day to announce that this XXX M$ project, the one you and many others spent your last 2 years regularly o

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