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Joined just to respond as I have some experience in this area.

I went from engineer, to engineering manager, to engineering director and had a similar conversation with my boss who is an Exec VP.

It's not clear whether he's responding to how you talk to your team or how you talk to him, or both.

If the latter there a few things to consider. You need to come to your boss with several possible solutions to your problems when you bring your problems to him. Let him advise you and give you ideas you haven't thought of, but he's not going to want to just solve all your problems. He has plenty problems of his own. He hired you to make decisions at a lower level.

You should bounce your instincts off of him and let him course correct you. Tell him how you're approaching solving the underlying causes of problems, not just addressing symptoms.

Be careful what your bring to him and how you talk about your problems. When you say 'fire' to an exec, they think you mean a forest fire, not a camp fire and they'll act with a heavy hand and get upset with you if they end up over reacting. The exec's wagons include artillery and nukes, not small arms. My mentor used to say 'Executive exposure can be good... But you can die from exposure'.

Talk about engineering risk, milestones, long term plans, etc. He wants to know you've considered the risks and have mitigation strategies. He wants to know that you know what things will cost. He wants to know what your effort estimates are. He wants to know that you've done due diligence in procurements and hiring to prove you need what you say you need.

He doesn't want to know who is doing what or what isn't working well, unless you need him to solve the problem with a nuke. If something isn't working, come up with new ideas.

If he's referring to how you address your team, you need to not help people solve their immediate problem by only talking with them about how to address the problem at hand.

You need to talk to them about expectations, habits, and behaviors. You need to have accountability conversations.

I had a training course from the folks that wrote 'Crucial Accountability' in how to have these conversations. It is incredibly effective. I highly recommend this approach.

You need to assess operational execution and develop procedures to improve it rather than just fighting fires. You need to help them be better, correct, rebuild, stay out of trouble in the future.

For operational leadership the book 'The Phoenix Project' really helped me develop a strategy.

A great book for personnel leadership that I used is 'First break all the rules'. It will help you cultivate talent in employees.

Develop a leadership philosophy of your own that you believe in and use it in your conversations with your teams. A great resource is the book 'One Piece of Paper'.

I hope these help.
Government must have consent of the governed
The author blurb at the end of this brilliant piece simply says "Vikram Chandra: Writer, programmer, teacher." It wasn't until I clicked through to the linked website[0] that I realized that this was THE Vikram Chandra. His novels Sacred Games and Red Earth And Pouring Rain are very highly recommended. He also has a non-fiction book, Geek Sublime that seems somewhat related to this article.

0: http://www.vikramchandra.com/
The article states that the provinces have a material reason to inflate. The provincial governments are far stronger than people routinely seem to understand, we're obsessed by the strong statist arguments of 'scary China' and don't think about their internal structure and where strength and weakness lies.

I believe Chinese central planners don't like misleading numbers, it makes the five year plan much harder to design. The Chinese technocrats wouldn't like this situation any more than western investment does.
Cool - I’d like to talk about your design and how you arrived at it if you’re interested.
Market share and data. I actually think the market share angle is far less important because the switching costs from the perspective of the rider are very low.
Don't take a word I say "on authority".

Read the license. Read what others say about it. Read about the law. Apply your mind.
and once you've validated a value your code immediately forgets what type it is.
I like the idea of the project, but I'm curious.

Why would you need a self-hosted (or really, any other push-notif service) other than the official one from Apple/Goggle?

They're optimized (for each respective platform), no need to maintain a server, and free. If you need "cross-platform", you can use Firebase(?) that abstracts that away.
I read this title as being the news network first which was much more interesting :)
That’s the same link as the one in the comment I replied to.
Seems like the problem here is that the various safety nets don't extend to such people in the first place. It would also probably go a long ways to curbing the "employ ten people for 4 hours a week each" strategy we see used to avoid similar obligations.
Is it possible that all the uber-style transport in a single city could be self-driving in the next 10 years? What would you say the probability of this happening would be?
GDP is a number. I have relatives in China, and I visit China every year. I would say the average people in China live a better life than average Americans do here, and it's still constantly improving. Then, why don't I go back to China? My kids are getting education here, and they can not catch up back in China.
Privacy? Keep in mind that not everyone intends to build a user-supporting platform on this tech. I like the concept because it's an easy way for me to push notifications from my homebrew IoT stuff and news streams without it flowing through ad companies.
Yes. When a client hires a developer, he cares that he receives a proper delivery and he cares that all of the decisions related to that delivery were made in his best interests. Technology choices are an important part of building a technical vision for a company and planning for software maintenance. People may not seem to care much, but that's only because they are trusting the people they hire to care and to know better than they do. When there are any questions on technology, clients appreciate and value unbiased discussion on those choices, in the context of their business. An important part of having clients, perhaps the most important, is establishing trust and one does that with success, but also a record of transparent, appropriate project decisions.
Missed it due to being cut off on mobile. My apologies.
It's mildly misleading to say Erlang was the special sauce, language specifications and runtime are so often conflated. It's really BEAM VM that's special. There's not many other examples like BEAM languages that you could have a meaningful post either. Most languages are developer preference, and simply make some things easier than others. It didn't take me too long to get over "language churn", after finding there wasn't much for language innovation happening. Today I'm a fan of spaces like Java and C#. The languages are fine, but it's everything else that makes them so great.
Even the relatively expensive Motorola 68k chips didn't have built-in floating point until the 68040 in 1990.
> The choice between untenably-expensive benefits as a contractor or untenably-unaffordable benefits as an unemployed person is no choice at all--especially for people with health problems/children/debt.

It appears that lots of people choose to drive for Lyft knowing they won't get those benefits. Why ignore their choice? If they're choosing to do it and Lyft can't give them the same opportunity along with the benefits it's effectively saying they shouldn't have any opportunity for work until they have the perfect opportunity. I'm not convinced that it's better for someone to starve than to have the opportunity to drive for Lyft.

The people choosing to drive for Lyft do so over all other work opportunities. If there was something equally good that also provided health benefits, then Lyft wouldn't have any drivers as everyone would pick that better alternative. Given there's not a better alternative, why pick on Lyft? They're the most appealing opportunity for work for lots of people.
Given the season, I'd been thinking of an ice house. But I suppose that one could fill them with concrete, and stack them. Maybe scatter some small rocks between layers, so they deform and ~interlock. And maybe even punch some rebar through them.

But you'd need to cover the outside, to slow weathering. And stuff doesn't stick well to polyethylene. Gorilla glue does, so you could add a layer of foam, and then siding.

I suspect that getting a construction permit would be iffy, though.
Consider that Fannie and Freddie were allowed not to provide detailed financials to congress for several years in a row preceding the 2008 housing collapse.

It's not a matter of "oh wow, a major government fudges numbers", it's "how many major ways in which my government fudges numbers might I not be aware of?"
much of it goes to individuals who collect and sort the materials and bring them to recycling centers for a cash reward.

a lot of times, these individuals collect the materials from big blue bins consumers have carefully filled and placed at the curbside near their residences.

another place the money goes is to people in Arizona who gather plastics in that state and truck it across the border to cash in on California's generous recycling rewards program.
The winds of exaggeration blow still. [1]

[1] https://foreignpolicy.com/2009/03/10/beijings-gdp-numerology...
Alas I don't know the internals of it, I'm as far from the HR department as it can be. But here's what I've noticed:

- regular performance feedback, not only from the bosses, but from the peers as well. First, it gives you a good understanding of internal connections and relations. Second, it makes much harder for some bad mid-level boss to say "this guy has always been a loser": it had to be backed up by the historical evidence.

- internal mobility is explicitly encouraged. Bosses know that having a one of your guys in another department improves your communication network and makes dealing with that department much easier.
I thought the same thing. And they never seem to come to the realization that maybe a lot of their employees are underpaid. No, it's just the ones with stories that go best with violin music playing in the background.

And one of the most delusional CEOs was the Hooters guy. He was talking about how he would be perfectly fine with his daughter working at Hooters. Then the manager where he was undercover was found to be a total pig. Making the waitresses compete for time off by eating canned beans with their hands behind their backs. He also talked about "inspecting" the "product" on a daily basis to make sure the customers stay happy. It was a gross display of abuse.

Of course, he didn't even fire the manager later. Had this episode not been 10 years ago, I think #metoo would have had both the manager and the CEO fired within a week of the episode airing.
I place an immense focus on US law. It's the only law I'm qualified to practice.

We were able to incorporate indirect feedback from very competent UK counsel. Not as much as I'd like. For example, the inclusion of "condition" in No Liability makes no sense under US law, but reflects a technical distinction in some UK jurisdictions.

I'd like to draw in more input from counsel elsewhere, which is part of the reason we published versioned 1.0.0 from the get-go.
This is talking about freedom of speech. Most of these other nations don’t even allow you to carry a firearm
One easy way to measure GDP is count their new large truck sales. That number is hard to game.
> We would all contribute to the payment of expensive operations via taxes in a single payer system.

That's just insurance, managed by the state.

> But with single payer, we cut out companies in the middle pulling a heafty profit

Oh boy. Lets say I concede, for the sake of argument, that government can run a private business with the same efficiency, and that the profits it would make as private are given back to its consumers (healthcare.gov cost almost 2 billion dollars to make, remember that. Or Blue shield is actually a non-profit, and its not gobbling up the space by reinvesting its supposed profits).

To add to that, the profits of healthcare insurances companies are not that large: they have a 6% operating margin, lower than other insurance companies. Cumulatively, the big companies must have around 20~30 billion dollars a year in profits. It's a staggering number, but in the healthspace thats nothing: only the subsidy of tax-exemption for insurance benefits is estimated to be 260 billion a year. You could eliminate that benefit and expand medicaid: but that would help the poor, and wreck the rich and the middle class together, which is often politically unfeasible.

https://www.axios.com/profits-are-booming-at-health-insuranc...

https://www.verywellhealth.com/health-insurance-companies-un...
> But if you’re being given orders by an inhuman system, you deserve at least some of the protections employees receive against inhumane employers.

Why? If there were better options out there then Lyft wouldn't have any drivers. Lyft has over one million drivers, which means that for those people there weren't any better opportunities. Lyft isn't profitable even at that lower level without benefits or the extra protections you're arguing for, but still over a million people choose to drive for them. Why take away the best opportunity those people have? Why not put the blame on literally every other company out there, because they all failed these Lyft drivers, leaving Lyft as their best work opportunity.
IANAL, but I see two different things going on:

1) if you want to use their logo for the purpose of marketing to eventually/indirectly bring income to your project, that seems like a trademark no-no. With that said, just as I could get away with tweeting "Starbucks messed up my order" and not be sued, you could probably write "This project is used by X, Y and Z", since you're just stating a fact. In any case, I don't see any good reason to sue, because a) they have to spend money mounting a convincing case b) they risk you simply not paying or not getting enough to even cover legal fees. Not to mention they would also risk you relicensing and forbidding them to use your project altogether. So suing seems like a lose-lose proposition. (but, again, IANAL, so take this w/ a grain of salt)

2) if you want this company to pay for your work, then you could ask for their sponsorship, or you could just not prioritize their requests. You have no obligation to cater to them.
> The physical infrastructure is what makes everything on top of it possible, and at the same time it is one of the most expensive pieces to build, upgrade, and maintain. There needs to be adequate returns on investment in the infrastructure, and that's hard to do in the unbundled model.

Why is it hard? You charge a price that reflects the cost of building the infrastructure. 200Mbps service can have a higher price than 50Mbps service, providing an incentive to build the capacity necessary to offer it. Which is still true even if the price for the faster service falls to approach the price for the slower service as upgrade cost is paid off. And then there is another upgrade and 1000Mbps service becomes the more expensive one compared to the now more affordable 200Mbps etc.

> Consider trains. Trains create value for people using the train to get around, but also value for the real estate by the train station. If you only let the train company recover from the rider, you won't incentives that reflect the true value of investing in the train.

You're essentially arguing against there being efficient Coasian bargaining. But the arguments against it are usually related to transaction costs, which don't seem to help you here. If Comcast can't charge anything to Netflix and as a result Netflix service is slightly less expensive to the user and internet service is slightly more expensive to the user, the user is not engaging in any new transactions and the net to the user is approximately zero. Moreover, then there is no transaction happening between Comcast and Netflix, which reduces the overall number of transactions that have to occur.
Monoids and Differential Dataflow
this is awesome tyvm!
I’d still prefer the state over private insurance companies (Medicare is well run and popular).

As Steve Jobs said about Dropbox, you’re a feature (insurance companies) not a product.
> Perhaps this view might go mainstream with the looming recession?

Nobody, including Beijing, took China’s official statistics at face value. What’s novel in this work is the larger-than-expected magnitude of the error.
Imposter Syndrome Among Software Developers
Police get search warrant for everyone who Googled Edina resident's name
Economists have also predicted 5 Chinese recessions, and 4 American ones in the past decade.

That the bubble will pop isn't very interesting. When, is.
> Fannie and Freddie were allowed not to submit financials to markets for several years in a row preceding the 2008 housing collapse

Source?

I’m searching and can’t find one. I also remember reading Fannie & Freddie prospectuses from that time. Each contained extensive financial disclosures.
It means there are things the US healthcare provides that universals systems don't, and in a practical way that affects people, not purely in the world of ideas.

The great folly of the world universal is that it implies everything would be available, and its a step in the opposite direction: a set of things will be made available, and the things that aren't will be delivered by the private market. Private care is still a thing in most universal care countries. And even with private and public, us still produces something for people that could get free treatment.
> Gender politics can be fun like that.

No, only strawman made-up gender politics is like that.
Tapes sitting on a shelf is the classic solution.
>Make the information obsolete.

You can't be serious. "Make private information public" is an absurd reaction to what is a clearly offensive operation.
How Heavy Is a Neutrino?
The funny paradox of argumenting people are stupid is that inevitably you will be put in the same category.
That’s exactly what I’m seeing. A price with an asterisk, and below the fold, “Prices above include potential incentives and gas savings.”

So, it’s not just “like” they are doing it, they are doing it.
Aggressive idea execution
Keep in mind that being a manager is a different career. You’ll have different objectives and need different skills.
In my opinion, if you can't afford the $20k, you can't afford the kid. In my ideal healthcare system, you'd have to put up a bond to prove financial means before being allowed to have kids.
> Because governments dont spend nearly as much as private investment into the medical field...

Are you not aware of how much fundamental drug and medical research is actually conducted on the taxpayer's dime at the university level, and then exclusively licensed to private enterprise for commercial exploitation?

I've seen a number of sources make a compelling case that "big pharma"'s number one line item is marketing, not research.
My current world view is that socialism implemented via central authority ruling over a very large group (i.e. socialistic government of USSR) is not working, because personal relationships connections are broken when helping each other is outsourced to some abstract entity. It is that entity being praised and hated when someone gets help or someone doesn't. The fact that it is neighbors, other region people, etc actually are involved in that is lost. No longer you can shame your neighbor for not helping a neighbor, or when they help - they get no word of appreciation. It is all abstracted away behind "They" - "why They did not fix roads?", "They healed my child from cancer", "They produced enormous GDP". This is the opposite of "my neighbor took my wife to the hospital when her waters broke and my car broke too", "our neighborhood resurfaced our road".

In fact... The same thoughts probably apply to most modern and developed countries, as most of them has a significant amount of socialistic elements already...
Please finish that story! It sounds really good, reminds me of a Black Mirror episode.
[disclaimer: I haven’t been a people manager for too long, so take it with a grain of salt]

I block off some time each day to do ‘something technical’. Sometimes it’s making something pretty that was ugly before. Sometimes it’s learning a new tool my team is considering to pick up. Generally these are things that are important, but not urgent.

For larger projects, I often attend the design reviews. Sometimes I help on the designs, especially if it’s a new product altogether.

All managers on our team are also required to participate in the on-call rotation.

Between those three, I feel like I am still “in the trenches” enough to not forget what it’s like.
There is a chicken-and-egg problem with any new license, especially when the new terms aren't written for a specific, important release. But there's no improving the situation for future projects without new terms.

For what it's worth, Blue Oak Council didn't set out to write a model license. That fell out of our effort to compile a list of permissive licenses:

https://blueoakcouncil.org/list

https://blueoakcouncil.org/2019/03/06/model.html

That list was compiled in accordance with our mission, as 20% solution to cover 80% of needs for organizations, especially nonprofits, that can't find or afford specialist licensing counsel. Our list is also published as JSON data, for ready inclusion in automated compliance tooling:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@blueoak/list

Everyone involved in Blue Oak so far also has programming experience, and many of us have contributed to standards and software for compliance. For example, I contributed documentation clarifications and validation code for license metadata in RubyGems and npm, and maintain a command-line utility for automated license audit of npm-based projects. Blue Oak's license list leverages SPDX license identifiers, same as many package metadata specifications.

> I think there is a lot to be said for the long length of time it has stood and the general consensus on it's intentions.

I wish that were enough. Unfortunately, it's not.

There is a serious debate ongoing right now around the patent coverage of the old academic forms, and what that says about what "open source" means. Compare:

http://stlr.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Kappos-Ha...

http://stlr.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/03/Lindberg....

> I think I'd actually feel more at risk using Blue Oak just because of the lack of commentary and consensus on it's terms.

That's natural and understandable. There will be early adopters and wait-and-see kinds of folks.

> And anyway, doesn't the same problem apply to Blue Oak and in fact all licenses, if you don't do a diff on the license text someone could easily produce and use a variant without you noticing.

That's true, but there are mitigations. We've opted into at least two: submission to SPDX for a license ID, so folks can specify in standards-compliant metadata, as well as a permalink for the license text itself, like Apache 2.0.
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