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The purpose of management is to keep all the stuff employees do actually be useful to the company.

Executives are there to ensure that happens, and having employees onsite makes it easier.

As far as I can tell, Bezos would sack every manager at Amazon if he could, and have every employee work from home, if that was best for Amazon's bottom line. I bet he'd love to save on salaries and office space. Yes, I hear a few Amazon employees are quitting, but it's not because he's just too nice to his employees. As far as I can tell, his entire philosophy in business is to make everyone a replaceable cog, and replaceable cogs don't really need managers or desks (especially if he could make everyone work from home, in some kind of mechanical turk type system). But he hasn't made it work.

Maybe I'm wrong about Bezos, or he's wrong about how to make profits (and just happened to luck out getting rich). But surely someone else would just say "get everyone to code at home and don't have managers" and they'd destroy the competition with lower overheads and greater productivity, but there's not many of examples at scale.

Here's how this debate will go:

"Managers are needed to keep employees on task, so it needs to be onsite".

"Wait, can't we just have performance reviews?"

"So why not just have freelancers for everything?"

It's basically a rehash of the theory of the firm - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm

Employers don't know who is doing the best work. Sometimes it's virtually impossible to judge. But they can know that employees sit in a cube for the right amount of hours, and are apparently trying to get work done.

It might annoy brilliant people (and people who think they're brilliant) that they can't just be judged on the quality of their work, but in reality the company is paying for time, not results, as they really can't just the quality of results all that easily.

Yes, they can have 360 performance reviews, or negotiate everything as some kind of contract, or count lines of code or some kind of function points. There's plenty of problems with all of these, and it also means more work and probably a lot of ugly office politics. But unless it's something where results are easily judged then really just forcing people to be at their desks looking busy is going to be one of the best ways of ensuring that on average they get results.
"Well, I'd like to do better, but I don't know how I'm supposed to learn if I don't even have a teacher?"

"I'm still here, Vanessa."
What leads you to conclude that defending yourself with up to/including deadly force against an intruder with unknown (but quite reasonably presumed to be criminal) intent is unreasonable?

Breaking into an occupied residence is a quite serious crime and I don't think it's reasonable to require the inhabitants to sit down over tea and find out what the invader's intentions are before mounting a defense.

Don't want to get shot after breaking into someone's house? It seems like there's a pretty straightforward way to avoid exposing yourself to that risk.
I’m on my way out. The endless mask mandates, with elementary school masking the most egregious, is getting tired real fast. The Bay Area has some of the highest vax rates and hospitals are empty, yet they’re psychologically draining us before winter even hits.

There’s no science or proven efficacy. Masks are just a back door business closure.

The Bay Area has long been intensely hostile to families.
No, that's not really the reason. Those things just further solidified the pre-existing distrust/suspicion.

It's built into the American ethos and the documents founding the republic itself. Having lived in multiple countries it's clear the US government doesn't necessarily lie more than others (often less!), it's just that American start with the premise "The government is probably lying to me".
Ya, people who have problems with dynamic situations (e.g. best practices continually changing via new information coming in) have had real problems with this pandemic. They wanted a static stable unchanging story from the onset, and were very disappointed and anxious when they didn't get that.

But everything you’ve written above is simply condemning authorities because they didn’t have the best solution from the onset.
I see two reasons for this. First is a carryover of distrust from the mishandling of the pandemic up to this point. There has been flip-flopping in government messaging and policy constantly. This has sometimes been due to new data, and sometimes I'd argue for political gain.

The second reason is, well, the free discussion of the nuances of the vaccine has largely not been allowed/socially acceptable. The vaccine is being pushed in very forceful way while honest (if not always scientifically accurate) discussion is repressed. Although there will certainly be a group too far gone to ever accept the vaccine, this strategy of a heavy handed and propaganda-like approach seems to be causing the vaccine hesitant to only dig in their heels further. The vaccine can't win in the marketplace of ideas if the marketplace is not allowed to exist.
> People haven't abandoned QWERTY on cell phones - we replaced physical keyboards with touch, but the keyboard itself is still there.

I think the OP has quit the thread but hopefully you'd agree that it's not normal to refer to a standard iPhone or iPad form factor as an "actual qwerty device," and he probably meant something else entirely.

> Unihertz Titan and Cosmo Communicator

And I bet they sell literally dozens of those. The question is whether Kenwood or whoever would prefer to build something with a physical keyboard or something with a glass screen, if they took an interest in really pursuing what the OP was talking about.

There's a lot of stuff you could do. Being able to dock an iPhone or iPhone SE into a larger radio and use the phone UI to control the radio might work. Trying to replicate all the UI stuff a good phone, tablet, or laptop does on a radio feels like a doomed project for any radio manufacturer to undertake.
"return to office" not "to work". Important distinction here.
I don't see how that sentiment can be read into what I wrote. I looked at three racial groups in America and observed they had different obesity rates. In abstract terms - "You think this quality is specific to the whole. If you divide the whole into three parts you can see the quality differs between the parts. This implies the quality is not specific to the whole."

To take that claim and infer that I mean to suggest the parts are not part of the whole is clearly nonsense.
The soft underbelly. That said there are people building dedicated networks for blockchain node connectivity (similar to the data transit networks run by Google, Amazon et al). Private lightpath.
> America having more hispanics and blacks than places like the UK, the US seems like it is more obese.

Whether or not you actually meant it, this very clearly comes off as you saying that they aren't American.
>Honestly surprising why so few people know about the antibody therapy we already have, reduces death by 80 to 90 %. Also unclear why we still need vaccine mandates when we have a cure.

Do promptly delivered monoclonals blunt your body's natural immune response and prevent natural immunity, as your body doesn't need to make its own antibodies?

If so, all the more reason to get vaccinated as soon as the engineered antibodies fade. Or before treatment, I don't see why having both wouldn't be extra effective?
"return to office" not "to work". Importand distinction.
The methodology says it had 10,000 respondents, but it doesn't break those down into any sort of groups. What qualifies as an executive and how many of them responded to the survey? Given this survey is being carried out by Slack in an effort to convince companies to buy their product, I'm really skeptical of their vague methodology
> Also unclear why we still need vaccine mandates when we have a cure.

Corruption. It always have been the alpha and omega of this whole vaccine story, minus the part where governments went on-board as a way to restrict citizens right.
I'd like to see it based on the walkability of the neighborhood where the office is located. I would much rather work in a vibrant city than a corporate campus miles away from the nearest coffee shop.
* Senator, not sensor (damn autocorrect)
> redefining that function won’t take effect in previously expanded code

Yeah, that is an important issue. What do you think of the following solution?

1. The semantics of the language are that, every time a function is called, any macros in its body get reexpanded.

2. The language implementation is expected to notice that, in normal cases, neither the macro nor the functions it calls have been redefined, and therefore the previously-expanded (and -compiled) version can be used; but then to notice when that changes (i.e. when you do redefine something) and generate new code accordingly.

The feasibility of 2 I'm not sure about.

Edit: Regarding the printing of functions, I don't think it would be that difficult to make the pretty-printer, upon encountering a function object, detect whether that function is bound to a global variable, and if so, print the name. (Possibly the name with a "f:" prefix, or in a different color.)
I think that could be.

This is completely anecdotal but I there is a friend of mine, he and I have worked together for probably 20 years on and off in various companies and so forth. He moved up the ranks and became a VP for a big company, same one as me now. I never wanted that, I don't like having a lot of responsibility, I like being innovative, developing things but I just don't want the responsibility of having people report to me or anything like that, I am just not comfortable with it, tried it, did not enjoy it. He on the other hand, loves it, he devours it. He is a good guy, we are friends, but just different.

Recently he decided to retire, I joked with him that it was probably not as much fun being a VP now that he can't go into the office and have all the attention. He laughed and said ya, it's just not as much fun anymore, and we are not even allowed now to ask people to turn on their cameras (long story for another thread).

He was joking a bit of course, but you know, sometimes when we joke, there is an element of truth in there. I think that was the case here. He is just one guy but, I am guessing there is a personality trait at work here.
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You can ask any non-native English speaker. And then someone who grow up speaking English. The answers would be un-shockingly the same - programming languages [relatively] aren't that hard. English - is fucking insoluble.

Beginner programmers tend to focus on programming languages. Programming is for humans. Focus on the human language!
I don’t think the preferences of one class should be forced on another one. If the higher ups enjoy working in the office, they should just keep enough offices and meeting rooms to allow them to do that. Forcing others to come in is what I don’t really agree with; the reasons provided for wanting to do that have seemed pretty weak and pseudo scientific.
"Our politicans seems to be a lot more hoenst". Are they though?

I know in Canada the government is just as corrupt, it's just better at keeping out of the press and squashing it quickly.
This isn't true at all. The majority of soy produced all over the world is feed grade soy which isn't destined for human consumption.

Other than that I just can't find any sources that corroborate what you say. Every single source I could find that has actual numbers contradicts your statement.

Take the US for example

Just over 70 percent of the soybeans grown in the United States are used for animal feed, with poultry being the number one livestock sector consuming soybeans, followed by hogs, dairy, beef and aquaculture. The second largest market for U.S. soybeans is for production of foods for human consumption, like salad oil or frying oil, which uses about 15 percent of U.S. soybeans. A distant third market for soybeans is biodiesel, using only about 5 percent of the U.S. soybean crop.

from https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/coexisten...
What are the health effects of the monomers left behind by this process?
[Disclaimer: I'm a manager.]

Your theory seems to rely on a rather uncharitable set of assumptions.

I wonder if an alternate explanation could be that the manager job role tends to involve a lot of talking to other people, and that there's something advantageous, or at least more fun, about doing that in person?

Or perhaps the type of people that become managers tend to lean more toward extroversion, and thus on average managers enjoy in-person social interaction more?

I often meet and talk with people for 6 hours in a day. Have you ever talked on video calls for 6 hours in a day? Every person has a slightly different quality of microphone setup, you can't make eye contact, it's harder to read social cues, you can't get fresh air by doing a walking 1:1, etc. It kind of sucks, like, a lot. Especially for people, like myself, who ended up managing because they simply enjoy being around other people. It's just not that fun to talk to a plastic rectangle all day.

Now, I do still sneak in some IC work from time to time, and it's obviously great to do that remotely. And I understand that most of my reports spend most of their time doing that kind of work. So I wouldn't push them to go back into the office; remote work is the right thing for the team overall.

But if you surveyed me, asking whether I'd like to return to the office? Fuck yeah, I'd like to. But my motivation has nothing to do with your ungracious views on managers needing to feel like bigshots. I'm sorry that you've evidently worked with poor management to the extent that this is your worldview.
> Thanks to the horrific amount of consolidation in retail they could have gone to only a handful of major players like amazon and walmart and said "Please pull these masks off of shelves and help us save them for healthcare workers" and that would have kept them out of the hands of the vast majority of the population.

Early on, Amazon and other online medical supply stores actually did this themselves. Restricted surgical masks to medical professionals only.
Ah, you are right. I didn't realize this when I wrote it. Thanks for pointing it out.
What really protects people is herd immunity. Ethically malingers that don't voluntarily contribute to that need to be forced. You might not like that for ideological reasons, but really who cares.
At least in SV startup land the executives are on the same floor as the ICs.
our current “climate tzar”, John Kerry, made a career killing safe and promisingly nuclear designs.
The professional managerial class is losing their minds. It's harder to take credit for the work of others when they can insulate themselves working remote.
It's not a bug, it's a feature.

The idea is that power corrupts everyone. Thus the system should be set up that no one person has too much power and the citizens should be constantly suspicious of those that hold power.
>People say they do not trust politicians, but the fact is that when politicians speak people listen. Politicians know this and that is why they always give soundbite-oriented remarks and lines of questioning in their various hearings and "debates."

If people are only listening to sound bites, they aren't really listening. I think most people are staring to realize that politicians are self serving. The reality distortion field is finally starting to wear off.

When shit hits the fan, like COVID, people listen though, they listen very carefully. The current crop of politicians have forgotten how to be leaders though and go through their same ole sound-byte-and-finger-point-for-reelection trope they've grown accustomed to getting them reelected. I think it will cause a few waves in the next few elections, especially as COVID draws out over the next few years.
This is the only nonsense here. please stop spreading covid misinformation about natural immunity being stronger.

https://www.nebraskamed.com/COVID/covid-19-studies-natural-i...
Right? You don't have to bring ego into it, of course the guy with the only closed office in the open space doesn't mind going back!
> this could conceivably be causing human problems in people who often eat a lot of chocolate less than seven hours before bed

Well so will the actual caffeine.

Still, "not having the same effect on humans" is pretty misleading. It's maybe 4x more potent in a dog. Body weight is a much bigger factor. Not many people are going to eat "one ounce of milk chocolate per pound of body weight" or the equivalent dose of darker chocolate.
It can be true. Investors obviously need to understand this and beware.
Also perhaps too because the MAB treatment may reduce your ‘natural immunity’ benefit that vaccination-hesitant people seem to be so hyped about getting from being very ill. Versus giving the vaccines that actually do give ‘natural immunity’ to you.
How? The UK has more anglo people than the US. Am I implying that Anglos aren't United Kingdomers or Americans? The US has more white people than Sudan. Does that imply white people aren't American?
“Companies want their workers back in the office.” Oh, cool…but just to be clear, we are talking about everyone coming back to their very own private rooms when they commute to your special business building, right? Y’know, as in each employee has a semi-private, permanent space where they can control things like random interruptions, the temperature, maybe even dim the harsh florescent lighting. Y’know, a modicum of autonomy?

Oh, right — you meant an open office, as in a big pit of desks where everyone’s subjected to the sights, sounds, and smells of anything and everything that happens to gravitate towards their shared…table. And this should take two unpaid hours of your day to commute back and forth from by car, or longer by public transit…assuming there even is public transit where they live.

Yeah, I’m gonna pass on that one, but good luck filling that fancy building of yours!
I don’t understand how this dynamic works any less on Slack, when you are arguably more visible, provided you type something once and a while.
If there is a biological basis for this, why wouldn’t it be randomly distributed among ICs too?
I can’t agree enough. Not just offices but Executive Assistants, nice meeting rooms where they can indulge in their favorite habit of public speaking. Taking out their reports/coworkers for lunch on the company’s dime etc.

Working from home lets folks customize their workplace anyway they want. Personally I sunk a lot of my own money into getting a great chair, standing desk and an external monitor setup that I like instead of having to try and get procurement/IT to get something that’s “ok”.
To me, this indicates that FDA testing / validation needs to be heavily modified.

Teflon is 100%, perfectly safe, as long as it never overheats. It is completely inert, causes no problems, can be eaten, etc.

As you say, when it overheats? It becomes toxic. I read some of the FDA docs referenced during approval, and it was along the lines of "As long as overheating does not occur".

They knew.

But then ran with the premise of "Citizens won't accidentally overheat their pan!". It really only takes a second! A pan on the stove, a distraction (kids, phone, a loud noise outside, whatever), a simple mistake, and BAM pan is overheated.

I'd say every teflon pan in use is toxic, essentially.

I don't know if the approval process has changed or not, but it seems like depending upon people to have 100% perfect adherence to pan heat levels is a bit much...

What other substances are approved this way? Frankly, I think any non-stick substance is suspicious, and use stainless steel.

The trick? Never use soap to wash it. Just use water, soak if needed, and if you can't get it all off? The next cooking will just be all the tastier. :P

Let the grease soak in, let the oils soak in, it does season a bit.
Not really. By default, smart contracts can’t ever be edited or taken down. They’re permanently written into the Ethereum blockchain forever. They can only be modified based on any included state-modifying functions you originally wrote into the smart contract.

There’s some fancy complex stuff where you can deploy 2 smart contracts with one being a proxy contract. Here, the proxy contract functions a lot like DNS does on the Internet. In this case, the contract CAN be (almost) fully updated but the proxy contract has to be setup at the very beginning. In like 80% or more of the smart contracts I’ve seen, smart contracts do not utilize proxy contracts for (almost) full updatability due to the extra complexity it adds, the less trustworthyness, and some other reasons.

Source: I am a smart contract developer.
Apple Releases WathchOS 8.01
Apple new release after IpadOS 15.
Presymptomatic might be a better term than asymptomatic, as the evidence for asymptomatic spread is weak and weakening. One example[1]:

> Research early in the pandemic suggested that the rate of asymptomatic infections could be as high as 81%. But a meta-analysis published last month, which included 13 studies involving 21,708 people, calculated the rate of asymptomatic presentation to be 17%. The analysis defined asymptomatic people as those who showed none of the key COVID-19 symptoms during the entire follow-up period, and the authors included only studies that followed participants for at least seven days.

There are many more I've read where the authors have tried to quantify asymptomatic spread and been found wanting (studies on children are particularly enlightening). I wouldn't be surprised if the final figure ends up being very close to, if not, zero, though we're still in the clutches of the initial panic so I suspect those findings to take time due more to social resistance than the frictions involved in actual science.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03141-3?error=coo...
The first 5-6 years of my career were in that kind of environment (though not quite as comically bad).

I went 100% remote but eventually found an opportunity where I had my own office, and after several months there I realized I had never had so much energy at the end of the workday. I was getting more done without working extra hours and feeling better than ever.

Companies pay hundreds of thousands for developers and are usually generous with equipment but pinch pennies with office space. I would be surprised if productivity gains and savings in sick and personal time wouldn't more than cover the cost of the additional space, plus it would be a hell of a recruiting tool since such a high percentage of companies are only offering a desk in a noisy, crowded environment.
I agree! I actually wanted to include one, but as I started to explain it it started getting too wordy, which made the post feel like it was more about composition vs inheritance than classes vs alternatives, thus distracting from the main point.

I think this is mostly a limitation of me as a writer though rather than being an inherent thing. Ie. I think there's gotta be a way to give that example in a concise enough way where it doesn't distract from the main point.
That book is so similar to my post I suspect myself of plagiarism. Must have read these arguments in the past and not specifically remember them, but I guess that supports the general thesis.

Regarding the last quote: one must also give credit to the "reasonable person" who died because they think themselves smarter. These kind of people are the necessary guinea pigs sacrifices of technological progress. In the trial and error process, the errors are mandatory, else there is no learning.
It means it was formed right along with the rest of the planets. The sun is not a first generation star, that's why we have all those heavy elements here out of which more complex constructs are made. So not everything is 'the same age'.
Thank you, very helpful! You gave me the necessary context to understand the post.