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Sturgeon’s Law: 90% of everything is crap. This applies to managers and to engineers. Turn your argument around and ask what happens when good managers have to deal with crappy engineers, because there are a lot of crappy engineers too. (And note especially that engineers can be bad on many axes. It’s possible for people with excellent technical skills to bring negative value to the organization due to poor attitude or poor communication, among other things.) Do you want good managers to judge you and assume that you’re a bad engineer just because they’ve had to manage some other bad engineers? Bad engineers also taint the role and lead to a certain earned reputation.

But if everyone projects their worst fear on the role, then we’re all stuck making assumptions, being pessimistic, and missing the good people because we’re blinded by our stuck ideas incorrectly generalizing individual people to their roles. If we can’t stop to see the good things and what does work, then functioning together is difficult and it drags down the team.

What value do you see in good management, and what makes a good manager in your experience?
I am not a writer, although I know a few. The most interesting place I've encountered, and a place that almost inspired me to write myself, was the one and only sci-fi convention I ever attended. Note that it wasn't really a convention focused on TV/movie/comics fandom, although a few of those creators were on panels too. Mostly it was sci-fi and fantasy novelists discussing industry topics in panels, taking questions and hobnobbing with attendees between sessions. I'd definitely recommend trying to find a convention with a more writer-y focus, especially if you are interested in genre fiction.
Don't Move to Estonia
Just use mirrors strategically placed so that light can bounce around the horizon so solar can be used to melt the ice. Or orbit a giant mirror beaming that heat source down. The fact that you think thousands of km away is a hard limit just means you're not fully caffinated just yet.
The people who write the question don't understand the question. They are "not even wrong".
They are telling the businesses to figure it out.
Maybe that's desirable, or maybe it's pointless. In prod strokes you can say data is either fully controlled by the users, shared with other user data for product model building, or also used for ad targeting. But it's unclear if being more specific is useful to anyone.
You can point to an example like equal housing opportunity enforcement, as it interacts with ML-targeted or attribute -targeted ads. It's equivalent to detecting discrimination anywhere a human makes an opinionated choice. It's a problem no one knows how to solve. It' not a law like "don't shoot or stab people" (which is also complex in some ways).
If they needed to play the babysitter, then you know why they were there...
Personally it relates to the scope of the change/bugfix. Sometimes a nice refactor merge drags forever because the understanding of the fix/task you're working keeps changing until solidification, if it is an extensive refactor then it's more work to keep up with updates and conflicts.
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From what I've seen, that does seem to be the accusation. I don't think it's actually possible to make hormones in a bathtub.
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I'd say: No, not at all!

Read about Admiral Rickover. He built the first practical nuclear submarine in the world, for the US navy, in record time of 3 years. He cleared bureaucratic hurdles, played the politics when needed, kept tight control, delved deep into the technicalities of the project, recruited and trained a large number of people into the program, and ultimately made the project successful.

Dig deeper into any other large scale projects, you'll find great engineering management. The Manhattan project is another example (It should be categorised mostly under engineering management & not scientific management, according to some of the members in the team).
It's most likely a bell curve
I don't know specifics but it sounds like this is simply the rebound effect after covid etc. Demand fell, shipping messed up, demand skyrockets, shipping gets congested and super expensive. Stores have too much inventory, people have less money or perceived money from stock/crypto gains... now demand falls back to a reasonable level while supply chains are less congested

Means we are going back to normal.
Of course they're under capacity, but it's not that expensive to replace and upgrade the cables to be able to support a couple standard car charger sockets - just do it when someone else rips up the road anyway.
The Peter Principle is just an idea someone had (and intended to be satire) and not an actual factual reflection of the way the world works.
It's hard to identify failing managent, especially from the top looking down, and the burden of management failures fall on those below them. This leads to a lot of frustration and blog posts like this, wondering if all managent is bullshit.

It seems really unfair to a developer, who thinks "if I screw up the entire company halts, if you screw up I have to work harder". And so the developer can't shake the feeling that management is bullshit.
Adding a link I think that might help OP, but forgive me in advance for it being a video...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpGJH_gKRCU
> the complexity and nuance that goes into running a business

Unfortunately one of the side effects of having something so important also be so complex, hard to reason about, and hard to prove causation for, is that there are a lot of empty suits attracted to an area where it's hard to disprove that they contributed, but a lot of money to be made if they can convince the right people that they did.

By definition we can't know how many are genuinely hardworking contributors, how many are parasites, and how many are somewhere in the middle (e.g. did some good work but is phoning it home these days, got lucky but misattributed their own success so now just doles out bad advice). Claiming that only one of these three groups exists is of course naive - but when running into people who have a different perspective or make different claims, it's worth keeping in mind that the subset of these groups they've run into might differ from your own.
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> Burnout is caused by lack of community.

As someone who suffered burnout multiple times, 'lack of community' was never the reason. If anything my caring about my fellow coworkers got me putting in the overtime so things didn't slip or get behind, to the point where I got burnt out.

Like the time a transition to a different data center didn't go so well, and I worked 60 hours in three days helping the department fix all the fires that happened, including one literal 24 hour day (then four hour break, then a 20 hour day, then a 6 hour break, then a 16 hour day). There continued being various issues for months afterwards, and I ended up too tired to even look for a new job, so I was pretty stuck unless I quit (which in retrospect I should have).

But I did it because it needed to be done, I had some knowledge that helped me figure out what changes needed to be made, my department wasn't making any money without these things being fixed, my boss was a nice guy and doing most of the overtime along with me.
Yes, need at least one beefy system for gaming, why not let everyone share it ? Could run machine learning during the night.

Having everyone gathered in the same room is also a feature. But you will want to have a good headset =)

Did try Windows but Windows has no built in support for multi seat, so it didn't work well. Linux however have great support.
Interestingly Musk fired the entire Marketing / PR department. Hasn’t seemed to affect Tesla quite yet.

I love how you also snuck Scrum master in there, a role no one needs. Project managers are also often shoved into places they’re not needed (I’ve generally found them to be a net negative vs having the manager be responsible for it).
I don't want to say specific location data for privacy reasons (not very helpful for this discussion, I know, and my apologies), but you can say I spent there for a time recently. It's not New York but there's an exodus of a group of upper-middle class folks who will absolutely cite crime as their #1 issue getting out, in the last 5 years.
The first one, for some items.
A burning man-attending billionaire describes himself as a “traditionalist” and states that cogs are more effective in offices. They need to talk over coffee. He sure did. Because that’s how he understands things, and he can’t conceptualize otherwise. His wealth proves his expertise, after all he used to be a very important CEO. (He’s still important enough to roll out in “news” articles, of course.)

Billionaires aren’t like you. They certainly don’t think so, and neither should you.
I think you are underestimating the complexity of this task by about three orders of magnitude. This is the way to do it, but you can't do it for a company of this scale with a handful of people.
We did this a lot in our early days, and while we didn't correlate it with spending, customers occasionally would acknowledge the note in future conversations.

To me, it falls in the category of "do things that don't scale" as you try to grow your business. An over-emphasis on customer service is rarely a bad idea.
Nope. They integrated the functionality with Plastic SCM. And what's especially annoying is that they don't even grandfather existing customers into being able to continue using SemanticMerge. Once your current license expires, that's it, no more SemanticMerge.
Same, I've had exactly one EM who wasn't bullshit and he matched your criteria perfectly.
There's a genre-specific discord for litrpg and although it was originally geared towards readers many of the authors hang there. Verified authors get a tag and probably even their own channel, but I'm not sure about that since I'm not a verified author. The downside I see for authors is like HN it could prove a distraction, possibly even more so if the general public discovers it for all the usual reasons.

It sounds like a great project for someone who wants to spend the time and energy moderating a forum, slack, discord or what have you. The issue will be gatekeeping "real" and aspiring authors from people who just want a way to @ their favorite author about something. It would potentially be a great place to get advice if people took the time to direct new writers.

As an aside - the podcast Writing Excuses is a great place for new authors to find hours of advice from established authors in several different genres. The show regularly rotates in new guest authors, keeping the topics fresh despite being on their 15th season. Of course like any entrepreneur they have something to sell - their books and writing workshops - but for all that their advice is sincere and useful. https://writingexcuses.com And there is allegedly a discussion forum somewhere on the site although I've never sought it out.
Where's it say that?
Ok, I'll just give a 2-minute answer here before writing up the Substack article.

First, it has been known since the beginning of time that people who eat fresh meat do not get scurvy. There are entire people groups who have been entirely carnivorous for generations -- the Inuit are the most commonly-cited example. They don't get scurvy.

The reason sailors got scurvy on long voyages was because they did not have fresh meat to eat. Fresh meat contains vitamin C, but vitamin C is water-soluble so drying out the meat for long voyages removes the vitamin C. Also, vitamin C is required for the synthesis of collagen, but if you have tons of collagen in your diet then you have a reduced need for vitamin C.

Long story short: if you eat fresh meat you don't get scurvy because fresh meat contains vitamin C and collagen. (Scurvy is the result of being unable to synthesize collagen).

Second, on the question of cholesterol -- there is only an association between having high cholesterol and having heart disease. It is extraordinarily difficult to do double-blind randomized controlled experiments with human diet because people can obviously see and taste what they are eating. So nutrition science is absolutely plagued by poor studies. Often the "science" consists of people filling out food questionnaires that ask them to remember what they ate.

There was, however, one extremely high quality double-blind randomized controlled experiment that addressed the question of cholesterol. This experiment was conducted from 1968 - 1973 on a population of over 9400 inmates and it known as the Minnesota Coronary Experiment. It was double-blind because they substituted butter for margarine, which are hard to distinguish and eating margarine instead of butter will lower your cholesterol. It is probably the most rigorous nutrition science experiment ever conducted, and it would be illegal to experiment on inmates according to modern ethical guidelines, so this experiment cannot be repeated.

The Minnesota Coronary Experiment was specifically designed to test the hypothesis that lowering a person's cholesterol would prove to be healthful. Here is the bottom line: "There was a 22% higher risk of death for each 30 mg/dL (0.78 mmol/L) reduction in serum cholesterol in covariate adjusted Cox regression models." (https://www.bmj.com/content/353/bmj.i1246)

The results of the Minnesota Coronary Experiment were exactly opposite to what the researchers had hoped to find, so they decided to bury the study instead of publishing it. You can read all about it here: https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/editorials/ct-science...

Long story short: lowering your cholesterol increases your chance of dying.

Okay, that took me more than 2 minutes to write up -- but, man, I am so frustrated that so many people don't understand this.
Fuel is super high, but isn't extraordinarily high right. And congestion sounds like it is less.
I've been lucky to have a sequence of very good managers. Almost all of them changed roles back to Engineering within a couple years.
There is a difference between what is known and what is knowable.

For example if you asked me now if I know where all the receipts are for my tax-deductible donations, I would say no, I don’t know. Why? There is no reason for me to know right now.

But if the IRS told me I was being audited and must produce those records or go to jail, I would find them. And I have confidence that I could, because I know that in general, those are the sorts of records I keep (somewhere).

Most Facebook employees do not need to know “where personal data is” to operate their business, so they don’t know that. But at the same time, Facebook could not operate if the data was “nowhere” (destroyed), or if it was randomly distributed with no queryable structure.

So the question is not really what they know now, it is: what incentive do they have to go find out.
I don't understand the point of your example because that isn't what is happening here. Harassing is against the rules and will get you banned.
There is a hacker news for everything, it is called reddit
just aim for the middle of the "=/=". Click right where the vertical line is
+1 to this. Make ZERO assumptions about the problem, and observe everything you reasonably can. In the increasingly (?) service-oriented architecture world, that includes fundamentals on your platform (i.e. I recall the first time I root-caused an issue that turned out to be an AWS bug) and taking the time to monitor external dependency changes (i.e. a service change, a code push, someone reverting stuff, etc.)

I also can't agree more with no shame in asking others. I would go as far as to say if you aren't asking others, you are going down a dangerous path of assuming you can solve the world's problems by yourself.
Indeed. I found this useful: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/clean-hydrogen-ladder-v40-mic...
I can justify it quite easily. Take it away and see what happens.
There are many secular intentional communities you can join, right now. I used to live on one; it was great!

But you can’t actually achieve what you call localism for the majority of the population without severely constraining the options for that majority.

And it’s exactly those constraints, which you seem to repeatedly ignore in this and other threads, that people are objecting to. It gives people actually working towards a satisfying localism a bad name, being associated with involuntary ideological constraints.

As it happens, I would be happy to argue against capitalism. I agree no one should argue against markets, but capitalism isn’t markets, it’s entrenched power assigned to those who have accumulated capital for themselves, often justified by “it’s just markets!” when in reality the laws are helping the big capital holders more than is required by just “markets”.

But I won’t argue for localism as a power structure. More local control, OK, maybe, but you seem to think that would lead to more local self reliance. I doubt it.
Agile Software development done well is a good way to combat BS because it makes building a product into a team sport where everything is out in the open. Grooming, planning, sprints, standups, retrospectives, demos are all ceremonies which increase transparency and accountability. They also provide a way where development productivity can be measured against the collective assessment of the team.
Maybe, but one can find out. You can follow the chain of calls of any software, and they have access to everything, as well as the whole history.

It's like when in an interview Buffets says it's very hard to know where all the money is in the financial system.

Sure, it's a complex system, but it's more of a matter of incentive.
These blog posts have been great. I'd love to see a deep dive on the query planner at some point.

I've done lots of benchmarking SQLite while writing ducks [1], and found some interesting stuff. It seems like SQLite will only use one index, even in cases where two indexes would better suit the query. Or, in cases where the query is fetching most of the table, it will use an index even though a full scan would actually be much faster.

Don't get me wrong, SQLite is awesome, and it's quite possible to work around these behaviors. Just interested in why they're not built in.

[1] https://github.com/manimino/ducks
when i think most people complain about managers it really is due to their oganization promoting very talented but absolutely socially awkward people into management positions.

there is probably a struggle in many organizations with bad managers, simply because in a typical technical organization the only mobility path for very smart people is to be promoted to a manager to bump up their pay/role in their company. many of these managers have no business being responsible for managing other people.

what a good manager should be is simply a good people person. being technical is not a requirement, a good manager when asked for technical question should be cognizant enough to realize their limitations and put the direct report in touch with a technical mentor.

a good manager should manage his resources within the direction of his organization and ensure they have the tool sets, support or anything else that the direct report need to successfully complete their task.

the engineers take tasks from project/program and the manager is there to ensure that the engineer has the bandwidth to support his tasks and milestones and has all the tools to complete those tasks.
>Here, we see engineers reduce the contributions of such common roles as: Product Manger, Program/Project Manager, Scrum Master, Marketer

Cow dung is common too, but not necessarily useful. Maybe for manure...

Most actual work happens despite those roles, not because of them... Or even against them - and is dilluted, sabotaged, rushed, and crapped upon all the time by the decisions of the roles above.

If you meant "software production needs this role", then no. Software production (from Xerox Parc to the Linux kernel) can be just fine without them.

If you meant "a modern corporate bureucracy needs those roles to make a product", then maybe, but that's part of the reason those enterprise products are shitty.
How many tanks does Russia have?
Agreed. Side-effects to global state is generally bad. It would have been not as bad to introduce the FTZ mode in a way that wasn't global state, but alas, the performance mode itself was the original sin. There is apparently zero overhead for subnormals on PPC and very little on arm. It's always been Intel pushing this crap because of their FPU designs' shortcomings.
I have been thinking a lot about this. I htnk there are different motivators at different levels of management.

Workers, devs, support engineers, admins, whoever is doing non managerial taskas seem to be split pretty much 50/50 with some minorities wanting to absolutley never go in to the office (like myself) and others who are dying to go in to the office being ca 15%-ish from the numbers I've seen.

Im an introvert and what immediately struck me by this is that this corresponds very much to the ratio of Extroverts to Introverts in any given cohort and organisation in the West.

It gets further more interesting when you realise that management tend to be over represented by extroverts to about 65-70% in middle and upper management.
Leadership in c-suite and founders is a bit different though and the stats on it is not very good from what I have seen. But it seems to me that hired CEO's tend to be extroverts, but founder CEO's tend to be introverts.

Now Extroverts thrive and want social interaction and are generally convinced that this is the only way to manage and to teamwork. Introverts on the otherhand would disagree.

Now that combined with the FAANG/FAANG-like orgs having in many cases made HUGE campus investments (Apples UFO doughnut building, Google Campus, Facebook Campus, Salesforce collection of "towers") have been built as a way to basically warehouse money. They are assets, and it's a prestige thing to have built a giant HQ and have it filled with people. So much so that they have gotten tax breaks since there has been an understanding that having a giant building with X thousands commuting would meant small businesses would thrive from all the shopping.

Which is why everyone during the first 6-8 months of the pandemic were freaking out about the economy, as so many small companies died due to no customers.
One of the endlessly frustrating things about modern capitalism is knowing that if I don't monetize my kindness, there are usually two people profiting: one who monetizes my kindness instead, and one who learns to simulate it.

Both of those people are almost certainly assholes.

It's not psychologically healthy to change my behavior as a result, or to dwell on the above, but the fact that my psychologically healthy behaviors are trivially exploited for someone else's monetary gain seems like a major flaw in the system.
> I am not much of a privacy person but I feel completely abused in this situation. I have opened a support ticket with screenshots but there is no response, and according to Twitter they are essentially not reviewing tickets from free users at the moment.

Important thing here is, you're not a customer.

> Are there other, more privacy oriented transcription services anyone can recommend?

Probably not, since this is probably a bug that can affect any of these applications. And privacy focused apps are a niche and a niche that isn't that much fun to develop. The nature of these apps lean towards people who aren't privacy focused since you would be allowing a third party to listen to calls which is the opposite of privacy. You don't need a more privacy focused app, you just need another app and probably to become a customer so you can get the support you clearly want.
What may look like cynicism at first is actually just fair criticism. It does not lack maturity, rather the opposite given it has some thoughtful research and examples of why EM can be in fact bullshit.