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by codeonfire 11y ago
I use visual basic to pay my bills in Excel. It's unique in that Microsoft has never seen fit to integrate any other language into Excel. It has a large following in finance and other business disciplines. Companies have also undert
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>What makes you so sure you know best? Because I work on huge swaths of the business and know where the huge piles of technical debt and risk are. I also know that people that are not rank and file engineers are hired for their ability
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Hey, you don't know what it's like. Certain people claiming to be engineers have optimized on finding out what you're trying to accomplish and either blocking it or taking credit for it. They also have figured out how to pu
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How to make 20% time: Just do it. Don't tell anyone. Tell that asshole trying to control your work to fuck off. When you've got something, tell the right people about it. Watch the other assholes at your job trip over themsel
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> the long-term results will speak for themselves. No they won't because corporate management creates perverse policies of continuous turnover and stack ranking for this exact reason. Losing all your people many times over in a sho
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Is the company unable to function? Can I not go to zappos.com and buy something? Zappos just reduced their payroll expense by tens of millions of dollars probably due to deadweight attrition. So I think they will be doing much better.
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Yeah, this is the common industry view that employees are simple minded children fearful and inept without a manager/parent. They are the turnips that management will squeeze blood from. This view is usually promulgated by managers.
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>perhaps you've had a string of very bad ones. The "no true manager" argument is always brought out when I say something critical of the management profession. >Power isn't the benefit of the role unless you'r
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Probably all the managers are leaving. They can't do non-manager jobs emotionally or logically. Microsoft moved some managers to individual contributor roles a few years ago and people were openly crying about it. They wouldn't
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> Have you ever had chance to move into management role ? Did you accept ? If not, may I ask why ? I can answer that one. The answer is no for me. Many people don't know what management is. It is trying to get people to do what yo
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In 2016 there are different levels of logged in: L1 - I think I know who you are because you have a cookie or I remember your IP or browser fingerprint L2 - I definitely know who you are because you logged in during this session and have a
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Well, I would get PyCharm for this particular issue. In these cases you are usually going to have to search all files for variable names or classes. Learn all the keystrokes for finding references and viewing class and call trees. If you
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They are probably worth nothing. In a couple jobs the company had two sets of options with different strike prices. The high priced ones went to employees and the low priced ones went to execs and investors. Of course the stock was offer
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Criminals force people under threat of death to sell properties and accept dirty cash for payment. The criminals resell the property for clean money.
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Yeah, the big company I worked at could get them on demand. I once dumbly said 'isn't there a yearly lottery?' Oh...yeah, corruption.
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There are purposes that one doesn't believe in. Like I don't give a shit about ride sharing. Then there are places that I don't feel good about such as malware creators. So those are two separate things. BTW, engineers sh
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That's what one part of the original post was about.
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Nope. The original post is about fake engineers hired due to political correctness against recommendations, i.e. diversity hires. I made no statement or implications about non-diversity hires.
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I'm not implying anything. It means what is says.
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It's called corruption. As engineers we can see real work that each person is doing. When someone who is a diversity hire hasn't written any code for months after starting it is obvious but management will look the other way. P
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As an engineer you need to stay where there is green. Big companies like facebook don't need you. They are the big oak trees and you're a little green leaf trying to sustain all that mass of branches and trunk beneath you desper
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In reality managers do stuff like hide their opinions so people will stick around so they can burn them at review time. If someone quits too soon, the manager may have to burn someone they like. How did working get to be so dumb?
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Bezos and Musk should NOT be on twitter for their sake. Imagine for a few decades no one tells you "no" or "you're wrong" and you have thousands of peons to kick around. Megalomania is 100% going to happen. Best
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I don't think it has a traditional filesystem. It probably just writes all puts sequentially as fast as possible and stores the location and then replicates. The easiest way to append would be to read the object, append, and then wri
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You're making a lot of assumptions here. As a landlord I would just evict you if you tried to do this with my property. My lease and most other leases say no subleases for this reason. On what planet would I manage my own property f
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In my B-school program we did read lots of HBS cases and most of those were about objective things like "could the company have adopted a different marketing strategy" not "how can the company legitimize its political machina
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Both. Readers should stop reading when they get to "a toxic worker is defined as a worker that engages in behavior that is harmful to an organization." Could mean literally anything. Their data is equally ridiculous. It consis
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Is this a joke? I don't believe HBS would allow its logo to be placed on such obvious trolling.
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Ugg. I'm sorry about being negative but here are some protips: 1. If a manager leaves work unassigned and you pick it up, prepare to have a LOT more work dumped on you in the future for no reward. 2. If you pretend to be a manager wit
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It says right there in the article. The 787 numbers are for avionics and flight systems. The number for the car probably includes the entertainment system, nav system, backup camera, etc all of which runs on some open source OS with hundr

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