gilbert_vanova

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by gilbert_vanova 4y ago
* Non-competitive pay * No sick leave & limited vacation * Inconsistent and insufficient planning paired with unrealistic expecations
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by gilbert_vanova 4y ago
If someone is motivated out of self-interest to behave in one way or another, you can likely use that same motivation to bring about a different behavior. The complexity of the remedy is dependent more on the rigidity of the system incentiv
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by gilbert_vanova 4y ago
I have a recent counter razor: "Never attribute to malice or stupidity what is better explained by self-interest" Many of these orgs laying off thousands have fallen into the depths of a moral maze -- where rational thinking is ju
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by gilbert_vanova 4y ago
I had a manager namecheck the layoffs as a reason they don't need to move on addressing any of our team's concerns about working conditions. Same manager invoked the Nuremburg Defense the other day. Trying times.
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by gilbert_vanova 4y ago
That's great except for when you're interacting with a decrepit data system from 10 years ago with a variable record format. Some things can't be locked in stone, and SQL will leave you out to dry when that's the case.
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by gilbert_vanova 4y ago
The US in particular is occupied by many competing powers. No one group has sweeping control of anything; most everyone is held in a deathgrip by interests to either side of their desired positions. From city councils to the oval office, a
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by gilbert_vanova 4y ago
> Is a friendship of virtue a friendship? Yes -- and it is plainly the highest form of friendship as it is the closest to dissolving the individual into a greater whole.
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by gilbert_vanova 4y ago
> I doubt there is a single (professional) engineer that would say something like that. I suspect an engineering professor would be even more compelled to highlight how social consensus is the foundation of everything else that follows.
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by gilbert_vanova 4y ago
The more your work is in creative output, the more likely you are to be working 100% of the time you're on the clock. Cognition is complex and most of it happens under the covers. Once you wake up, you load up your brains with concerns
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by gilbert_vanova 4y ago
> I'm 100% not smart enough to get it right unless something stops me getting it wrong IMO, type systems are harsher on modeling mistakes than something like Python is. Sure, you'll get it wrong the first time (sorry Grandma!).