alexandercrohde

I don't think this should be assumed to be true, but I also don't think it should be rejected out of hand. The correct answer is often the middle-ground: ask twitter for a clarification abou…

Why are people trying to twist this into a partisan issue? Both sides agree that political speech is too censored. Agreeing is good - it gives us common ground where we can make progress instead of fi…

Maybe "functional" is a valid adjective, but "effective" is not. If the guy had gotten on a phone with a lawyer, and the lawyer said "All you need to is go to small claims cou…

I think there is meaning to the use of that word. It's not just an ad-hominem snipe, but it's an accusation on the values of these individuals' motivations. When somebody says a CEO is …

I have no clue what he's talking about, and what it sounds like he's saying makes me a little angry. - Unions are a force to protect the 99% from the corruption of the 1%. They are not a for…

At first I thought this article would be linkbaity-gossip about a tech individual's private matters. However I think it raises a good point: Generally our attitude toward different sexual prefere…

For those that don't understand the concern: a lot of us have an interest in the government being inefficient at tasks. You may think to yourself "So what, keep the terrorists away?" Bu…

Well, my objection was much more fundamental. I never suggested packing a bit at the beginning, I suggested using a header of about 20 bytes or so (trivial against a GB). As for the shifting 1 bit que…

I had an interesting experience with triplebyte which wasn't as objectively bad as yours, but it also makes me skeptical of the company. First round was multiple choice questions, relatively str…

This is actually something I did one time, and I'm glad I did. I was enduring a scala phone-screen and the interviewer kept asking questions of the form "What's the #1 reason people use…

I'm downvoting this not because of the point it makes but because of the nature of the language. I think even though it's your legal right to express us-vs-them mentality "down-voting g…

I consider the notion that everyone has equal potential to be absurd. And I consider the notion that managers have much influence over an engineer's productivity to be absurd as well, other than …

This seems like linkbait to me. My understanding after looking at the document is that the heart of the issue is whether organizers of protests that lead to destruction of property should be liable fo…

Well I'm not defending Uber, nor the status quo of doing a political facade of investigation to cover your ass but I think you're making it out to be a little too simple. Uber has over 6,000…

Emotional self-control and consistency within a narrative adds huge credibility

It's not so much a number of heads, but what I reject is the common notion that somebody can be so many levels above a problem that they are absolved of responsibility. Let me ask you this: How m…

One of the most fundamental purposes of HR is to hear employee complaints, particularly legal ones and to get them solved to both moral and legal satisfaction. It sounds like this HR department did ev…

Am I the only one who thinks NYTimes should be a little more explicit in marking editorials? I'm sure among those of us familiar with newspapers it should be clear within a sentence that this is …

I think one senior person isn't enough in a case like this. What is described here is an entire malfunctioning department, which in my opinion, couldn't be attributed to anywhere below the C…

Have you read the article though? Often hearing one-side isn't enough to render a verdict, but in this case it's incredibly hard to hear Susan's side and witness the poise with which sh…

I think the problem is, and all the comments here seem to pretty much infer this, is that if the institution is corrupt, then the process of it cleansing itself will also be corrupt (Who's the sc…

This piece touches on a few different ideas: 1. Many workers are frustrated with their job, and the common thread is how they treated by other people 2. Investigates whether an organized upheaval of t…

>>> Nation-states have a duty to their citizens to be able to conduct offensive & defensive cyber operations; a necessary condition of doing so is the ability to stockpile & exploit v…

I think you lack imagination. Right now computer security may not seem like an essential scenario but consider a few of these cases: 1. Self driving cars getting hacked (and killing passengers?) 2. St…

No. It is a counter argument. When the US can destroy Uranium centrifuges in Iran [1] with a virus that got distributed through several 0 days in thumbdrives, that is extreme coordination that means t…

No, you work to get great stuff done. Whether or not your teammates are a worthwhile investment (or whether they even belong at the company at all) is a complicated calculation. In this case the autho…

Well, let's look at it from the "the jerk"'s perspective. How would feel if other people accomplished 1/10th what you did? What if they got paid 80% of what you got paid too? …

Well there are a lot of other forces. For one, I take pride in building great things. I code for work, and when on vacation I build side projects, because I enjoy it. Another is if I see a team trying…

Well, though I believe in the right for people to sue, I think people shouldn't just assume "company is smeared and guilty by association," until evidence is presented.