alexandercrohde

I vaguely agree with the premise of this post, which I would summarize is "The fear that paying individuals too much is empowering them to leave your organization is unfounded." My perspecti…

A worthy topic, especially given the known typical contentions between engineers and management (see Dilbert). However, the exact answer to how an manager can measure ones progress (if only internally…

Uh, I really disagree with this article's premise. The author identifies a page he added that was deleted, and his contribution was lost (on more than one occasion), and cites this as evidence of…

One thing I'd like to hear the official policy on is message privacy (i.e. is management reading your stuff?). That's a personal concern I have with slack.

Link to journal article: http://www.europeanneuropsychopharmacology.com/article/S0924... "What’s lacking is long-term data—important because study of other promising enhance…

Maybe you're unclear on exactly what a whistleblower means. Definition (by google): "a person who informs on a person or organization engaged in an illicit activity." So by definition, …

There is no reliable method yet. But who is to say there won't eventually be one? You point out there numerous different dimensions of good coding. Consider an IQ test, it has many different cate…

Meh, this is almost exactly the formulaic industry-standard "solution." The challenge here is that a human is evaluating all of these traits (you). Of course you think you're not biased…

As an SF resident of 5 years, I'm not sure I'd compare this place to Athens. Not saying you haven't had that experience, but I haven't so your mileage may vary.

As a San Franciscan for about 5 years, those costs sound realistic. However that total comp number is well above the norm for the area. Two points on that. 1. If you're going to count equity, cou…

I wish it were that simple. Firstly, what definition of racism are we using, because by measures such as bias against black names on resumes, in the justice system, in police shootings, there is stron…

Now I'm not specifically criticizing mints usage here, because I'm not a mint user. But it's been my experience on both sides (as a dev and an app-user) that it seems companies regularl…

If the CEO is primarily focusing on one of these domains (product, operations, PR) who is the individual responsible for debugging the flawed human systems everywhere else in the company? In my opinio…

I'm not one to play devil's advocate, so I'd appreciate being heard out on this: I don't want to necessarily contend that trolling is "good," but I think it can be done i…

What do you mean? We don't have any criminals here, we only have "victims" who are undereducated and "rebalancing privilege" when they sell your $1,000 bike for $50 bucks so t…

>>> Do you generally hold that when an employee is put in an uncomfortable position by a superior, they can't complain if they could've just gone to HR and hoped that they would be …

Waaay oversimplified. It almost sounds like you're suggesting that if we use any plastics for convenience then we have no right to ask corporations to not wreck the environment wholesale. I use p…

> even California's Labor Code contains such a provision Again "Any sense other than the outmoded legal sense." I hope you aren't arguing that something not being illegal in C…

I'm not advocating "revenge," I'm challenging the attitude that employees have a moral calling to care about the overall welfare of a corporation that ultimately exists to make sha…

Does it really matter whether it's on "company resources," in any sense other than the outmoded legal sense? Or company time? Perhaps for termination, but it's not against the law …

Though I don't agree with how you're saying what you're saying, I am curious how this issue is planning to be addressed. As a SF resident, let's say I took a bike home to hayes val…

I find this attitude dismissive. It's easy for those of us who are very successful financially to internalize an attitude that we got wealth because we deserve it, because we tried hard. It'…

As somebody squarely in your target audience (sr software engineer with major respect for databases done correctly and no respect for anything like mongo) let me give my perspective. A) I have no idea…

Really? You think OKRs aren't nonsense? Anytime you set an indirect measure of success, system-manipulators will focus on the metric instead of what that metric was supposed to measure. My experi…

The problem she talks about is nuanced. One the one hand, any opinionated information will upset some portion of the public, the internet just makes it more visible to you. From that perspective, mayb…

Really? My college experience was very different. All the professors talked about how essential "critical thinking" was. And to this I asked: - Is there even a definition of "critical t…

Good. I'm tired of high-ranking high-status members of society dodging consequences of multimillion or billion dollar catastrophes while the lowest classes get life sentences for ruining a single…