alexandercrohde

I sympathize. I remember when I was first applying for tech jobs I was often given a mac (which I was unfamiliar with) set in Qwerty (I used Dvorak) and told "just write this." Even asking t…

I was really liking this piece, but one inherent flaw of the example given is that I've already implemented minesweeper in javascript once a couple years ago for a programming challenge, so I…

I'm curious about this advice. Does "Ask tough questions" really make engineers feel psychologically safe? Unfortunately for the me, the reader, I have know way of knowing whether thi…

I'm sorry, but I really don't know why this is front-page hacker news. Is this somebody famous or something? - Starts out by linking to somebody's book - States its thesis "Enginee…

Two thoughts-- 1. I'm not at all surprised, I've known this kind of thing has been going on and I'm sure it's largely underreported. Heck, the previous place I worked constantly as…

I wish this post gave a better treatment to the discussion. By presenting such a stark claim on a blog, with little justification it leads to polarization that may make some who are open-minded to the…

I'm not sure what to make of this piece. It draws you in with the curious challenge to "choose design over architecture" but uses terms loosely and merely gives broad claims like "…

Haha, forgot about Mathman, that show always freaked me out, that creepy tornado guy always kills him...

This is a very naive analysis. It defines toxicity as propensity to be fired, only looks at big corporations, and uses self-reports in interview tests (like paper tests) as the independent variable. I…

Thank you for posting this article. I've often felt the "walking on eggshells" phenomenon you describe, but I've never even felt able to call it out without risking being labeled a…

I can see where you're coming from, but I don't know if that's a fair reduction. In the app world we initially thought more everything was better. When apps that took things away (twitt…

I remember when I took the SATs I did quite well on the reading and math, but not so hot on the writing. I remember feeling that the grading of the essay wasn't made clear at all- Should I throw …

I almost want to flag this link for playing loud sound advertisements on page load, but I'm not sure that's proper in this community. Is there not a better link to this content?

Are you saying that we therefore shouldn't mind the ad-hominem bias?

I'm not sure what character has to do with anything. I think the real story here is how emotions (both by Weev and prosecutors) interfere with our ability to give all equal justice.

That's ad-hominem.

One the one hand, it's pretty clear that "Weev"'s reaction is emotional, ethically questionable, and not an effective way to build sympathy toward reform. But on the other hand may…

"Do the right thing" defined as “– follow the law, act honorably, and treat each other with respect,” just doesn't feel the same. "Don't Be Evil" appeals to a force above…

Personally I'm curious what valid scoring mechanism there is for a test with "abstract questions with no right or wrong answers." Unless, of course, it were some old-boys club of inside…

I really like this article. To summarize it: Author contends - Managers (etc) try to quantify engineers' productivity. Even though some are 10x better, quantifying from the outside is an impossib…

Again, this is something that is independent of microservices. If you have a modular mono codebase then one team can easily deploy commits that only touch their module.

kinda ad-hominem. I disagree with the approach that somehow advancing the discussion a half-step by calling attention to an important piece of the article (rather than taking the full step of going on…

-- A “democracy” in which 400 families give 50 percent of the money in campaigns is not American democracy. That's a really compelling statistic if true. I wish there was a source for it. Anybod…

What's hyper-exponential growth supposed to mean? "User base doubles every month" (so 2^x) but then "the value is the square of the number nodes" which yields 2^2x, which stil…

Wow, another arbitrary interview technique of dubious worth. Yay... "Are you ready to be CEO of Google on Monday?" If they say yes, then I'll probably entertain myself by asking how the…

I agree. He manages other managers and so has a vested interest in maintaining the content of his employees. What really struck me as cool-aidy is that he tosses out statements like "Amazon is, w…

I was thinking about why this website triggered my skeptic alarms and came up with a few things. 1. The web interface makes it hard to go back. The first thing I want to do when I see a surprising ans…

I cannot tell if blog post is this a theory or 15-page commercial for one man's opinions. The title claims it turns engineers into remarkable managers, yet provides no evidence. I see a lot of bo…

The thing I dislike about this article, as somebody who as experiment with ketamine (I took it twice two years ago, and then twice last month) is that the article's presentation implicitly vilifi…